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 ...

Instilling automation to what is traditionally a handcrafted operation not only improved the cost efficiency and productivity of the company’s barrel production, but earned Jack Daniel’s Cooperage the ...

Today’s challenge starts with a bourbon barrel so loose that removing one stave almost collapses the entire thing. I reshape ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Those who appreciate both fine Scotch and cycling (though hopefully not at the same time) finally have a way to marry their two pleasures in the form of the Glenmorangie Original by Renovo bicycle.

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 ...

Turns out a wine barrel has enough wood to make about two bikes. Industrial designer and University of Kansas professor Lance Rake caught the attention of bike lovers (and just lovers of cool things ...

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 ...