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Plant manager Darren Whitmer in the Brown-Forman Cooperage, 420 MacLean Ave. in Louisville, Kentucky, May 28 2013. The cooperage makes more than 600,000 barrels per year with nearly 85 percent of them being made for Jack Daniels. Each barrel is made of white oak and holds 53.4 gallons on average.

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