Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. Metal, ...

A manufacturer of bourbon barrels will invest $16.85 million to build a new stave mill in Pittsylvania County. The Speyside Bourbon Cooperage facility will be the fourth facility for the company in ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on April 6, 2025. The original video can be viewed here. If someone asked you to name a product that was first made 2,000 years ago, still looks ...

THE PROBLEM AND WHAT’S BEING DONE TO ADDRESS IT DREW. WELL, VICKI, THE KEY COMPONENT HERE IS WHITE OAK. IT’S USED TO MAKE THE BARRELS THAT BOURBON IS AGED IN, AS WELL AS MANY OTHER PRODUCTS. THERE’S ...

Thank you for your recent article about volunteers with Green Forests Work reforesting old strip mine sites in Kentucky. Reforestation is important if we are ever to reduce flooding in the hollers of ...

Brown-Forman is set to close its Louisville cooperage where approximately 210 employees work, but unless you are in or interested in the bourbon industry, you may have never heard of it. "Brown-Forman ...

Metal, plastic and cardboard long ago eclipsed barrels for the shipment of most items, but when it comes to wine and whiskey, especially bourbon whiskey, the oak barrel still reigns. Demand for ...