Thistle Systems brings together a unique team of innovators, designers, engineers, project managers, manufacturing specialists and software developers to create a client-focused approach to whisky storage with a clear vision:

“We want to create the safest, greenest, most space-efficient and most productive maturation warehouses in the world.”

It is this passion for continually improving and evolving our approach and storage solutions that drives us forward with each and every project.

We prefer to work closely with every client, their distillery manager, warehouse manager, liquid manager (this can often be the one person for smaller distilleries). This enables us to truly understand the processes and operations to design the optimum solution for your project.

By delivering outstanding outcomes which provide clients with a strong Return on Investment, we can continue to set new standards in the whisky sector.

With over 50 cask racking projects now successfully completed using the MaxiCaskRack approach, we have amassed incredible experience with various cask types, warehouse sizes and onsite conditions.

This enables us to work closely with clients to share our knowledge on the optimum design of maturation warehouses to maximise the storage capacity and reduce the cost per cask stored.

By getting involved early on in the project, we can show you how seemingly small changes to your warehouse’s sizing and specification can transform the overall capacity.

“We have learned an awful lot from this project and the whole experience has been excellent in helping us to understand how we build better warehouses in the future.

We now appreciate the realise the importance of getting Thistle Systems involved much earlier in the design stage to ensure the building is designed with the racking in mind – as opposed to building a warehouse and then making the racking fit into the space.”

Stuart Urquhart
Gordon McPhail