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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 ...

Want a bottle of wine that offers depth and complexity? Seek out something that's been aged in whiskey barrels, like our ...

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 ...

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 ...

If someone asked you to name a product that was first made 2,000 years ago, still looks and works as it always has, and still plays a vital role in global commerce, would you be stumped? It turns out, ...

For centuries, oak has been the winemaker’s and distiller’s collaborator, quietly transforming clear spirits and young wines into something worth savoring. Here’s how the magic unfolds. Oak barrels ...

Walk into almost any wine-tasting room on the planet and they will be there: wine barrels. They may be stacked over there by a wall or set on their tails with a piece of glass across the top making ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Brian Freedman covers wine, spirits, food, and travel. This article is more than 8 years old. In May of 2015, Silver Oak, the ...

In an era when recycling wasn’t common, Penn Barrel Inc., established in 1908, built its business reconditioning wooden barrels. Now the company, based in Plum, reconditions and recycles 55-gallon ...