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 ...

Rural England was once a hive of industrial activity as traditional craftsmen such as bodgers and coopers plied their trades. Then their craftsmanship fell out of favour with the modern world. With a ...

'It's a touchy-feely thing," says Pete Bradford. What he means is that barrel-making requires all of your senses. You have to eye the right 200-year-old white oak and examine the planks for ...

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 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 ...

In an increasingly digital world, many makers are interested in preserving the skills of the past and encouraging new generations to take up the old trades. One such craftsman is David Salvetti of ...

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 ...