By Richard Thomas According to AL.com, the website for the Huntsville Times and the Birmingham News, Brown-Forman’s new cooperage in Trinity, Alabama is set to open on Monday. The $60 million barrel-making facility will employ 200 workers. Drawing on staves supplied from Stevenson, Alabama and Clifton, Tennessee, the cooperage should start with an output of 400 barrels per day. Brown-Forman, ...

By Richard Thomas The “Great American Whiskey Shortage” isn’t actually a new story, since versions of it have been circulating in the mainstream press for at least the last few years. Yet insofar as the details of that story goes, the “Barrel Shortage” is definitely a new wrinkle. New oak barrels are a cornerstone of American whiskey-making, and that they ...