Hi everyone
/u/isuamadog suggested that I should compile the list of recipes from this thread, so I will take the opportunity to share my reviews on more interesting tobacco recipes that I have mixed and liked, which are not explicitly desserts. Some of which are well known, some are less. I hope that my descriptions are not too vague and you will find it helpful. So here is a candidate for part two of Intro to Tobaccos (with some recipes in common):
Resembles a "sweeter" pipe-ish tobacco. It peaks at around the 2-3 weeks of steep but can really mellow with longer steeping times. I have a feeling that this "sweet" finish and the reason it mellows is RY4D. You can try it with HS RY4 instead to get a bolder tobacco push through that mellowness (or other less dessert-ie RY4s), 2.5-3% should do the trick.
Spiced oriental mild tobacco with a splash of honey syrup. A bit sweet but in good way. A very unique profile. I like how all of the nuances come through with a tad of syrupy sweetness from FA Honey, even though I am not a fan of FLV Red Burley at more than 1% at all (spoiler: the next recipe also contains Red Burley at 2.5%), this recipe made it to my top 3 list. It is also the reason I got FA Cardamom and FLV Clove.
The flavor you will get by dipping real moist tobacco leaves in maple syrup and then hang them to drip for an hour. CAP Caramel is probably the better caramel for this use case, it works really well with FA Maple Syrup to give it a bit more stickiness and depth and not overwhelm the maple flavor itself.
I have tried many recipes that share the same tobacco base. This was a first for Gold for Pipe + Gold Ducat. Honestly I am not sure whether I have the first or second revision of Gold Ducat, but this recipe is just great, and it shows another example of leveraging the characteristics of a caramel flavoring to "thicken" another sweet element, brown sugar. Combine that with the honey-ish notes of Gold Ducat and Gold for Pipe, and you get a very tasty sweet tobacco blend that is a bit more drier than Maple Art. Gold for Pipe at around 3% resembles some nuances I remember from the smell of Golden Virginia but a bit darker (in terms of tobacco color), can't put my finger on what exactly though.
Reading the description of CBV's and Fear's recipes is always a pleasure. They tend to share ideas for modifications and substitutions to their recipes that it is just fun to play with. Honestly I didn't try this exact recipe. I substituted FA Black Pepper with FA Perique Black and HS Virginia with FLV Virginia Tobacco because I could not find them. It is a bright and peppery tobacco that I couldn't put down. 4:1 ratio for black and dark for pipe screams "I am a dark pipe tobacco", but the virginias brighten it and serve as a mediator to the black pepper notes. It goes well with either a black coffee and any non sweet alcoholic treat. If bars will ever be open again, this is the juice I will bring with me if I plan to get drunk. For the zero sweetness tobacco lovers.
Unlit and spiced clove cigar with many things going on. Mixed it once, it was nice and distinctive but not so much as ADV, the spices try hard to compete with the clove for my taste, so I might reduce it a bit (leaning to 0.2%) to give them a more central role. For the zero sweetness tobacco lovers.
The recipe's avatar is accurate. It is a very aromatic liquid pipe tobacco blend thanks to AM4A. I also get some faint alcoholic nuances that work well. Recommended.
A great mild and relatively bright cigar-like that works well in low wattage. I usually dial DNB back to 0.3-0.5% if a recipe calls for more (depends on how ashy the other tobaccos) as the "cheap" ashy dirtiness disrupts the complexity of tobaccos. For the zero sweetness tobacco lovers.
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There are still plenty of recipes to try, here is sample of my to do list, they all look great and different from each other:
Woody Tobacco (but I plan to use HS RY4 instead of RY4D)
Hope you found some interesting recipes to try, happy mixing!
Thank you for an excellent write up! My to do list just got a whole lot bigger. Dune and Native god are at the top of that list for me. Garuda and Saria are going up there, too. Ooo and maybe Parique... I'm still trying to find my Tobacco ADVs. I love me some RY4 and dessert tobaccos but can't do them all day long. I hope to collab with you and u/isuamadog once I'm a little less wet behind the ears.