I just had my first taste of White Beard, a new hybrid from Velvet Cloud Vapors. It's a 100% VG juice described thus:
"Medium Tobacco flavoring, butterscotch, custard, and other 'old-time favorites'"
This doesn't taste like most of the other NETs we discuss here. It has the distinct greenish taste of tobacco absolute, and indeed the website for VCV says that the proprietors in fact distill the tobacco absolute themselves in-house.
It's no secret that I haven't been a fan of TA juices in the past, mainly because that fuzzy green-leafiness is usually used injudiciously. Most obviously in the catastrophic VV juices but also in offerings from Mom & Pop and others.
And yet here I sit with an empty clearo that held 1.6 mls of day-old White Beard a scant few hours ago. It took me that long to decide whether I liked it. I guess the fact that I finished it means that I do
White Beard has a woodsy ashiness on the inhale that screams TA but quickly settles into a Burley tobacco of medium body. The butterscotch flavorings promised lean more toward butter than scotch (haw haw

) because this is not sweet at all but gives an impression of sweetness (does that even make sense?) Rather than flavoring the tobacco it smooooooooths it out so that the sandpaper grittiness of the TA becomes a unified flavor. The fact that the absolute was used in a restrained way pleases me more than is polite to say

. This is no "dump some TA in glycerine" hack job but a serious, if unorthodox, natural tobacco juice.
Being 100% vg has two expected consequences: huge silky vapor, and almost no throat hit at 24mg.
Overall this was an interesting juice to vape, if only to prove to myself that I can like a TA juice if it is done well. I look forward to tasting this again as it steeps.
Also have Burley Beard, which is their "straight" tobacco, on deck to try.
I might add that VCVs website is easy to navigate and is illustrated with lovely and whimsical watercolor paintings, if that matters to you.