Barrel inventory intelligence for distilleries

Your barrels are an asset. Run them like one.

CaskEquity is the system of record for aging inventory. Every barrel, its warehouse receipt and its carrying cost in one ledger, so you always know what you hold, what it is costing you and what you can prove when it is time to sell.

Built for distilleries Broker & investor-group editions Imports from Whiskey Systems & Distill X5
Kentucky barrels aging
16.1M
+57% since 2020 · KDA
Barrel taxes paid, 2025
$75M
+163% in a decade · KDA report
Typical carrying cost
$108
per barrel, per year, on an $800 barrel with money tied up at 8%
500 barrels, one year
$54,000
What holding costs for one more year, before any barrel tax
CaskEquity dashboard: total barrels, total value, estimated market value and margin, with an investments table and value-over-time chart
Est. margin+$212,400
Carrying cost, YTD−$44,300

One ledger for the barrel, the paper and the price.

Most distilleries track barrels in one system, store paperwork in another and estimate carrying cost in a spreadsheet nobody trusts. CaskEquity puts all three against the same barrel record.

01 — Barrel ledger

Every barrel, every record, one place

Fill date, mash bill, entry proof, cooperage, warehouse and rick position, regauge history and status. Counts, inventory value and estimated market value roll up to the dashboard automatically.

Whiskey Systems importDistill X5 APISpreadsheet
02 — Carrying-cost engine

The cost of one more year

Storage, insurance, state barrel taxes where they apply (including Kentucky's phase-out schedule), money tied up and angel's share, per barrel per month.

03 — Title & custody

Ownership you can hand across the table

Bills of sale, warehouse receipts and transfer records live against the barrel they describe.

04 — Deal-ready records

Answer the buyer before they ask

Fill date, proof, regauge history, receipt and title chain sit on the barrel record, so a serious inquiry is answered in minutes, not weeks.

05 — Role-based access

The right view for every seat

Your team sees the full ledger. Brokers and investor-group members see the barrels they are entitled to, and nothing else.

How it works

From rickhouse to records in four steps.

Import your barrels

Bring in a Whiskey Systems export, connect Distill X5 or upload a spreadsheet. We map the fields with you on the onboarding call.

Attach the paper

Warehouse receipts, insurance, storage agreements and title documents get filed against the barrels they cover.

See what holding costs

The carrying-cost engine runs on your rates and shows hold vs. sell for any lot and any horizon.

Decide with the paper in hand

Hold, sell or refinance, every barrel comes with its receipt, regauge history and title chain, so nobody discounts you for uncertainty.

Why we built it

We built CaskEquity alongside a working Kentucky craft distillery, sitting on barrels that were worth more every year and costing more every month to keep.

The full story: Why we built CaskEquity

Carrying-cost calculator

What is a year of waiting costing you?

Storage, insurance, barrel tax where it applies and the money tied up in the wood add up quietly. Put in your barrel count and average value and see the annual number, then run the full model with your own rates.

Estimated annual carrying cost
$54,000
That is $108 per barrel per year, or $4,500 a month.
$22,000 out of pocket$32,000 money tied up at 8%

Assumes $40 per barrel storage, 0.5% insurance and 8% for money tied up. Kentucky adds its barrel tax at the 2026 phase-out step. Edit every assumption in the full calculator.

Know what every barrel is worth to keep. Then decide.

Bring your inventory to a 30-minute walkthrough. We will load a sample of your barrels and show you the carrying-cost number live.