For almost exactly 200 years, the Guinness brewery in Dublin, Ireland employed extremely skilled craftsmen to shape and construct wooden casks by hand. These men were called coopers, and plying their ...

As the Pacific Northwest’s only cooperage, Oregon Barrel Works is a woodworker’s paradise brimming with time-tested hand tools and modern-day machinery that hits visitors with an immediate sensory ...

One of the first things you notice when meeting master cooper Will Jamieson is the strength of his handshake. Jamieson, managing partner for Demptos Napa Cooperage, began his career as cooper at age ...

The yew tree doesn’t die, Ger Buckley explains. He’s got a big block crosscut section of one right in front of us, held across his knee. He points out the coloring of the wood — here a deep chocolate, ...

The process of making a high quality wine barrel is still done very much by hand. Each piece of wood is hand selected, even from the point of purchasing specific logs at auctions. In this video he is ...

Forty-year-old Tamas Dosa is a third-generation cooper and one of the last barrel makers in Hungary. He is keen to keep this centuries-old tradition alive into the next generation. Hungary has been ...

One local company is proving that you don’t have to head to Kentucky, or even leave the Fort Wayne city limits, to have a quality barrel made for craft beverages. Combining elements of machining, wood ...

TOWNSEND — The newest addition to the campus of the Townsend Historical Society in the Harbor might at first glance look like just another old shed. But it’s not. The red building, called the Copeland ...

Robin Cordek remembers learning how to sew at the knee of her grandmother. “I’d be underfoot, so she’d give me something to do with a needle and thread,” Cordek said. The Davidsville resident now uses ...