Where is the Cooperage?It being re-enacting season once more, many of you have inquired why you cannot order cooperage through our website. The answer remains as it has been for some time, unfortunately: Gary still has orders in hand to complete, and stock to make, before once again opening our online store to cooperage orders.The next question usually is: When? We wish we could give you a definite answer. All we can say is hopefully…
A rule of thumb for wet cooperage is: once wet always wet. You may store your vessel filled with water indefinitely. Simply change the water monthly, and add a teaspoon of baking soda to the water to ensure the wood remains sweet. We highly advise people to refrain from using chlorine bleach, as we have recently discovered bleach causes the cells of the wood to corrode, rendering the wood porous.If you do not have facility…
Released March 19, 2007, Recipes of a Dumb Housewife, by Lorina Stephens, is proving to be a hit. Now available through our secure online shopping cart at Five Rivers, as well as online throughout North America and most of the European Union through Amazon, Borders, Barnes and Nobel and W.H. Smith. If you don’t see it at your bookseller’s, ask them to order it. ISBN 978-1-4303-1789-0. If you’re a bookseller looking to acquire Recipes of…