A tobacco to fill the manliest of cravings for a smoke after a hard day's work. The combination of FLV Red Burley and FLV Cured is a tried and true pairing for a smooth and straight forward tobacco flavor. This recipe has been in the works for almost two months now, and has undergone nearly 20 revisions before I finally got it exactly where I wanted it. The goal was a straight forward, exceedingly bold tobacco without all the extra sweet trappings I see in many tobacco recipes.
Earlier versions included whiskey variants, which I enjoyed but ultimately decided to drop to allow the tobaccos to shine.
- FLV Red Burly - 2.75%
- FLV Cured Tobacco - 1.75
- FLV Native Tobacco - 1.25%
- FLV Lovage - .25%
- FLV Wood Spice - .5%
FLV Red Burley: A thick, woody tobacco with nutty undertones and a full body. This sits right in front, and makes the base for the rest of the tobaccos to rest on. At 2.75% there's no mistaking this flavor as the undisputed king of tobaccos.
FLV Cured Tobacco: Sweeter than Red Burly, with hints of pecan and cedar, this fills the few gaps in Red Burley. This adds some nice layers of nut and woody tones to the FLV Red Burley Base.
FLV Native Tobacco: The spicy sweet cousin to FLV Kentucky Blend, this is becoming one of my favorite tobaccos to work with. It has a sharp spice note on the front end, similar to a cracked vanilla bean, with a lightly honeyed finish. Very aromatic. A bit of tobacco leather body to finish up the bold tobacco profile.
Additives:
FLV Lovage Root: This is quickly becoming a favorite of mine. On it's own, it's very damp and vegetal, and not all together very pleasant. When used in conjunction with these fine tobaccos however, it's properties align the stars to add a sweet moisture to your tobacco blends. This transforms everything to feel more like still fresh, not fully dried pipe tobacco. Adds a light, barely perceptible additional sweetness. This additional moisture addition also allows you to take your tobacco % a little higher than you would traditionally, as it smooths over any unwanted dry notes that are typical when using tobaccos at very high percentages.
FLV Wood Spice: This adds a fresh cedar finish to our final mix, boosting the woody notes already in the mix into the stratosphere. Surprisingly smooth, I get hints of oak and cedar throughout the vape.
Wish you had this on vapechemy to buy. Copying over a ton of tobacco reviews got me in the mood for a really good tobacco recipe, then I come to DIY to find this! ha. Sounds really good.
They state they pay the mixers for their submissions, do you have any idea what the pay out per purchase is?
These are the three FLV tobaccos that I decided to keep around, so I think it may be fate. I do not have the wood spice or lovage though, so I've got this saved to try sometime down the road when I finally pull the trigger on the Wood Spice.
I tried to do a wood tobacco a long time ago, but I used ISO E Super, and it was way too strong. Since you've already done all the hard work, I'll just go with this one next time.
/u/T_Mace here's the one we were talking about, with some development notes. I ended up settling on this version over the one I shared previously. Hope you enjoy!
That's a lovely looking recipe man. I only have Red Burley, but this makes me want to throw a few tobacco recipes on here that I've been working on.
How much of a steep would be required to get a good representation of your end result? Your moving me quickly to want to embark on strange new journeys. Thank you.
Put the order in for the concentrates for this recipe, I didn't have any of them. I'll put together 120mL of this and let it sit a few weeks and give it a try. My first every recipe was a tobacco recipe, it was awful, then after a month, it was actually pretty tasty. I generally, "steep" 500mL bottles of juice without nicotine so I can top the juice up with nicotine/PG to provide various nicotine levels and stay true to the recipe. Would aging a tobacco juice with nicotine do something special?
FLV tobaccos need far less time to reach optimal flavor. I really enjoyed this from fresh, and noticed that it does improve over time, but the majority of changes come in the first 7-10 days and then very minor changes over longer periods.
I personally steep with nic with everything I do, simply because nicotine can affect the flavor differently depending on when it is added and how well it's homogenized with the recipe. This is mostly for consistency purposes, so your results will vary.
Do you feel the flavor degrades overtime at all? I've heard about that with some tobacco flavorings.