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 ...

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.

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 ...

In the release announcing the restructuring, Brown-Forman said it will close its barrel-making operation in Louisville by April 25, 2025. The closing of the cooperage means 210 hourly and salaried ...

They are also shuttering their Louisville-based barrel-making operation, Brown-Forman Cooperage. The company said this location will be closed by April 25. This closing will impact around 210 ...