Is there enough interest for a dedicated home blending forum? I’d love to see what other people are doing and maybe swap samples
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I have 1 or 2 blends I make for my own amazement.
Depends on how you define blends methinks. If mixing store bought blends into something new I think there might be enough interest in it. But if you're talking about base tobacco and creating something new out of nothing, while still super cool, it would limit the amount of people I think
I'd be interested in hearing what others are doing. I recently created a blend for myself with a small amount of base tobacco provided at a meeting of the Brooklyn Pipe Society (my son's club.) I pressed it in a noodle press and have been more than happy with the blend. So I called John David Cole at The Country Squire, gave him my recipe and he mixed me up about 10zs. I took care of the pressing myself. It has become one of my go-to daily smokes. Next up will be trying to create an "English" blend off the original: 40% White Burley, 40% Red Virginia, 20% Perique.
I think you will have a small audience at first but the audience will grow... I would love to learn more on the subject.
Home blending and pressing pucks as well. There seems to be a growing interest using various methods, especially the noodle press on Amazon.
nunnster makes a point. I do mixes frequently, and that might make a discussion subject. I consider blending the use of heat and/or pressure plus aging in some cases, a mostly professional activity. The pros can take months or often years to tinker with the proportions and cuts of a particular blend, and this is not what I do, and not what most pipe smokers intend to do. So I'd call this mixing, not blending, out of respect for the pros.
I'm suggesting a blending/mixing discussion on Forums, not a separate Forum for the subject. I would call it blending/mixing to include both activities, since some members actually do use heat/pressure/aging.
I would be interested: mixing, tweaking, blending, processing -- it's all good.
I would certainly include mixing blending from base tobacco components
Maybe we could start a new section in the main categories?
I can bring it up during the next roundtable meeting.
I can bring it up during the next roundtable meeting.
I have a blend I do with 70% red ribbon, 20% ODF and 10% perique that I make pucks. Hard to mess things up too bad when you are using quality ingredients. ha
Sounds interesting. I have a Frog Morton Cellar Ghost blend sitting in a jar with a small glass of Ancient Age whiskey in the middle. The base recipe is from Eric thebluecollarpipesmoker on you tube. The glass of whiskey is my way of infusing it into the tobacco. My next project is to do a pressing, I have some potlatch from SPC but it’s missing something. I think I’m going to add Perique and press or some sort of aromatic.
Any thoughts appreciated
Tony B
Any thoughts appreciated
Tony B
Stick, I can tell you from my experience that pressing really changes thing.
I would get behind a home blending sub-forum on pipes magazine.
Currently, I get what information I have on the subject from fair trade tobacco, which is also where I get most of the help I need to grow tobacco at home.
Currently, I get what information I have on the subject from fair trade tobacco, which is also where I get most of the help I need to grow tobacco at home.
For better or worse. From what I’ve read it seams for the better. I’ve not tried any plug or cake tobaccos as of yet.