PseudoPod 307: That Ol’ Dagon Dark horror podcast in the Lovecraft’n flavor was a story about a pipe tobacco “Ol’Dagon Dark”. Described as earth and salty sea blend I decided to do a kitchen sink burley blend. This is a ribbon cut blend with the burley coming from a new source for me Total Leaf Supply and the rest from Whole Leaf Tobacco. Oriental / Perique Components Shredding Burley Lovecraft’n American English blend perhaps? ...
So I was curious what would happen if I did [ton-618-stoved-red-virginia](Ton 618) and use Yellow Virginia instead of Red Virginia. Off we go! I did the same recipe and casing with 1 lb of Yellow Virginia from [https://wholeleaftobacco.com](Whole Leaf Tobacco) I use my small metal tube when I only do a 1 lb batch. It is a bit of a struggle to get it in the tube initially. ...
Monkel’s Best is basically a bright Virginia with two different casings. I strip 2 lbs of bright and half I case with blackberry casing and the other half with tonka bean casing. I have found it to age well after stoving under pressure for 4 hours at 200F Blackberry casing is just 100g water to 100g sugar and spoonful of Brewer’s Best Blackberry and a cap full of white vinegar. Bring to a boil, stir until clear Let cool and spray 2 oz to 1 pound of whole leaf. Let sit overnight in a trash bag with the air squeezed out. ...
This is a 50/50 blend of burley and bright Virginia. The burley is cased with molasses/tonka bean and the Virginia is cased with plum casing. I made four 160g plugs in the 2’ stainless steel tube. I had some difficulty with fraying with the Chinese made meat slicer. I believe this way caused by some uneven pressing of the plugs. So switched to the antique plug cutter and made thicker flakes ...
This all red Virginia de-stemmed and cased with tonka/blackberry and stoved for 10 hours. Red Virginia prior to destemming Tonka casing 200g Molasses 100g Water Handful of cacao nibs 1 whole tonka bean 1 cap full of white vinegar Blackberry casing 100g water by weight 100g suger by weight 1 tablespoon of Brewer’s Best Blackberry 1 cap full of white vinegar Both casings are brought to a boil and kept there 5-10 minutes and then let cool. I put half tonka and half blackberry in a 1 ounce atomizer and cased the 1 lb of red Virginia after it was de-stemmed. ...
Things are warming up around here an I have a hankering for a new burley plug. I used burley cased from this recipe. The Virignia was cased with plum casing. Recipe 87g Burley (53%) 58g Virginia (35%) 20g Dark Fired Kentucky (12%) Ranger So I did somethings differently. The image above is only 1 day after pressing the plugs. Earlier this week I pulled some Red Queen Plug that was wrapped with foil and put in mylar and had some books and case of mason jars sitting on it for six months. You can see how dark the plugs became. ...
Getting ready to make a new burley plug and tweaked the burley casing recipe. Ingredients (by weight) 200g Molasses 100g Water Handful of cacao nibs 1 whole tonka bean 1 cap full of white vinegar Bring to a boil while stirring and then let it boil for 5-10 minutes. Take off the heat and let cool before transferring to a container. I use a strainer to filter out the nibs and tonka bean. ...
Red Queen is a Va/Per and the whole leaf recipe can be found at Red Queen V This is basically a two day process. First step is strip the stems from the Bright Virginia and Red Virginia. The Red Virginia had some nice leaves Red all done Next the Bright Virginia. When I de-stem I pull from the top of the leaf, one half of the leaf. I pulls apart easily from the top. ...
Angel of Izmir (Virginia / Oriental / Latakia) Apertif Clone (Virginia / Oriental / Latakia / Cavendish) Basma Bastard (Virginia / Oriental / Latakia) Burley Plug (Dark Fired Kentucky / Burley / Virginia) God of War (Virginia) Grateful Plug (Virginia / Burley) Memphis Plug (Dark Fired Kentucky / Virginia) Monkel’s Best (Virginia) Orlik DSK clone (Dark Fired Kentucky / Virginia) Ranger (Burley / Virginia / Dark Fired Kentucky) Red Queen (Virginia / Perique) Ton 618 (Stoved Red Virginia)
Being irritated that the Mac Baren HH line is going away I decided to try and make a mellow burley flake substitute. Probably won’t even be close but all that matters is it is enjoyable smoke. So HH Burley Flake is burley, Kentucky and Virginia with burley being the main feature. I bought some burley and dark fired Kentucky from LeafOnly. Great quality leaves but I will warn you they do not vac seal the tobacco. I think I will go with the molasses/cacao hull casing for the burley and the tonka casing for the Virginia. The dark fired Kentucky does not need casing. ...