Tobacco Preferences

**ashauler** · 11-16-2010, 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by Smoked!

So... You're quitting your job to farm full time? On second thought, growing and harvesting are the easy steps in the production. It looks like you'll have quite a bit of processing to do after the harvest. Any plans for the flue cure process?

You are exactly right.....growing and harvesting are the easy parts, but I needed something to do over the winter, thus the expansion into different strains and different end uses for the tobacco. Lots more room to play around with pipe tobacco then there is with cigar leaf.

I plan on modifying my kiln just a bit to function for flue curing as well as fermentation. Since flue curing begins while the leaf is still green, I should be able to use the kiln for both purposes during the same season. I'll flue cure the appropriate strains while the primings from the cigar tobacco are color curing and drying. That's the plan anyway.

**nhcigarfan** · 11-16-2010, 06:46 PM

Sweet. Awesome. Sweet.

Maybe try a soaking a vanilla bean in the sugar/water solution for a while??

Don't know but cool ass project. When I get some of these trees down I'm giving the pipe tobacco a try.

**cigarsarge** · 11-16-2010, 08:36 PM

Very interesting...Post some reviews after you smoke some.

**ashauler** · 11-17-2010, 09:38 AM

Originally Posted by nhcigarfan

Sweet. Awesome. Sweet.

Maybe try a soaking a vanilla bean in the sugar/water solution for a while??

Don't know but cool ass project. When I get some of these trees down I'm giving the pipe tobacco a try.

Got plans for honey, vanilla, rum, and whiskey flavorings next. For these I think I'll use a processing called stoving. From my reading it seems as if this will infuse the flavor better.

Oh, and next year, with the varieties that I'm growing I'll get to try to produce some form or other of Latakia as well.

Of course, I'm not abandoning the cigars and non-cased pipe tobacco either. I'm convinced that a good smoking tobacco, very reminiscent of a cigar, can be created for a pipe.

BTW, let me know when and what type of seeds you need.