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Post by sparks on Nov 1, 2016 13:40:33 GMT -5
In an effort to get you lugs a little more active, I figured I would start something up that would require people to respond instead of just read... hopefully.
So, have at it. Tell us your favorite home blending experiments. It can be from scratch blends using blending tobaccos to create a brand new original blend, or just mixing together a few blends that you enjoy to make something unique. Tell us all about it, and if you are willing, how you make it.
I'll start.
This one is ever changing it seems, but I have enjoyed the base tobaccos mixed together. I typically use a full sized 2 oz. shot glass to make this up, so my quantities are by volume vs. weight. I'll get around to weighing it eventually.
2 shots - Captain Black Dark (Love this tobacco. It's a Black Cavendish with vanilla and caramel notes but it's base tobacco is Green River Burley vs. the commonly used VA)
1 shot - C&D Cube Cut Burley
1 pinch - C&D Granulated Perique
1 pinch - C&D Cavendish Cut Burley
When I'm doing pinches, I'm using my thumb, index and middle finger and taking the equivalent of a "dip" if you have ever used chew or seen someone do it. I tend to play around with the quantity of Cavendish Cut Burley and do it mostly by eye.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2016 16:48:10 GMT -5
I blended 2 parts Super Value Whiskey Cavendish with 2 parts SWR and one part Perique. I did not care for either the SWR or the whiskey cav. They have been married now for about ten months and smell pretty good. Might smoke some in a few weeks. I call it Whiskey Wally.
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Post by sjmiller on Nov 2, 2016 19:35:11 GMT -5
Between my earlier experiments and smoking my supply of Cube Cut was down to a couple of ounces so I figured I would follow the old adage "go big or go home". I put the burley in my mixing bowl then went to the antique pie safe I store my tobacco in to see what jumped out at me.
Eventually I decided on McClelland's Townsman Cavendish Blue. Why? Seemed like a good idea at the time so into the mixing bowl went two ounces of the maple flavored Blue.
So what does equal parts of Cube Cut and Townsman Blue taste like? To me it tastes like coffee sweetened with maple flavored creamer. Very nice taste, enough nic to satisfy me, and no bite.
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Post by Darin on Nov 2, 2016 21:22:53 GMT -5
I'll go ahead and list my most recent one, Spice Cubes.This is a whole-leaf blend that starts with Natural Burley, Dominican Piloto Cubano cigar leaf and Tennessee Fire Cured Virginia. The leaves were toasted and cased with a light sauce, toasted again and cased again, toasted and cased once more then dried to low casing. At this point the leaves were layered into a press box, lined with Parchment Paper, and put into the 6-ton shop press for 72 hours (at least). Once it was removed from the press, the plug was sliced lengthwise then turned and cut cross-wise into cubes. This was then jarred up for a few months before opening to enjoy. It sounds like a lot of work but it's a labor of love. (Love is the secret ingredient that makes all things taste better!)  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2016 22:59:30 GMT -5
That sounds like my kind of smoke.
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Post by Darin on Nov 3, 2016 20:55:54 GMT -5
Don ... PM Sent. |
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Post by Motto on Nov 5, 2016 1:08:24 GMT -5
G'morning folks, I like to experiment a little with legal herbs, a recent blend was a portion of cut up meadow hay mixed with a few pinches of Mullein leaf & Marshmallow root, mixed with golden syrup then mixed 50/50 with my Tom mix all sorts tobacco, it was an agreeable surprise burnt very well and was quite refreshing, but not for the Virginia purists folks, make hay while the Sunshine's.....bye for now.  PS, for all grand entrants to the big booby & little booby prize of the DREAM PIPE Christmas competition there will be an honorary official Scouse passport entitling you to fly to John Lennon Airport or Cruise up the River Mersey to the Great Eastern Atlantic Port of Liverpooll...for the TWO booby winners... PPS. Flights & cruises not included.... 😇 |
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Post by crapgame on Nov 7, 2016 14:32:36 GMT -5
I am not currently making my own home blend but I still have a nice jar of my last attempt at a cigar leaf blend aging right now. I also have my huge jar of all things vanilla,,it is a collection of the blends I have bought that are kinda missing something due to the fact that they are all OTC blends and usually are rather one dimensional.My thinking is I should be able to make something with greater depth due to how each one lacks what the others offer in their own individual way.I do find that the tobacco does INDEED taste really nice and has much better depth of flavor due to the mixing of the Cavendish,Burleys,and Virginias used in each individual blend. The next step is to get some straight cube cut Burley and mix it with some of the "jar" mix and see how it will be improved.
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