Lemon Virginia reviews
- Thread starter Freeotatv
- Start date
- Status
DGBAMA
Well-Known Member
Re: virginia lemo n reviews
If you like flue cured flavor but find it a little overbearing, lemon retains flavor while "toning it down". Also adds a bit of sweetness to the blend for me. A 1/4 leaf in the middle of a cigar is a nice touch, for my taste. Would be too light by itself, again for my taste, YMMV.
Not a stand alone, but love to have it on hand for blending.
If you like flue cured flavor but find it a little overbearing, lemon retains flavor while "toning it down". Also adds a bit of sweetness to the blend for me. A 1/4 leaf in the middle of a cigar is a nice touch, for my taste. Would be too light by itself, again for my taste, YMMV.
Not a stand alone, but love to have it on hand for blending.
DonH
Well-Known Member
Re: virginia lemo n reviews
Because it's a flue cured, it's usually used in cigarettes. People laughed at me, but I swear it has a bit of a lemony taste. It lightens up a cigarette blend. Using WLT's flue cured types as a spectrum it would go, from lightest to heaviest, Lower leaf Virginia Bright Leaf (no longer available, it looks like), Lemon Virginia, Flue Cured Virginia Bright Leaf, Red Virginia.
DGBAMA
Well-Known Member
Re: virginia lemo n reviews
It is primarily a cigarette tobacco. I just find it ads a nice bit of sweetness to a cigar.
Re: virginia lemo n reviews
I agree Don, I get a slight sour/tartness from it when mixed in a pipe blend.
I agree Don, I get a slight sour/tartness from it when mixed in a pipe blend.
Acid = sour sensation on the tongue.
Base (alkaline) = bitter.
Bob
Base (alkaline) = bitter.
Bob
Bex
Well-Known Member
Many people have difficulty differentiating bitter vs. sour. The old rule of thumb was sour was on the side of your tongue, and bitter towards the back, but I understand that current 'knowledge' indicates that these particular taste buds are all over, and not just in one area. Be that as it may, I find that the stuff I have grown thus far does have a 'sour' taste on the tongue....Ah, am I growing lemon Virginia?? Doubtful!! But the point is, how do you get rid of that acid/sour sensation??? I would think that this is not something that is preferred, no??
The distinct sour taste is typical of flue-cured leaf, because of its lower pH. Burley helps raise the pH. Perique is the definitive cure.
Bob
Bob
Bex
Well-Known Member
Perique - do you mean doing this process with the flue cured Virginia leaves, or just blending the VA with perique or burley?? I am glad to know that I am apparently flue curing my VA properly, as it tastes pretty horrid on its own.....
I don't know what you get if you try to pressure-process some flue-cured leaf. Might be good. Might not. I was referring to any leaf that is initially pressure-cured (Perique process).
Bob
Bob
Lemon is light and sweet. Pressing Virginia is done in one of Mark Ryan's new blends which apparently sweetens it even more. To bring out more sugars this leaf when moistened needs to be hand pressed into the bottom of the tobacco can and ferment dried and remoistened. It is even better.
Bob's advice is : to remove the "sour taste" from your flue cured virginia, blend it with burley or (even better) with perique.
pressing some virginia can bring some sweetness (if just press it to a cake and let it alone a few days/month... with some air)
pressing some virginia in a perique curing style (under enough pressure to let it ferment under anaerobic atmosphere for at leat 3 month) offers something different : I tried last year to make some perique out of some air cured bright leaves (cherry red) and it reduced the acidity of the leaf, and it changed it's flavors too : it became more fruity but I found it has not a lot of taste.
It all depends All Canadian smokes are 100% Virginia. Burley is not one of our things. I like that citrus tang. Virginia blended with other Virginias can be a really tasty smoke from a Canadian perspective.
BarG
Founding Member
You aint tried BigBonners deep red burley !
- Status
Similar threads
