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This unfamiliar familiar Burley tobacco

Burleigh, how much in this word ... Very often pipe smokers have a dismissive attitude towards this type of tobacco. And to be completely frank, I myself have sowed such an attitude around me for a long time. Sometimes, you read a description of tobacco, and your face twists into a disgusted grimace: “Burleigh? Oh no. I won't even try it! " I see and do you know this? Then let's try to figure out together what it is and how to cook it correctly.

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Burley tobacco. Nicotiana tabacum

The selection of the first Burleigh bushes is attributed to the merits of George Webb and Joseph Fore (George Webb, Joseph Fore) and attributed this event to 1864. It was White Burleigh, grown on Captain Frederick Kautz's plantations near Higinspot, Ohio. These tobacco bushes were grown from seeds that came from Kentucky. The difference in color and density of tobacco leaves from what was actually expected when planting was immediately noted. Two decades later, Burleigh plantations were already twice the area of Virginia plantations.

Burley tobacco is actually present in most tobacco products and it is not just about pipe tobacco , although this statement is true for him too.

Burley itself is a variety of a widespread tobacco plant called Nicotiana Tabacum in Latin .... The widespread use of Burleigh brought it to a leading position in cultivation and in the modern world, Burleigh accounts for most of the world's tobacco plantations. In the United States, this tobacco is grown in vast areas stretching from the Atlantic coast to the Midwest. Burleigh is grown in Missouri and Indiana, Maryland, Ohio and Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky. Outside the United States, Burley is grown in Canada, Mexico, Malawi, Brazil, and Argentina. And this is not a complete list of countries where Burleigh plantations are located. It should be noted that the "strongest" Burleigh is grown in Tennessee and Kentucky, while European pipe tobacco producers prefer to use Burleigh grown outside the United States in their production. It is difficult to say if there are some political motives here or if it is just a business, but, Burleigh tobacco gained its fame due to its high nicotine content and its susceptibility to various types of treatments. At the same time, Burley has a low sugar content and a relatively mild (in its usual form), inactive own aroma. It is these properties that paved the way for this tobacco in the cigarette production, which takes the lion's share of Burley grown in the world.

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Burleigh pipe tobacco?

Pipe tobacco is a mixture of several types and varieties of tobacco, each of which conveys its own unique taste to the overall taste of the tobacco mixture. Of course, first of all, the taste that Burley will convey to the future tobacco mixture depends on the technology of its cultivation and on the region of its growth, but the tobacco bush itself has several varieties. In addition, the “test shot” into Burleigh's flavor palette makes the way it is prepared. But let's try to address the questions that arise in order.

Globally, Burley tobacco bushes can be divided into light (this includes the so-called White Burley) and dark varieties. Dark Burleigh leaves are literally saturated with nicotine and have a high tar content.

They give off "heavy" earthy, animal flavors that we often recognize as cigar. Light varieties, White Burleigh, carry a moderate amount of nicotine and a nutty taste (fresh or roasted walnuts) is characteristic of such tobacco, sometimes the taste of light Burleys evokes associations with the taste of cocoa.

If we talk about the processing technologies of the harvested Burley tobacco leaves, then often this tobacco is not subjected to any one processing procedure, as is the case in most cases with Virginia leaves, but to a whole cycle of different treatments. Most often, the first number here is air drying of tobacco leaves - the tobacco is hung in a barn, where, under the influence of circulating air, the leaves dry to the desired degree, while changing their color. This procedure lasts from eight weeks or longer, depending on humidity and other climatic conditions. Dark Burleigh, known to us as Dark-Fired Kentucky, instead of air-drying, undergoes a drying stage over an open fire, whereby the tobacco leaves are roasted and smoked at the same time. This method is very similar to the preparation of oriental tobacco, known to us asLatakia.

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Speaking earlier about Virginia , I ended my story about it by saying that it is difficult to find a more versatile tobacco.... But Burleigh is her real competition in this, although the nature of the versatility of these varieties of tobacco varies significantly. There are practically no boundaries for the use of Burley in today's tobacco production . It is used in cigarette production, and when rolling cigars, and when creating tobacco blends for a smoking pipe. Burleigh was also involved in the production of snuff and chewing tobacco. In a word, all manufactures of any kind of tobacco products in the modern world use either Burleigh himself in its pure form, or its "derivatives".

But its most exploited feature has been and remains Burley's ability to absorb and preserve introduced aromas.

With the boom in popularity of flavored tobacco in the sixties of the twentieth century, Burleigh received its "golden ticket" in the tobacco industry around the world and still holds a leading position. Perhaps due to the fact that at some point in time the word "Burleigh" became virtually synonymous with the phrase "flavored tobacco" and led to the fact that many pipe smokers (usually from among fans of "pure" tobacco blends) began to gaze at Burleigh with high ... But don't be too quick to write Burley off. This sort of tobacco perfectly fulfills its role on both sides of the barricades - both in the camp of fans of “aromatics” and in the dispositions of units of the regular army of admirers of “pure” tobacco blends.

The light to medium Burleys, those with a nutty flavor, are widely used in flavored tobacco blends. The own taste of this Burleigh is soft and not too active, unobtrusive. When aromatization is introduced, Burleigh's own taste fades into the background and does not come into confrontation with the introduced tastes and aromas. In such cases, Burleigh acts as a container for the preservation of human-dictated fragrances. Dark Burley varieties with a higher nicotine content have more active own taste and aroma. These are the very dense, cigar and spicy flavors, which will be difficult to miss even under the cover of strong aromatization. It is not so easy to find a middle ground for the use of dark Burleys in the field of flavored tobacco production and most often dark Burleys are used to create dense, natural tobacco blends that have their own character.

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Due to the increased nicotine content in Burleigh leaves, this tobacco often acts as a regulator of the strength of tobacco blends. It is added in cases when it is necessary to increase this fortress. And although not every manufacturer advertises this, but when creating a number of famous twists, it was not without the use of dark Burley, since Virginia itself does not have a similar level of strength. The same property of Burley (its strength) is actively exploited in cigarette production, although it is beginning to give up its positions in the rapidly developing chemical industry.

Separately, it is worth talking about Kentucky Burley, which we mentioned in passing above - about fire-cured tobacco, Dark Fired Kentucky. This is probably the only type of Burley that cannot be called even in the least universal. It is tobacco in itself. He has such a vivid personality that he is singled out as a separate component, in a separate subspecies, like Cavendish or Perique.

A characteristic feature of Burleigh's presence in a tobacco blend (one of ...) is tongue tingling while smoking. Burley is perhaps the tweetest of all types and varieties of tobacco. This is due to the alkaline nature of Burleigh, which can explain our perception of Burleigh's rolling fortress. Tingling on the tongue is not the result of thermal exposure to smoke, but small cramps caused by the alkaline environment of the smoke. If Burleigh's influence becomes uncomfortable, you can drink something sour - juice or dry wine. To mitigate the effects of Burley's increased strength, it makes sense to keep hard candy or caramel on hand. Nicotine first raises blood sugar levels, and then sharply reduces it. At such moments, we feel sweat break through us and a lump rolls up to our throat. The sugar in the candy should help normalize "all systems".

Burley tobacco is one of the most versatile ingredients used in pipe tobacco. It is found both in a simple form, which has passed only the drying stage, and in a complex form, which has passed several cycles of processing and fermentation. Burleigh is found in both light and dark. Neat, and processed, even toasted. In ribbons, cubes, rings, plates and much, much more. Burleigh can both significantly transform and improve the taste of the tobacco blend, giving it body, depth and richness, and irrevocably spoil it. And if I were the author of a popular science program, I would end my "speech" with the words about this tobacco: "Burleigh's universe is fraught with many more secrets and mysteries."

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