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Everyone has some experience with homemade wines: good, bad, or indifferent. What experiences have you had with home grown, home cured, and home prepared tobacco?
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Uuuuuuhhh, where to start. I have a small winery license where I make and sell wines locally. And, I’ve been growing tobacco. But a couple of years ago, I grew a shitload too much, and my cellar runneth over.
I’ve built a flu for curing brightleaf, but it’s full of spiders now.
Results.., I really like them, and I’ve yet to get a negative review from people to whom I’ve sent some. I actually prefer my own over most other store bought tobaccos, especially Virginias. Now, all I can taste from most is the casings, since mine are nit cased at all.
I started out with the notion that they “had” to be cased, and experimented with casing, but soon came to find that they are just better without.
Wines… I have an orchard with 11 varieties of fruit trees, and three rows of muscadines. I make close to 100 gallons a year, which is small scale and keeps me within the perimeters of my license. I can make it, sell it locally, but cannot transport it across state lines. I probably won’t grow that business, since I’m trying to retire out of everything. But, I will keep making wines, just maybe less. It all really started to just see if I could do it. I really don’t need the money. Not that I’m rich, I just plan well.
Who knows, I’d love to hand some of my businesses over to my kids.
I’ve built a flu for curing brightleaf, but it’s full of spiders now.
Results.., I really like them, and I’ve yet to get a negative review from people to whom I’ve sent some. I actually prefer my own over most other store bought tobaccos, especially Virginias. Now, all I can taste from most is the casings, since mine are nit cased at all.
I started out with the notion that they “had” to be cased, and experimented with casing, but soon came to find that they are just better without.
Wines… I have an orchard with 11 varieties of fruit trees, and three rows of muscadines. I make close to 100 gallons a year, which is small scale and keeps me within the perimeters of my license. I can make it, sell it locally, but cannot transport it across state lines. I probably won’t grow that business, since I’m trying to retire out of everything. But, I will keep making wines, just maybe less. It all really started to just see if I could do it. I really don’t need the money. Not that I’m rich, I just plan well.
Who knows, I’d love to hand some of my businesses over to my kids.