The craze for bourbon is in full swing, but fueling the demand isn’t entirely smooth sailing. Bourbon has rules. It must be produced in the United States, it’s grain mixture no less than 51 percent corn and it’s required to age in new, freshly charred oak barrels. Distilling bourbon also takes time, time in barrels. Time in barrels is exactly what Camacho has become familiar with while developing its newest cigar, American Barrel-Aged. A short five months is what it found ideal for the Honduran corojo’s time in barrels, but it’s also becoming increasingly personal with time with barrels through working with Jeff Irish. There aren’t many people making barrels these days, but there’s lot of people using them. Whether it be traditional uses like the Scottish whisky business or newer an unconventional outlets like Bourbon Barrel Rehab, the Kentucky-based company founded by Irish that gives new life to bourbon barrels by finding new applications for the prized oak in the form of jewelry, bars, instruments, promotional items and just about every home furnishing you could imagine. Wealthy clients aren’t typically fans of off the shelf, they crave exclusivity; Jeff Irish cut his carpentry-teeth making one-off accent pieces for client’s ...
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