Brown-Forman is set to close its Louisville cooperage where approximately 210 ... The Louisville-based company's facility, where barrel makers — also known as coopers — produce the white ...

A cooperage is the workplace of a barrel or cask maker, called a cooper. Brown-Forman’s cooperage in Louisville at 402 MacLean Ave., sits off Crittenden Drive, just to the west of the Louisville ...

Jack Daniel’s maker Brown-Forman is slashing ... Old Forester and other spirits – is closing its barrel making operation by April 25. The so-called Cooperage business employs 210 hourly ...

The company will source barrels from an external supplier ... Brown-Forman has touted itself as the only bourbon maker with its own cooperage for years, saying that it allowed them better control ...

As a barrel is being constructed, but before the heads at either end are added, the cooper (barrel maker) chars the inside edges of the staves. This final treatment imparts aromas of vanilla, spice ...

The fate of the cooperage facility remains uncertain ... For now, more than 200 barrel makers — specialists in a centuries-old craft — will face an uncertain job market as Louisville continues ...

The company's cooperage, where barrels are made to store and age its spirits, will close by April 25, affecting about 210 hourly and salaried employees, it said. The closure is part of the overall ...

However when Brown-Forman closes its Louisville cooperage, which the company said would be no later than April 25, it would start to source barrels from an "external supplier to ensure a steady ...