After the wood for a barrel is cut and dried, the cooper heats the wood while shaping it into a barrel. Steam, natural gas, boiling water, the burning of oak chips or some combination of these is used ...

In this video I turn 2 barrels into a 3" thick solid oak, end-grain butcher block. It's 2 feet long, 18" wide, weighs nearly ...

Napa Valley residents are used to seeing wooden wine barrels: in wine caves ... using age-old techniques for curing wood and bending staves into the distinctive containers for fermenting wine.

An expert cooper can hammer together more than 30 staves in as little as 90 seconds, Heaven Hill Distillery stated in an article about the process of making barrels. Are there other cooperages in ...