Ok, you asked for it.
Home grown cuban seed tobacco. Harvested 9/2010 and hung to dry for 6 months.
Then carefully remoistened and rolled entubar style into a corona....my favorite vitola.
I skipped the fermenting step, because I have no idea how to do it.
Prelight aroma was a faint sweet tobacco smell, and a firm draw. Feels well-rolled. Some veins are apparent and the color is a bit blonde. Let's see if this one has more fun.
Lit with a match, well two matches actually. Still drawing firm. A decent amount of smoke and it has the aroma of very mild tobacco, so far so good. Hey, I am not expecting a Padron here.
The ash is dark gray and holding on pretty well. Just needed one minor touch-up with my lighter as a canoe threatened to join the party.
The smoke smelled a bit of burning wood and leaves, but not bad really.
The problem was the mouth feel and flavor. It tasted like you had licked your burning apartment door both during and after the fire. Acrid, bitter, harsh, unpleasant. And it wasn't getting better. So, after a third, I lay my project down forever into my flowerpot of dead soldiers. At least it will RIP in the company of some finer stix I have known.
I do have a second growth of tobacco growing nicely. For this next crop, I WILL learn to ferment the leaves before rolling and smoking them.
