VideosFirst roll, damnit this is not easy lol
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Watch videos or you want videos lol. Yeah I'm also impatient and need to case the tobacco properly.Videos
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Question. How do you sample the leaf for it's flavor and characteristics? Do you roll a couple from each selection and smoke it straight? Like two leaves volado and smoke it, 2 leaves seco and smoke it and so on?
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Yeah smoke it straight or just make a blend and change one leaf at a time
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Fixed.Yeah smoke it straight or just make a blend and change one leaf at a time
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Nice job!
I sometimes get the wrinkles in the wrapper like you have. Sometimes it is from pulling the wrapper too much when wrapping and not paying attention to stretching it wide at the same time. Sometimes I think it is my wrapper is too wet and it wrinkles when it shrinks.
Thanks for letting me know! I was wondering why that was going on. I think that was exactly my issue, i’ll remember that for the next one
Dominican56
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Another productive day.
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One of the good Mexican San Andreas leaves.I don't believe a word of it, Dom. It takes all of ten seconds to cut a cap & glue it on the end of your gar. It takes two secs to tuck it in a mold. So far, you're out twelve whole secs. It takes eggs ackley zero time to "wait for them go go through a mold" ... cause you don't sit there and wait for it, dude. You stick it in the mold, you walk away. In fact, I'd even go the other way round. I'd bet bunching is way more than your 12 secs quicker when you rely on a mold to smooth it all out. You don't have to "try to with each roll to get the shape and pack just right". Nope. Whip a knobbly mess together & your mold makes it right.
Let's put a clock on it. I'm ready to wager an oil can sized Fosters you can actually roll a gar quicker with a mold than without.
In fact, if it wasn't quicker, they'd make all those hand rolled gars without, wouldn't they?
Not that I don't like unmolded quickies. I do. I just don't buy the time saving aspect.
Plus there's this: Back when I was a boatbuilder, I'd quiz the trendy trimariners, why'd they want to go cruising on a boat built so light, to plane across the water, that they'd have to count each & every pocketbook they stashed, and worry what each beer weighed, and stint their spares, and such. They'd say: "cause it's faster." True, my schooner was doing eight knots to their twenty in a blow. But, think about it, twenty ain't fast anyways. Twenty knots is a pain in the butt creeping past the elementary school at schoolbus o'clock in the afternoon.. Thing is, if you don't like sailing, so much that you have to get it over with, then take the airplane, fer cryin out loud. Now that's fast. If you enjoy the sea, on the other hand, kick back and ex lax. Pop open one of the hundreds of beers you stowed in the hold. Crack a good book. Troll a lure. Enjoy. You're already where you want to be. Pago Pago will heave in view all in good time.
No cap, no mold just a good cigar.
Amazing Vanerpaddel !
I wish I had the time to grow my own tobacco and control the whole process.
Next week I'll start with second fermenting binder and wrapper leave.
I also have some filler with still a bit of raisin smell. Also these will be more fermented.
All the better cigar factories in Central America grow now their own tobacco so they can control every step of the way.
I wish I had the time to grow my own tobacco and control the whole process.
Next week I'll start with second fermenting binder and wrapper leave.
I also have some filler with still a bit of raisin smell. Also these will be more fermented.
All the better cigar factories in Central America grow now their own tobacco so they can control every step of the way.
5.6-ish by 46 .. From the center. san vicente, Corojo 99 1st gen, Cibao 98 Ligero and T-13 Viso fillers. mata fina and cibao seco binders, criollo 98 wrappers. and one canela wrapper.
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