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 ...

The scent of white oak -- steamed and charred -- lingers off KY 3434. Logs stack atop one another, waiting to be sawed into staves and begin their lives as barrels for whiskey and wine. In 1959, C.B.

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 ...