Bowjack
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Since I reside in tobacco country. There seems to be a lot of leaf on the roadsides...so, being cheap and enjoying my pipe and tobacco. I will smoke and occasional cigar, cigarette, but have found that I really enjoy the ceremony of smoking a pipe. My heritage is Native American and it made sense to try my hand at processing my own tobacco and the history seems to begin with cigars and tobacco fermented in logs with a lever press...well, I did not find a hollow log but did find a fair amount of tobacco on the roadside and so, here is my attempt at perique tobacco. I started with a small amount in a 4x4 piece of oak rough cut from a downed tree but it cracked and the juice leaked out, so, I went to a gallon bag used for storing my green coffee beans...that leaked a bit too and then I must of gathered about 100 leafs on one section of road, and so, I transferred the first small batch to a 1 gallon igloo water container and that fell over and spilt the juice, so, I went to a larger 2.5 gallon and kinda made a lever press but it is rough too...here is where I am at right now. I think the leaf grown in this county is virginia but as I learned...perique is a process. Couple of photographs...it reeks but is fermenting.