Free Cigar Trivia Questions - How Cigars Are Made

Free Cigar Trivia Questions

 

After being harvested, what happens to the tobacco leaves?
A: They are aged using a heat and shade to reduce sugar and water content.

What is this aging process called?
A: Curing.

How long does curing take?
A: It takes between 25 and 45 days.

The curing process is manipulated based upon what?
A: The type of tobacco, and the desired color of the leaf.

What is the second part of the process called?
A: Fermentation.

Fermentation, is done under conditions designed to help the leaf do what?
A: To dry slowly.

Temperature and what are controlled to make sure the leaf continues to ferment, without rotting?
A: Humidity.

Fermentation brings what characteristics out of the leaf?
A: Flavor, burning, and aroma.

When the leaves have been aged properly, they are sorted for use as what?
A: Filler or wrapper.

The leaves are sorted based upon their what?
A: Appearance and overall quality.

During this process, the leaves are continually what?
A: Moistened and handled carefully.

How are quality cigars made?
A: They are handmade.

How many cigars per day can an experienced cigar-roller produce?
A: Hundreds.

The rollers keep the tobacco moist — especially the wrapper — and useWhat are the specially designed crescent-shaped knives that the rollers use called?
A: Chavetas.

After being rolled, where are the cigars are stored?
A: In wooden forms as they dry.

While drying in the forms, what happens to their uncapped ends?
A: They are cut to a uniform size.

From this stage, the cigar can be "laid down" and aged for how long?
A: Decades if kept as close to 21 °C (70 °F), and 70% relative humidity, as the environment will allow.

Proper storage is accomplished by keeping the cigars in a specialized wooden box called a what?
A: Humidor.

Some cigars use different varieties of tobacco for what?
A: The filler and the wrapper.

What are “long filler cigars”?
A: They are a far higher quality of cigar, using long leaves throughout.

These cigars also use a third variety of tobacco leaf, called a what?
A: "binder".

Where is the binder used?
A: Between the filler and the outer wrapper.

This allows the makers to use more delicate and attractive leaves as a what?
A: Wrapper.