quick and dirty writeup...

The tobaccos used with description when available

1.Prescott valley vanilla- burley and virginia with black cavendish

2.Imported whiskey - import + domestic +scottish whiskey

3.black cavendish - steam sweetend and fire cured burleys with a hint of chocolate and

4.baja blend - burley and virginia with green river black

5.Tucson blend - sweet blackened leaf with lemon virginias and creamy vanilla, malt dressing and a subtle and sweet rum note

6.mellow- mellow

7.black and gold - black and gold

8.vanilla- vanilla*

9.captain black - captain black

10.Amsterdam blend - roll your own cigarette tobacco

11."Netherlands" blend - roll your own cigarette tobacco

below I will refer to the pipe blends by the lettering of the names and the cigarette tobacco as simply RYO 1 and 2

*I forgot to buy the second batch of vanilla so only had one ounce, hence the vanilla will only be used in a slow room temperature maceration.

The supplies :

All jars are 8 oz canning jars and each contains one ounce of tobacco to begin. The tobaccos were kept in a freezer before use for many days.

A1 series- 150ml PG to saturate. Room temperature maceration (why reinvent the wheel?)

B1 series- 150 cc everclear 190 proof which had been chilled in my freezer before use, Tobacco in this series includes CB, PVV, BC, M and BB .These were capped and placed for 6 hours in a freezer, removed then filterd with aeropress (just experimenting, no reason to break out the vacuum filter just yet) and left open and sitting with a fan on them in front of an open window ) . They will be left for 24 hours until a syrup concentrate forms.

Upon retrieving this from the freezer and putting it into the aeropress I noticed the tobacco felt "crisp" and "dry" , almost like I'd hit it with liquid nitrogen! , total liquid about 125cc per jar (from the original 150cc used) , questionable as to how much liquid I will be able to dry off.

B2 series - 100% vg , put in freezer, 150cc, TB, IW, BG - checked on after 2 hours vegetable glycerin is gelatinous, removed from freezer and placed with A1 series for time maceration at room temperature. This was an accidental addition as I did not want to leave to go get more everclear.

c1 series - 50/50 pg vg including 2 ryo , 24 hour slow cooker. Series Includes all tobaccos including RYO , purchased a slow cooker but having trouble lowering temperature below 180f

Horrible mistake : I made a jar that was a mix of all the blends minus the RYO , it weighed 14 grams, this I mized with 100 cc 50/50 pg/vg and microwaved and then immedaitely filterd and extracted. I took 1cc and mixed in with 9 cc of 50/50 pg/vg. It tastes...tobaccoish on inhale and...just bad on exhale. I have dubbed it "frankensteins afterbirth" to commemorate its birthday on halloween. I have decided not to get rid of the 100ml or so of concentrate I have, perhaps it will get better with time.

Thoughts : I'm not hopeful about the pure VG but very curious to see how the PGA mix turns out, I'm curious as to wether or not one could add pg / vg in equal parts with the pga to begin with for added flavor effect. The author has purchased far too many mason jars.

UPDATE: My cheap non mercury thermometer broke when checking temperatures 12 hours in, the cheap crock pot is scalding hot, I terminated maceration on the blends contained within it, both RYO1 AND RYO2 as well as the BB and IW. The IW has some kind of foam forming on it. The newer slow cooker I purchased at sears has bathrub warm water, I can place my hand in it no trouble. I'm placing the 4 terminated 12 hour heat extracted jars with the A1 and B2 series to cool.