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unusual facts about cooperage


Cooperage

Speyside Cooperage, a cooperage located in Craigellachie, Aberlour, Scotland


Frank J. Hess and Sons Cooperage

In 1904, Henry Fauerbach of the Fauerbach Brewery in Madison persuaded him to move to Madison, Wisconsin to start an independent cooperage business.

At the age of 14, he started and completed a 4 year cooperage apprenticeship in Pilsen, Bohemia.

The Battle of the Kegs

The kegs themselves were made by Colonel Joseph Borden's cooperage to the specifications of Caleb Carman and designed by David Bushnell, an inventor and graduate of Yale College.


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