Ashton Half Corona Dry Cured?

[BamBam]

Can anyone prove or disporove this fact?

Someone told me that the Ashton Half Corona was dry cured, and thus didn't need humidified. Does anyone know for sure?

[e-man]

Originally Posted by BamBam

Can anyone prove or disporove this fact?

Someone told me that the Ashton Half Corona was dry cured, and thus didn't need humidified. Does anyone know for sure?

Dry cured tobacco is used in machine made products like cigarettes and Swisher Sweets. If you let tobacco dry out it won't roll. It will crumble like the dry leaf it is.

I'm not very familiar with many cigarillos/cheroots/etc, so I've never tried the Ashton Half Corona. I looked up their description, and they don't say "long filler" anywhere. However, like most mini-cigars, they could be made from scraps trimmed from their bigger Ashton brothers (Not long filler, but not chopped tobacco either). It does say it has a "Connecticut shade-grown wrapper", so I would suspect it would need to be humidified just to keep the wrapper from flaking apart.

You can inspect the foot, or cut one open. If it has small pieces of chopped tobacco, then it probably is dry cured. If it looks booked/rolled, or made from long scraps, then it's probably "real" cigar tobacco and should be humidified.

[DBCcigar]

I am 98% sure those are dry-cured. They still use regular cigar leaf/tobacco, whether dry-cured or not.

[Snake Hips]

I believe they're dry-cured. Most small versions of premium cigar lines that come in tins and the like are dry-cured. I.e. Macanudo Ascots - you see them in the open at Walgreens and stuff.