Blenders That Use PG And To What Degree
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I‘ve yet to try St Bruno, but I guess most of the puch tobaccos have PG in them.
One gram of Amohora Full aroma has 28.7mg of PROPYLENGLYKOL and 4mg of GLYCEROL. This is my source:
Navigationspunkt Tabakzusatzstoffe-Datenbank
Die Internetseite des Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft
service.bmel.de
Unfortunately there is no data for the other Amphoras.
There we go, almost always I have to let them dry before loading up
Thanks. This information, or the same sort of info from similar sources,has been linked here in the past, is usually ignored in these periodically appearing threads in favor of wild eyed guesses and blender half truths.
Ernie gets a lot of his raw ingredients from Sutliff. Would he say that none of those have been treated with PG?
PG, glycerin, etc. are ubiquitous in pipe tobacco. Yet another reason to smoke dry tobacco.
Wow, Marlin Flake is 3.5% and second only to Petes CC and Captn Black Regular. That is surprising. And, BTW, all of mine are guesses but not rated on percentage...just a made up scale.
I do not know. Easy enough to call Ernie Q and ask. I enjoy his rhythm and blues quite a bit, and if it's left out it turns dry as a bone very quickly.
So this might be threshold for pg. Or in other words somewhere between 3.5 and 7.3 is the point where pg ruins a tobacco. Also the 3.5 and up are all a tad bitey and need a touch more dry time.
From Yaddys post, just wow -- the PG percentage is all over the place. Interesting. Some OTC's are very low and yet other OTC's high. And some "high-end" blends seem a tad high. I wonder how much it varies batch-to-batch and specifically when it's applied in the curing/blending process.
PG taste/smell ? If you've ever owned a car or truck that had a badly leaking heater core and ran the blower motor you'd know the smell and taste of a glycol substance. I had a 66 El Camino with a bad heater core during winter and was too lazy to change it --until I couldn't stand it anymore. It was so bad that the antifreeze left a slimy resin-film on my windshield (when I had it in defrost mode) Not to mention the oily funky-ass taste (and smell) that I was exposed.
PG taste/smell ? If you've ever owned a car or truck that had a badly leaking heater core and ran the blower motor you'd know the smell and taste of a glycol substance. I had a 66 El Camino with a bad heater core during winter and was too lazy to change it --until I couldn't stand it anymore. It was so bad that the antifreeze left a slimy resin-film on my windshield (when I had it in defrost mode) Not to mention the oily funky-ass taste (and smell) that I was exposed.
No need. This horse was beat to death years ago when companies were forced to disclose their ingredients. Pipe tobacco is a factory processed product. Like frozen food.
In my case, it was Lane's BCA. That sh— er, thing, won't dry no matter what.
Some of the tobaccos that seem soaking wet but don't report using a lot of pg are just using other humectants... some of which are just other sugar alcohols like sorbitol and xylitol.
I searched and did not see a post where folks ranked the blends. The original thought of this post was to get opinions...not what folks found in esoteric documents on the web. Many of which are totally outdated. In any case, I wanted to see what perceptions are. For instance, I would rank my Rattray blends as having no PG...obviously I am wrong but it is interesting to see what we think as individuals and what most likely reflects our opinions on how PG impacts a blend...or "wetness" ... or not.
And do you not think any of this has changed? And wasn't it only EU blends that were forced to disclose?
We read daily of a blend today that no longer resembles an original or older version. It can only be attributed to changes in tobacco sourcing and changes in "formulation"....so to speak.
The only change that I can see is that there are fewer conglomerates in control of tobacco sourcing and primary processing. There was a major document dump that included the US companies around the time of the Master Settlement Agreement. One of the California University libraries has kept that data public in somewhat searchable form for those skilled enough to do the work, which I understand takes a lot of effort. The late Rusty at Christian Pipe Smokers posted a lot of this information, but it has largely disappeared. Someone who goes by the handle Philofumo on other forums has also posted a number of these old blend recipes. He was banned here (not sure what handle he used) some years ago.
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