Fire Cured Virginias?

[molach95]

I'm just trying to smoke the dottle of a bowl of G&H Brown Twist (mostly Brown Irish and Bogey). I heard that the virginias in this rope are actually "fire cured", like Kentucky burley. Has anyone come across this type of Virginia before?

 

[woodsroad]

Smokin' Dottle.

I loved that band.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Fire cured Virginias are a staple in commercial cigarettes, chewing tobacco, and some cigars. I’ve fire cured some Virginias myself, and it makes for a tasty addition to some home blends.

 

[erhardt85]

I'm not 100% sure but I think those Virginias are African virginias from Malawi that are perhaps dark fired using the same process as they use for their regular dark fired. Maybe I'm wrong but that's what I got from my research on the topic. In other words, traditional flue curing is a lot different and that's why you get those smoky flavors. I think Peterson's Irish flake has dark fired virginia as well. Along with a few other powerful flakes.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

+1 erhardt

 

[64alex]

['m not 100% sure but I think those Virginias are African virginias from Malawi that are perhaps dark fired using the same process as they use for their regular dark fired. ]
This is my understanding also and they are typical of the English brands which source their tobacco from the old imperial countries of Africa and India.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Empire Virginias, but we also have some fire cured Virginias here in the US.

 

[901blends]

Toasted malawi.
Many sutliff black Cavs are described as fire cured which really means they toast them before sweating.
They are fire cured but not smoke cured like a dark fired Kentucky. Big difference.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Sure,a vivid example of using the described type of processing is that of Gawith & Hoggarth Kendal-England

 

[crashthegrey]

I guess that's why I loved Irish flake and other "strong flakes," so much. Man I wish there were more fire cured Virginia blends.

 

[mso489]

Fire-cured, is that the way of suspending the leaves on sticks and hanging them in a barn with a curing fire at the base that is kept going all the time? Like all the old tobacco barns we see slowly disintegrating and being taken down? I guess there's a modern way to do this now.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Those fire cured empire Virginias are great, but there still are some brightleaf varieties being fire cured for cigarettes and chew. McClellands had at least one that was fire cured if I remember correctly. And, at the risk of sounding like Cliff Clavin, before passive heating through flues started coming into use in the early 1900's, all Virginias were fire cured. It has a spicy, almost a sweet sausage like flavor, but not as smoky tasting as Kentucky Fire Cured, or meaty as some twist taste.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

CrashTheGray:I'm agreeing with You,though I suspect these type of FireCured Virginias,I mean so called Empire Viriginas,as Cosmic names them,require quite a lot of processing and aging,Yet,who knows,maybe the majority of contemporary pipesmokers consider them a bit outdated,and this even more if there is any trace of floral(Lakeland type of toppings to be found in those