My home steeped tobacco leaves taste way too sweet

[stayinwonderland]

I've purchased some leaves (from a reputable vendor who sells regular tobacco leaves) and have been steeping them in a majority (nearly all) PG base. No nic.

I have: light fire-cured and aged nicaraguan.

youngest steep is a week, oldest about 20 days.

The tobacco taste that I got from an early taste is now almost lost in a very sweet, musky-perfume flavour.

Please help if you can because I've put in so much time and effort to get such a random result. I know tobacco leaves contain sugars of some kind, and so perhaps this has something to do with it and my steeping process has caused maximum sugar extraction for some reason.

Thanks!

 

[BlueMoods]

LOL, yep like any thing you make extracts form yourself, the natural sugars come out rather easily and, the flavor not so easily. Let the one go to 30 days, see if the tobacco is coming back (sweet will still be there too.) Once the tobacco comes back, usually 30-40 days) then you need to get the excess sugars out. Now there are commercial processing means of doing it, but a home extractor cant afford that kind of equipment so, use the old fashioned method - wine maker's yeast. Just a pinch per 50 ML of extract - put a small balloon with a pin hole in it over the top of the bottle. It's done when the balloon goes flat (7-14 days). Yes that will put a bit of alcohol in your extract but, that's not a problem - the yeast eats the sugars, a couple of tries and you will know just how much you need to get the flavor you want. DO NOT USE BREAD YEAST - Yuck, bad, horrid taste. (Any wine yeast is fine, I use both 16 and 22 because that's what I use for making my own wine and "backwoods champagne" from the grapes I grow, so I have it on hand.)