Casing and Bouqueting

[semery74]

Has anyone heard of this technique applied to cigar tobacco found it in an archive article from the New Yorker from 1936. It briefly mentioned havana tobacco, but really only applied to cigarettes.

[laficion]

Hi semery74,

Here are a few explication on casing tobacco and flavoring mainly applied to cigarettes

and pipe tobacco.

Casing and Flavoring

Often you will hear retailers refer to how a product is cased or flavored. Here is what these terms mean.

Casing - Typically done to tobaccos before final flavoring. Typical casing ingredients are Licorice, corn syrup and sugar. These items help smooth out the smoke as well as act as a base flavor.

Flavor - Done to cased tobacco. Typical flavors are vanilla, rum, whiskey, cherry, etc. These are the "Top Notes" of the blend.

There are also two methods of applying casing to the tobacco, dipping and spraying.

Dipping - Tobacco is dragged through a trough of casing and the excess is squeezed out of rollers. This applies a great deal of casing to the product and is essential to the production of plug cut style tobaccos. The majority of traditional pipe tobaccos are cased in this method.

Spray Cased - Tobacco is run through a cylinder and casing is sprayed onto the product. This method is the most common casing method today. Tobaccos cased under this process tend to be fluffier than dipped tobaccos.

Or you can gett more info from this link. Good luck in your quest.

http://www.smokerfriendly.com/customer.cfm...%20Tabaco%20101