The best of craft beer looks a lot like brewing in 1920. "Barrel aging is the current hot trend in American craft beer," says Garrett Oliver, brewmaster for Brooklyn Brewery and editor-in-chief ...

It's a stainless steel barrel holding Eagle Rare bourbon. That's right, stainless steel, not charred oak. Some look something like oil drums. "It's kind of like putting chardonnay in stainless ...

While mega-consolidations have allowed Australian beer-based companies ... of temperature-controlled stainless steel brewing tanks. The Firestone Union oak barrel system uses 60-gallon oak barrels ...

Normally, when a brewer decides a batch of barrel-aged beer is ready, it's transferred to a stainless steel keg which is pressurized and carbonated with CO2. No existing tap system could serve ...

For about as long as wine has been made in Washington, there have been two predominent vessels for fermentation and aging: oak and stainless ... oak and steel. “Concrete allows for the gradual ...

Why take a barrel of ... stout aged in stainless steel, not in apple brandy barrels. I later received confirmation that this keg is believed to be the current release of the beer, which confirms ...

Streit switched from traditional steel storage more than a year ago at the behest of his supplier, Carlsberg A/S. Because the new vats keep beer fresher longer, the change enabled him to increase ...

The Town of Warwick brewery’s seven oak foeders - wooden containers - each producing 15 beer barrels, aren’t like most breweries’ stainless steel tanks, which help beer makers control ...