Bourbon is a type of whiskey made under strict parameters. The difference between bourbon and other whiskeys has to do with ...

One might consider a wooden barrel the fifth ingredient in beer after water, malt, hops and yeast. Brewers use them to impart additional flavors into the beer. But why barrels — bourbon in particular ...

Winemakers: To oak or not to oak, that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take up oak to craft your wine to shake the spheres ...

There’s something about a barrel room in a winery. On the surface, it’s just a giant room filled with a bunch of identical wooden barrels stacked in rows. That alone can be an impressive sight, but ...

If you could make a lot of bourbon whiskey these days, you could be distilling real profits. Bourbon sales in this country are up 36 percent in the past five years. But you'd need new wooden barrels ...

Barrell Craft Spirits, the Louisville-based brand that specilizes in blending, has released a new 12-year French Oak Cask ...

With barrels, the first thing you have to know is what forest provided the oak. Forests in Burgundy, where it is warm, grow rapidly, and the trees have wide growth rings, for example, whereas in the ...

Walk into almost any wine-tasting room on the planet and they will be there: wine barrels. They may be stacked over there by a wall or set on their tails with a piece of glass across the top making ...

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 ...

Cracker Barrel announced on Oct. 2 that it ended its engagement with Prophet, the consultancy that advised the chain to update its logo and stores.