barrels

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Kentucky is sitting on roughly 16.1 million barrels of bourbon—the equivalent of around 300 million cases—according to the Kentucky Distillers’ Association.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

The barrels that cooperages across the country produce for bourbon-makers no longer fetch the prices they once did.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

Across the roughly 430-acre campus south of Louisville, warehouses are jam-packed with barrels full of dark-brown liquor that may not have buyers.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

If the globe is short 10 million or 12 million barrels a day of supply, how do you not see higher prices?

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

Finally I give up trying to rouse him and concentrate on rigging the barrels like Mr. Woodwell told me.

From "The Young Man and the Sea" by Rodman Philbrick