plug tobacco
This will be a pretty obvious amateurish attempt at making a Virginia/Burley whole leaf plug in a similar vein as Germain’s Rich Dark Flake. I expect it not be even close but you got to put a stake in the ground somewhere on this 60/40 Virginia/Burley
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Quick post after pulling the 1st whole leaf tobacco plug from the hydraulic press. I have been experimenting with whole leaf tobacco this year. I have a nice aluminum/steel form that makes 3″ x 3″ plugs. The issue is cranking down on with a C-Clamp takes 10 days to
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Time to upgrade the tobacco press! Just pulled another dark fired Kentucky / Virginia plug out of the press. Taking 10 days to crank down with a C-Clamp pretty much sucks. So I ordered a 12-Ton Shop Press from Northern Tool. While that was in route I destemmed the rest of
aged pipe tobacco
How to determine the age of tinned tobacco is the art of reading manufacturing codes as well as history of the blend. This is for my reference but hopefully it can benefit the rest of the community. For English Tins, read the Pipepedia article. Capstan (Orlik/STG, MacBaren) On the
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Making a whole leaf red Virginia plug was my forth whole leaf plug. Sourced the leaves from Whole Leaf Tobacco. This used the same casing recipe from whole leaf Virginia plug with blackberry casing. Took about 10 days to crank down to max with the c-clamp. This one spent about
pipe tobacco
There are several ways to pressing pipe tobacco and as elaborate as your budget will allow. Why press? It melds the flavors better of the tobacco no matter if you are doing raw leaf or using an existing blend. Many folks like make tobacco cakes and plugs. Moisture content will
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Whole leaf Virginia/dark fired Kentucky plug is the next experiment to perform. This is made with equal parts bright Virginia flue cured, red Virginia flue cured and dark fired Kentucky. All of these leaves were purchased from Whole Leaf Tobacco. First step is prepping the leaves. Prepping the leaves,
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Making whole leaf Virginia plug with blackberry casing is the same procedure as whole leaf Virginia plug blend. The difference is we are making our own casing. The casing is made by using 1 to 1 ratio by weight of water to sugar, add a cap-full of white vinegar. Next,
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Experimenting with Making a whole leaf Virginia tobacco plug. Tobacco was purchased Bright Virginia Flue Cured and Lemon Virginia Flue Cured from WholeLeafTobacco.com along with their commercial casing. Whole Leaf Tobacco commercial casing for flue-cured tobacco is just an inverted sugar water flavored with lemon peel. Next, was deciding
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I am an amateur tobacco blender. I make personal blends and blends for Afterburner Cigar Lounge in Lillington, NC. I don’t really make any money on it but it does give the local shop something unique to sell and a way for others to obtain some of my blends.