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The Secret Craft Behind Wine & Whiskey Barrels

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Go inside the workshop where skilled coopers transform raw oak into the barrels that shape the flavor of the world’s finest wine and whiskey. Check out this video next - 1977 Stonemason Quarry: Hand Tools Only!

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@UnEarthedonyoutube Creator 4 months ago Pinned

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@gregkocher5352 4 months ago

My people made barrels besides their sawmill and farming activity. My dad showed me how to assemble a barrel that had fallen apart. We didn't have the saw to make the wood staves anymore but I still have a tiny stock of the steel strip bands and the anvil they used.

@waynethomas3638 3 months ago

the adze/axe used to shape the barrel staves sealed the cell structure of the wood whereas staves mechanically cut with a saw ripped the cells open which then shrank unevenly on drying thats why hand hewn barrels are better and last longer!

@djssurf 5 months ago

my grandfather was head cooper for guinness so thank you

@TheFlyingDutchmanNWI 4 months ago

Hello from Northwest Indiana USA and the current time is 11:27 am

@RaisonEtPaix 2 months ago

Thank you for your excellent old reports. If you could produce documentaries on wood and stone carving, that would be fantastic, as well as on ancient architectural techniques. Thank you from Cambodia 🙏.

@waynethomas3638 3 months ago

you could tell that barrel had no liquid in it as it had MT(empty) painted on it!😀

@Santos-qq3qk 3 weeks ago

They get a partial amount of wine, and all they have to do is survive from being hurt or killed foŕ moving the barrels to the out side is that a fair deal.

@ladislavTim 2 months ago

Zdravím z Česka ze střední Moravy pamatuji dřevěné pivní sudy krásná práce mistra bednáře.

@Yuribashi77 5 months ago

Florida, USA

@MalloryKnox. 3 weeks ago

[1:07:18] he says the same exact here, as he does here [1:07:47]
I been trying to figure out where the exact cut is and why there’s a cut and paste of a sound bite. Strange.

@SerikDS 4 months ago (edited)

Astana. 11.22 a.m.

@SuperOlds88 3 months ago

Pluto noon.

@pyton_1991 3 months ago

Poland

@kerrydennison7947 5 months ago

The little guy with the long hair is the same actor that's in the video on making the industrial size knives he runs the drop hammer forge in that video.