Smokin Harley
Well-Known Member
So , I can't find the thread I posted in but I know I jumped in an ongoing thread and took a side road with this. But I feel I needed to make it one in itself because it may help someone .
A couple days ago I discovered a quart jar I had thrown small amounts of leaf Id grown and made cavendish ,perique and naturally aged Va flake and ,etc etc. So I took that and added some alcohol , specifically rum and Honey Jack ,shook it around a few times during the day, let it sit in the same jar in room temperature overnight and it smelled extremely sweet but yet not like tobacco,almost candy-like and syrupy .It was in Id say medium/high case. So I put it in a quart freezer ziplock baggie , got it all down to one big lump ,smooshed the air out of the baggie before placing this wad of shred in a bag between 2 pieces of wood and gave it what for in my bench vice until it was 1/4 inch thick.. I let that sit an hour before I took that pressed mass and folded it over and re-pressed it over night in the cold basement. I just opened it and it now has the most raisiny/fig aroma ,smells very good. I think I'm onto something.
Wondering if I should do something else to it like crumble it out ,add more Honey Jack and re-press,or don't push my luck and stop here and just let it dry and try.
Thoughts ?
A couple days ago I discovered a quart jar I had thrown small amounts of leaf Id grown and made cavendish ,perique and naturally aged Va flake and ,etc etc. So I took that and added some alcohol , specifically rum and Honey Jack ,shook it around a few times during the day, let it sit in the same jar in room temperature overnight and it smelled extremely sweet but yet not like tobacco,almost candy-like and syrupy .It was in Id say medium/high case. So I put it in a quart freezer ziplock baggie , got it all down to one big lump ,smooshed the air out of the baggie before placing this wad of shred in a bag between 2 pieces of wood and gave it what for in my bench vice until it was 1/4 inch thick.. I let that sit an hour before I took that pressed mass and folded it over and re-pressed it over night in the cold basement. I just opened it and it now has the most raisiny/fig aroma ,smells very good. I think I'm onto something.
Wondering if I should do something else to it like crumble it out ,add more Honey Jack and re-press,or don't push my luck and stop here and just let it dry and try.
Thoughts ?