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Well it was finally confirmed today. I am now Agronomy Director. I am in charge of our whole tobacco production operation in Tanzania. We contract more than 16000 small scale growers to produce 18 thousand tonnes of Virginia this season. It's a daunting but exciting new position...looking...

Back in October I was briefly back in the UK and was able to pick up some jars and tins from my stock in the garden shed there. At the time I found an open tin of Exhausted Rooster. The tobacco was ok but i thought it would be better to stick it in a jar and bring it back here to Tanzania...

Back in 2012 i made some of my own blends from tobaccos i picked up around the world and i just opened one of them today and low and behold, its a very pleasant smoke! Back then i was fairly new to the pipe but working in the industry allowed me to pick up a number of samples to play with. Once...

I enjoy a multitude of tobacco products, pipe, cigar, snuff and snus. They all have their time and place in my schedule. I am particularly in to popping a snus pouch into my lip when out and about or when I don't feel the urge to smoke. I have a stash of different snus in a sealed box in the...

Wow I just opened a pack of 2012 St Bruno and the aroma is amazing. A rich fermented kick to the olfactory organs,it reminds me of a top quality silage .. and yes that's a good smell! Just drying a couple of flakes and looking forward to lighting up in my Peterson system 312. UPDATE...

Its been a fair while since i last visited and commented on this board. good to see some of the old faces still here. I am still working in the tobacco industry in Tanzania and really enjoying myself. its pretty remote and can get a little lonely but i have a great house and a great job so...

I am a regular pipe smoker and snus user but the other day I found myself out and about with no pipe and no snus, but I did find a pouch of tobacco in a jacket pocket. The tobacco is loose broken flakes of Best Brown Flake. I opened the pouch and took a sniff .... mmm - promising, I wonder...

Spotted last night on BBC4 here in the UK. This was amongst a collection of old film clips shown at 8pm. Yes it was lit and he was smoking it!!

Making Cigars I have been lucky enough to do this a couple of times, here is a brief guide: Cigars are made from 3 main ingredients – 1. The Filler which gives the cigar its structure, body and determines the draw and burn quality.  The filler is usually a blend of tobacco from various...

My tobacco world – Dark Air Cured Tobacco (DAC) The vast majority of DAC tobacco is used in the production of cigars and a smaller amount is used in RYO, snuff, snus, chewing and pipe tobacco blends. All of which I enjoy! Enjoying a fine cigar by oxmanonline, on Flickr The main growing areas...

Flue Cured Virginia - Grading The following information is taken from a guide to tobacco grading aimed at the cigarette industry, but the reality is that all pipe tobaccos will have come from the same source and will be graded this way originally. Grading is the shorthand language that is used...

Flue Cured Virginia tobacco, harvesting and curing Virginia tobacco is the most popular variety grown worldwide.  There are a huge number of regional variations based on different breeding, soil and climatic conditions.  Different regions of the same country will produce different types of FCV...

My tobacco world – Growing tobacco Tobacco is actually a pretty easy plant to grow, it’s a bit of a weed, but what is more difficult is to grow a quality plant.   Sickly looking Virginia! IMG-20110907-00038 by oxmanonline, on Flickr I have grown my own tobacco a couple of times and in fact...

My tobacco world – World tobacco production (2013) I had the good fortune to work in the industry for 7 years.  I just wanted to share a bit of info with the brothers.  This will be the first of several articles and although some of you may have already seen them, I hope they are of interest to...

Hi guys. You may know me from some of the other forums out there. I have lurked here on occasion but never signed up. Anyway I am here now and look forward to contributing to the forums. I have had the great pleasure of working in the tobacco industry for a number of years so have a bit of...