Cherroot cigars.

[cowboyjames74]

Does anyone know how to make cherroot cigars ?
A video or info would be nice. There basically like backwoods cigars, witch i smoke alot. Just wanted to know how to make them and what tobacco to use for filler and wrapper.

 

[cowboyjames74]

They are air cured, contain vanilla flavoring.
Also cigar contains burley, Virginia, and green river tobacco, or Kentucky.
Ribbon cut. This info was found at this website. http://www.tobaccoreviews.com/blend_detail.cfm?ALPHA=B&TID=2561

 

[Matty]

Those are short filler with a single leaf wrapper and lots of flavorings

 

[SmokesAhoy]

yeah, just 1 thick binder, no fancy wrapper, thats how i do mine.

backwoods just suck these days too, i thought they were good when i was younger, later on recently i bought some more and thought to myself, ack. big waste of cash.

 

[istanbulin]

Have you read the pack of them, it says;

"Years ago when man wanted a good cigar, he'd roll his own. Those cigars didn't look that refined, but they sure tasted mild and smelled good. Now you can enjoy the same kind of smoke with Backwoods. We take all natural filler tobacco which is selected for mildness, then we roll it in gentle-tasting Connecticut broadleaf, a dark tobacco that is aged for at least 12 months to bring out its naturally sweet taste and pleasing aroma. We make them like they used to. Backwoods sweet aromatic mild 'n natural cigars"

I don't know if they're talking about the realities on the pack.

 

[SmokesAhoy]

Just the fact they are machine made make me view the whole "how they used to make them" in a dim light.

 

[Knucklehead]

What about the wrapper that was aged for at least 12 months? They make it sound like that's an unusually long time.

 

[istanbulin]

What about the wrapper that was aged for at least 12 months? They make it sound like that's an unusually long time.

Completely a marketing ploy

 

[Jitterbugdude]

Cheeroots:

"Cheeroots are perculiar in their manufacture, not made by hand, but wound on a wire, both ends being cut flat. They are made from the finest Maryland tobacco, and are extensively imitated in France and Germany. They are sometimes sold for Turkish cigars"
This quote is from the 1859 book "Tobacco ,its History and Associations"

I doubt Backwwods are actually Cheeroots, there used to be videos on youtube of people (Indonesian??) making Cheeroots.

 

[webmost]

My grandson smokes those backwoods. So I went down to the store and smelt one. Gag. Two dozen 4 1/2" by 27 gauge soggy cigarillos for sixteen bucks. Bought him a pack of 20 Factory Throwouts 6 inch by 46 gauge and way more tastyfor twenty bucks. He loved them. I can't figure out the allure of those things.

 

[SmokesAhoy]

Well to be fair, they are the best of the common types that can be found at any gas station. That's not saying a whole lot though

 

[Matty]

Anyone I ever saw with a backwoods would take them apart and re-purpose the leaf lol. I'm sure they're rolled with broadleaf, what's in the filler is anyone's guess.

 

[Jitterbugdude]

. I can't figure out the allure of those things.

The allure for me was that when I was 16 it made me look cool-like Clint Eastwood (at least in my mind)

 

[DonH]

The allure for me was that when I was 16 it made me look cool-like Clint Eastwood (at least in my mind)

True, but he was smoking Toscanos (from his Spaghetti Western days) so now we can smoke Toscanos if we want to roll like Clint.

 

[webmost]

True, but he was smoking Toscanos (from his Spaghetti Western days) so now we can smoke Toscanos if we want to roll like Clint.

I believe the Toscano factory is right up the Northeast Extension from Philly -- up Wilkes-Barre way.