Please Send Us Your Own Home Made Blends

[dnietosi]

I dont think you can consider it a blend but I like mixing 50:50 Dunhill flake with Solanis ABF. I think it is my favorite flake smoke so far.
:puffpipe:

 

[sumusfumus]

Mild, smooth, aromatic, Oriental/English....smokes great. Cool, stays lit, no tongue bite, great aroma for the smoker and for those around the smoker. Relaxing fumes, no nicotine buzz, no queasy stomach...very little leathery smell from the small amount of Latakia - which is very "diluted" by the marrying of the two mixtures. Just mix 50% of each - and smoke away. Both of these original blends are easily available from multiple vendors, and probably will remain on the market for years to come. This 50-50 mixture has become my favorite tobacco blend. Both original mixtures are said to contain no casings or flavorings....just pure tobacco flavors
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Mix by volume:
50%- Lane Ltd. "HGL" (Note: Let the "HGL" dry out for a few days).

50%- McClelland's #2050
Blend both together and store in a zip-lock bag, jar, etc.
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McClelland #2050: (Oriental-Aromatic) Unusual blend because it contains NO LATAKIA....round, rich flavors with liberal quantities of Oriental/Turkish tobaccos, special Virginia Cavendish made from Eastern-Belt Carolina leaf combined with Black Cavendish
Lane Ltd "HGL": (Mild-English) Toasted Cavendish is laced with Mountain Latakia, then blended with White Burley, and Golden Virginia to produce a sweet, fuller bodied smoke, yet cool and slow burning. The Latakia is used as a condiment and not as a Lat-Bomb.
Enjoy!
Frank

 

[deathmetal]

60% Cotton Boll Twist

40% Hal O' The Wynd
Probably my favorite smoke ever. Tastes like Marzipan. Medium-to-strong, semi-tolerable room note.

 

[jpmcwjr]

OMG! An 8 year zombie! Or does one count it as only 4, as there were resurrections 4 years ago??
Sorry, I mix stuff but without precision and no intention of repeating.

 

[unkleyoda]

4 parts Squadron Leader, 1 part blending perique. (I use Peter Stokkebye 311)

 

[scrumpyjack]

Nothing specific, but I like "English Aromatics" HGL, Shortcut to Mushrooms, Sillems Black etc. At times, I will mix in aromatic blends to Latakia forward blends, just because I'm crazy like that.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I will mix in aromatic blends to Latakia forward blends, just because I'm crazy like that.

A chocolate aro with a pinch of Penzance is great. Trout Stream is amazing that way.

 

[scrumpyjack]

hmmm. I think I will try that!

 

[Chasing Embers]

Won't be disappointed. Good stuff!

 

[mawnansmiff]

My latest effort...
30g Christmas Cheer
10g Aged Burley Flake
12g McClelland's blending Perique
Pressed for a fortnight then broken apart. A decent smoke but a little heavy on the Perique front for my tastes so I'll repress it with an additional 15g of Christmas Cheer.
Regards,
Jay.

 

[deathmetal]

Perique is difficult. Too much dominates the smoke; too little fades away into the Virginias.

 

[mso489]

Eight years ago? I'm probably already in here somewhere, maybe. My favorite basic mix -- blending to me involves pressure and aging, maybe stoving -- is just about equal parts of a good burley, a good Virginia, and then some lesser amount of unflavored black Cavendish. Throw in a dash of Oriental, cigar, Perique, etc. if you must. You tune it to your own taste, especially between the three basic elements. I haven't not liked any version of this. Most of my other mixes are to revive a blah blend or one that has faded. It is difficult to improve on the pro's in many cases, though not all.

 

[pipesmokingtom]

Perique is difficult. Too much dominates the smoke; too little fades away into the Virginias.

That must explain the "perique" in OGS.

 

[briarbuda48]

Where are you purchasing unflavored black cavendish? Gawith brown isn't available right now and the black cav is smoked I understand.

 

[briarbuda48]

I recently tried Brian Orion's blend and really enjoyed it (below). I cut it in half in case I didn't like it. It's pretty Latakia strong so I added 3 more grams of Sutliff Maple Walnut.
All measurements in grams
12-McClelland Latakia

7.5-Sutliff Vanilla Custard

3-Sutliff Maple Walnut

 

[briarbuda48]

Here's another.
1-Cornell and Diehl granulated Perique

1.2-McClelland Latakia

2.4-McClelland Vanilla Black Cavendish

7.4-Sam Gawith Perfection

 

[deathmetal]

@pipesmokingtom:
Indeed. It sort of fades away...
@mso489:
That is a really good suggestion, there. I tend to start with 3:2 Burley to Virginia, usually with a mix of each to accomplish a flavor gradient. At that point, add another 10% Perique for a tasty but not breakfast cereal sweet Va/Per, or another 30% Latakia and Orientals for an English, or so on. These basic mixes are great starting points, and are fully tweakable after that.

 

[mso489]

death', yeah, I can find proportions I really like, but then tweak the next batch a little, and it is equally good, gives wonderful variety, not as good as some of the best professional blends, but better than many blends -- to my taste. I just do a few bowls at a time, usually, which is the luxury of recreational mixing as opposed to the real work of blending.

 

[deathmetal]

not as good as some of the best professional blends, but better than many blends

Seems accurate. Blenders who have resources behind them have more options, as well as the ability to nurture leaf from somewhere in the late curing process through the entire mixing, blending, topping, etc. For example, I could never produce something as good as Royal Yacht, but I did come up with some thing comparable to many blends out there today. The creativity of it, and the knowledge of the different types of leaf and how they were cured (smoke/ferment/air), allows for a good deal of enjoyment in just experimenting and smoking the results of course.

 

[thomasw]

@deathmetal
Is there thread where you've posted the recipes for your various metal mixtures and other self-blended daily blends? It would be useful to read them in one place.