Commercial library
Reference material for drinks-asset transactions.
Analysis, guides and working reference covering what a professional needs in order to transact: assessing a cask, reviewing a distressed portfolio, specifying a bottling run, or opening an export market.
Technical notes and process guides
Durable reference on assessing, documenting and transacting drinks assets. Published in full, with no registration or download required.
Valuing Irish whiskey casks and portfolios
Valuation is a professional judgement supported by evidence, not a formula. How to define the asset, weigh the evidence, normalise pricing bases and reach a conclusion that survives challenge.
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Read analysis →Litres of pure alcohol (LPA), explained
The measure at the centre of every cask negotiation: what LPA is, how it is calculated, how evaporation changes it, and why it is a measurement rather than a valuation.
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Read analysis →Reading a regauge certificate
A regauge establishes what is actually in the cask today. What the document should show, how current it needs to be, and the measurement errors that most often distort a price.
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Read analysis →Selling whiskey casks under bond
Ownership can change while the cask never moves — but only if the transfer is properly documented and recognised by the warehouse. The sequence from authority to completion.
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Read analysis →Whiskey assets in liquidation and receivership
In an insolvency, drinks assets are frequently the most valuable and most misunderstood items on the balance sheet. The four ways value leaks, and what an office-holder can do about each.
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Read analysis →Buying bulk Irish whiskey
Bulk buyers are not purchasing a story — they are purchasing a defined liquid with a function. What a specification must contain before a parcel can be priced or repeated.
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Read analysis →Commercial guides
Practical guides written from the buyer’s, seller’s and operator’s point of view.
The Commercial Guide to Irish Whiskey
Celtica's reference work on Irish whiskey as a commercial asset — fifteen chapters covering production, bonded warehousing, cask ownership, valuation, transactions, bottling, export and international routes to market.
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Read guide →Specialist drinks asset recovery
Celtica's guide for insolvency practitioners, receivers and lenders: how a specialist drinks disposal differs from a general clearance, and where the difference in outcome arises.
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Read guide →Working reference
Vocabulary and checklists to apply directly against a live position.
Glossary of commercial terms
The vocabulary used in Irish whiskey transactions — bond, bulk litres, LPA, regauge, tax warehouse, importer of record and the rest — defined for commercial use.
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Read guide →Practical checklists
Working checklists for cask assessment, transaction documents, product development and export readiness — the questions to answer before a position is priced or committed.
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Read guide →How this material is prepared
Scope of the library
The Commercial Library holds durable reference material: commercial guides, technical notes, process guides, buyer and seller guidance, glossary and checklists. Current market analysis, transaction trends and periodic reporting sit under Market Intelligence, where the Irish Whiskey Market Report — Q2 2026 is the current publication.
Evidence and sourcing
Each item states what it is derived from, and worked examples are labelled illustrative unless supported by a dated source. Celtica’s full publication standard — covering attribution, dating, evidence, verification and stated limitations — is set out on the publication standard page.
Format and access
Everything in the library is published as full indexable HTML. No registration, download or request is required. The Commercial Library is deliberately HTML-only: a downloadable edition is offered only where it adds something the web page cannot, which for durable reference material it does not. Celtica’s dated market reporting is published under Market Intelligence, where the current report is available in both HTML and PDF.