Homemade Cuban Pipe Tobacco

[mike toro]

I have about 4 oz. of chopped up habanos for pipe tobacco. It's made out of various habanos caps, clipings and saved nubs and it's rather harsh, like mainlining a Boli CE. I think that is probably due to the tar and juices left on the saved nubs.

Is there anything I can add to even it out a bit. I still want that one-of-a-kind twang but not so much that I fall off my chair :smt102 Any suggestions greatly apprieciated . . .


. . . and of course, when I perfect the blend I will have to share :twisted:

 

[tedski]

I'm 99.9999% sure that I'd never want to use old, chopped up nubs of smoked cigars in my pipe ... :smt078

I do save the clipped caps in a small jelly jar. When this is 3/4 full I plan on chopping up the clippings ... mixing in a few pinches of straight Virginia (McClelland 5100) and then let it age for few months. Burley might do the trick also ... as this will add a nice nutty flavor.

 

[mike toro]

I'm 99.9999% sure that I'd never want to use old, chopped up nubs of smoked cigars in my pipe ... :smt078

Well then . . . I found out the hard way . . . if something can't even it out then there's no use for it . . .

 

[Matt Fury]

Somebody on CW made a mix using clippings, but not nubs..said it came out ok.