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Making plugs in winter is a little more challenging. Cannot take advantage of the summer heat and poor man stoving the press in the hot cab of the truck for a week. So here is the update on recent activities. I got a wooden double press that UpArrow made on
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Well, hurricane Ian knocked out the power last night so nothing to do but make a Latakia blend whole leaf plug. Worked on destemming the red Virginia and cased it with the plum casing I used for the Virginia/burley Thumbed through Goff’s book since it was full of
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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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Red Queen V Virginia/Perique pipe tobacco blend was the fifth iteration of a blend that started with some very old perique. A local tobacconist was going out of business and gave me a giant bag of perique that likely had 5 years of age on it. This is not
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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
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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.