A friend of mine called me this weekend to come over for an experiment. He smokes four different tobaccos (two Virginias, a Latakia and a rum flavored Virginia) depending on mood. For the past six months he has been dumping any left over tobacco in his pouch into a mason jar. So he ended up with a random mixture. Not being sure what would be the result he and I loaded up our pipes and lit them up. To our surprise we had a reasonable tobacco in the bowls. It wouldn't be my first choice two smoke, nor my second, but it wasn't bad. Has anybody else tried this experiment? I would but I only smoke a boring two brands.
A fun experiment with tobacco
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Recently found a jar in my cellar from 2015, a mixture of English blends. Darn good!
Yep, I like to sample different tobaccos and any tobacco I don’t particularly like after a few bowls I dump into a giant mason jar and let it mix with the other remnants. I call it the random cr@p jar. Surprisingly it’s actuallly pretty good., no idea what’s in it though
Are you Mack from Cannery Row?
Sounds like something out of a Steinbeck novel to me...
Good on you for trying to be creative and save a pinch!
Sounds like something out of a Steinbeck novel to me...
Good on you for trying to be creative and save a pinch!
I can see that mixture working. I'm some ways similar to Black Frigate and Sextant.
I have a small jar that the occasional spillover gets put in.
"a boring two brands"? Sounds like me before I found American on-line tobacconists.
Choice of pipe tobacco blends is extremely slim here in Nanny State Australia [and extremely expensive at $140aud for 50 grams]
Where do you live where you're restricted to just two blends?
To answer the question; nothing goes to waste here.
An internet friend sent me a heap of tobacco that included over a dozen 1/2oz bags of different vanilla type blends that I threw together in one jar.
A month later I tried a bowl and it was rather good.
I've also ordered other blends that weren't to my liking though there wasn't one that I couldn't 'fix' to suit my tastes.
One of my favourite home blends was a mix of roughly three parts of Mark Twain to two parts of London Squire.
MT was too sweet and moist, the LS was a bit astringent and was too dry.
Mixed together it made a rather nice crossover at perfect hydration.
If I have anything left from last tin/jar, I just add to next bowl that would be similar. Rarely dump any left over.
There was one blend that I did not like one little bit when it was fresh; Aj's VaPer.
So I jarred the pound and stuck it in the back of the cupboard with the intention to use it as a mixer when supplies got low.
Around 4-5 years later I tried a small bowl and the difference to fresh was remarkably different.
Aged Aj's VaPer is now one of my favourite non-aro's.
Another blend I didn't like was Firedance which has a disgusting blackberry topping.
After I left the lid off for a couple of weeks the topping dissipated and it wasn't too bad.
Some blends are worth a little patience before throwing it into the 'crap' jar.
I do this with what’s left on my drying tray when the night is over but I keep the Burleys with the Burleys , Virginias with the Virginias and so on and so forth as blends go I don’t want to get to Frankensteiny…
I did this for a while with scotch bottles which had 2 drams in it, just trow them into another bottle with 2 drams in it. The effect was quite remarkable, especially when you don't pay attention to what you throw together, so not just islays together or one distillery. Nice experiment, I think I'm going to do that with tobacco to.
I have a dump jar labelled "god knows"
I've never had enough courage to try it
I've never had enough courage to try it
I experiment with mixing blends most of my smokes. I rarely smoke a single blend without mixing. However, I use known proportions so that if I like it then I can create it again. I have no interest in mystery blends.
Mine is labeled,
"The Offscouring of All Things."
Thus far, it tastes crappy.
"The Offscouring of All Things."
Thus far, it tastes crappy.
Yes, it is a fairly widespread custom among smokers, the same is often done by Whiskey drinkers, they call it the Infinite Bottle.
Yep. I have a jar labelled "House English Blend" that is surprisingly good and very potent for some reason.
I also have a whiskey decanter that is my "Infinity Bottle" that has mostly Bourbon or Bourbon-like whiskies in it, but there are some very good whiskies in there and it is surprisingly good as well.
I also have a whiskey decanter that is my "Infinity Bottle" that has mostly Bourbon or Bourbon-like whiskies in it, but there are some very good whiskies in there and it is surprisingly good as well.
Small world. I have a Mason jar of tobacco that a friend gave me a couple of weeks ago. He did not say what it was, but just that he thought I might like it. Boy was he right. This is some of the best English blend I've had in a while. When I asked him what it was he said it was small amounts of leftovers from 5 or 6 high quality English/Balkan blends that he threw together. Wasn't even sure exactly what all of them were or how much of each, so there won't be any more. What a pisser! 
the hard thing about these delicious mystery blends are that they are not repeatable.