From a custom bourbon experience to Bold Picks by Eli Manning, here is what's happening on Kentucky's bourbon scene this ...

In short, cooperages only make the barrels bourbon ages in ... years for a cooper to master the skill of fitting the wood slats, called staves, together tightly for the barrels so that it has ...

Brown-Forman noted last year it had previously sold stave mills — facilities that cut logs into the narrow strips of wood used in barrel making — in Alabama, Ohio and Tennessee to Independent ...

Kentucky Straight Bourbon will be released for the first time in 2025. "Over the years, our flagship Bomberger's Declaration Bourbon has always had ...

To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual,” Oscar Wilde ...

Upstream, this may reduce demand for raw materials like staves and wood, potentially impacting ... I learned that it took 29 to 31 staves to make a barrel, which the coopers could do in about ...

There is no blueprint for making these barrels. It requires the expertise ... curves to form a circle when joined together so that they could serve as barrel staves. A 1-ton wooden barrel is 1.5 ...

S it back, swirl your glass and hold it up to the light. That golden liquid is more than just bourbon, it’s history in a glass. If you’re looking for the best bourbon experiences the world has to ...

Traditional production techniques, regional characteristics, and an emphasis on quality have helped make Spanish ... one of the barrels on an oven so that the wood and the staves adapt and shape ...