It was a classic January day in upstate New York: gray overcast skies, six inches of snow cover and more lightly drifting down. I was on my way to the Adirondack Barrel Cooperage (ABC) in Remsen about ...

“It all came about at 11:30PM on a random Wednesday.” Penelope Bourbon CEO and founder Michael Paladini admitted that late-night calls are a regular occurrence for him. After his wife goes to bed, the ...

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 unique taste in bourbon, Scotch, rum and other hard liquors is in the barrel, the tannins and sugars that caramelize as the white oak staves are aged, heated and charred and then formed into the ...

SPENCER — As demand for Kentucky-made whiskey escalates worldwide, distiller Brown-Forman finds itself short on barrels to age it in. So the Louisville-based distiller has purchased 65 acres and a ...