What is the idea?
Use of 9 gallon casks for a 'fee per fill'. A fleet of beer casks will be made available for established smaller brewers to send into the wholesale market, on a ‘fill and forget’ basis. For this, the brewer pays a fee per cask filled, and notifies ‘ECasks’ which wholesaler he has delivered the full casks to.

The brewers will still have their own casks, which they will use for local ‘direct deliveries’ to pubs and some wholesale trade. Essentially, ECasks will provide a 'top up' facility, especially in the early stages of our business development.

Basic Concepts

Only for use in the wholesale trade. See the 'fair use' agreement for list of permitted networks / wholesalers
All the casks to be collected back from wholesalers by ‘ECasks’ (wholesalers will deliver to pubs, and pickup from pubs, as normal).
All casks will be cleaned and checked by ECasks after every trip.
Brewers must sign up to a ‘fair use’ policy before becoming customers.
Casks will be heavily branded, to allow easier recovery by ECasks.

Benefits to brewers

Known cost per fill, which can be treated as a ‘revenue’ expense in the accounts, and so be offset against taxable profits.
More scope to take additional wholesale orders.
No worries about cask recovery from wholesalers.
Reduced capital outlay on own casks.

History of Close Brewery Rentals

Close Brewery Rentals is part of Close Brothers Group plc www.closebrothers.co.uk one of the UK's top independent merchant banks, founded in 1878 and listed on the London Stock Exchange. Close Brothers has a long history of an innovative approach to financial services. The founding executive directors of Close Brewery Rentals retain a shareholding, to help give this new business an entrepreneurial and autonomous style.

The aim of our company is to quickly become the leading provider of term container rental facilities for UK breweries. Our services are being aimed at all breweries from Micro's through to the largest Nationals. Our mission will be to forge close working partnerships with our customers in order to provide a long term two way working business relationship.

If you feel our services will be of interest, or you require immediate attention, or additional information, please do not hesitate to telephone or email us.

We look forward to being of service.