If you already have an old barrel in mind that you'd like to bring back to life, that's great. If not, you can easily find a used one online or purchase a new barrel from a home brewing supplier.

The first offerings are a 20-year-old whiskey called Barterhouse ($75), a 26-year-aged Old Blowhard ... At any one time, Diageo has around 13 million barrels of aging whiskey in storage.

Wine or whiskey barrels can be a great (and practical) addition to your home or garden decor; here are a few DIY ideas you can use to repurpose them.

The optionality to the buyer increases when brands barrel and sell their whiskey. A single barrel could become a 12-year-old scotch. Or, the contents could be finished in a different cask.

That initial launch coincided with the opening of Old Forester Distillery on Louisville’s Whiskey Row, and since that time, fewer than 100 total barrels have been released. All contemporary ...

This does incur about 25% more cooperage than the higher proof, a penalty we are happy to pay if it leads to superior four-year-old whiskey. It also means our barrel proof whiskies never get ...