New pictures below of us installing the smoked plexiglass lighting! Thanks to Daniel Madson for these great pictures! Email sweekes@rockymountainbarrelcompany.com for more info of this project and pricing.

Welcome to the Rocky Mountain Barrel Company Blog! We are extremely excited to announce that we have been working on a one of a kind HUGE barrel project.

About 3 months ago I received an email about two very large barrels that were recently found. The man said they were found deep underground in an old brewery that doesn’t exist anymore. He had purchased the building and wondered if I had interest in them. After seeing many pictures I decided it was a once in a lifetime kind of deal.

Getting them to Denver was the hard part! There is no sure way to date these but everything points to that they were made about 1890-1910 in Europe. They measure 9′x8′6″x8′6″

My goal is to make an amazing, top notch custom walk in wine cellar INSIDE this historic barrel!!!

The above image is us getting the barrels off the semi in Denver. No easy task! The wood hadn’t been disturbed in 100 years so there was no way of knowing the condition of the wood

1 barrel ended up being very damaged in transit. The other came out perfect!

Over the next week we went to work getting it back to shape. The bands are extremly old but weight at least 100 lbs each!

The orange cones of the hoops are just plastic covers over the ends. After we got the barrel as tight as possible our next challenge was to make a custom rack utilizing the original wood beams to get the barrel off the ground and moveable.

For this we hired a local steel mill to make us custom steel rods, washers and nuts. The barrel itself is well over 2000lbs so we needed some heavy duty stuff!

After we got the barrel up and off the ground we needed to get inside! We drew out the door on the front barrel head and went to work! The oak on this barrel is incredibly thick! Over 3″ thick so this took quite some time..

The black on the interior walls is actually very old resin! Everything about this barrel is excellent! Just being able to walk around inside of a huge barrel from the 1900’s is a true gift.

After taking a few days off we went back at it installing the false floor..this was quite another challenge because the barrel is obviously round..but not quite equal on either side !

After we got the plywood in for the false floor I went out and picked up some beautiful red oak hardwood flooring!

Our idea for the wine racks is going to be a gradual stair step rack up the side of the barrel with the display bottle on top. We didn’t want the first bottle of the floor so we built bench like stands on both sides where the racks will start. The following pictures are of this..haven’t done any of the trim work yet! We are really sparring no expense on this gorgeous barrel!

FOR SALE! The second barrel from the late 1800s/early 1900’s was damaged in transit. This is very sad… About 5 of the staves were broken and are only about half there. The hoops are all still there, but not attached. The head is in GREAT condition though and would make an amazing 9 foot diameter table! What a focal point for a bar or restaurant.. Barrel measures 9 feet diameter..about 8′5″ length. Asking $5000 or best offer for entire barrel. Wood is in great condition and is over 100 years old (the dirt is only on the outside. Go 1/8″ in and it’s beautiful french oak). Email sweekes@rockymountainbarrelcompany.com Below are pictures of damaged barrel. These were taken on a cell phone is bad light.

Below is a picture of the head of the barrel