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A nice light blend.

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Shredded up a bunch of tobacco today and made a blend/mix I hadn't tried yet.

30% Virginia Brightleaf
30% Virginia Flue Cured
20% Tennessee Burley
20% Turkish Izmir

Turned out light but flavorful.
 

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Thanks for sharing this blend. Always good to get fresh ideas. When you say flue cured, is this red leaf? The way I understood it was that brightleaf, lemon, red are all part of the flue cured group. Also, is your burley toasted? I want to get burley involved in my blends to give more of a fuller flavour but many people strongly advocate toasting it to make it palatable.
 

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Thanks for sharing this blend. Always good to get fresh ideas. When you say flue cured, is this red leaf? The way I understood it was that brightleaf, lemon, red are all part of the flue cured group. Also, is your burley toasted? I want to get burley involved in my blends to give more of a fuller flavour but many people strongly advocate toasting it to make it palatable.

Burley may be the missing ingredient in your cigarette blend. Toasting will help mellow out burley, but so does age. I like it toasted or not. You can also substitute about half your Burley for Maryland and that will mellow out the Burley and also add another nice flavor.
 

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Burley may be the missing ingredient in your cigarette blend. Toasting will help mellow out burley, but so does age. I like it toasted or not. You can also substitute about half your Burley for Maryland and that will mellow out the Burley and also add another nice flavor.

I want some burley. I am smoking my kick ass ottoman been kilned for 2 weeks , mellow, need some tough burley to go with it.
 

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Well I got my burley ordered from Larry and cant wait. I guess I will crank up a long dormant kiln when it gets here minus a 1/2 lb. The ottoman from 2012 was only kilned for 2 weeks and the difference from unkilned is very noticable. probably about 3 lbs worth. I am on my last lb of big gem from 2012 so will add that to a grow next year.
 
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