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an excellent read, learned a ton, thanks so much!
This is a great read but my understanding (and I may be wrong) is that Ernie makes a distraction between commercial blends and blending tobacco.
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“ I said earlier that blending tobacco is cased. The thing is that in my opinion it isn’t cased enough. They sort of give you a start, but they only case enough to bring the ph down a bit and maybe take the edge off the raw leaf.”
There were a few tobacco types he specified not to recase. Perique being one of them..
Total newbie revelations here.
On blending? That would be where opportunity lies…. there just aren’t any specifically about blending. Some have sections that briefly talk about it, but nothing really “useful.” But, I think it would make a nice niche book. The problem is that things like casing and toppings are mostly commercial concepts. Getting the commercial blenders to give recipes probably isn’t going to happen. But, I’d buy someone’s experiments and recipes…. Like a Home Tobacco Gourmet Recipe Book thing.
My books are mostly growing, curing, processing, history, etc. mostly curing stuff was what I was looking for. That’s where I think the magic is, IMO. Fire cured virginias, twisted into rope with some perique processed semois. Maybe a smidge of sun cured Japan8.
Adding flavors is interesting and I’d play around with it. But, growing a cherry red, and processing it to get a slight natural cherry hint in the tobacco is more what I want.
When starting out I found this book helpful as well as this sprawling thread. I focused on understanding the ratios between leaf, how this impacts pH balance and flavour
fairtradetobacco.com
Pure Tobacco Pipe Blends You Can Make
While some varieties of tobacco can be enjoyable when smoked straight in a pipe, the flavor horizon can be broadened by simple blending of contrasting varieties and cure-methods. My goal in this thread is to present some pipe blends that do not use casing of any kind. [Practically all...
@cosmicfolklore are there any commercial blends that come close in taste to what you blend up?
You've piqued my curiosity
You've piqued my curiosity
No, thank god!
Edit: well, semois. And maybe C&D comes close. But, I do not try to copy commercial stuff. I try to just make good tasting stuff for my taste buds.
That reminds me I need to send you some semois grown in the whenua of Aotearoa. As a ‘single origin’ type blend, you can notice the impact of terrior. To be fair I don’t toast my leaf after air curing either
Just wanted to try and understand your flavor profiles...
He could just label it "Dirty Undies", the whites... They'll dispatch it most assuredly.
Yes there are no shipping restrictions on any tobacco product or whole leaf within NZ and as far as I can tell from NZ.
Yes, I built a small shed powered by crock pots to regulate temperature and humidity. I can flue cure and color cure in here. It's not pretty, but it works.
