Effortlessdepths
New Member
Hello everyone, I have some experience rolling my own cigars, and I have smoked both cigars and pipes for about 3 years now. I have a decent number of smaller humidors with my cigars and brand cigars stocked, as well as a modest cellar of about 10-12 lbs of pipe tobacco, with many blends and blending components I’ve bought from smokingpipes and pipesandcigars. I have made a dozen or more of my own blends from blending components, and I have mixed and pressed them in my noodle presses to help accelerate the marrying process. I have even made a cinnamon casing from the sticks and everclear and successfully cased a burley blend for my wife that came out great, sort of like Angler’s Dream. So I am fairly familiar with tobacco, but still definitely a beginner, especially as far as whole leaf PIPE tobacco is concerned.
Included in my cellar now, are 4 lbs of whole leaf tobacco from wholeleaftobacco.com of course. I ordered a pound each of red virginia, bright, katerini, and maryland, along with a small bottle of flue cured casing flavoring. I’ve sampled each individually, and they are very different from what I’m used to, and I understand why that is the case, for the most part. They don’t have mold inhibitors, PG, etc. I plan on de-stemming all the tobacco (except for the katerini of course) and sealing it back in mylar bags in scrap form.
However, I would like to make them a bit tastier. I find them to be more biting than I’m used to, and I am not sure how to proceed. Here are some questions, and feel free to answer questions I haven’t asked yet:
1. All the tobaccos I ordered are from the 2019 growing year, except for the katerini which is 2016. Do they need to be kilned?
2. As far as using the casing, I’m not sure how to do it. I know you mix it with a tablespoon of water like it says and start spraying, but I want a bit more direction than that. How much tobacco can I spread this casing across? My idea was to take scraps of each tobacco I want to use to blend, bake them at a certain temperature (not sure which, I am open to suggestions obviously) then spray the casing on them, let them cool, then pack them down into a noodle press in layers and put it under pressure for a week or so, like I do with other blends. I’m open to doing this for longer, then letting the “pucks” sit for a few weeks/months before slicing.
I’m open to any suggestions and advice. I’m also open to video links.
Included in my cellar now, are 4 lbs of whole leaf tobacco from wholeleaftobacco.com of course. I ordered a pound each of red virginia, bright, katerini, and maryland, along with a small bottle of flue cured casing flavoring. I’ve sampled each individually, and they are very different from what I’m used to, and I understand why that is the case, for the most part. They don’t have mold inhibitors, PG, etc. I plan on de-stemming all the tobacco (except for the katerini of course) and sealing it back in mylar bags in scrap form.
However, I would like to make them a bit tastier. I find them to be more biting than I’m used to, and I am not sure how to proceed. Here are some questions, and feel free to answer questions I haven’t asked yet:
1. All the tobaccos I ordered are from the 2019 growing year, except for the katerini which is 2016. Do they need to be kilned?
2. As far as using the casing, I’m not sure how to do it. I know you mix it with a tablespoon of water like it says and start spraying, but I want a bit more direction than that. How much tobacco can I spread this casing across? My idea was to take scraps of each tobacco I want to use to blend, bake them at a certain temperature (not sure which, I am open to suggestions obviously) then spray the casing on them, let them cool, then pack them down into a noodle press in layers and put it under pressure for a week or so, like I do with other blends. I’m open to doing this for longer, then letting the “pucks” sit for a few weeks/months before slicing.
I’m open to any suggestions and advice. I’m also open to video links.
