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 ...

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 ...

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 ...