Hey guys!
I want to sort out some thoughts ive had about why the tobacco needs to be moist, many thoughts are from when i first started out
with my interest for tobacco and they might be wrong. Would like your opinion.
First ive always thought that keeping tobacco moist locks in aromas and all the good things in the leaf, if it dries out it slowly looses that. But leafs that has just been
dried and kept dry, smells more like cigarrs to me than the tobacco ive had in my kiln and kept moist.
Ive also thought that its more important to keep kilned leafs moist, because they have been through the process and are completed leafs and should be kept moist.
And theres also the reason to keep finished cigars moist, because they dry out and crack and gets too dry for a pleasant smoke. But does this affect the aromas? Is the physical aspect of drying out and too dry smoke, the sole purposes of keeping cigars in humidors?
And maybe, moisting up tobacco and letting it dry out and moisting it again repeatedly slowly makes the leaf loose all the goodies?
Sorry for a kinda messy thread but its shows quite well that my brain has been mixing things up a bit and needs sorting out.
Thankful for your opinion
Merry tobacco!
I want to sort out some thoughts ive had about why the tobacco needs to be moist, many thoughts are from when i first started out
with my interest for tobacco and they might be wrong. Would like your opinion.
First ive always thought that keeping tobacco moist locks in aromas and all the good things in the leaf, if it dries out it slowly looses that. But leafs that has just been
dried and kept dry, smells more like cigarrs to me than the tobacco ive had in my kiln and kept moist.
Ive also thought that its more important to keep kilned leafs moist, because they have been through the process and are completed leafs and should be kept moist.
And theres also the reason to keep finished cigars moist, because they dry out and crack and gets too dry for a pleasant smoke. But does this affect the aromas? Is the physical aspect of drying out and too dry smoke, the sole purposes of keeping cigars in humidors?
And maybe, moisting up tobacco and letting it dry out and moisting it again repeatedly slowly makes the leaf loose all the goodies?
Sorry for a kinda messy thread but its shows quite well that my brain has been mixing things up a bit and needs sorting out.
Thankful for your opinion
Merry tobacco!