Sorry for the long absence; even longer story.
Ongoing stuff has been taking too much time.
Good news, is that my cold-macerated extracts came out OK.
I feel like an idiot for not using heat on the Pt. St. #84 Turkish, LOL; it's good stuff, but that great leaf could have used some more love.
Sutliff Private Stock Balkan Luxury Blend -> came out good, not a super-intense Latakia, but strong enough to wake you up: Much milder and quite well-rounded.
the McClelland No. 2050 Oriental Cavendish extract came out with a great spicy, super intriguing aroma.... smelled like this when bottled, even.
The issue is, mixing at 17.5% on this one sure smelled great going into the e-juice bottles (I mixed about 90ml of O.C. and have vaped about 45mls of it to confirm this) but came out extremely mild, and quite tasty. I accidentally picked this bottle up instead of my Balkan one day, and immediately assumed my Lemo Drop wasn't wicking fast enough.
I was wrong.
Flooding commenced, and then I realized that the Oriental Cav had mellowed out.
Very, very good mixer to add complexity into a stronger juice & tone it down a bit. I really didn't expect it to mellow out that much... may mix to 20% next time.
Would you folks believe that I've just been vaping those 3 for a while, now?
I am about to run the next several bottles, which have been aging for quite some time now, through a warmer with a stone at the bottom to keep the jar off of the heat source. The problem that I foresee is that the jars are utterly HUGE in comparison to this thing. Picture a slow cooker with one setting: warm.
I find it quite comical; Now I have more extract than PG remaining, or even mixed liquid.
Vaping the Pt. St. 84 Turkish, blended with a touch of Sutliff Private Stock Balkan Luxury Blend. Switching to the Balkan [HASHTAG]#957[/HASHTAG] in a few minutes.
I would love to write more books, but I have to write more books in a lot of places, so... I guess I leave you with a chapter, at least for the time being.
I've probably missed quite a bit, but I'm still around.
Catch ya later.