There were a few colorful storage barrels and large metal boxes floating about.
A tour of the 1,000-acre operation leaves a visitor with a strange sensation akin to visiting a ghost town of flare towers and storage barrels.
We can also save on storage barrels.
Port aged exclusively in wood becomes tawny port because air seeps into the storage barrels and changes the deep ruby color of the wine to - tawny.
The Manx people knew there would be good fishing or harvests when they heard the fairies making storage barrels in the caves.
It looked like a large octagonal storage barrel, painted in rather garish yellow stripes.
Curious, we were told that the rice wine was actually ori-zake, which, like tamari soy sauce, thickens naturally at the bottom of its storage barrel.
We had to clamber up scaffolding, between fermentation vats, between storage barrels, through a lot of tight places.
Dammit, those storage barrels shouldn't have broken open even if you'd dropped 'em out a shuttle.
"Those storage barrels are at least twenty years old, then," the marshall pointed out.