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Cuba & Cigars - The Stripping House Process The process can be carried out in two ways, in barrels or in pylons. In the pylons tobacco is placed at an approximate height of 1.20 cm during 30 days, the groups of leaves are located in an organized way conserving their position, forming a kind of rectangle with the mentioned height and a length that varies according to the capacity of the place having inside a thermometer to measure temperature; this pylon is covered with sackcloth.
The pylon is located on a wooden base of approximately 8 or 10 cm of height.
The barreled process is a stage of rest that is carried out in the stripping house. Tobacco is aged in cedar barrels in the fermentation room.
Each group of two hundreds and fifty leaves of tobacco already ironed, stripped and revised, is placed in a barrel, with a vent in the center and other holes so that the air can penetrate until the fragrant leaves; they stay this way during some sixty days, according to the selected time: volado (high), dry, slight or medio tiempo (the leaves from the superior central third of the plant). After completing the time with one method or another tobacco goes to the drying room.
They are big wooden shelves where the process of drying of tobacco is carried out and where it acquires good scent and defines its color. Here the leaves are also placed on boards on some mobile grills, where the height for binder leaves is from 1 to 3 cm and for filler from 3 to 5 cm. A short time later the operator should veer each portion of leaves so that the drying process be homogeneous; here there is a wooden platform on the floor, the time here depends on the climate, or if artificial drying is applied time is controlled; later tobacco is wrapped in sackcloth or in barrels and is taken to the Department of Completed Product for its packing.
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