since I am not doing this any more I would just like to throw out there that in my opinion Jackknife Plug would make a _killer_ extract
Just recently ran a few tanks of Red Virginia and an Oriental, plus one other which I will come back to.
The method for each was pretty much the same. I put 10g of tobacco into a canning jar, and covered with 120ml pg/15ml vodka. Left alone in a dark cupboard for six days then heated at 135-140f in my slow cooker with the lid off the jar for 5hrs. The final mix, which had reduced down to about 75ml, was then filtered through a generic coffee filter, then further filtered using 5 micron filter felt (took 30hrs).
I initially tried a wee sample of each in one of my drippers....bloody hell, wow! - Now, I'm no connoisseur by all means, but if you had to pin me down and describe the flavour, I would describe the RV as smooth/slightly woody with a hint of fruit. Simply gorgeous. Looking forward to trying this with other tobacco leaf and even flavour concentrates. Maybe a touch of FA maple syrup? - Like I said before, I'm no connoisseur, so to describe the oriental, I would say it was quite robust although not as full on as an aged burley. Aromatic/deep flavour with what I would say, a slight hint of spice? - Anyhow, it's bloody lovely. I also made up a separate sample of oriental and 2% TFA Almond Amaretto. Its pretty good, but think I need to make it 4% next time. The amounts I used of the concentrates were: Red Virginia 20% and Oriental 25%. While I think the Oriental is about right for my taste, I will probably knock the RV down a couple of percent.
Onto the last one I mixed. It was a Cameroon leaf in which I used the same method as above, however, the amount was 7.8g. This was sent to me with a few grams of ''assorted'' leaf as the place I purchased it were out of stock of another leaf I was after. Mixed at 20% - it is very, very weak and getting hardly any flavour at all. No harm no foul though, it was a freebie after all.
Been spending a lot of time on a few UK/US online pipe and tobacco shops. Just looking at all the different brand names of pipe tobacco. It's enough to make your mouth water!
While I'm buying in quite a bit of leaf - in a lot of cases, I'm not going to be able to gauge the percentages of a particular brand, so will probably end up buying a few tins. Great this N.E.T malarkey.
Edit:
oops, forgot to mention. Although it does take a while to filter - the 5 micron filter felt enables me to get 9-10 ml through before I need a dry burn/new coil.
Who does that one?..since I am not doing this any more I would just like to throw out there that in my opinion Jackknife Plug would make a _killer_ extract
Interesting! Did You get Your leaf from the Guys in 'the Emerald Isle'?...
My 1st try at this was using Red Virginia Leaf & it's still a staple for Me; Sweet, Strong & Distinctive!
2nd go was with Semi-Oriental, which is n't as much to My taste.
3rd go:- bought cigar leaf (Dominican, Brazilian, Colombian & Havana..) Results similar to Yours...tho' I'm guessing that a longer steep or longer heating may've coaxed more flavour from them...the Havana was stronger than t'others.
Try Red Virg. with Aged Burley...the sweetness of the RV wiv a bit more 'robustness' from the Burley!
seems contrary to the name.... "bitter", but ends up sweet?Has anyone tried adding Bitter Wizard to a NET juice? Typically I mix mine at 20% PG-based extract with 80% VG, which makes the juices pretty sweet.
seems contrary to the name.... "bitter", but ends up sweet?
I did an extract from a half smoked cigar for S&G's ( turned out really nasty) wasnt sweet, had that smokey texture to it ( bit too much maybe) smelled of dirty ashtray....
Maybe that's what W2V does for their Paris blend.
picked up 3 types of Pipe tobacco from a local shop..
an Ammaretto blend ( almond tainted)
something called McTruffle ??? ( hints of truffle supposedly) smells really good tho
and a Raspberry based tobacco ( also smells wonderful)
doing all 3 in a WARM PGA steep ( 140F) for several hours
ohh also trying a new twist on the Celestial Seasonings Raspberry Zinger tea ( in PGA only room temp)
so far its all raspberry with little to no "tea" hints, the PGA is a nice purple color hopefully this will turn out better than the VG session...
planning on a freeze filter after things cool off...
oh and BTW pipe tobacco has jumped from 3$ an oz to 5$ an oz... OUCH!