Hey guys and galls, had to share this with someone so here I am. I already introduced myself in the new memebers area, I hope this isn't against the rules.
Anyways, last year in July, I've topped the 30ml bottle full of Drum tobacco (it was one of mine favorite ryo's), in the second one some Vollaren, and in the third some Macbarren original...
Poured pg over them and left them in my garage... went on summer holiday, forgot about them, when I returned, for some reason my wife throw them in garbage, all but drum bottle. After two months I took it and filtered it through coffee filter and left it again.
History
When I was smoking, I had this thing with ryo and I didn't smoked a regular cigarette since 2000. Mostly smoked Drum, Macbarren halfzware, Samson, Van nel, Old Holborn... And many of the Balkan native varieties. After a while I've planted 250 plants in my backyard, Golden Virginia, Samsoun, Burley, and Adonis... It was a success and my wife and me had a tobacco reserve for one whole year, maybe more... And then we started vaping
The tobacco went into barrels until today.
Present day
So, today I've found my bottle, one year and several months after... Very dark liquid. Maybe 15ml. It smelled very strong, not on Drum but it was in there somewhere, that scent... Took a large syringe, stuffed it with a lot of compressed cotton (didn't have anything better than that) and filtered the liquid three times until It was much brighter, almost yellow. And I've mixed it right away, at 15% (big mistake), 7.5mg/ml max VG.
The finished liquid, again, smelled not so great. Drum scent was there but in the distance.
Then, 1 ohm, siren v2, ss316l, 32mm, 12 wats... SHOCK!
People, maybe you know this, maybe others got the same results but the first inhale and exhale was EXACT SAME SMELL from the Drum pouch when you open it and stuff your nose in it. I was blown away. Really. It was something that I was always searching for when I was smoking, to have the exact smell of the non lit tobacco but when smoking. And I never had it. This one blown me away. I rushed down to my shed, opened the barrels of my tobaccos from 2012 , grabbed PG bottles, only two jars (it's winter here and it's pickling veggies season, and I was short on jars) and labels and instantly made Virginia and Burley.. And tomorrow I'm gone for some more jars
I've read a lot about the various processes of extracting flavor from this and that and after I inhaled my first "forgotten" NET, I had an eye opener regarding flavor of the tobacco. I'm putting aside "health" issues and not filtrating it properly etc, but I just had to share this with someone cause over time I've bumped into many people wanting to replicate that "smokey" plum/oak/fire/smoke scent from Drum and similar tobaccos. I just hope I could get the same "pouch opened" scent from Old Holborn and my own tobaccos
Btw, my Siren was holding Heisenberg in, I washed it, replaced the coil and all new setup but the flavor was still there, over the Drum flavor. And even with that setback, the Drum was fantastic. Now, for the bad part, 15% was waaaaay to much. I was leading myself with other people's NET percentage for mixing and this one can easily go 4 to 5%. Cause after five hours of vaping (I'm not a heavy vaper, 5 ml per day top) the flavor is even stronger and overwhelming to a point that I cannot vape it anymore. Will have to cut it in half. Here is the color of the diluted concentrate (vape ready).
In tank
In bottle
Anyways, last year in July, I've topped the 30ml bottle full of Drum tobacco (it was one of mine favorite ryo's), in the second one some Vollaren, and in the third some Macbarren original...
Poured pg over them and left them in my garage... went on summer holiday, forgot about them, when I returned, for some reason my wife throw them in garbage, all but drum bottle. After two months I took it and filtered it through coffee filter and left it again.
History
When I was smoking, I had this thing with ryo and I didn't smoked a regular cigarette since 2000. Mostly smoked Drum, Macbarren halfzware, Samson, Van nel, Old Holborn... And many of the Balkan native varieties. After a while I've planted 250 plants in my backyard, Golden Virginia, Samsoun, Burley, and Adonis... It was a success and my wife and me had a tobacco reserve for one whole year, maybe more... And then we started vaping
The tobacco went into barrels until today. Present day
So, today I've found my bottle, one year and several months after... Very dark liquid. Maybe 15ml. It smelled very strong, not on Drum but it was in there somewhere, that scent... Took a large syringe, stuffed it with a lot of compressed cotton (didn't have anything better than that) and filtered the liquid three times until It was much brighter, almost yellow. And I've mixed it right away, at 15% (big mistake), 7.5mg/ml max VG.
The finished liquid, again, smelled not so great. Drum scent was there but in the distance.
Then, 1 ohm, siren v2, ss316l, 32mm, 12 wats... SHOCK!
People, maybe you know this, maybe others got the same results but the first inhale and exhale was EXACT SAME SMELL from the Drum pouch when you open it and stuff your nose in it. I was blown away. Really. It was something that I was always searching for when I was smoking, to have the exact smell of the non lit tobacco but when smoking. And I never had it. This one blown me away. I rushed down to my shed, opened the barrels of my tobaccos from 2012 , grabbed PG bottles, only two jars (it's winter here and it's pickling veggies season, and I was short on jars) and labels and instantly made Virginia and Burley.. And tomorrow I'm gone for some more jars
I've read a lot about the various processes of extracting flavor from this and that and after I inhaled my first "forgotten" NET, I had an eye opener regarding flavor of the tobacco. I'm putting aside "health" issues and not filtrating it properly etc, but I just had to share this with someone cause over time I've bumped into many people wanting to replicate that "smokey" plum/oak/fire/smoke scent from Drum and similar tobaccos. I just hope I could get the same "pouch opened" scent from Old Holborn and my own tobaccos
Btw, my Siren was holding Heisenberg in, I washed it, replaced the coil and all new setup but the flavor was still there, over the Drum flavor. And even with that setback, the Drum was fantastic. Now, for the bad part, 15% was waaaaay to much. I was leading myself with other people's NET percentage for mixing and this one can easily go 4 to 5%. Cause after five hours of vaping (I'm not a heavy vaper, 5 ml per day top) the flavor is even stronger and overwhelming to a point that I cannot vape it anymore. Will have to cut it in half. Here is the color of the diluted concentrate (vape ready).
In tank
In bottle
Have fun and enjoy!
