One of my favorite tobaccos of the last few years has consistently been Russ Oullette's "Arcadian Gold". It's a collaborative experiment between Mark Ryan of Daughters and Ryan Tobacco and he to process some Flue Cured Virginia tobacco by the same method Perique is made.
This summer I grew and air cured a couple dozen tobacco plants on some property in southern Wisconsin (see chilllucky crop 2019 thread). As part of that effort, I was introduced to a professional flue cured tobacco farmer who acted as a mentor to me during the grow. At the end of the season, he gifted me what he termed "a couple of handfuls of red cutters and tips".
What he actually sent me was nearly two pounds of some of the most beautiful teaching aids I've ever seen. It's a real boon to my education as a hobbiest grower to be able to feel and smell the best stuff of a professional field.
However, it's so much tobacco that I need to think of some worthy things to do with it aside from just waiting for it to mellow out and smoke it bit by bit. One of the things I am going to try is to press some in a vessel, shooting for the anaerobic fermentation of the perique process and some approximation of Arcadian Gold as the end product.
This summer I grew and air cured a couple dozen tobacco plants on some property in southern Wisconsin (see chilllucky crop 2019 thread). As part of that effort, I was introduced to a professional flue cured tobacco farmer who acted as a mentor to me during the grow. At the end of the season, he gifted me what he termed "a couple of handfuls of red cutters and tips".
What he actually sent me was nearly two pounds of some of the most beautiful teaching aids I've ever seen. It's a real boon to my education as a hobbiest grower to be able to feel and smell the best stuff of a professional field.
However, it's so much tobacco that I need to think of some worthy things to do with it aside from just waiting for it to mellow out and smoke it bit by bit. One of the things I am going to try is to press some in a vessel, shooting for the anaerobic fermentation of the perique process and some approximation of Arcadian Gold as the end product.