As craft distilling grows nationwide — in many ways mirroring the rise of craft brewing a decade ago — demand is creeping back up for the time-honored art of cooperage, or barrel-making.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - A cooper is a person who makes a barrel for a living. To make those barrels, you have to have trees — and to make sure there are trees for those barrels, one ...

But Silver Oak Winery, located in California’s iconic Napa Valley and Alexander Valley, gets its barrels from a town of about 600 people in mid-Missouri. The Oak Cooperage in Higbee ... it cost The ...

Half of the one million oak barrels produced worldwide each year are made in France. French cooperage is a centuries-old tradition that dates back to the Gauls and plays a key role in the ...

The Louisville-based company will close the barrel-making operation Brown-Forman Cooperage by April 25, impacting about 210 hourly and salaried employees there as part of the workforce reduction.