Felipe Schrieberg

Thank you kindly!

I’m thrilled to have been shortlisted for the IWSC Spirits Communicator of the Year Award!

It’s an honour to be nominated alongside some real impressive people, which includes some good pals too.

Meet A Whisky Bandit Hunter From The BBC: Interview With Laurence Cook An investigative producer behind a groundbreaking BBC series covering whisky cask investment fraud reveals how deep the problem is for the industry.

Scotch whisky cask investment for the general public is a cancer on our industry. Don't trust any 'investment' firms that offers 'opportunities' to the general public.

If you want to see why, have a look at this interview I just published on @forbes.com!

www.forbes.com/sites/felipe...

Deeply grateful for the kind words from the legendary Dave Broom about The World of Whisky.

Absolutely buzzing.

Full piece here featuring some other great books: thewhiskymanual.uk/the-weekly-m...

If you open up the pages of The Scotsman today, you'll see that Rhythm and Booze Records #1 has been declared Best Whisky at their Scran awards!

A huge thanks to the panel for appreciating our dream of combining music and whisky together in a bottle.

Are The Dutch Responsible For The Creation Of Modern Scotch Whisky? New historical research suggests yes, upending traditional narratives covering the early history of Scotch whisky.

Ok this was a blast to write up for @forbes.com. I report here on the superb work done by The Liquid Antiquarian, which makes the bold claim that the Dutch played a crucial part in the development of Scotch whisky.

Read here:

www.forbes.com/sites/felipe...

YouTube video by Lumofonic LumoFonic Session - MOJO

Rather proud of this live session we just released with Mojo:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8fo...

When Topaketa organizer Manu Iturregui asked if I could hold a lecture about the many, many risks associated with this dodgy sector of course I immediately said yes.

I believe it is the first ever whisky festival to host an event warning about the dangers and risks of cask whisky investment.

How Similar Are Whisky Cask Investment Firms To Scammers Of The Past? There's a lot of disturbing parallels between the promises made by whisky cask investment firms and ugly schemes of the past.

Yep, what's going on now with whisky cask investment is almost exactly the same as the scams that happened 25 and 50 years ago.

www.forbes.com/sites/felipe...

How Investing In Whisky Casks (Somehow) Became A Bust By Felipe Schrieberg     In recent months, reports of questionable Scotch whisky cask investment schemes have moved from quiet whispers in the industry to front-page investigations. The New York Time...

Thank you to the team at 88 Bamboo for giving me a soapbox to stand on and shout about Scotch whisky cask investment scams, illegal and grey-area-legal.

I examine what the issues are, how curious would-be investors get sucked in and how these operations work.

88bamboo.co/blogs/featur...

IT'S MY NEW WHISKY BOOK. My new chonky baby.

Today marks the official USA launch of The World of Whisky. Very cool to now see it out in the world.

I profile in detail several dozen whisky distilleries and brands that I think give an indication of where whisky is headed for the future.

#BookSky

YouTube video by Mojo Mojo - Those Lonely Lonely Nights (Tiny Kitchen Sessions)

Ahead of a mini UK tour playing across Edinburgh and Manchester, we've put up a new video with my Polish band Mojo:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU2Z...

If you or someone you know has been burned by the Braeburn Whisky/Cask 88 fiasco we've just released a helpful guide on next steps with Protect Your Cask. Also useful if you've purchased a cask from a Scotch whisky cask investment firm!

protectyourcask.com/next-steps-i...

$80 Million Scotch Whisky Cask Investment Firm Goes Bust Sister Scotch whisky cask investment firms Braeburn Whisky and Cask 88 have both folded, leaving investors panicked and scrambling to find their casks of whisky.

I've just broken the story on Forbes that Scotch whisky cask investment 'firms' Cask 88 and Braeburn Whisky have gone bust.

This is going to be an utter mess for a lot of innocent people who will lose a lot of money.

www.forbes.com/sites/felipe...

A New, Full-Bodied Fraud Comes in a Whisky Barrel Small investors in Britain and Ireland have fallen prey to companies selling casks that turn out to be untraceable or nonexistent.

I'm honoured to be quoted in @nytimes.com talking about cask whisky scams.

However, the world's top media organisations are publishing stories about the problem while the industry collectively twiddles its thumbs. Another indicator of how bad things are getting.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/d...

Ok this is cool - I'm one of the featured presenters at the upcoming Whisky Topaketa festival happening in Bilbao in June. I'll be running my first ever tastings in Spanish too.

More info on the festival here: bilbaowhisky.com

YouTube video by Mark Littler Inside 'Hunting the Whisky Bandits' with BBC Producer Laurence Cook

This may be the best interview I've ever done.

We chatted to Laurence Cook, producer for the incredible Hunting The Whisky Bandits series, about whisky cask scams.

Industry pals - please listen to him. This is a massive threat to the industry we love.

Link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeUt...

Whisky pals! Tomorrow I'll be hosting a live webinar with a producer from the brilliant BBC specials on whisky cask investment scams.

If you want to know what the scammer hullaballoo is about, join us!

We kick things off at 19:30 pm, UK time. Info below.

www.facebook.com/events/36155...

The swamp, unfortunately, has only gotten swampier.

When it comes to all things Scotch whisky cask investment, this is spot on and actually not an exaggeration at all.

Sourced from Wisgy Weekly.

Disclosure - Hunting the Whisky Bandits Reporter Sam Poling goes undercover to investigate the shadowy world of scammers selling fraudulent investments in Scotland’s national drink.

Ok yeah this is mandatory viewing for anyone into whisky or working in the industry. I'll also note that this programme covers only 3 firms - there's many more operating in similar ways.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Is This The Beginning Of The End For Whisky Cask Scammers? A story from the BBC reveals how Scotch whisky cask investment scammers do their dirty business. It also marks the first time victims have come forward to warn others.

Hopefully the BBC specials on whisky scammers will lead to meaningful change in the industry.

If you want to understand how they work and do their dirty business I wrote about it here on Forbes:

www.forbes.com/sites/felipe...

Hundreds lose life savings in whisky barrel scam Investors were duped into ploughing millions of pounds into casks that were overpriced or did not exist.

When I was interviewed about whisky cask investment fraud on The Spirits Business almost a year ago, I predicted a bloodbath. It's now here. The BBC show and podcast coming out on cask scammers is going to be a must-watch.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

Because things aren't insane enough yet.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

BBC One - Disclosure, Hunting the Whisky Bandits Hunting down the fraudsters lurking in the shadows of Scotland’s whisky industry.

I am really, really looking forward to this programme from the BBC. I hope it helps brings about the death of the disgusting whisky cask 'investment' 'industry', which mostly is a big scam network.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

We've been doing Burns Night events now for 5 years, but this is the first time that I actually had something handy to cut into the haggis (veggie haggis bonbons) while doing Burns' famous address.

Today, I'm grateful that I became a proud European. The US is going to look more and more like Latin America in the 80s and 90s.

Misinformation, violence, inequality, drugs and political partisanship become the tools of choice for greedy powerful oligarchs and their right wing allies.

The Whisky Cask Investment Companies of The United Kingdom PREFACE

This is one of the most important articles written so far about cask whisky 'investment', and most importantly even names some names...

wisgy.co.uk/wisgy-weekly...

American single malts gain official recognition American single malt whiskies have been recognised as an official category by US governing body the Alcohol & Tobacco Tax & Trade Bureau (TTB).

About time. What an excellent piece of whisky news, especially for so many superb American distillers.

www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2024/12/amer...