Who has the largest barrel program?

From an article about Jack Daniels: http://archive.wbir.com/news/article/219311/207/HomeGrown-Jack-Daniels-Distillery
"We have 80 warehouses with about 1.9 million barrels in storage." Note that this is from Dec 2012
Nice math draheim not off by much

 

Considering the size of their new facility and their interest in barrel-aged beers, Avery will be climbing this list over the next few years. I don't expect them to hit BCBS levels, but I can see them being #2 or #3 by 2017.

 

As of last year Feb timeframe Avery had 1350 barrels in use http://www.westword.com/restaurants...-aging-program-tenfold-adds-new-beers-5744108

Firestone Walker in Oct 2014 stated they had 1500 barrels in use
http://www.firestonebeer.com/press-room/index.php?id=41

http://www.craftbeer.com/craft-beer-muses/the-barrel-parallel-sourcing-craft-beers-chosen-vessels
Allgash Brewing Company has 600 barrels of which includes about 250 whiskey barrels.

http://www.saveur.com/article/wine-and-drink/the-brew-wicked-weed-brewery
Wicked Weed as of Nov 2013 had over 250 wooden barrels.

 

I would guess New Holland. Dragon's Milk has a large distribution, is available year round, and comes in singles and 4-packs.

 

What about Founders?

Pretty wide distro of two barrel aged beers (Backwoods and KBS) - plus all the one offy stuff they're always pushing out or tapping...

Maybe not the biggest, but have to assume top 10 or so?

 

lol you got me chuckling. A number of my friends are brewers for Epic, which has a decent barrel program, and they all seem to believe that FW has the biggest barrel program. I don't know if thats also just speculation, but I want to guess there might be some industry insight there. So Id think FW it is.

 

You forgot Halia

 

I was going to say CW as well. One of the breweries with cheap, if not the cheapest, barrel aged beers and well worth the money!