cooperage

December 11, 2013 – Wet weather this fall is forcing distilleries in Kentucky and other states to juggle production schedules because of a temporary shortage… Read More

Ger Buckley is the fifth-generation cooper at Ireland’s Midleton Distillery, but had no one to pass the torch to. In fact, there hadn’t been an… Read More

When Kentucky was still a wilderness in Colonial days, Pennsylvania was a hotbed of whiskey distilling. Back then, the Keystone State was known for its… Read More

August 19, 2013 – Maverick Japanese distiller Ichiro Akuto has added a new cooperage to his Chichibu Distillery in Saitama Prefecture north of Tokyo. He… Read More

Whisky lovers tend to be passionate about other things as well. For Mark Dermul of Belgium, it’s whisky and “Star Wars”. Mark and his friends… Read More

The arrival of December brings with it the annual announcement of the Malt Maniacs Whisky Awards. 171 whiskies from around the world were entered in… Read More

This is a big weekend on Islay, and not only because it’s the first weekend of the Islay Festival of Malt & Music. Bruichladdich is… Read More

Brown-Forman’s cooperage in Louisville, Kentucky has an impact on whiskies all over the world. The cooperage makes all of the barrels for Jack Daniel’s, Woodford… Read More

This week, WhiskyCast is in Lebanon, Kentucky for the Marion County Country Ham Days Festival. This year’s festival honors Independent Stave’s Kentucky Cooperage, the local… Read More

It’s been a busy week for whisky festivals from coast to coast in the US, with events in San Francisco, New York, and Chicago. In… Read More