it is the world’s largest barrel manufacturer ... strings-attached gifts — barrels, staves, anything — to universities with strong wine- and spirit-making programs. The result is a company ...

The coopers start their work after wooden staves -- the planks that form the ... includes a 10-minute video and observation of the barrel-making process from a gallery overlooking the "toasting ...

Among the uses for the distillery’s booze-infused barrels: A local ice cream shop uses Tuthilltown barrels in some of its ice-cream-making processes ... spends time sloshing up against the staves of a ...

making it mature faster than it would just sitting in a big wooden barrel. Even today, big wooden barrels are the pinnacle of the technology. The key to the story is a $5,000 gadget called the ...

As craft distilling grows nationwide — in many ways mirroring the rise of craft brewing a decade ago — demand is creeping back up for the time-honored art of cooperage, or barrel-making.

And what the barrel is bringing is caramel, vanilla, baking spice." At Independent Stave, the largest maker of wooden barrels in ... How companies are making bourbon barrels today The bourbon ...

He said his cooperage, which is about four years old, is the only one making ... to push those staves together tightly and fit hoops over them. The barrel is then put over a wooden fire for ...

“60 Minutes” will air a piece on April 6 on Kentucky’s barrel making industry ... the degree of toasting of the wooden staves, even the amount of surface area exposed to the newly distilled ...

The sophisticated dish is made from oak wood and assembled using barrel-making techniques ... and can also be removed from the wooden base. The dog bowl has a 10.8” length, 6.9” width and ...