Tobacco Absolute - A Flavor All By Itself.
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It's not actually a solid it's a waxie paste like consistancy. Warm it to 150F (sit bottle in hot tap water) and it will thin to allow you to draw it up into a 1ml syringe.
I've been in contact with DB over at mother’s milk and we've been discussing his offering of TA. After long discussions he has decided to offer a raw form of this TA at a very reasonable price. He was kind enough to send me a sample and my review follows.
This review is based on a 10% mixed down solution.
Consistence of the raw TA: Dark brown thick waxy like paste
Smell: Strong natural woody tobacco alkaloid with no chemical odor.
MixDown:
90% 50/50 PGA/PG, 10% tobacco absolute.
Mixes well with no chunks or large floating partials. Seem to separate with a dark brown top liquid and a lighter brown sediment layer on the bottom. There were no particles noticeable when the bottle was rotated. With no steeping the proportion of liquid to sediment was:
First day 2/3 liquid to 1/3 sediment
Second day 3/4 liquid to 1/4 sediment
3rd day 85% liquid to 15% sediment
Note: In my opinion with steeping all sediment will dissolve and is very acceptable.
Taste:
Based on using 3% of the mixed down 10% solution
Color: Milky amber (Sometimes referred to as cloudy)
A pure Tobacco absolute blended from Dark Fronto tobacco leaves. This TA boast a strong but smooth, true tobacco taste with hints of a grassy hay note and slight ash taste as well as an ever so slight sweetness on inhale. I noticed a particular ashy slight dryness on exhale which in my opinion is a desirable characteristic. Odor on exhale has an almost ashy type woodiness texture to it. This particular TA sits somewhere between a Virginia TA and a Nicxtaina rustica TA meaning it’s not as ashy as a Virginia and not as sweet as a rustica TA. This makes it a perfect all round TA that will work well for your traditional cigar, cigarette and pipe type tobacco vapes. In my opinion this would rate among one of the top shelf Tobacco Absolutes.
size: 5ml
Price: Reasonable and fair
https://www.mothersmilkwta.com/index.php/catalog/absolute-ta-tobacco-absolute/
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No my evaluation is based on a 10% mix down, it's raw form before a 10% mixdown is a waxie brown paste. Read the Mix: section for a description of the mixdown.
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Wow! I finally get it! Now, I am off to use PGA instead of the 50/50 PG/VG!!! The alcohol will make all the difference in the way it dilutes! Thank you!
Tobacco Absolute, by nature makes cloudy mixes. It also tends to gunk up wicks.
That all depends on how much Tobacco Absolute you use
After reading a post this morning oven in the tobacco thread I mixed a 10% mix of Rustica. A little strong for me at that point but not bad on the coils at all. I mostly use it at 1% to bump up other flavors and I can't tell any difference as far as the coils are concerned.
Just to clearify I beleive the conversation was adding 10% of a 10% TA concentrate to create a stand alone vape. I just want to make it clear that you were not vaping a straight 10% concentrate.
But you are correct about actually creating the concentrate from raw TA. The old norm was 1 - 3 drops of raw TA per 10ml base made up your concentrate which was about 1%. The new thinking is to use 10% raw TA to 90% base to make up the concentrate and add 2 - 3% of that to your juice mix.
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Correct, and you're right I didn't make that very clear. If my math is right that would be 1% of the Rustica as received from the supplier.
I decided to revisit the 10% of the 10% solution (Or 1% of Raw Rustica) I had made earlier to see what would happen if I cut the percentage down to half. It is still a good vape by itself but somewhat on the light side. The 10% is more like a full bodied tobacco. I like it a lot as a stand alone and by no means it is too strong. If I was to mix it with other flavors though, I would go a minimum of 5% - 6% of the diluted version to have a meaningful impact.
I'm thinking a lot of folks would like it at that strength (10% of the 10& solution) as a stand a lone.
As a stand alone 10% is a bit more then I prefer but none the less that's a very reasonable amount.
Hi Danny, have you tried it 10% ? If not, you might very well like it because you have said in the past that you like your tobaccos on the high side. I like mine in the middle and find 10% to be medium-high.
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Just got my order. Smells so good. Mixed 10% dilution at 3% stand alone, shake & vape tastes as it smells. I get herbal and woody notes. This lot is from the march shipment listing nic content at 5-25%. Good stuff!
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