Most of great scotch distillers offer casks of their item as a whole for mixing functions along with to personal purchasers. Normally the distiller name will be put on a mixed item nevertheless not the logo design. This is an indicator that the item is not single and undoubtedly mixed malt.
A lot of independent bottling business will bottle items from single casks and might or might not be from the initial bottling source. At this time numerous popular distillers are attempting to end the free market of bottling operations as it is infringing on their general sales.
Some malt business will include more than one batch of their scotch into the cask offering to guarantee the independent bottlers from offering it as a single malt item. This technique of legal sneakiness is understood as “bastard bottling”.