So I based this blend off a member on fairtradetobacco.com, deluxestogie's list of blends, its called warspur. I mostly kept to his ratios but added some slightly different tobaccos into the blend.
I made up 100g of this just to try out some of this whole leaf tobacco wanting to see how different it would taste compared to commercial blenders. My gripe with most pipe tobacco is comes so goddamn wet no matter how you buy the stuff. Tins, Plugs, and bulk all smoke too wet and when dried I feel they smoke too hot because of sugar casings or something. The only blend I've smoked that was actually a dry blend is Tabac Manil Semois, and I loved it.
So to make this all I did was spritz some vodka (trying to avoid mold spores in water) on the weighed out leaves and put them in a ziploc for a few days and kept them lightly pressed together. Then I just cut them with my nice sharp Ken Shun knife and let it rest another week tightly rolled up in a bag.
15% Red Virginia Crop 2008
15% Lemon Virginia
15% Izmir
15% Prilep
35% latakia crop 1997
5% dark air cured
Today I finally decided to stuff some in a quick small cob. It smokes great. No tongue bite, great latakia flavor minus the tinny/metallic flavor I get from a lot of new blends. This makes me wonder how "aged" the latkaia or what crop year the latakia is from in blends like GLP Odyssey which give me a tinny/metallic bite. This blend smoked nice and dry, not hot at all, and was just real nice. It could be pride of ownership but I place this blend of tobacco above a bunch of English blends I've purchased that cost $10+ for 50g.
Cost breakdown as follows with slight explanation of how I broke it down. I bought each pound of the tobacco for ~$12.50/lb except the latakia. The latakia was $26/lb.
Virginia/Orientals/Dark Air : $1.78
Latakia: $2.02
Total: $3.80 for 100gr (not too shabby eh?)
Now, the first three people that are interested will get a 25gr sample. Ready set GO. Send me a PM please.
This could make pipe smoking exceptionally cheap if you aren't a latakia fan. Normally the burley and dark fire cured baccy is also priced the same as the rest with latakia remaining in the $26. So with out the latakia it would have only cost me $2.75 to make 100gr of pipe tobacco.
I made up 100g of this just to try out some of this whole leaf tobacco wanting to see how different it would taste compared to commercial blenders. My gripe with most pipe tobacco is comes so goddamn wet no matter how you buy the stuff. Tins, Plugs, and bulk all smoke too wet and when dried I feel they smoke too hot because of sugar casings or something. The only blend I've smoked that was actually a dry blend is Tabac Manil Semois, and I loved it.
So to make this all I did was spritz some vodka (trying to avoid mold spores in water) on the weighed out leaves and put them in a ziploc for a few days and kept them lightly pressed together. Then I just cut them with my nice sharp Ken Shun knife and let it rest another week tightly rolled up in a bag.
15% Red Virginia Crop 2008
15% Lemon Virginia
15% Izmir
15% Prilep
35% latakia crop 1997
5% dark air cured
Today I finally decided to stuff some in a quick small cob. It smokes great. No tongue bite, great latakia flavor minus the tinny/metallic flavor I get from a lot of new blends. This makes me wonder how "aged" the latkaia or what crop year the latakia is from in blends like GLP Odyssey which give me a tinny/metallic bite. This blend smoked nice and dry, not hot at all, and was just real nice. It could be pride of ownership but I place this blend of tobacco above a bunch of English blends I've purchased that cost $10+ for 50g.
Cost breakdown as follows with slight explanation of how I broke it down. I bought each pound of the tobacco for ~$12.50/lb except the latakia. The latakia was $26/lb.
Virginia/Orientals/Dark Air : $1.78
Latakia: $2.02
Total: $3.80 for 100gr (not too shabby eh?)
Now, the first three people that are interested will get a 25gr sample. Ready set GO. Send me a PM please.
This could make pipe smoking exceptionally cheap if you aren't a latakia fan. Normally the burley and dark fire cured baccy is also priced the same as the rest with latakia remaining in the $26. So with out the latakia it would have only cost me $2.75 to make 100gr of pipe tobacco.
