One of the biggest influences on a whiskey‘s character is the time it spends inside a barrel soaking up color and flavor. But there are a few brands that are flipping the script and adding barrel ...

The unique taste in bourbon, Scotch, rum and other hard liquors is in the barrel, the tannins and sugars that caramelize as the white oak staves are aged, heated and charred and then formed into the ...

Wine stains on the carpet? That’s a ruined carpet. Wine stains on your hardwood floor? That’s a business opportunity. Joseph Triglia, the owner of West Islip-based Jubilee Flooring, who has been ...

CUBA, Mo. — Don McGinnis traces his finger along the top edge of a wooden barrel on the factory floor while a sea of workers around him cut planks of oak, position staves to form a circle, and char ...

In the backyard shop of Jeremy Smith's house on Cooper Street, a homegrown Missoula furniture business is finding its legs in an unusual medium: wine barrel wood. Reconstituted under Smith's artistic ...

“It all came about at 11:30PM on a random Wednesday.” Penelope Bourbon CEO and founder Michael Paladini admitted that late-night calls are a regular occurrence for him. After his wife goes to bed, the ...

The transformation that occurs when a raw spirit is left to age within a finely crafted oak barrel is nothing short of liquid alchemy. So it’s no surprise that the coopers responsible for conjuring ...

SPENCER — As demand for Kentucky-made whiskey escalates worldwide, distiller Brown-Forman finds itself short on barrels to age it in. So the Louisville-based distiller has purchased 65 acres and a ...

David Flaherty is the marketing director for the Washington State Wine Commission. This article does not necessarily reflect the opinions of the editors or management of Nation's Restaurant News. The ...

MOREHEAD, Ky - Barrel manufacturing giant Independent Stave Co. (ISC) will build a $66.5 million cooperage in Northern Kentucky, creating 220 jobs. With both a stave mill and a cooperage in the region ...