How a coalition is making sure future generations have access to a key part of bourbon making – white oak trees. Kentucky Edition is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App ...

Photo: Chiselwit, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons This white oak group member, sometimes called majestic oak, is a long-lived (200 to 300 years) native that can grow up to 90 feet tall and wide ...

Oak wood, whether red or white, is one of the most popular choices for hardwood flooring. Floor installer Maria Ramos says that "At least 70% of the floors we put in are oak," per Good Housekeeping.

Post oak’s popularity has put it in high demand, but some wood suppliers may try to pass off white oak, live oak, and even red oak as post oak. Here’s how to tell the difference.

Post oak, another species in the white oak group, is the same density as white oak, but is about 10 percent weaker and 20 percent more bendable. The hardness is the same in both.

The appeal of white wood floors—relaxed but refined, a not-too-blank canvas for showing off one's furnishings and antiques—is stymied only by a justified fear of keeping them clean.

Wood from American white oak trees is the preferred and traditional material used for this process. In fact, almost all of the color and more than half of the flavor of a Kentucky bourbon or ...

Answer by Laurence Shanet: Oak (especially American white oak) is far and away the most common type of wood used for making whiskey. However, it is not the only type used.

White oak went into the exterior hull and parts of the keel. Live oak, which, unlike the white oak, is short and gnarled was used in the skeleton (from “Wood that Went to War” Wood Magazine).