When it comes to holiday meals, nothing complements a feast quite like a barrel-aged beer. The weeks and months spent aging in oak barrels, previously home to spirits like bourbon, transform them ...

One of the fan favorite annual winter events is the ‘Barrel Jam’ Barrel-Aged Beer Festival, which is now in its fifth year. The event celebrates “the art of barrel-aging beers, live music ...

When Chicago's Goose Island Brewery became the first to release beer aged in bourbon barrels on a large scale in 1992, it launched an entire category -- inspiring other breweries to follow suit.