How is everyone's Saturday going? I'm getting my sophistication on and lighting up a freshly rolled tobacco leaf. Okay, it's not the same complexities that our batch offers, and it does taste like the stale tea breath of a smoker that has come into one's personal space a little too close, and the pack is a bit loose, and the outer leaf keeps unfurling, and, yes... it was just a silly spontaneous thing to do while gardening but does offer a sense of achievement that people can grow tobacco and dry the leaves themselves. The rest are being "colour cured" in the garage and I will be making a press for pipe tobacco when they are ready. Just wanted to update with some activity on this blog :)
Saturday, April 13, 2013
How is everyone's Saturday going? I'm getting my sophistication on and lighting up a freshly rolled tobacco leaf. Okay, it's not the same complexities that our batch offers, and it does taste like the stale tea breath of a smoker that has come into one's personal space a little too close, and the pack is a bit loose, and the outer leaf keeps unfurling, and, yes... it was just a silly spontaneous thing to do while gardening but does offer a sense of achievement that people can grow tobacco and dry the leaves themselves. The rest are being "colour cured" in the garage and I will be making a press for pipe tobacco when they are ready. Just wanted to update with some activity on this blog :)
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Nice one. do you think they'll taste any better in a pipe? maybe you could improve the tobacco by ageing it in a cognac/rum bottle or coating it with vanilla essence ;-)So what are you doing after picking... just drying it out or?
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They'll taste pretty good in any form I think but in all the research I've done, curing for pipe smoking seems to be the easiest and cigar would be the hardest. The taste is not awful but the ageing process is still very young and although it has plenty of sweetness to the taste, the high ammonia content which needs to be cured out is still there. At this stage - yes "colour curing" and then will look at the method press curing AKA flake tobacco which involves a press and consistent heat + humidity.
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