For centuries, oak has been the winemaker’s and distiller’s collaborator, quietly transforming clear spirits and young wines ...

Rain barrels are a great way to collect and save rainwater. However, most are unattractive to look at. This DIY takes things ...

Winemakers: To oak or not to oak, that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take up oak to craft your wine to shake the spheres ...

Walk into almost any wine-tasting room on the planet and they will be there: wine barrels. They may be stacked over there by a wall or set on their tails with a piece of glass across the top making ...

One of the main things that gives whiskey, bourbon, and other brown liquors its flavor is that it is stored in barrels, typically made of oak or another “pure” wood. The contact with the wood gives ...

SALEM, Mo. — Standing on a wooded hillside in the Ozarks, about 100 miles southwest of St. Louis, Brad Boswell watches a chain-saw-wielding logger make several deft cuts at the base of a 100-foot ...