Re: broken puer

On Mar 15, 8:14 pm, "cha bing" <bb092...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Interesting, thanks. I don't have much of the tuo cha left (my
original intent was to break it apart so I could drink it soon, but I
became distracted with other teas), but now I am really curious to see
what happens if I leave it for a while.

And I have a strange urge to start smoking. I don't know if that is a
good thing or not. Interestingly, if I am reading correctly, tobacco
is aged in tins, not compressed. They don't press it into cakes, do
they? Does a densely rolled cigar age better than loose tobacco?

Tobaccos are pressed into cakes, except in tobacco terminology these
are called "plugs". They sometimes leave tobaccos compressed for
months, which alters the taste profile. When you slice these aged plug
into thin (2-4mm thick) pieces, they are called "flakes". Tobaccos
have also long been baked, except in the tobacco jargon it's "stoved".
Many of the old English mixes have heavily stoved leaves.

While I'm not sure if rolled cigars age better than loose tobacco, I
can definitely say that there is nothing like good Virginia flake.
They smell like so good...like fig newtons. A good pipe tea IMHO is a
strong rosey Indian black, like assam, though you can also do Lapsang
Souchong.

.

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