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.
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.