DGBAMA
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And yet another old pipe blend gets a thumbs down in its modern form....... Good thing we have Whole Leaf.
And yet another old pipe blend gets a thumbs down in its modern form....... Good thing we have Whole Leaf.
Today i testsmoke my latest batch , awesome , just made a 300 gr (approx 12 oz) plug of
60% red virginia (wlt)
30% bright virginia (my own)
10% perique (my own)
2 weeks pressure in a mould (one week in 45°C (113F))
and then sliced it
I used to hold the bowl under my nose while smoking.
That bright virginia was flue cured , from 2013 harvest , 2014 harvest is air cured , i have put it in vacuumsealed bags now for aging , my original plan was to let it age at least 2 year "if i could keep my dirty little fingers avay from it"jojjas, Was your Virginia Brightleaf air cured, sun cured or flue cured?
Yep, the trend is bad. One of the reasons I started looking to grow tobacco wasn't because of the cost, but the fact that several of my go to blends (Dunhill) had undergone unfavorable changes.
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Bob,jolly,
If you'll look at the Latakia blending matrix that I posted in this very thread (http://fairtradetobacco.com/threads/3926-Pure-Tobacco-Pipe-Blends-You-Can-Make/page5#48), Smyrna Bright is fashioned after Dunhill Early Morning Pipe. Master's Mate is a "medium" English blend, and Siege of Acre is very close to Nitecap. My overall preference is Master's Mate.
I don't have any idea what the original Dunhill recipes were (definitely not the funky stuff being currently sold as Dunhill blends), but the series of blends in the matrix encompass many of my old favorite English blends--Dunhill, John Cotton, Rattray. During these cold months, I puff away at my pipe indoors, all day long. My batches are trending larger.
Bob
How do you do that?...2 weeks under pressure in 45° C (113 F)...
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