Natural Tobaccos - Part Deux

[Jerms]

Porch Rocker in an IGO-S; nom nom. Latakia is so good after not having it for several days.

 

[MFToms59]

Yeah, I figured that a a lot of the nicotine preferences causes stagnation in trades.

On shaking: I wonder if a milk frother would expedite the "steeping" process?

Funny you bring that up, I found this video ~2 weeks ago, found it interesting, this guy is into Frankenjuicing STREATHING JUICE Tips and Tricks Fast and Easy and Mixing E Liquids - YouTube

Ha, I posted before seeing your post clnire, I enjoyed a few of his other videos, he's kinda funny but a little Raw.

 

[regal55]

My first DIY net came out really good, Newminster Superior, warm bath extraction at 110F. Mixed at 20%, no steeping yet. This is a good value tobacco, it doesn't have that grassy turn-off taste that many Virginians can have. This is a complex flavor with a slight citrus overtone and a bit of honey. Its amazing how little it cost to make. The filtering was easy with a syringe, rayon then 5 micron felt gave a clean extract. I was expecting to have to add a plethora of flavorings to vape it but it practically needs nothing. DIY may be the way to go for all day vapes with the complex flavored stuff for nighttime and weekends.


Edit: I thought I was tasting perique and Cavendish. Further research found better descrptions that this contains a cavensish center and perique outer mixed with the Virginia. Its truly outstanding for only a 2 day bath and no steep..

 

[rabernet]

I can't resist buying from Ahlusion under normal circumstances, and certainly not when they are having a weekend 20% off sale.

30 mls Cocoa Blend (ARO)
30 mls Sweet Georgia Peach (ARO)

Picked up Smokin Cherries earlier this week. It's my first foray into their ARO's.

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note II using Tapatalk.

 

[clnire]

Funny you bring that up, I found this video ~2 weeks ago, found it interesting, this guy is into Frankenjuicing STREATHING JUICE Tips and Tricks Fast and Easy and Mixing E Liquids - YouTube

Ha, I posted before seeing your post clnire, I enjoyed a few of his other videos, he's kinda funny but a little Raw.

That's the one!

pardon the typos, on my phone

 

[DSmooch]

My first DIY net came out really good, Newminster Superior, warm bath extraction at 110F. Mixed at 20%, no steeping yet. This is a good value tobacco, it doesn't have that grassy turn-off taste that many Virginians can have. This is a complex flavor with a slight citrus overtone and a bit of honey. Its amazing how little it cost to make. The filtering was easy with a syringe, rayon then 5 micron felt gave a clean extract. I was expecting to have to add a plethora of flavorings to vape it but it practically needs nothing. DIY may be the way to go for all day vapes with the complex flavored stuff for nighttime and weekends.


Edit: I thought I was tasting perique and Cavendish. Further research found better descrptions that this contains a cavensish center and perique outer mixed with the Virginia. Its truly outstanding for only a 2 day bath and no steep..

I've been looking for pointers on how to start with this... I got 50g of Dunhill early morning pipe tobacco handy (I got some extract made at myvapejuice and I loved it), got some Peterson blends on the way too... I've been naughty and lurked a bit into you history and man oh man, have I found some threads didn't know existed...
Thanks buddy

 

[boomerdude]

Just did up a fresh haul of P&S errr.....I mean Tatiana Honey Flavored. Can't believe I already went through 60 mls of extract. The Chocolate is good too. Vanilla the jury is still out on.

An expensive lesson learned. I wanted to make some extract from cigar leaves like Maduro Wrapper and Dominican Binder. Natural unprocessed leaves taste like s*** even when mixed with other processed tobaccos they mess up the whole mix. I was able to trade away the remaining leaves so it wasn't a total loss.

Also have some Voo Doo Queen steeping. Man that stuff smells good. Latakia gonna be right up front I think.

 

[Mr.Mann]

Just did up a fresh haul of P&S errr.....I mean Tatiana Honey Flavored. Can't believe I already went through 60 mls of extract.
...

After trying it, I can believe it! Perfect.

 

[johni]

Haven't posted in a while as my laptop crapped out. I have six room temp macerations working, three pipe blends and three great cigars (thanks checkum!) If the quality of construction and aroma of these cigars are any indication, they will make amazing juice!

Also trying cellucotton wicks (thanks Evil Speakers!) in my usual RDAs with .8 to 1.0 ohm microcoils. I'm not convinced to give up Koh Gen Do cotton yet but the cellucotton makes a fine, very flavor neutral wick. It looks cleaner when I rewick at night, seems to hold more juice in reserve, and be a bit harder to singe.

 

[RevPaul]

My first DIY net came out really good, Newminster Superior, warm bath extraction at 110F. Mixed at 20%, no steeping yet. This is a good value tobacco, it doesn't have that grassy turn-off taste that many Virginians can have. This is a complex flavor with a slight citrus overtone and a bit of honey. Its amazing how little it cost to make. The filtering was easy with a syringe, rayon then 5 micron felt gave a clean extract. I was expecting to have to add a plethora of flavorings to vape it but it practically needs nothing. DIY may be the way to go for all day vapes with the complex flavored stuff for nighttime and weekends.

Edit: I thought I was tasting perique and Cavendish. Further research found better descrptions that this contains a cavensish center and perique outer mixed with the Virginia. Its truly outstanding for only a 2 day bath and no steep..

I also just did an extract of that tobacco. Have not yet mixed a batch of liquid from it yet, though. Now I'm quite looking forward to it!

 

[RevPaul]

Just mixed up some bottles of liquid from my recent extractions. Right now, I'm really enjoying the Hearth & Home Steamroller and the Sherlock Holmes Pipe Club VR Blend. I think I read somewhere in this thread that others have extracted the Steamroller...I really like it. Mixed at 25% extract in 70/30 PG/VG with 12mg nic, for my tastes, it's really quite a lovely English blend. The Latakia really pops, and there's a subtle underlying sweetness - smooth, but with a bite. The SHPC VR Blend is mixed at 20% extract in the same base. It's a rather ordinary pipe flavor - not ordinary in a bad way - but nothing really stands out. It's solid and flavorful. Kind of reminds me of NETCOM's Chris' Blend.

 

[MFToms59]

Funny you mention the Sherlock Holmes Vr, I just bought a few Pipe Tobaccos, early this morning, 2AM, I opted for the SH Great Hiatus for the Virginia, Oriental, Turkish & Latakia components. I satisfied my Perique craving with Sutliff Private Stock Golden Age, a blend of Perique and Virginia, another Non-Aromatic.

 

[billherbst]

I think I read somewhere in this thread that others have extracted the Steamroller...I really like it.

Yes, I extracted H&H Steamroller. ​My usual heat-assisted maceration, filtered on May 24th. I didn't like it vaped fresh---the complexity of flavors seemed muddy to me---but a month of steeping is sorting things out nicely. Now it's fine. Another couple months and it might become a noteworthy pipe NET.

 

[Jerms]

Haven't posted in a while as my laptop crapped out. I have six room temp macerations working, three pipe blends and three great cigars (thanks checkum!) If the quality of construction and aroma of these cigars are any indication, they will make amazing juice!

Also trying cellucotton wicks (thanks Evil Speakers!) in my usual RDAs with .8 to 1.0 ohm microcoils. I'm not convinced to give up Koh Gen Do cotton yet but the cellucotton makes a fine, very flavor neutral wick. It looks cleaner when I rewick at night, seems to hold more juice in reserve, and be a bit harder to singe.

Cellu-whatnow? I'm out the loop lately. Let me know if we're done with KGD already lol.

 

[PaulBHC]

Cellucotton is a play on cellulose cotton which is 100% rayon. Great stuff.

 

[Brobdingnagian]

I made a rookie mistake and I am really p***** at myself. After weeks of experimenting I made about 60 mls of a brandy flavored cigar juice I called, Straight - No Ice. I have been vaping it like crazy and even sent some out to others. So, I go to make some more and I can't find the recipe. I could have sworn I entered it in the juice calculator but it's not there now. I do so much testing that I can't remember the ratios, just the ingredients

Moral of the story, write the recipe down as well as putting it in the computer file.

As to the propriety juice recipes. I think very soon now some of us that are doing home extractions are going to start mixing single varietals together with synthetic flavoring. So if someone comes up with a juice that everyone loves, I would have no complaint if they claimed their recipe as proprietary. However, I for one would have no problem sharing a recipe, because I'm not in business to sell juice. So why should I withhold it.

Now I'm sad. I really enjoy brandy once in a while.

Was the cigar brandy-flavored or did you use an adjunct like St. Remy or another VSOP?

I'll bet a dollar I don't have that you make the recipe even better the second time around.

Also, email your recipes to yourself. That's a short-term solution for not having a HDD backup.

But yeah, writing it down can work, unless you're me and write things down on scraps of paper you find 5 years later.

Then it's a giant fail.

With email, you can at least put "DIY RECIPE #1", ect. in the title and you don't have to worry about losing it, because it's stored on your email provider's server.

Not that I fully trust any email provider to keep my conversations or content safe, however.

But it's a start.

Take it from a computer guy. Backup everything, and then make a backup of your backup's. External hard-drives are cheap these days.

Yeah, your F@H score means you've gotta be running dual GPUs or one heck of a fast single GPU.

1000w PSU or higher, or multiple PCs?

(Antec EA-650 here with an HD6850, a little dated but runs everything well).

At any rate, only Intel SSDs passed the "won't fail" tests I've seen most recently (several months ago) and are a bit pricier, perhaps due to this being published somewhere I cannot recall.

 

[johni]

Cellu-whatnow? I'm out the loop lately. Let me know if we're done with KGD already lol.

I'm not giving up KGD as the two are similar in performance and I've only tried a half dozen or so wicks of cellucotton. Jury is still out.

 

[FearTX]

Also trying cellucotton wicks (thanks Evil Speakers!) in my usual RDAs with .8 to 1.0 ohm microcoils. I'm not convinced to give up Koh Gen Do cotton yet but the cellucotton makes a fine, very flavor neutral wick. It looks cleaner when I rewick at night, seems to hold more juice in reserve, and be a bit harder to singe.

I have Koh Gen Do and honestly cannot tell the difference in it and the organic cotton balls from Whole Foods. I am enjoying the Cellu Cotton. I recently ROASTED ~35 mils of Hawk Sauce @ 29 watts in a Stillare coiled at 1.2 ohm on my Hana V3. I only rewicked because I needed to mix another bottle of Hawk Sauce and it seemed like a good time to see what was going on with the wick.

Yeah it's not NET but this is after 35mils and 5 days @ 29 Watts. Rinsed out of course. Cotton would be a bit singed where you see the darker spots after 2 days.

Clean Flavor from the first vape to the last.

 

[Jerms]

I'm not giving up KGD as the two are similar in performance and I've only tried a half dozen or so wicks of cellucotton. Jury is still out.

I took a quick peek and it looks like boiling is involved, so I lost interest.

 

[PaulBHC]

There is a learning curve with rayon. You normally use more than cotton as it does not swell like cotton does. It is very inexpensive so far so that tossing it out after a tank or drip doesn't hurt.