Making barrels
An evening pause: I especially find the mixture of human labor and machinery here fascinating.
And what better to watch as we enter the holiday season then the making of wine barrels?
Hat tip Phill Oltmann.
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related–
The Bourbon Barrel –
“Kelvin Cooperage”
Louisville Kentucky
https://youtu.be/fF38BxIqxL0
3:53
Anyone named “Cooper”, here’s what one of your ancestors did for a living.
Beware altercations with a cooper…. they have a Hell of a right
Wayne
On another note a local, very small distiller: McLaughlin Distillery (namesake of your cooper and namesake of mine) coopers his own barrels from white oak in upstate New York. He uses smaller barrels that require less aging since the liquid is able to meet with the barrel surface more readily. He does all his coopering by hand in a very small shop (est 20’x40’). The process seems to be the same but with hand tools.
Both are good videos and show interesting approaches to the fabrication problem
Thanks for posting
Chris-
Good stuff.
Federal law requires that all (US) whiskey be aged in newly made (Oak, if I’m recalling correctly) barrels. (there’s an interesting if not convoluted history behind all this.)