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Post by crapgame on Mar 7, 2018 10:18:52 GMT -5
Maybe those that have more knowledge than me can opine on this.
Lots of pipe smokers age tobacco to let it mature and let the flavors of the tobacco meld together, I get that and understand that.
This is just something I have been thinking about, can adding a touch from a fresh tin to your bowl of aged tobacco create something interesting?
When I make soup I make a stock i use carrots, celery and onions along with a sachet of dried herbs in my pot while I cook the bones. once the stock is done strained I start adding fresh carrots, celery and onions for color, fresh flavor and a crunch in my soup. I also tweak the flavor with soup base for final adjustment of flavor and add chicken or beef back into the soup as well.
Is adding a touch of fresh young tobacco kinda the same as adding a fresh batch of vegies herbs and meat to a soup even though the initial soup stock used a mire pox and bones when it was cooked?
Lets see some thoughts on this!
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Post by mwps70 on Mar 7, 2018 10:57:22 GMT -5
Experimentation is another fun part of our hobby. I'd say try a bowl of aged and then try mixing and see what the results are. It sounds like the best of both worlds in my opinion. If the aged is good and the fresh tin is good then mixed will either be good or even great.
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Post by beardedmi on Mar 7, 2018 11:36:44 GMT -5
Aging really is more like baking than making stock. The flavors of the fresh may very well be discordant to the aged or vice versa. Id be more apt to add a dash of aged to new than risk a full bowl of aged.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2018 12:15:04 GMT -5
Two things that happened here: I took some McC best of show from 2003 and 2017 and mixed them. The 2003 was awesome, as the catsup scent had gone. The 2017 scent was okay, but I wanted to dip my French Fries in it. It was not as Catsupy as other McC's. After combining the two the Catsup was sublimated to the point of not smelling it and it was almost like having double the 2003 I had some Tinderbox Peach Melba sitting around since 2008. After taking up the pipe last year I tried it and it was like Peach on steroids. Newer peach blends I could barely taste. I mixed all the Peach Blends together and the overpowering Peach juiced up the rest and became a milder tobacco, yet I wound up with 2 pounds of very Peachy tobacco. The epilogue of this foray into madness is that I took some of the Peach, added it to crapgame Vanilla, threw in a a fist or two of Black Cav and now I have my Peach Ice Cream Float... and it is wonderful. And, I don't think any of this would have been as good without the overpowering scent of the older tobaccos |
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Post by Baboo on Mar 7, 2018 12:46:42 GMT -5
I think your idea is a good one, and I have applied this method with very aged Penzance mixing with younger Penzance flakes, as very aged Penzance mellows considerably to the point of losing some flavor vitality - mixing in some younger flake helps reawaken the original zest.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2018 14:05:34 GMT -5
I keep a lot of rotation tobac's in OTC tubs. If I detect any staleness or drying out, I top the tub up with 1 ounce of bulk.
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Post by That Falls Guy on Mar 7, 2018 14:23:41 GMT -5
I believe that mwps70 says it best when he suggests experimentation. Sometimes it works out well, sometimes it doesn't. But without experimentation, there probably would never be the variety of tobaccos that we have today. If you experiment with blending, let us know how it works for you, good or bad. We have a lot of experts here on the Patch, many of whom we rarely hear from. Perhaps this post will spur them on to share some of their experiences. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2018 14:31:20 GMT -5
I think this is a compelling idea for some situations. I have some fresh Boswell blends with very noticeable topping, and some aged of the same blends with faded topping. Combining them might be the best of both worlds.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 7, 2018 14:34:11 GMT -5
It makes no sense to me at all. But I don't age my soup.
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Post by Dramatwist on Mar 7, 2018 15:39:50 GMT -5
...good analogy, Mike...
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Post by cigrmaster on Mar 8, 2018 13:40:04 GMT -5
I have never mixed age tobacco with fresh. If I am going to age something for 5-10 years I want the full benefit of those flavors I waited so long for. If I try a new tobacco and don't love smoking it fresh, I never cellar it. I feel like I would be diluting an aged tobacco by mixing it with fresh.
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