· James Torr · Personal
Most of the tobacco leaves from this year's crop have turned a lovely brown colour during the curing process.
Most of the tobacco leaves from this year's crop have turned a lovely brown colour during the curing process. They've been hanging in my kitchen for 8 weeks now. During this time, they've slowly dried out and changed colour as the chlorophyll has broken down. This method is known as air curing, and will leave you with leaves with a low sugar content and higher nicotine levels, more commonly used for cigars and pipe tobacco. After this, generally the leaves are fermented aerobically, in the presence of oxygen.