Larry sent me a snootfull of his Kentucky Habonner... lookit this stuff:
Is that some beautiful color or what? You should see it in person!
This is by no means the largest leaf among them. Literally the first leaf that I reached in and grabbed hold of. This one's about sixteen inches long. I have a twenty four inch ice chest where I keep leaves. I stuffed BigBonner's baggie corner to corner in there, and it still had to double back on itself to fit, so you can guess from that how long these are. This one, at least, is not so wide as the Habano 2000 wrapper that I've been using. On the other hand, the stem is way way the heck straighter than what I'm using, which is going to make it that much easier to prepare. It's tetxture is a mite thicker, much oilier, and feels stronger. The veins, as they approach the stem, are considerably smaller.
But the biggest diff, I think, is gonna be flavor. Before I even opened the box, I could smell Kentucky. Once I opened the bag, whoo boy, super redolent of figs! Earthy, savory, wowee.
Meanwhile, Larry also included a wee baggie of his perique. Has anyone used this stuff in a cigar yet? You open the baggie, immediately you want to cook up stew with it. Or sausage -- it would make a great sausage. Spicy stuff.
Here's the plan for Christmas: I have four different sorts of WLT ligero on the way right now, from Don's recent Black Friday sale: piloto, corojo, criollo, and nic hab. I'm gonna take the new/old perfecto mold that I scored a couple weekends back, you know, the one that no one wants to buy, and I'm gonna real quick roll up a supply of 4 1/2" habonner bullets -- one leaf WLT habano seco, with a half leaf of one WLT ligero for punch, bound and wrapped in habonner. Ten with each ligero, and then ten with a shred of this perique. That'll give me fifty bullets to salt away. Once that's done, I'll roll up a similar batch with a leaf of this WLT criollo seco I have so much of. I think I'll make up some cigar bands, call these little sticklets Larry's Army. Hopefully have this all fixed up by the end of the year. Aged up, this is gonna make great ammo for Johnny Sotweedseed next summer. I can smell it now!
Can't wait. Might have top start with the perique right now.
The awful thing of it, I've been fighting with an asthma type ailment, so that I haven't smoked a thing in two weeks. All the better for rolling and stashing, I guess.
Is that some beautiful color or what? You should see it in person!
This is by no means the largest leaf among them. Literally the first leaf that I reached in and grabbed hold of. This one's about sixteen inches long. I have a twenty four inch ice chest where I keep leaves. I stuffed BigBonner's baggie corner to corner in there, and it still had to double back on itself to fit, so you can guess from that how long these are. This one, at least, is not so wide as the Habano 2000 wrapper that I've been using. On the other hand, the stem is way way the heck straighter than what I'm using, which is going to make it that much easier to prepare. It's tetxture is a mite thicker, much oilier, and feels stronger. The veins, as they approach the stem, are considerably smaller.
But the biggest diff, I think, is gonna be flavor. Before I even opened the box, I could smell Kentucky. Once I opened the bag, whoo boy, super redolent of figs! Earthy, savory, wowee.
Meanwhile, Larry also included a wee baggie of his perique. Has anyone used this stuff in a cigar yet? You open the baggie, immediately you want to cook up stew with it. Or sausage -- it would make a great sausage. Spicy stuff.
Here's the plan for Christmas: I have four different sorts of WLT ligero on the way right now, from Don's recent Black Friday sale: piloto, corojo, criollo, and nic hab. I'm gonna take the new/old perfecto mold that I scored a couple weekends back, you know, the one that no one wants to buy, and I'm gonna real quick roll up a supply of 4 1/2" habonner bullets -- one leaf WLT habano seco, with a half leaf of one WLT ligero for punch, bound and wrapped in habonner. Ten with each ligero, and then ten with a shred of this perique. That'll give me fifty bullets to salt away. Once that's done, I'll roll up a similar batch with a leaf of this WLT criollo seco I have so much of. I think I'll make up some cigar bands, call these little sticklets Larry's Army. Hopefully have this all fixed up by the end of the year. Aged up, this is gonna make great ammo for Johnny Sotweedseed next summer. I can smell it now!
Can't wait. Might have top start with the perique right now.
The awful thing of it, I've been fighting with an asthma type ailment, so that I haven't smoked a thing in two weeks. All the better for rolling and stashing, I guess.
