All in the BLEND!

[johncorosz]

So there are many of us in here that blend our own baccy. Whether you are buying bulk and playing around or your serious and know your baccy we all have a fun time experimenting with new tastes and concoctions. So I would like you to listen to a trick I use that may or may not be new to you but I have not heard it mentioned here as of yet.
I have a modest assortment of tobacco from many previous bulk orders. I usually will buy 40 OZ. total of 1oz servings of new baccy to see what it is like. I then put it all in an Excel spreadsheet sorted by
- Taste

- Nicotene (as I perceive it)

- Bitter or Sweet / Smokey or Woody

- Cost per oz.
Now that said you can tell I am maybe a little more anal about this hobby than others but there is a method to the madness and one trick I use is to get a batch of flavorless tobacco that will taste like tobacco but nothing else and then I add a few sprinkles of Gawith Nasal Snuff. OMFG you say? Nay...this is truly the sublime method for pepping up any ordinary smoke!
See here: https://mistersnuff.com/catalog/gawith-hoggarth-c-100_157.html
I ask you to give it a try and feel free to ask me about certain blends and I can tell you what I have tried and see what you think.

 

[sjpipesmoker]

Would you mind sharing your spreadsheet? I'd be interested is looking at it. I do have some snuff that I thought about adding to some tobacco, but never heard of anyone doing so until now... I'll have to give it a try!

 

[johncorosz]

Not sure how to share it but it's not much to look at yet. Much of my work is in a notepad for now. I am still working out the particulars on the way I am marking these up. It seems at times I find a few blends that cause me to re-establish my scale of things.
As far as the nasal stuff is concerned I recommend to anyone who is adventurous about tobacco. I have found myself thinking "why is no one else talking about this" more than once. After smoking some baccy with Lakeland spice on it was really thinking that! After all, it;s tobacco as well and although it smokes fairly quick it does impart a powerful taste. I have however stayed away from fruity snuff for these experiments. I tend to use the spicy, jasmine, jockey snuff so far as they are established tastes in my opinion for pipe tobacco flavoring.
So far I have only used this with some cheap brand burly I picked once in a pinch but it was awful stuff. Also with some drug store brands I found at Wal-Mart sometime ago. My next foray will be to use a vanilla snuff with a vanilla rum, vanilla coconut blend of higher quality.