With a focus on playing with Brettanomyces yeast and aging its beer in oaken barrels, Colorado’s Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project has been putting years of scientific research into drinkable art ...

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 ...

Squeezed between rows in what looks like a wine cellar, Chad Yakobson takes a pair of pliers and pries a nail out of an oak barrel. He tips his glass forward, catching a stream not of pinot or ...

The barrel industry — which includes about 15 companies, most of them, aside from Independent Stave, quite small — stands as an exception in a mainly dismal U.S. manufacturing industry: Despite an ...

PARK RAPIDS, Minn. - The ancient craft of barrel making is about to experience an evolution. A master cooper in Park Rapids has engineered a reusable, customizable, square-shaped barrel for beer, wine ...