“There’s a discrepancy between coopers and distillers of how much flavor comes from the barrel and how much comes from the actual distilling process,” says Adirondack Barrel Cooperage co-owner Joe ...

A lot of painstaking effort and care goes into the magic of bourbon-making. This spirit must be made in the United States and uses predominantly corn in the mash bill, which creates its characteristic ...

This story appears in Birmingham magazine's July 2016 Issue. Subscribe today! With the proliferation of brown liquors available at your favorite bar these days, it's easy to forget the long, ...

BAMBERG, S.C. (AP) — The sound of hammers banging and machines humming fills the workshop of Bamberg’s Black Water Barrels. Some employees are busy working the wood through the milling process while ...

No, it's not time to polka, but now that you have that catchy tune in your head, let's talk about the barrel and what it does to spirits.To understand just exactly what a barrel does to sprits though, ...

WEBVTT EXCLUSIVE LOOK AT HOW THOSE BARRELS ARE MADE AT THE BROWN FORMAN COOPERAGE. ERIC: FIRE, A VISUALLY LURING, POWERFUL, AND DOMINEERING FORCE OF NATURE. IT'S THE BACKBONE TO KENTUCKY'S $3 BILLION ...

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 ...

According to Heaven Hill, the namesake of Elijah Craig is the person responsible for introducing the practice of charring a barrel before aging whiskey, which is now a legal requirement for bourbon ...

A little further down, the interior of a 53-gallon barrel catches fire at the charring station, helping to prime the wood so the vessel can hold bourbon. "There is no glue or nails in the barrels," ...