booknpipe
Junior Member
Posts: 132
Favorite Tobacco: Burley
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Post by booknpipe on Sept 24, 2020 19:02:45 GMT -5
I was just sitting out on my deck trying out the first bowl of a new mix I conjured up. H&H Delta Days with a not-quite-equal amount of Carter Hall. Something in the Delta Days (red VA?) just bothers my palate so I wanted to cut it with something. Bingo! Smoothed it out for me with a hint of sweetness but still retains a little bit of peppery-ness from the perique. Behaved extremely well (even though I have a habit of 'freight-training') and not a relight until it was nearly gone. I was staring into the cornfield across the road, solving the world's problems (as you do) and these big dragonflies kept flying past so choosing a name for this concoction was easy. Dragonfly!
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Post by Legend Lover on Sept 26, 2020 4:59:26 GMT -5
That's great. I've never had my own mixture work out for me. I love the name and how you came up with it.
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Post by briarpipenyc on Sept 26, 2020 8:28:41 GMT -5
Love stories with happy endings. Enjoy "Dragonfly" for a long time.
I think starting with two-three, commercially available, professionally blended, well balanced mixtures, and hybridizing them.... can bring more success as opposed to scratch-blending from individual components. The commercial blends are more stable, more flavor-consistent, and cheaper.
I do a lot of "50:50" hybrid-blending. I've had some failures, but many triumphs, also. Note: Sometimes just adding a little cigar-leaf to that special 50:50 mixture, can take it into a new zip-code.
BTW...that name "Dragonfly" ....makes me think, quiet solitude, sitting, alone, in a row boat, fishing rod in hand, or... a quiet back porch, trees, breezes, buzzing bees sipping flowers, sweet clover, and.... no one around to break the spell.
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Post by Goldbrick on Sept 26, 2020 8:37:14 GMT -5
What a cool name for a tobacco, it's a wonder somebody like C & D hasn't slapped "dragonfly" on one of their burley blends long before now.
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Post by CrustyCat on Sept 29, 2020 1:50:51 GMT -5
A lot of my blending occurs because I add different tobacco to my pouch on occasion.
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