Do You Ever Add a Pinch of Something to a Blend?

[cosmicfolklore]

I don't even understand some of you guys. Like you're scared to just add a pinch of something to a blend? Does someone else change you tires for you when you have a flat? Does someone else make every little thing you eat?
Making a sandwich or changing your oil is like 500Xs harder than blending. "Oh, I can't add a pickle to my hamburger, because the chef knows more than me about what foods I am going to like." WTF, ha ha.

 

[fireground_piper]

I mixed 2 blends for the first time just the other week. It wasn't bad, but the entire time I kept wishing I just had one or the other knowing what each of them had to offer on their own.

 

[pauls456]

Adding a pinch of a heavily topped Virginia (like Dan's Sweet Vanilla Honeydew) to a straight Burley can be very nice.

 

[musicman]

I haven't yet experimented with adding just a pinch of something to a blend, although once I get around to buying some blending Perique I will probably do so, but I do enjoy 50/50 mixtures of a few blends. A personal fav is 50 percent Dark Bird's Eye and 50 percent Ready Rubbed or another cube cut Burley blend such as Watch City Deluxe Crumb Cut. I love both blends on their own, but blending them 50/50 seems to elevate them to "greater than the sum of their parts" status.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I had a pound of GH&co Kendal Vanilla for the loooooongest time. It was awful. It was neither vanilla tasting or smelling enough, nor tobacco-y enough. It was right in the WTF zone. So, I started adding pinches of it to every vanilla I smoked of other brands, which led to me trying a bunch of different vanillas by other brands. But, it took forever to get through that pound. But, it kicked up an aromatic nicely to the nic zone.

 

[saltedplug]

There are a lot dead squirrels around my house, so when I find one I cut off the head and grind the bones to dust in my food processor. Not the brains mind you, just the bones, and mix that with Black rope and let it age for a few months in a jar. The bones potentiate the rope and vice versa. It has quite a kick and will do what needs done.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

There are a lot dead squirrels around my house, so when I find one I cut off the head and grind the bones to dust in my food processor. Not the brains mind you, just the bones, and mix that with Black rope and let it age for a few months in a jar. The bones potentiate the rope and vice versa. It has quite a kick and will do what needs done.

Fee Fi Fo Furl... he smokes the bones of a dead squirrel.

 

[sablebrush52]

Yeah, a few times. I've been adding a bit of the Percy Martin Perique to D&R AP. I sometimes add a bit of the 10 year barrel aged Perique to a Virginia if I want that specific Perique flavor. And I like a combination of Yenidje Supreme with about 20% Vintage Syrian.

 

[krizzose]

I often add a bit of various aromatics to bulk burleys and virginias.

 

[tmcg81]

1Q + 5 Brothers

But for a "sprinkle" I'll take some of the shake from the bottom of my Star of the East Flake jar (straight up latakia dust) and sprinkle it on top of a bowl of Kramers Cary Grant. Delicious.

 

[RonB]

I just added 1/3 HH Bold Kentucky to 2/3 Watch City Slices. Mmmmm. Delicious.

 

[Jaylotw]

Ive added pinches of fish flakes, trout bait, PB blaster, motor oil, worm dirt, one time a tick, hairs. Things get stuck to my fingers and end up in there. None of it was pleasant, would not recommend.

I mix Ramback with Yorktown, 50/50. I call it RamTown, or YorkBack. It’s good.

 

[drrock]

I was enjoying Pegasus (which has a little Black Cavendish) and some Dark Fired Kentucky Blends lately and thought about adding a pinch of Black Cavendish or Dark Fired to one of my mild blends (probably VA dominant) to see what it would taste like. I know many have added VA to one of the DFK tobaccos as I have to tone it down a bit, and I think it tastes great.

I'm sure some of you have done this. What is your experience? What are your favorite combinations?

Thank you!

I'll often add a pinch of a really sweet tobacco like Sutliff Creme Brulée to a blend that's become a bit blah.

I'll also mix a couple blends I like together just to see if I like the combination & I often do. One of the strangest ones was a 50/50 mix of Ennerdale & Molto Dolce. It was actually pretty darn delicious!

 

[jaytex1969]

It is taking me forever to get through a tin of Rattry's Exotic Passion. The flavor is OK but it lacks nicotine. I've taken to adding about 20% Bold Kentucky to jack it up a bit.

 

[LOREN]

perique

 

[BROBS]

I also often enjoy a 50/50 mixture of SPC Plum Pudding and Sutliff Creme Brulee/Molto Dolce. Don't knock it till you try it.

Is this the 2021 r/pipetobacco blend?

 

[BROBS]

It is taking me forever to get through a tin of Rattry's Exotic Passion. The flavor is OK but it lacks nicotine. I've taken to adding about 20% Bold Kentucky to jack it up a bit.



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Roll it in a blunt

 

[BROBS]

those last bits in the tin that don't a bowl make get mixed together and it ranges from amazing in a way that makes you feel like blenders get too much credit and sometimes it's meh and you start admiring blenders again.

Haha perfectly succinct

my problem usually arises once an aro gets in the mix. It taints everything.

 

[aquadoc]

I do so often but I am fairly clinical about it. I now measure everything in grams. I ordered a good bit of Old Toby based on a recommendation (I do not do this anymore) and find it to be lacking in body. I have learned that I also do not like the mouth feel of Balkan Supreme. So I mix them and it works rather well.

 

[alaskanpiper]

Is this the 2021 r/pipetobacco blend?

Damn straight. It’s the house blend over at GameStop.