I’ve been doing some branding for a new liquor venture. Sweat equity ownership. We have a release party for Virginia later next month and it’s time to do some promo photos for the event this week. Figured the drinks and a bottle would look good on an engraved branded cutting board. With some very minimal testing on the back, here’s how an Acacia cutting board from Target engraved.
yup. one shot, got a nice dark and fairly even background.
Oaxaca, where most is made. Ours is made with 100% espadin. it’s a small, 3 generation palenque that makes it. not an overwhelming smoke profile, like many, it’s a bit smoother.
The rest of the description sounds legit… that detail makes it interesting to me.
I love tequila (products of Fortaleza, el Pandilla, and La Altena being my favorites, generally). And generally do not like mezcal exactly because of the emphasis on smoke.
southern california is our next target. hoping to be there by the end of the year, if not sooner. the lower smoke profile was intentional as it makes a more flexible cocktail mezcal. high smoke profiles can overwhelm a lot of drinks.
I have one of those Acacia boards from Target that I intend to engrave, but it has a bark edge that has a blatant gap in it. They had to use two pieces but didn’t bother to mate them well. I guess I’ll just tear off the bark and sand down that edge. Your really nice result has me motivated.
Anyone have a source for such woods that isn’t so marked up? In the Wisconsin area…?
Not to go too far off the subject but the grain in the wood could be used for horror stories better than selling liquor. Every time I look at it, it is looking back.
