The forklift-portable barrel rack is a relatively recent invention, as modern as the barrel is old-fashioned. In the days before forklifts, palletized case-goods and refrigeration, most liquids were stored in and almost everything was transported in, barrels. Barrels were filled with apples, crackers, flour, wine, beer, whisky, salted meat and more—and rolled onto a wagon for the short journey to the local warehouse or into the hold of a ship. If the barrel-full of goods had to b...