Latakia lovers unite! Wait, what is latakia?
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I found out what true Latakia was by buying some "Blending Latakia" and smoking that, the pure thing. I now keep a sack of the "Blending Latakia" when I want to tweek a blend a bit more to my liking. Ive been known to put it in anything from Carter Hall to Full Flake Virginas. (I did the same with "Blending Perique" and it was surely what I expected from its descriptions. It just adds a little "something" to a blend thats not that overpowering to me.)
At this point the latakia has to be over 50% in a blend to suit my liking. I noticed hot sauce is not as hot to me these days. Ive numbed my taste buds a bit. The old adage "If a little is good, more is better" is not always true. :roll:
From my Notes:
At this point the latakia has to be over 50% in a blend to suit my liking. I noticed hot sauce is not as hot to me these days. Ive numbed my taste buds a bit. The old adage "If a little is good, more is better" is not always true. :roll:
From my Notes:
To confuse one even further, I think there are a whole range of Lat flavors. Buying a jar of blending Lat will just acquaint you to that one particular batch. As stated above, Lat can be smoked over pine or oak-- hhhhmmmmmm......
Anyone ever cooked food over pine?, compared to oak? Or while camping, sit around a pine fire, as compared to an Oak fire?
To me Latakia is more a process, you always know it when you smell it, but there are vast variations in the different blends. I agree--LATAKIA GOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!
Anyone ever cooked food over pine?, compared to oak? Or while camping, sit around a pine fire, as compared to an Oak fire?
To me Latakia is more a process, you always know it when you smell it, but there are vast variations in the different blends. I agree--LATAKIA GOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!
Does anyone sell mesquite latakia? I would like the smell and taste of barbecue in my pipe.
Joking, but I'd be interested to know if there is mesquite smoked latakia.
Joking, but I'd be interested to know if there is mesquite smoked latakia.
I beleive that Black Irish X uses Dark Fired.
Dark Fired is along the same lines as Latakia, but it is made with burley, and smoked over whatever wood is available. Russ O. says that true Kentucky Dark Fired is smoked with Hickory. There's a good video on Dark Fired in which the farmer talks about using whatever wood is available (see Part 3, 4:41, they talk about using wood from downed trees, slabs from saw logs and saw dust from a local mill). To further complicate, Dark Fired is also produced in Africa, using Lord-Knows-What to smoke it.
Dark Fired is along the same lines as Latakia, but it is made with burley, and smoked over whatever wood is available. Russ O. says that true Kentucky Dark Fired is smoked with Hickory. There's a good video on Dark Fired in which the farmer talks about using whatever wood is available (see Part 3, 4:41, they talk about using wood from downed trees, slabs from saw logs and saw dust from a local mill). To further complicate, Dark Fired is also produced in Africa, using Lord-Knows-What to smoke it.
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There isn't any mesquite-smoked Latakia, as far as I know, and I'm not sure that there's any mesquite on or around Cyprus where the tobacco is processed, but it would be interesting to try the results of such an experiment.
Russ
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Some describe Lat as being tvery strong. I don't experience it as anything other than tasty... Very tasty!
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