CN111387542B

CN111387542B - Cigar curing method

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Publication number: CN111387542B
Application number: CN202010402373.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 黄洋; 麻栋策; 邢蕾; 曾代龙; 李东亮; 刘仡; 刘杰; 张迪; 李品鹤
Original assignee: China Tobacco Sichuan Industrial Co Ltd
Current assignee: China Tobacco Sichuan Industrial Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-05-13
Filing date: 2020-05-13
Publication date: 2022-03-01
Anticipated expiration: 2040-05-13
Also published as: CN111387542A

Abstract

The invention relates to a cigar curing method, which comprises the following steps: mixing Tieguanyin with 75% alcohol according to a certain mass ratio, extracting, and filtering to obtain Tieguanyin extract; uniformly spraying the Tieguanyin extracting solution into a grid wood box in a maintenance room, spraying the grid wood box once every day until the wood box fully absorbs the Tieguanyin extracting solution and surface water appears, and continuously treating for one month to obtain a maintained wood box; laying a layer of green tea at the bottom of the maintained wooden box, placing a layer of cigar lightly on the green tea, continuously laying the green tea on the cigar until the cigar is full of the wooden box, completely covering the surface of the cigar with the green tea, setting the temperature in the maintenance room to be 20-27 ℃, setting the relative humidity to be 60-70%, and continuously balancing for 30-50 days to obtain the finished product. The invention introduces tea into cigar for maintenance, and creates a 'tea-flavor' cigar style which is matched with the oriental diet characteristics and is harmonious with the cigar style.

Description

Cigar curing method

Technical Field

The invention relates to a cigar curing method, which is a method for introducing tea into cigar curing.

Background

The maintenance is an essential stage for improving the quality of the cigars and is a long and dynamic balancing process. Firstly, the moisture changes, after the eggplant is coated, the moisture of the cigarettes is higher, and the moisture is released into the environment until the moisture and the eggplant reach dynamic balance; the maintenance is also a slow micro-fermentation process, and the content of the cigar is chemically changed under the action of enzymes, microorganisms and the like, so that small molecular substances such as miscellaneous gas and the like are continuously released into the environment, and meanwhile, the substances in the environment are absorbed into the cigar. The cigar can further enrich the harmonious fragrance and show the style characteristics of the cigar through the process.

Curing is a dynamic equilibrium process, where cigars absorb substances from the environment while releasing unpleasant odors into the environment. The traditional maintenance method is to place the exposed cigars in a certain temperature and humidity environment for natural balance, and the cigars are more small molecular substances such as miscellaneous gas and the like taken away by air. The cigars are rolled to leave the factory, and the purpose of exposing the sweet and cooked taste of the cigars is far not achieved in about 42 days on average.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to solve the problems existing at present, tea is introduced into the cigar maintenance, and the purposes of showing the mellow, sweet and fragrant style characteristics of the cigar and highlighting the sweet and cooked taste are achieved in the maintenance period.

The above purpose of the invention is realized by the following technical scheme:

a cigar curing method comprising the steps of:

preparing an Tieguanyin extracting solution: mixing Tieguanyin with 75% alcohol according to a certain mass ratio, extracting, and filtering to obtain Tieguanyin extract.

Tieguanyin belongs to semi-fermented tea, has faint scent, elegant charm, natural orchid fragrance, mellow taste and strong and lasting fragrance, and can be dissolved in alcohol by extracting effective components of Tieguanyin.

Maintaining a wooden box: uniformly spraying the Tieguanyin extracting solution into a grid wood box in a maintenance room, spraying the grid wood box once every day until the wood box fully absorbs the Tieguanyin extracting solution and surface water appears, and continuously treating for one month to obtain a maintained wood box;

the Tieguanyin extract is rich in amino acids, vitamins, minerals, tea polyphenols and alkaloids, can effectively inhibit the growth of mold in the wooden box, and endows the wooden box with characteristic aroma.

And (3) cigar maintenance: laying a layer of green tea at the bottom of the maintained wooden box, placing a layer of cigar lightly on the green tea, continuously laying the green tea on the cigar until the cigar is full of the wooden box, completely covering the surface of the cigar with the green tea, setting the temperature in the maintenance room to be 20-27 ℃, setting the relative humidity to be 60-70%, and continuously balancing for 30-50 days to obtain the finished product.

The green tea is not subjected to a fermentation process, so that the green tea greatly retains natural substances in fresh leaves. The tea polyphenol and the caffeine keep more than 85% of fresh leaves, the chlorophyll keeps about 50%, the vitamin loss is less, the fresh and fragrant characteristics enable the tea to release a large amount of aromatic substances to the environment, meanwhile, the tea is rich in pectic substances, the surface of the tea has many pores, the tea has strong adsorbability, and like activated carbon, the tea can absorb environmental moisture and peculiar smell. This realizes the exchange of tea aroma and miscellaneous gas molecules. Wherein the green tea variety may be: biluochun, West lake Longjing, Emei camellia, Emei bamboo leaf green, etc.

Preferably, the mass ratio of the Tieguanyin to the 75% alcohol in the step of preparing the Tieguanyin extracting solution is 1: 70-100.

Preferably, the extraction mode in the step of preparing the Tieguanyin extracting solution is standing extraction at normal temperature, and the extraction time is 12-24 h.

Preferably, the curing room temperature in the cigar curing step is set to 22 ℃.

Preferably, the relative humidity between curing in the cigar curing step is set to 65%.

Preferably, the number of consecutive days of equilibration in the cigar curing step is 42 days.

And meanwhile, according to the using effect, after three batches of cigars are maintained, the green tea for maintenance is replaced, and meanwhile, the Tieguanyin extracting solution is sprayed on the wood box again, the frequency is once a day until the wood box fully absorbs the solution and surface water appears, and the cigar maintenance is performed again after the wood box is continuously treated for one week.

The invention has the following beneficial effects:

1. the invention introduces tea into cigar for maintenance, enriches incense maintaining medium, and creates a 'tea fragrance' cigar style which is matched with eastern diet characteristics and is harmonious with cigar style.

2. The invention shows the style characteristics of the sweet and mellow cigar without changing the maintenance time.

3. The 'tea-flavor' cigar prepared by the invention has good quality stability and can meet the quality requirements of consumers.

Detailed Description

In order to make the technical problems, technical solutions and advantageous effects to be solved by the present invention more clearly apparent, the present invention is further described in detail below with reference to the following embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention.

Example 1

Preparing an Tieguanyin extracting solution: mixing Tieguanyin with 75% alcohol at a ratio of 1:100, standing and extracting at normal temperature for 12-24h, and filtering to obtain Tieguanyin extractive solution;

maintaining a wooden box: uniformly spraying the Tie Guanyin extract in a grid wooden box in a maintenance room, spraying the grid wooden box once every day until the wooden box fully absorbs the Tie Guanyin extract and surface water appears, and continuously treating for one month to obtain a maintained wooden box;

and (3) cigar maintenance: laying a layer of green tea at the bottom of the maintained wooden box, placing a layer of cigar lightly on the green tea, continuously laying the green tea on the cigar until the cigar is full of the wooden box, completely covering the surface of the cigar with the green tea, setting the temperature in the maintenance room to be 22 ℃ and the relative humidity to be 65%, and continuously balancing for 42 days to obtain the finished product.

And (3) detection results:

1. sensory quality

The comparative example and the cigars subjected to curing in example 1 were prepared according to GB15269.4-2011 cigar part 4: sensory technical requirements were reviewed, with the results reported in table 1. The maintenance conditions, appliances and time adopted by the comparative example are the same as those of the example 1, and the difference is that only the tea substances are not used for processing the wooden boxes and the cigarettes.

Table 1:

from the sensory evaluation results, it can be seen that: after the maintenance method in the embodiment 1 is adopted for maintenance, the irritation is reduced, the aftertaste is clean and sweet, the tea flavor is obvious, a bouquet of orchid is given out, and the obvious style characteristic of 'mellow and sweet fragrance' is reflected.

2. Retention of tobacco flavor

The cigars which were maintained and packaged in accordance with example 1 were placed in the natural environment and, from half a year onwards, were packaged in accordance with GB15269.4-2011 cigar part 4: the sensory technical requirements are evaluated, and the evaluation results of the cigarette sensory quality changing with time are shown in table 2.

In table 2, sample number 0 represents the cigarette that was just cured in this example 1, 6 represents the cigarette that was 6 months after the curing, and so on.

Table 2:

from the sensory evaluation results, it can be seen that: after curing for a period of time, the fragrance amount, nasal cavity irritation and sweetness of the cigarette are slightly changed, but the whole cigarette keeps a stable state.

Although the present invention has been described herein with reference to the illustrated embodiments thereof, which are intended to be preferred embodiments of the present invention, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited thereto, and that numerous other modifications and embodiments can be devised by those skilled in the art that will fall within the spirit and scope of the principles of this disclosure.

Claims

1. A cigar curing method, comprising the steps of:

preparing an Tieguanyin extracting solution: mixing Tieguanyin with 75% alcohol according to a certain mass ratio, extracting, and filtering to obtain Tieguanyin extract;

2. The cigar curing method according to claim 1, wherein the weight ratio of Tieguanyin to 75% alcohol in the step of preparing the Tieguanyin extract is 1: 70-100.

3. The cigar curing method of claim 1, wherein the extraction manner in the step of preparing the Tieguanyin extract is static extraction at normal temperature, and the extraction time is 12-24 h.

4. A cigar curing method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the curing time temperature in the cigar curing step is set at 22 ℃.

5. A cigar curing method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the relative humidity between curing is set at 65% in the cigar curing step.

6. The cigar curing method of claim 1, wherein the number of consecutive days of equilibration in the cigar curing step is 42 days.