Visual verification engine
Visual
fingerprinting
Every cask carries a lifetime of physical detail no document can capture. CaskID reads it — turning your cask’s own surface into proof of what it is.
Watch the AI read a cask end
Live read — one photograph, every mark mapped
- Step 1PhotographClear photos of the cask end — no special equipment.
- Step 2The AI readsFive marker classes mapped from every distinguishing detail.
- Step 3FingerprintedOne signature, checked against every cask on record.
Part of the wider CaskID process — see how verification works end to end.
Paper can be copied.
A cask can’t.
Ownership and authenticity have long rested on delivery orders, certificates and serial numbers — documents that can be forged, duplicated or lost. A cask’s identity shouldn’t depend on paperwork. It should rest on the cask itself.
What the AI reads
Five marker classes
Read from a single image of the cask end.
- Stencil markingsThe stencilled text — distillery, year, cask number — read line by line.
- Wood grain patternThe unique fibre signature of the staves. No two are ever alike.
- Stains & discolourThe map of blotches and colouring left by years in the warehouse.
- Damage & wearCracks, chips and dents that mark a cask’s individual history.
- Hoops & dimensionsThe chime hoop and overall profile that define its shape.
Unique visual fingerprint
Five signals, one signature
On their own, each detail is ordinary. Combined, they form a signature as individual as the cask that made it — the product of decades of ageing that can’t be recreated on demand.
That signature is your cask’s visual fingerprint.
Why it holds up
Reads reality, not paper
The fingerprint comes from the cask’s physical surface — not a document that can be reissued.
Rooted in the cask’s own history
It’s built from characteristics the cask earned over years, not a number assigned to it.
Independent of any one party
It doesn’t rely on trusting a single broker, warehouse or seller.
Stronger with every photo
Each new photo adds evidence — making your cask easier to recognise and harder to fake.
Common questions
An identity that can’t be copied.
Register your cask and let its own surface prove what it is.