American Spirit Red Cold Maceration Recipe

[jimbothigpen]

Just finished up my first NET project, and thought I'd share my recipe. There are certainly more advanced, quicker, more enlightened, or simply better ways to do it -- but when I do things like this I prefer to have a repeatable process that I can tweak later, controlling all my variables. For the NET process, I measured everything by weight, not volume. For the post-extraction e-liquid mixing, I measured by volume.

So here it is:

15g American Spirit Red RYO Tobacco (loose, not crushed or ground or toasted)
65g Unflavored VG
65g Unflavored PG

All ingredients mixed well in a mason jar, sealed, on a dark shelf at around 65F.

After 28 days, place a funnel in a 2nd mason jar and a non-bleached coffee filter in the funnel. Put the tobacco/VG/PG mixture into the filter and let it drain until it drips no more. Gently squeeze the filter w/tobacco mixture to extract as much liquid as possible without breaking the filter. Repeat the filtration process once more with another non-bleached coffee filter.

This process produced about 95g of concentrated NET liquid. For my e-liquid, I mixed in a 30ml bottle:

10ml American Spirit RYO extract
10ml Unflavored PG
10ml Unflavored PG-based 72mg Nicotine

This gives a liquid with roughly an 85/15 PG to VG ratio.

vaping in a 2.6ohm clearo at 3.8v = very nice indeed! Not sure I'd change much about this -- until I get bored and want to add vanilla beans or coffee to my NET

 

[DrBeaker]

very nice write-up. I would like to see more write up's like this. There may as you said be better ways. Who cares! If you inspire someone else to try because of your write up much has been gained.
Great job.
I hope others will write up and share there experiences. This is how we gain collective knowledge and experience.

 

[DrBeaker]

I actually had a pouch of that american spirit in my hands thinking of doing an extract until I got to the register and found out it was $10.95.
Eerh.... yeah.... think I will order some raw tobacco insted.

 

[jimbothigpen]

Yeah, the tobacco itself isn't cheap, but you can get quite a bit of extract out of a single package. It's what I used to smoke, so it's where I went first -- nostalgia value for me.

 

[DrBeaker]

Yeah, the tobacco itself isn't cheap, but you can get quite a bit of extract out of a single package. It's what I used to smoke, so it's where I went first -- nostalgia value for me.

I had a carton of marlboro 100s ill never smoke cause I vape now. I have been using for my extraction experiments. I won't vape this stuff much. Just tasting it so I can see how well the extraction went. I'm surprised that I've lost the desire for that marlboro flavor. I diy much better ejuices now that are not tobacco.

 

[Heronimus]

This looks like an easy method. I like that you measure by weight. More consistent.
I did the numbers on your post-extraction e-liquid mix in% so its easier to make other volumes.
It is actually 10% tobacco 45%pg and 45% vg.
Will do tomorrow as my first NET attempt

Edit: 10,34% bacco 44,83% vg 44,83% pg
I will try 12% 44% vg 44% pg

 

[Heronimus]

Edit 2 following this recipe gives 1-19 ratio. 1 gram of tobacco to 19 mls of juice.Given pg/vg has the same weight to volum rato as water which it doesnt, but its very close.
my

 

[gannon]

Nice. I did an extraction from that tobacco with just straight VG and it was a big pain to filter.

I did slightly lower volume of liquid to tobacco ratio and fumbled around waiting for various strength percentages for final juice.

I ended up where you were after a month of extraction and a month of steep.
I'm trying it your way now Thanks!!

 

[gannon]

So, I have now tried replicating jimbothigpen's extraction a few times. It works great.
I altered it a bit the last time by boosting the tobacco content 20% for using pure VG. It worked great but filtering was a huge PITA.

I have been mixing this extraction with TFA bavarian cream ( 30% AS red concentrate, 4% Bavarian cream concentrate, .5% EM)
and it is yum.

 

[jimbothigpen]

Sounds tasty, gannon! I've been mixing mine with Hangsen Coconut, which is one of the only non-tobacco flavors I can vape on it's own. My first batch is only about 1/2 gone now, and I use it pretty regularly, maybe about a quarter of my vaping. Lots of bang for your buck.