wicQ has been founded, as general partnership (vof), by Willem Velthuizen and Adri Hoogvliet to facilitate:

• the selection and procurement of whisky casks for the casQueteers (a community of private whisky enthousiasts who together invest in casks),
• the registration of the participants per whisky cask (this for internal casQueteers purposes),
• the bottling arrangements for the procured whisky casks,
• the shipping arrangements for the bottled whisky casks,
• the handling of the involved taxes,
• and the handling of customs matters to finally import the bottled whisky into The Netherlands.

Next to the activities for the casQueteers we –only occasionally– assist a private cask owner with the necessary arrangements to get his/her whisky cask bottled and imported into The Netherlands.

As independent (community) bottler the casQueteers searches for casks with potential. The bottling moment is a joined decision of wicQ and the private participants of each cask. The journey from spirit to dram and the resulting dram at the end of the journey, to enjoy with friends, is what matters most for the vast majority of the participants, our casQueteers.

The idea for the casQueteers took off with just a handful of friends. Since then, it has become a well established brand name in The Netherlands and in 21 more countries around the world for those who want to own a share of a whisky cask*. At the moment there are over 820 participating casQueteers who together own 337 casks, of which 44 have been bottled so far.

More info about the casQueteers can be found on casQueteers.com, on our casQueteers FB-group. Our bottled casks are also listed on Whiskybase.com.

Those who want to become a fellow casQueteer can request an account via our contact form on casQueteers.com.

* That’s right, we don’t sell individual bottles. Participants invest in a share (%) of a cask, for several years, as good whisky takes time to mature. They also share in the risks, like a lower than expected turnout. casQueteers participants are not known to distilleries or brokers as co-owners.

We care about the privacy and personal data of our company, our business contacts, our casQueteers, and you as visitor of our websites: wicQ.nl and casQueteers.com.

Therefore, we follow the Dutch / European data protection guidelines as registered within the AVG / GDPR. On our websites we only use functional and (anonymous) analytical cookies, and minimize the usage of external/embedded services as much as possible.

We’ll never sell personal data to third parties. And we only share –the bare minimum– personal data with third parties when required to fulfil our business with you (e.g. for the shipment of a parcel).

Whenever you have questions / concerns about our privacy policy, please reach out to us on the contact details provided above.