A Tasty New Blend

[05venturer]

Just mixed me up a new blend of 50/50 Black House and Carter Hall. DAMN is that tasty!!!

mixed up just enough for a bowl first then partway through the bowl I was enjoying it so much I mixed up a couple ounces to cellar and another ounce to smoke up.

Try it you may like it!!!! :nana:

 

[kashmir]

Yeah, I've done that with Carter Hall for a number of blends. A good one is 50:50 Star of the East or Westminster. The addition of Burley totally changes the blend. It's a good change of pace from smoking them straight. I'll have to give Black House / Carter Hall a try. Thanks for the post.

 

[05venturer]

I find myself blending Carter Hall with most of my baccys, It's a great all around tobacco for smoking straight up or blending. Love It

 

[joeg]

MINT CHOCOLATE COOKIE PIPE TOBACCO RECIPE
I felt like experimenting with my own mint chocolate tobacco recipe. I have a very broad taste for tobacco. I like complex Virginias, Burley blends, VA-PERS, VA-BURS, English and Balkan blends. I also, now and then like a full aromatic.
Frosty Mint pipe tobacco by Sutliff is the mother-lode of mint, so I had to do some experimenting so it would not overpower the blend. I started out with 1/3 of each tobacco (from below) by weight (I’m sure volume would work too for our purposes). So, I made one total ounce. I put it in an 8 oz. ball mason jar and would routinely open it toss the tobacco and press down on it with a can of PAM turned upside down with the top on, to try and meld some of the flavors (I don’t think this step is absolutely necessary, but it can’t hurt). I did this for a couple of days. The mint was too overpowering, so I added two more parts of each chocolate tobacco below. I think I have the proportions down just right, so you can taste both mint and chocolate, which leaves a nice, but not cloying mint flavor on the palate. Also, note, you cannot get this blend to bite at all. Just felt like sharing, perhaps your tastes are different and you care to adjust the tobaccos to your liking. So, here is my rendition of what I now call: “Mint Chocolate Cookie,” as it reminds me of Girl Scout Thin Mint Cookies! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Would love to hear any and all comments.
The tobaccos used are seen below (this formula will yield ~ 2 & 1/3 oz. if you’re using a scale…you can also make less/more and figure out the proportions accordingly).
SUTLIFF CHOCOLATE MOUSSE (B30): 3 parts or (1 oz.)

SUTLIFF CHOCOLATE TRUFFLE (J12): 3 parts or (1 oz.)

SUTLIFF FROSTY MINT: 1 part (1/3 oz. or 0.333 oz)
I have a scale, so it was easy – btw – I bought a really cheap scale from amazon for less than $20 and it’s very, very, accurate – I can send you the link if you are interested. I hope all have a great day - Joe.

 

[badbeard]

Mixing Carter Hall 50/50 with Red Rapparee was how I discovered that I really enjoy "American-style English" tobaccos.

 

[perdurabo]

Ive never really had a "blow my mind" smoke blending different blends together. Although there was one. I call it Joe, Larry, and Burley. It's a 50/50 mixture of Hearth &a Home Larry's Blend and c&D Old Joe Krantz. I'm still hoping C&D and Russ would get together and do a cake version. Charge $12to &15 a tin. They could donate some of the proceeds to a charity. Something like Cancer or something. You know give back to the community. Plus it'd be ironic.

 

[sumusfumus]

More intrigued when reading about these "hybrid" blends, than those mixtures that are "made from scratch".
Wish those members that post the recipes of their hybrid blending experiments would describe the results of their mixtures.
I see that many start off with codger blends like Carter Hall/Prince Albert/Sir Walter Raleigh, and then add some stronger, more flavorful blends, usually containing Latakia, Dark Fired Kentucky, etc. I guess the OTC blends "cut" the the stronger blends, and mellow them out into a more pleasant smoke. But I'm just guessing.
Thanks for the interesting updates to this older thread.
Frank

NYC

 

[steamboat]

This is a creation from a fellow member of another forum and its tasty. Haunted Bookshop mixed with Frog cellar 50/50. I think he called it Haunted Frog Cellar.

 

[blendtobac]

I'm still hoping C&D and Russ would get together and do a cake version.

I'd love to do something like this, but even mixing together two existing blends constitutes a new blend in the eyes of the FDA, but the end-consumer can do what they want, so I guess this would have to be a project at home.
Russ

 

[sumusfumus]

@ blendtobac:
Thanks for this information. Sounds pretty serious, these tyrannical deeming rules. So.... will this type of DIY "hybridizing" of older, existing blends be the future for us pipe smokers if we want to try some new mixtures? In other words, WE, not the professional tobacco blenders, will have come up with, and hopefully share, our personal homemade recipes, on forums like this? I can only speculate about the number of blends that will soon, no longer be available, or be prevented from being manufactured.
These rouge, power-drunk agencies like the FDA and EPA are burrowing so far up everybody's ass!....is it even possible to them rein in? I'll end my rant here, or I might get thrown off this forum, too.
Frank

NYC

 

[perdurabo]

That's Ok Frank, some of us here Love the Alphabet Soup Fourth Column. Get those laws passed wthrough the back door so no one knows. If we can't pull the wool over the eyes of the masses and get it passed through Legislation. We try it through the Judiciary. If we fail there, we use the Executive created back door.

 

[sumusfumus]

@ perdurabo .....Well said. In other words....we're screwed, again.
Frank

NYC

 

[huntertrw]

I'd love to do something like this, but even mixing together two existing blends constitutes a new blend in the eyes of the FDA

That's tatamount to the FDA saying that you can purchase Hershey's chocolate syrup, and you can purchase milk, but if you mix the two to make a beverage, then it must be screwtinized (spelling intentional) by us. How utterly ridiculous!

 

[sumusfumus]

huntertrw.....love the anal ogy!
Frank

NYC