When it comes to wine and whiskey – especially bourbon – the oak barrel reigns, not just as a container, but also for the ...

One might consider a wooden barrel the fifth ingredient in beer after water, malt, hops and yeast. Brewers use them to impart additional flavors into the beer. But why barrels — bourbon in particular ...

Winemakers: To oak or not to oak, that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take up oak to craft your wine to shake the spheres ...

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 ...

There’s something about a barrel room in a winery. On the surface, it’s just a giant room filled with a bunch of identical wooden barrels stacked in rows. That alone can be an impressive sight, but ...

Ever wonder how many whiskey bottles come from one barrel? Aging, evaporation, and proof changes decide the final count The ...

If you could make a lot of bourbon whiskey these days, you could be distilling real profits. Bourbon sales in this country are up 36 percent in the past five years. But you'd need new wooden barrels ...

Most of the wine we drink comes from grapes grown somewhere in California and harvested in the previous year. It is simple, no-frills stuff that winemakers handle in vast quantities in very large ...

Oil prices have dropped to less than $54 per barrel, on the news that the United States has 309.3 million barrels in its inventory. * Barrels? Do oil companies really put oil in barrels? Not anymore.

SALEM, Mo. — Standing on a wooded hillside in the Ozarks, about 100 miles southwest of St. Louis, Brad Boswell watches a chain-saw-wielding logger make several deft cuts at the base of a 100-foot ...

Huge wooden barrels traditionally used in the making of soy sauce are suspended over the heads of customers at this shop designed by Kengo Kuma and Associates for a sauce manufacturer in Nihonbashi, ...