401 CLUB

401 was the yard number given to White Star Line’s most famous ship, Titanic, built by the globally renowned ship builder Harland & Wolff.

In homage to the great ship and the many hands that built it on the Thompson Dock site where we are now housed, Titanic Distillers are proud to introduce the 401 Club.

Priced at £8,000 per cask this is an exclusive membership club limited to a maximum of 401 Members who purchase a cask of triple distilled, single malt, Premium Irish Whiskey produced by Titanic Distillers at Thompson Dock.

Our casks are hand made, Ex-American Bourbon first fill, with an average of 200 litre bulk volume and will be the first casks of whiskey produced in Belfast since Prohibition.

The list of exclusive membership benefits are listed opposite.

Our cask programme is limited to a maximum of 401 Members, each cask is individually stencilled with your details, becoming part of our heritage.

401 Club Benefits

» VIP Tour of our new distillery at Thompson Dock and over night stay for two at the Titanic Hotel, Belfast

» Two complimentary annual passes to our state-of-the-art visitor centre

» Exclusive Member’s invitations to future whiskey events and product launches at the distillery

» Early access to purchase bespoke distillery reserves and special edition bottles

» Seven years of warehousing and insurance included in the purchase price

» 100ml sample on years three, five and seven

» One on one meeting with our Head Distiller to discuss personalised cask finishing options

» Personalised labelling service

» 20% discount off all non-alcoholic products and 10% discount off all Titanic Distillers produced spirits in the distillery shop and online at titanicdistillers.com

» Cask buy-back option at 3% annual compound interest for private owners

Maturation

It will be three years and a day before your cask can be called Irish Whiskey. We will keep your cask for you for seven years, as we feel at this point your whiskey will come into its own

angels’ share

» New make malt spirit is typically at cask strength of approximately 63.5% ABV

» Approximately 2% of the cask contents will evaporate per year (the so called Angels’ Share) which will reduce the volume of the cask over the seven-year maturation period

» There may be some spillage or losses when the contents of the cask are bottled but this should not exceed 1-2% of the total volume

» A newly filled cask should therefore contain approximately 127 LPA which after seven years of maturation and following bottling should represent approximately 110 LPA storage

» 401 Club membership includes seven years of storage charges

» Further charges will be made annually thereafter for any incremental periods of storage based on prevailing market rates for warehousing services

Maturation Period And Finishing Options

» Based on individual preference and/or consultation with our team, we are happy to offer incremental periods of maturation on an annual basis, including the option for finishing in a different cask type and creating a bespoke liquid. This will be subject to an additional charge to be agreed

» Final agreement to be reached as to additional maturation and/or finishing requests to be made three months prior to the expiry of the initial seven-year period

samples & access

» 401 Club Members can access the warehouse in order to visit their casks up to once per annum by prior arrangement

» 401 Club Members can sample their spirit in years three, five and seven

» Titanic Distillers will arrange a warehouse visit for sampling – with a minimum of one month’s notice required in order to participate in the next visit completion of initial maturation period

» Titanic Distillers will contact you six months prior to the expiry of the seven-year maturation period to confirm your preferred option for your cask and bottling arrangements. We will seek to reach agreement prior to three months before the end of the period as to future maturation options, otherwise we will be unable to guarantee to offer additional periods of maturation

» If for any reason, a 401 Club Member would like to remove their cask for bottling before the expiry of the seven year period then this can be facilitated (after an initial three year and one day period) upon no less than three months’ written notice, however, there will be no refund paid for any unused periods of prepaid warehousing and insurance

» If you remove your cask prior to the expiry of the seven year period, you will not be permitted to make bottles available for sale without our prior written consent (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed), and in any event not before Titanic Distillers have released our own first single malt from whiskey distilled at the Distillery

Bottling Options

We will offer three different options in terms of bottling strength:

A. 40% ABV – this is the lowest permitted ABV under current regulations for liquid to be bottled as Irish Whiskey

B. 46% ABV - we recommend bottling at this strength

C. Cask strength - this varies depending on several factors, but for a seven-year-old whiskey it is estimated to be approximately 56%

Number Of Bottles

» This depends on several factors such as the maturation rate, the age of the whiskey, any spillages in bottling etc

» Bottling at 46% ABV after seven years of maturation should produce approximately 340 bottles (Titanic Distillers bottles included are 70cl)

» Bottling at strength will yield the fewest number of bottles of finished whiskey (estimated at approximately 280) and bottling diluted to a minimum strength of 40% will result in the maximum number of bottles (estimated as approximately 390) bottling

» The price for bottling services includes our core range 70cl bottles, corks, capsules and labels

Personalised Labelling

» We will be able to provide a range of labelling options and designs referencing your specific batch number, cask number, and your personal details as preferred partial bottling and buyback option

» For private 401 Club Members, we will offer a buy back facility at the cost of your cask with a 3% annual compound interest added from the day it was filled

» In the event that a 401 Club Member does not want to incur further costs over and above the initial cask investment to fund the Excise Duty, VAT and bottling costs, Titanic Distillers are happy to explore the option of a partial bottling option whereby we will look to buy back part of the contents of the cask, to provide the funds to satisfy the cost of bottling, delivery, Excise Duty and VAT

» If you would like to understand more about this option, please contact us 401club@titanicdistillers.com