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From forest to barrel, we focus on quality and transparency to ensure our customers receive only the best barrels for their spirits.
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OVER 110 YEARS OF EXPERTISE
Innovation Comes Standard
Partnering with distillers, our global R&D team continuously develops innovative cooperage products.
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Dedicated to our customers' success for over a century.
Founded in 1912 by The Boswell Family, ISC embraces the core values of family, innovation, community, and hard work.
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We recently partnered with Suntory Global Spirits, The Nature Institute, and Green Forests Work to support reforestation efforts in Hazard, Kentucky. Together, we planted over 7,000 native trees—including American White Oak—helping to restore native forests, improve biodiversity, and strengthen local ecosystems. 🌱
The ground beneath our feet is the former surface mine land, while the landscape behind us offers a glimpse of what the forest will become over the next 80+ years. 🌳🌳🌳
Thank you to all who participated and helped make this initiative a success. Together, we’re making a lasting impact protecting the forests that sustain the spirits industry—and our world. 🌎💚 #SustainableForestry #CraftedWithCare #AgedInISC #BarrelsForTheWorldsFinestSpirits
We’re incredibly excited to share that our very own Denham has been named the winner of the 2025 iscbarrels Young Distiller Fellowship Award! 🏆 He recently went to the australiandistillersassoc conference for the announcement.
We’re so proud of him, from starting with us as a young Whipper (swipe right to see the throwback!) to now thriving as a Senior Distiller, Denham has truly blossomed under Jimmy’s mentorship and is absolutely smashing it!
This recognition is well-deserved and a huge moment for Denham and the whole Whipper Snapper crew.
He now gets to head to the US to see how our barrels are made all while drinking loads of Kentucky whiskey, lucky man!!
Congrats, mate! 🥃🔥
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#legend #distiller #perthshomeofwhiskey #Australiawhiskey #fellowship
The second experiment from our blog #ResearchSeries examines the effect of different char levels on new oak extraction rates during the first two years of maturation. Samples were taken from each barrel at 12 and 24 months and then analyzed using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry.🔬Link in bio to read the full post.
Contact your account manager for a copy of our recently published research book. 📘📖📊#ResearchSeries #AgedInISC #BarrelsfortheWorldsFinestSpirits
Kentucky Cooperage joined @kybourbon’s sustainability initiative at the White Oak Research Forest on the Maker’s Mark campus in Loretto, KY. Together with around 40 volunteers and in partnership with @beam_uky, we measured seedlings to help identify which mother trees produce the most vigorous—those best suited for regenerating our vital white oak forests. 🌱🌳
This research is key to protecting the future of white oak, a cornerstone of bourbon production and forest sustainability. 🥃💚 #SustainableForestry #CraftedWithCare #AgedInISC #BarrelsForTheWorldsFinestSpirits
Make sure to tune into 60minutes tonight as they take a deep dive into our world of barrels, featuring three of our members iscbarrels, bardstownbourbonco, and midwestbarrelco. It’s a much deserved spotlight into the backbone of the spirits industry.
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