Grassy Virginias

[Mopiper]

Which tobacco do you get the most grassy flavor from?

 

[pantsBoots]

Orlik Golden Sliced. After the bergamot burns off, it's just pure fresh hay and sunshine.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

None. I smoke Virginias 80% off the time and I’ve never tasted grass. I’ve tasted real grass. If the tobacco tastes like that, I’d never smoke it.

 

[pantsBoots]

None. I smoke Virginias 80% off the time and I’ve never tasted grass. I’ve tasted real grass. If the tobacco tastes like that, I’d never smoke it.

Why are you eating grass?

 

[Servant King]

Why are you eating grass?

Bovine in a past life?

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Why are you eating grass?

If you haven't, how do you know the flavor?

 

[Ocam]

I've smelled hay or grass in some very bright virginias, but I've never actually tasted either

 

[pantsBoots]

If you haven't, how do you know the flavor?

Uffda. How about manure notes in cigars?

 

[newbroom]

D&R 3 Sails

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Uffda. How about manure notes in cigars?

There's something I bet you have experience and expertise in.

 

[pantsBoots]

There's something I bet you have experience and expertise in.

I spend a lot of time at work in cow fields. The smell is unmistakable.

 

[SBC]

People typically identify grass flavors in bright VAs, but last night I had a bowl of McC Stoved VA -- which is almost jet black -- and tasted more green hay like flavors than I ever have in any other tobacco. And it was the only tobacco ever to leave green hay type flavors in the aftertaste. Weird.

 

[TheWhale13]

I've never tried it but Solani 633 is supposed to be very green and grassy tasting?

 

[pantsBoots]

I've never tried it but Solani 633 is supposed to be very green and grassy tasting?

Haven't had any in quite a while (I think I inadvertently buried the jar in the cellar), but it definitely reminds me of a different take on the same blend used Orlik GS. Different, but similar tobaccos, blended by a different hand.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I spend a lot of time at work in cow fields. The smell is unmistakable.

While smell influences taste, they're not exactly the same. No one will judge you if you admit to chewing on a cow pie. Do you prefer your cow pies with or without corn? If you chew on one from a strictly grass feed core, perhaps you'll experience both the grassy and shitty flavors.

I've found C&D Sunday Picnic to have the most barnyard tin note of any blend I've smoked. The taste bears no resemblence.

 

[PoplarWight]

OGS smells strongly of hay. Exactly like the hay in my goat barn to my smeller, whereas capstan and most of the other virginias I've smoked smell more like bread or something. Taste wise, they are very similar. Is this a difference in the leaf or the processing?

 

[cigrmaster]

I really dislike grassy flavors in my blends. I won't smoke anything with grass or hey in it.

 

[JOHN72]

None. I smoke Virginias 80% off the time and I’ve never tasted grass. I’ve tasted real grass. If the tobacco tastes like that, I’d never smoke it.

Same...............

 

[JOHN72]

It may be that smoking very fresh tobacco gives you that herbaceous touch, I am referring to the tobacco you have smoked. From my little experience, the more cured, aged it is, the less herbaceous it will be. I think, from what I have been able to verify with virginias that I smoke of some years in the cellar.

 

[Ocam]

OGS smells strongly of hay. Exactly like the hay in my goat barn to my smeller, whereas capstan and most of the other virginias I've smoked smell more like bread or something. Taste wise, they are very similar. Is this a difference in the leaf or the processing?

What I can tell from whole leaf tobacco is that leaf already differs in the smell before processing. Normally lemon virginias from the lower sides of the plant smell grassier. It might change from different varieties too.

Without casing, the longer you press the greater change in the aroma. So there's that. And cooking the tobacco will change it too.