Newbie needing help with Chocolate and Coffee notes

[Aaront596]

Hey guys I know nothing about growing tobacco. I like to smoke a nice cigar or my pipe occasionally. I'm an avid gardener and I would like to grow a couple tobacco plants. Specifically I would like to make my own wrappers to roll some pipe tobacco in, kinda make my own cheroot cigar in a way.

I would like to do a Maduro style aged and fermented wrapper that would be the most likely to develop super sweet, chocolate, and coffee, notes and flavors. Sweet, chocolate, and coffee, are the main flavors I would want to develop.

Since I know nothing about tobacco I'm sure I'm just talking out of my you know what. It's probably so hard to age and ferment tobacco into delicious flavors like that. Probably takes a master Craftsman who has perfected his art, but that's why I'm here to ask about it.

Can anyone tell me what type of tobacco plant I should grow that might lend itself most easily towards developing those flavor profiles?

Would a Connecticut Broadleaf work for that or are there better options?

Can anyone offer suggestions for how to and how long to age and ferment to develop those flavor?

I think it would be so cool to see this through start to finish, but I'm clueless at the moment having never even looked into it before.

I live in Kentucky so my season should be perfect for growing just about any type I would think.

Thanks guys I know that's a lot to unpack, but you've gotta start somewhere right?
-Aaron

 

[deluxestogie]

Welcome to the forum. Feel free to introduce yourself in the Introduce Yourself forum. Read the New Growers' FAQ, and scan through the topics in our Index of Key Forum Threads. Both are linked in the menu bar.

Perhaps other forum members can assist with food flavor attributes from tobacco.

Bob

 

[Aaront596]

Welcome to the forum. Feel free to introduce yourself in the Introduce Yourself forum. Read the New Growers' FAQ, and scan through the topics in our Index of Key Forum Threads. Both are linked in the menu bar.

Perhaps other forum members can assist with food flavor attributes from tobacco.

Bob

Thanks I will do that. Thank you Bob.

 

[GreenDragon]

Welcome to the forum! We have a lot of fun here and growing your own tobacco is a very enjoyable and rewarding hobby.

That said, wrapper color has little to no effect on the flavor of a cigar. It is used by the industry as a shorthand for consumers as to what a given cigar’s flavor profile will be like (and marketing propaganda). Also wrapper colors are routinely manipulated.

A cigar’s flavor is dictated by the blend of the fillers and wrapper leaf. The leaf flavor is affected by the variety, soil, weather, leaf position, and curing method. My advice is to read up on the FAQ section as Bob mentioned and then look over the descriptions of the many varieties offered at Northwood seeds to select strains that may give you what you are looking for.

Have fun and enjoy falling down a new rabbit hole!!!

 

[Aaront596]

Northwood seeds cool thank you sir.