When Production Doesn’t Go to Plan Production rarely follows a perfect plan. Timelines shift. Flavour doesn’t always land where expected. Demand can outpace capacity. And sometimes, entire batches don’t meet specification. These are not edge cases, they are part of real production. What matters is how you respond when they happen. WLT 150 [...]

A new outlook in spirit making: The dynamic world of spirits production is a field of open experimentation and evolving trends, where tradition meets innovation. This has presented distillers with the need to craft spirits that embrace both. With the extensive time needed for traditional ageing practices, it has been a bit more [...]

Choosing the right oak alternative Choosing between oak alternatives can be difficult, especially with the wide variety of options now available in the world of spirits. Distillers are presented with various oak alternatives like chips, staves, liquid products, and powders. It can be a daunting task to select the perfect one. When choosing [...]

Global barrel supply shortages are driving the rocketing price of barrels with no end in sight. The idea of paying over $ 3,000 for a 160 gallon barrel in the near future is a scary prospect that will impact profit and sales competition across the industry. Delays in delivery by more than 6 months [...]

There is no greater commodity than your time, the cost of it seems to just go up every year and yet for distillers often time is the "heart of the art". The delicate and subtle changes that only happen over long periods of time in a barrel can never be substituted, no matter the [...]

For many distillers the real challenge of producing fine spirits is in the art of maturation and blending. Many of these same distillers are challenged to maturing their spirits in casks that may no longer be at their best ! The cost pressure of a solid barrel replacement or rejuvenation strategy, means that all [...]

COVID - Can we help ? In an environment where the closure of on-premise retail establishments as well as the potential closure or limited access to retail outlets during the COVID crisis all of which will have a significant impact on the financial health of most distillers. There is likely to be a  backlog [...]

China’s large and rapidly growing middle class is boosting demand for spirits both local and international. The volume of large international brands represented was however dwarfed by the vollume of Baidu and local styled eastern based spirits. Like western palettes the ultimate reflection of the quality of a spirit is measured not only in [...]

We are committed to helping distillers around the globe to delivering the best possible aged spirits, helping them delivery both outstanding quality as well as solutions that are focused on economy, efficiency and value maximisation. We strongly believe that the romance of barrel ageing cannot be substituted but also that modern distillers have to [...]

Our passion at WLT150 is to produce the highest quality products that have a profound impact on the distilling process and that enhance the quality of the spirits we work with. To do so consistently and diligently using the highest quality natural raw materials in our production processes, in a considerate and sustainable manner. [...]

The WLT150 team is fuelled by passion and driven by results, we have a unique spirit of co-operation between out distributors John Fearless, our executives driving the business and our production and science staff, all of us have unique competencies necessary to deliver a world class technology to a unique and discerning industry. One [...]

The WLT150 team concludes a strategic partnership with John Fearless a company focused on providing products and services to the alcoholic beverage industry in the USA and other countries with the highest quality raw materials ingredients. We recognised that in order to be able to reach the right audience, to develop the market for [...]

During our development of the WLT150 extract a key focus was ensuring that extensive testing was carried out, key questions about optimising the delivery of the extract had to be answered, we looked at the full range of distilling options, spirit types and typical activities and where best to dose WLT150, these included What [...]

From this point forward the take up of WLT150 was largely organic and by word of mouth, distillers looking to solve their challenges around barrel ageing began to talk with one another and come directly to us for solutions. This was a very important time for us as we were also figuring out the [...]

After working with wine for a number of years it was a natural progression for us to move into alternate areas where barrels are widely used for ageing and finishing. It turned out that one of the wine makers we were working with also distilled the grape spirit into brandy and it made sense [...]

Over a 5 year period a very smart scientist figured out how to make an extract of oak wood, his main aim was to help in the wine industry in the delivery of oak character in helping winemakers to round and finish their wines in the same way that has happened in barrels for [...]