Building a cigar?

beatnic

Dwelling on this stick that I'm smoking, noticing the changes as it progresses down the length and just wondered. Has anyone rolled a cigar with different leaves along the length of the cigar? Say big ligero flavor at the foot and milder further down? Just curious. Figured someone here might know.

blurr

I'm pretty much a noob myself, but I know some other brothers here can answer that for you, but from reading around a bit myself I think its because cigars aren't rolled that way, the leaves are rolled in a few certain ways but its bunched long-ways so it burns correctly. I think kinda like the leaves are rolled in individual tubes or bunched and rolled so the air passages are in the direction of the length of the cigar, not horizontally across the tube or it prob wouldn't burn at all.

wwhwang

I'm no expert on cigar rolling, but I suspect it's because most of the nutrients in every leaf are in the center of the leaf as opposed to the tips. That may be what affects the flavors.

Rob1110

Wayne touched on it a bit. Each leaf has a "sweet spot" where most of the flavor/nutrients reside. Also, when bunching the leaves, the buncher will start with whole leaves, one at a time, fan them in his palm and when done picking the blend, will tear off the excess at the end and bunch it back in. Therefore, parts of the cigar may end up with slighly more ligero because an extra bit of that leaf ended up in that portion of the cigar. Tough to explain, but watch some youtube videos of cigars being bunched and you'll see what I'm talking about.

kuzi16

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beatnic

It would appear then that such a cigar might be better constructed with the cut leaves. I don't know. Maybe its like the guy who wants tobacco ice cream. Just lookin for new stuff to try.

kuzi16

beatnic:

It would appear then that such a cigar might be better constructed with the cut leaves. I don't know. Maybe its like the guy who wants tobacco ice cream. Just lookin for new stuff to try.

you mean short filler?

DSWarmack

beatnic:

It would appear then that such a cigar might be better constructed with the cut leaves. I don't know. Maybe its like the guy who wants tobacco ice cream. Just lookin for new stuff to try.

THEY HAVE TOBACCO ICE CREAM?!?!?!?!

kuzi16

beatnic

kuzi16

beatnic

kuzi16

that is mixed filler, not short filler.

beatnic

Short, mixed, filler, pieces, parts. Hell, call it whatever. I just posed a question on if anyone had known of anyone who has done it. I think I'll go down to the factory and have a roller make a special mixture for me.

bacon.jay