Oh man, i cannot wait to see how the stash has grown since about 300 posts ago!
Thank you so much for the kind words! I dream of having enough space to have a tobacco garden down the road. As far as how many cigars I have... I have two humidors, a 300ct and 150ct, that are stuffed to the gills with commercial sticks and then I have a coolerdor stuffed full of home rolls. I haven't counted the homerolls lately but I'm sure it's well over 100 as the coolerdor is stuffed full despite me sharing quite a bit of what I roll. I will be buying a second coolerdor very soon as I am starting to roll more and become faster thanks to the excellent instruction I'm getting.
Top right box in the first picture, the two perfectos
No, just a cheap something like 20-30qt cooler I have had for god knows how long.
Bingo! Someone give this man a cigarTop right box in the first picture, the two perfectos
Well I'll be damned, this actually works!
Those look and sound fantastic!!
I dunno. I'm pretty certain there's a seam in there somewhere. I can't find it. Maybe I need a better camera. Or an electron microscope or sumpin.
So guess who rolled that stick? I ride home this afternoon. As always, Bearswatter's lapdog comes out to greet me, cause she likes me to walk her to the mailbox every afternoon. Where I find this complete and total surprise sixer in there from Roger, the First Warrior. His fave three blends.
Something screwy with my camera's colors; but you get the idea. Pair on the left, you got a mata fina, a san vincente ligero, a criollo viso, and one and a half piloto seco, all shoehorned into a mata fina wrapper. The internet will not be complete until smellavision so we can post the aroma of a baggie like this. The two in the center, we got a piloto seco, and half each of piloto viso, flojo, and aleman ligero, double bound in sumatra and wrapped in CT shade. The last pair, we got half each mata, nick hab, and criollo, one and a half flojo, double bound in Dominican and wrapped in habano. Salivating yet? I am.
Bearswatter is calling me to dinner. But I know where I'll be after. I'll be in the garage, figuring out why Biffy Bullfrog's speedo is going funky while smoking one of these habano wrapped jewels.
Thanks Roger.
Truer words were never spoken. Looking good!!A propos of nothing, I'm moving along in my latest blend development. A few weeks ago (during that live youtube rolling sesh) I rolled 32 sticks, 2 coronas each of 16 basic blends using the same wrapper/binder/volado/seco/ligero. One week of dry time and then I started smoking. I've now smoked my way through the 16 blends and narrowed them down to my ten favorite. Basically the six that didn't make top-10 had too much ligero for my tolerance. Now I'm rolling three each of the top-10. I'll smoke those and try to whittle it down to best 4. Then I'll start tweaking those across vitolas and wrappers. I've already rolled a few of the best into different vitolas and got totally different flavor profiles. Meanwhile today I smoked one of the blends in a Mex SA that I wrapped a week ago instead of the CT Shade I used on all of them. TOTALLY different flavor/aroma. You'd have no idea it was the same filler. Like I'm always saying: blending's some tricky shit. OTOH I've learned that 1) if your leaf is killer it's hard to go wrong; 2) you can make a nearly endless variety of profiles from just one set of leaves. Anyway here's a quick snap of the Mex SA corona.
Dat ash!A propos of nothing, I'm moving along in my latest blend development. A few weeks ago (during that live youtube rolling sesh) I rolled 32 sticks, 2 coronas each of 16 basic blends using the same wrapper/binder/volado/seco/ligero. One week of dry time and then I started smoking. I've now smoked my way through the 16 blends and narrowed them down to my ten favorite. Basically the six that didn't make top-10 had too much ligero for my tolerance. Now I'm rolling three each of the top-10. I'll smoke those and try to whittle it down to best 4. Then I'll start tweaking those across vitolas and wrappers. I've already rolled a few of the best into different vitolas and got totally different flavor profiles. Meanwhile today I smoked one of the blends in a Mex SA that I wrapped a week ago instead of the CT Shade I used on all of them. TOTALLY different flavor/aroma. You'd have no idea it was the same filler. Like I'm always saying: blending's some tricky shit. OTOH I've learned that 1) if your leaf is killer it's hard to go wrong; 2) you can make a nearly endless variety of profiles from just one set of leaves. Anyway here's a quick snap of the Mex SA corona. What you get with that stuff is rustic charm that tastes like Cocoa Puffs milk.
Your rolling is exquisite, but looking at the bunching I'm thinking that it may be a bit too loose. You know much more than I do about rolling so please don't take offense to my question but, do you think the draw on these will be too airy ?The accordion bunching is getting better
They are actually bunched pretty tight, there is one there that looks kinda empty in the center, but that is only because I didn't cut more off the foot. I do a "test draw" on the sticks before wrapping and if anything some of them are a bit snug. The accordion bunching allows for a tighter pack but allowing a nice draw, this is only my second time bunching with this method so I'm far from a pro at it. Last night my fills were horribly uneven and loose, it's much more even and firm today which makes me happy.
