COMSTOCK PARK, Mich. — The West Michigan Whitecaps are appearing once again as their alter ego, the Beer City Bung Hammers on Saturday, Aug. 20. Starting in 2018, the Whitecaps have taken on their ...

COMSTOCK PARK, Mich. - The West Michigan Whitecaps announced on Saturday, June 9 that they will temporarily change the team's name to the Beer City Bung Hammers for their Aug. 4 game against the ...

Back in February when I went to Auburn Road Vineyards in Pittsgrove to do research on Vidal Blanc, winemaker Jules Donnini treated me to a taste of the 2016 vintage that was aging in the barrel. The ...

It was 1994 and Yards Brewing Co. needed to keep costs down. So the fledgling microbrewery began shipping its ales, porters and stouts in old-fashioned metal beer barrels. They were dinged and dented, ...

Ryan Skeels pops the bung on an oak bourbon barrel and peers into the hole with a flashlight. “Oh, yeah, there’s a lot still in there,” he says. A half a bottle’s worth of whiskey sits at the bottom, ...

RESEARCHERS at the University of Adelaide are developing wine barrel sensors with optical fibres to reduce waste and improve quality. Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing director Professor ...

PORT ANGELES — Don Corson, winemaker and owner of Camaraderie Cellars, 334 Benson Road, has received US Patent 8,714,383 for his wine barrel closure. The patent is for a compound bung-type stopper ...