With a focus on playing with Brettanomyces yeast and aging its beer in oaken barrels, Colorado’s Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project has been putting years of scientific research into drinkable art ...

Russ Karasch opened a plastic bag filled with strips of wood the color of the best part of a piece of toast. “Smell this,” he said. The aroma was intoxicatingly comforting, like roasting a chocolatey ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Squeezed between rows in what looks like a wine cellar, Chad Yakobson takes a pair of pliers and pries a nail out of an oak barrel. He tips his glass forward ...

PARK RAPIDS, Minn. - The ancient craft of barrel making is about to experience an evolution. A master cooper in Park Rapids has engineered a reusable, customizable, square-shaped barrel for beer, wine ...