Kentucky’s legislature voted to completely phase out the property tax on the value of barrels of aging spirits. The action – taken in the final hours of this year’s session – was toasted ...

Bourbon is aged in charred oak barrels. The cooperage at Morehead will become the company's third in the state, joining the 500-employee Kentucky Cooperage in Lebanon and a used-barrel cooperage ...

GOODWOOD BREWING — BRANDY BARREL HONEY ALE. Goodwood gets its name from its shtick. The brewery ages all of its beers with wood, either in barrels or in infused casks. So there are a few barrel ...

“60 Minutes” will air a piece on April 6 on Kentucky’s barrel making industry, a key part of the bourbon aging process. Provided The award-winning CBS news show “60 Minutes” apparently ...

BARDSTOWN, Ky. (AP) — A charred oak barrel can only be used once to create bourbon whiskey. But some of Kentucky's craft brewers are proving that used barrels can be put to good use.

FRANKFORT, Ky. — In the years it takes Kentucky bourbon to mature in new oak barrels, producers have faced two certainties: They lose a portion of the aging whiskey to evaporation — known as ...

The barrel tax is assessed only in Kentucky, and its removal will stimulate more rounds of growth in a state where nearly 12 million barrels of spirits are aging in warehouses, it said. “Kentucky ...

In the years it takes Kentucky bourbon to mature in new oak barrels, producers have faced two certainties: They lose a portion of the aging whiskey to evaporation — known as the angel's share ...

In the years it takes Kentucky bourbon to mature in new oak barrels, producers have faced two certainties: They lose a portion of the aging whiskey to evaporation — known as the angel's share ...

FILE - Green River Distilling Co. employee Coleman Savage looks over the 300,000th barrel of bourbon filled at the distillery inside the new-fill warehouse at the plant on April 20, 2021, in Owensboro ...