The trade platform for whisky brokers

Every cask worth selling. One live list.

3,000+ casks from vetted suppliers, priced per OLA and ready to reserve. We handle the delivery order and the admin. You sell.

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Ex-VAT, in bond£/OLA on every caskBrokers only
LIVE
DistilleryCaskOLAStatus
Sample stock · prices are illustrativeUpdated just now
The demo

See CaskLayer in 90 seconds.

Live stock, price checks, holds, Cooper and proposals, on desktop and phone.

Voiceover synthesised with a VITS model trained on the CSTR VCTK Corpus (Yamagishi, Veaux & MacDonald, University of Edinburgh, 2019), licensed CC BY 4.0.

The problem

By the time a list reaches you, it's been marked up three times.

CaskLayer goes to the source, puts every cask on one live list and sells to brokers at one clear trade price.

01Supplier's listforwarded as a spreadsheet£2,000
02Big brokeradds a margin, forwards again£2,600
03Another brokeradds another£3,400
→CaskLayerstraight from the source, one trade price£2,800
Illustrative figures for one cask.
How it works

From sign-up to delivery order in four steps.

1

Get approved

Request access with your work email. Once we approve you, the full list opens.

2

Find

Search live stock, check £/OLA against similar casks, or ask Cooper for a basket.

3

Reserve

Hold a cask for 24 or 48 hours. The team confirms it and every broker sees it's taken.

4

Buy

We transfer the delivery order and deal with the warehouse. You keep selling.

See every step from purchase to registered owner

The platform

Built for the way brokers actually sell.

Real screens from CaskLayer, on desktop and phone.

See a broker's week on CaskLayer
Stock list with the cask drawer open Full cask record with rights, costs and documents Compare your stock list with ours Basket builder with a private markup calculator Plain-English alerts Reserving a cask on a phone

Screens show sample stock. Distillery names are real; prices and statuses are illustrative.

Meet Cooper

An AI stock specialist who knows every cask, live.

Give Cooper a budget, a client or a style. He builds the basket from live stock and flags anything unknown. What he can't answer goes to the team.

Build me a basket I can sell for £10,000 at a 10% markup
CCooper AI
Here are 4 casks for £9,078 at cost. At 10% on top, you sell for £9,986.
8 Doors · Oloroso quarter£2,600
Ardnamurchan · 1st fill barrel£4,200
8 Doors · Sherry octave£1,150
8 Doors · Sherry octave£1,128
Client price at 10%£9,986
Cooper is an AI. Holds are confirmed by the team.
Why CaskLayer

We supply you. We never compete with you.

Your clients stay yours

Proposals go out in your branding. We never contact your clients.

Your lists stay private

Lists you upload to compare are encrypted. Only you can see them.

Nothing is guessed

If a regauge, fee or right is unknown, the cask says so.

Real stock behind every listing

We own part of our stock and buy the rest direct from the source.

Jordan started out as a broker selling from someone else's list, two or three margins down the chain. CaskLayer is the platform he wanted then.

Jordan · Founder, CaskLayer
Field notes

What we've learned moving casks.

All field notes
Delivery orders3 min read

Why one cask transfer takes three weeks and another takes three months

The warehouse stamp takes a day or three. Nearly all the waiting happens around it, and most of it can start sooner than you think.

Read the note
Warehouse3 min read

Open your warehouse account before you pay

A company account at a bonded warehouse can take six to eight weeks. Most of that is documents going back and forth, and most of it is avoidable.

Read the note
Delivery orders3 min read

Why your delivery order names you, and how your client gets theirs

Each sale in a cask's life is its own transfer, recorded by the warehouse. Here's the chain, and what it means for you and your client.

Read the note
Pricing

One clear trade price on every cask.

Ex-VAT and in bond, with £ per OLA alongside. Brokers buying in volume get better pricing, and you set your own price to your client.

Example cask#8D/23/040
Trade price£2,600
Per OLA£32.91
VATEx-VAT, in bond
Delivery orderHandled by CaskLayer
Your price to the clientYou decide
Illustrative. Your pricing is set when you're approved.
Request access

See the live list for yourself.

CaskLayer is for whisky brokers only. We approve every account ourselves, then the full list opens with your pricing.

Trade accessapp.casklayer.com
  1. Your work emailWe send you a sign-in link.
  2. Your detailsName, firm and phone.
  3. ApprovedWe email you when the list opens.
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