How to Use cooperage in a Sentence

cooperage

noun
  • No barrel, no maturation, no cooperage to smooth the edges or fill the gaps.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • Brown-Forman's bourbon barrel cooperage is about to get a facelift.
    — Bailey Loosemore, The Courier-Journal, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Check out the photo gallery above for a look inside the Jack Daniel’s distillery and cooperage.
    — Jonah Flicker, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2017
  • Brown-Forman has cut its workforce, sold a cooperage, and closed a Scotch distillery.
    — Doug Melville, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Quality depends on the cooperage type and conditions in which a whiskey matures.
    — Natalie B. Compton, GQ, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Outside, the rain douses the flames at the cooperage, but the situation still seems a bit explosive.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Only dwelling houses would be allowed — no rear-lot cooperages or blacksmith shops mixed in with residential uses.
    — Jeremy Lechtzin, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2024
  • The house dates to 1868, and the location of the cooperage where Heisman’s father worked is three doors down.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 24 Apr. 2021
  • That amount matches the 14 barrels the distillery's mini cooperage can construct daily.
    — Bailey Loosemore, The Courier-Journal, 14 June 2018
  • Those elements are often elongated through the generous use of sherry cooperage.
    — Brad Japhe, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2024
  • With an on-site cooperage, Muga makes its own French oak barrels and buys its American barrels fully formed.
    — Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 23 Nov. 2025
  • From fermentation and cooperage all the way through to maturation and bottling, the entire scope of whiskey production is on display.
    — Jake Emen, USA TODAY, 13 June 2018
  • What most other people will taste is a rich and robust malt that leverages the best of both French Oak and ex-Madeira cooperage forming its finish.
    — Brad Japhe, Forbes, 6 July 2021
  • 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.
    — al, 21 Aug. 2019
  • The cooperage decision matters enormously here.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • That brewery storage building, which came to include a cooperage for making beer barrels, is today divided into residential lofts.
    — John Freeman Gill, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Roughed up in the scuffle, Patrick wants to burn Guinness in the most literal fashion by setting fire to all the empty bottles in the Guinness cooperage.
    — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Similarly, Beringer Wine Estates launched a cooperage in 2000.
    — Jess Lander, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 June 2022
  • Huber's gets its barrels from three different cooperage companies and uses four different barrel styles, which adds complexity to its signature blend.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 4 Jan. 2023
  • In a way, the old barrel filling house and the distillery’s cooperage function as an eerie sarcophagus for the bourbon industry’s downfall in the 1980s.
    — Maggie Menderski, Louisville Courier Journal, 19 Dec. 2025
  • The goal was to highlight three key components of the Martinique terroir by using barrels made at the onsite cooperage to showcase different flavors through wood, char levels, and blending.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 14 Feb. 2024
  • After assemblage, the casks were left in the French forest to dry and age for two years before being brought to a cooperage in the US where they were toasted and aged for an additional year.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 15 July 2022
  • Because of this, the cooperage, or barrel-building facility, is a cornerstone of the Bluegrass State’s bourbon industry.
    — Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2026
  • At this maturation level, the questions that define a Reposado or Añejo — how much wood, what cooperage, which agave — become more consequential, not less.
    — Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
  • The latter is something that Brown-Forman has singled out as affecting its financial picture, and the company has laid off people and sold off one of its cooperages over the past couple of years.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2026
  • Two weeks after the news arrived that Brown-Forman was laying off 12 percent of its global workforce and selling its Louisville cooperage, there is some more bad news to report.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 28 Jan. 2025
  • In January, the company laid off around 700 employees and closed a Kentucky cooperage, where wooden barrels are produced to age whiskey and bourbon.
    — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Then it was placed into Silver Oak Cabernet Sauvignon barrels from the winery’s own cooperage for a secondary maturation period.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 17 Nov. 2022
  • As their production grows, so will the transformative effect on the Bhutanese economy via new jobs across the development of agriculture, local cooperages, hospitality and wine tourism.
    — Jillian Dara, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
  • According to the cooperage, the T5 barrel is made from fine-grain wood that is seasoned in open air for five years before being assembled, and adds intense flavor, aroma, and tannins to any wine or spirit matured in this type of cask.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2023

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