00:03over a century of family coopering skills run hot in John Carberry's hands but he's worried
00:11they could soon dry up I've got all this knowledge up here that I need to pass on to the
00:15next
00:15generation after training dozens of coopers in Britain he's just taken on Kieran Quinn as his
00:23first Aussie apprentice yeah people think it's pretty cool it's not very many people doing it
00:29Kieran will join the dwindling ranks of Australian coopers charged with maintaining the hundreds of
00:36thousands of oak barrels used by wine and spirit makers to store and flavor their products and with
00:45no accredited training course on offer the handful of master coopers that remain want more to be done
00:51to ensure the trade maintains its standards it's a food grade industry so it would be good for them
00:58to re-establish that that side of the craft more for the fact that the job getting done right it
01:03also needs to be registered as a trade in Australia so that we can get young Australians learning what
01:09coopering is coopering is not listed on Australia's occupational shortage list making it hard for
01:16producers to fill jobs locally we're going to end up with no coopers here in a matter of you know
01:22years really but Corowa's master Cooper is eager to pass on some more trade secrets before then
01:31I'm hoping to take on another couple of apprentices get a couple of good lads in here and pass that
01:35information on a skill worth preserving
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