coo·per·age
| \ ˈkü-p(ə-)rij
, ˈku̇- \
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Definition of cooperage
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: a cooper's work or products
2
: a cooper's place of business
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Kentucky is known as the home of the bourbon industry, but what Ohio city is home to a cooperage that produced its 1 millionth bourbon barrel in 2020?
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Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, "Gov. Mike DeWine proposes using stimulus money to repay Ohio’s unemployment loans: Capitol Letter," 9 Apr. 2021
That brewery storage building, which came to include a cooperage for making beer barrels, is today divided into residential lofts.
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John Freeman Gill, New York Times, "In Brooklyn, a Ghost of Breweries Past," 30 Oct. 2020
In 2015, Silver Oak became the first winery in North America to own and operate its own American oak cooperage.
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Esther Mobley, SFChronicle.com, "Silver Oak Winery: fancy new digs and a flagship location for Cabernet," 17 Jan. 2018
Established in 1945, the Brown-Forman cooperage employs roughly 200 people.
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Ben Tobin, The Courier-Journal, "Brown-Forman Louisville cooperage shut down after 2 employees contract coronavirus," 1 Apr. 2020
Slane gets barrels from a Kentucky cooperage owned by Jack Daniel’s maker Brown-Forman.
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John Kell, Fortune, "Whiskey makers are bending the rules for barrel-aging, signaling a new wave for bourbon," 29 Mar. 2020
Founded in 1945, the cooperage produces about 600,000 barrels a year.
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Scott Utterback, courier-journal.com, "Louisville, from dusk to dawn: What we captured while the city was seemingly asleep," 11 Feb. 2020
According to a new release, the cooperage now produces 1,200 white oak barrels a day which are used to age Jack Daniel’s whiskey.
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al, "Jack Daniel’s will release a limited-edition whiskey in celebration of Alabama’s bicentennial," 21 Aug. 2019
Thanks to its barrel cooperage in the U.S. and existing distilleries, Brown-Forman had access to a lot of barrels.
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Emily Price, Fortune, "This New Irish Whiskey Has Deep Roots in Rock ‘n’ Roll," 24 Aug. 2019
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“Cooperage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cooperage. Accessed 8 May. 2021.
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