1. Drain the water The first step is to empty the barrel. Sustainability expert Kat Garside says 'Any water remaining in your rain barrel during the winter will freeze and potentially cause damage ...

In short, you can buy a single barrel of whiskey, but the contents will be bottled before you receive it. If you want the empty barrel, most distilleries will send it with your bottles.

Yet, that upbeat spirit is nowhere to be seen today. Overwhelmingly, the industry sees the barrel as half empty. “There’s a lot less optimism,” Scott Sheffield, a shale pioneer, told me in ...

After the tasting, a buyer selects a barrel and then later receives the empty barrel along with approximately 250 bottles. The bottles are individually numbered and personalized with a custom ...