Kim McDaniel, owner of Woodshed Designs, turned a passion for repurposing bourbon barrel parts into a thriving business.

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 ...

A 1-ton wooden barrel is 1.5 meters in diameter and 1.45 meters high. Normally, a barrel of this size is made from 33 staves, but Tsudome once needed 38 staves, as he had shaved them down too much, ...