Howdy y'all,
I missed my deadline for a Tutorial Tuesday post. :( I have a piece in the works and will publish when done. I will hopefully have it done by next Tuesday since I don't have anyone offering to tackle a new profile. I did however get some "volunteers" for some future posts, good bless them. I envisioned this Tuesday series to be a community project, so please feel free to shoot me an idea or take a stab at it and have some fun sharing your thoughts on anything DIY related.
That said, I'm sharing a recipe today. Notes from ATF are copied here. Perhaps it will spark an interest or you can give your pointers for anyone new who wants to take a stab at the profile where I missed the mark:
Grey^ Burley: A Beginner Bacco
| Flavor | % | |--|--| | FLV Red Burley | 2.5 | | FLV Cured | 0.5 | | HS Australian Chocolate | 0.5 | | CAP Vanilla Custard V1 | 0.25 | | FW Hazelnut | 0.5 |
Background
This was a mix I made with Grey^ on the diy_ejuice discord. He wanted some help making a nutty tobacco with chocolate notes using the flavors he had. This is what we came up with. I tried it alongside him and he alternately liked it and didn't at the same time. It gave him ideas of where he wanted to go next which gave me the idea to share it with the community as a beginner tobacco. RB is generally recommended to new tobacco mixers due to its moist nutty uniqueness with chocolate undertones and general appeal. Cured is a great bacco body booster as well as a star flavor when used alone. Both of these entry baccos can be used in a variety of ways. The rest of the flavors used will either be in a mixer's arsenal already (cap vc & fw hazel) or be a welcome addition to one (hs aus choc).
Description
What you get here is a dessert tobacco. Strong dessert on the inhale with a bacco finish.
Flavor notes
Bacco blend: RB/Cured are used to create the base. RB is pushed up to 2.5 here to compete with the rest of the flavors. I would rarely use it this high in a straight bacco blend. Cured is used to fill out the body. The RB can be lowered to 2 and still show up (more in the finish than the inhale) and cured can be raised to your comfort level (0.75 - 1+) for more bacco forward.
Accents: HS Australian Chocolate is not my favorite chocolate. Used low here it presents minorly and can likely be boosted to 0.75 or greater but I didn't try it. The idea was to make it an undercurrent. It doesn't taste quite right without some sweet. I chose Cap Vanilla Custard for its thick mouthfeel and ubiquity and vanilla note. FW Hazelnut was added to bump up the nuttier notes to poke through and support.
Final thoughts/Ramblings:
- I would say that there is room here for the addition of more bacco flavor if someone wanted to pull it up into the front. I rather enjoyed the bacco finish over the direct inhale. I rather suspect the bacco notes from some Hangsen's would do well here to dry it up some more if that's your thing, or possibly the addition of INW Gold Ducat or FLV Tatanka (or something suitably dark and sryupy) would be a nice addition.
- Adding some nuttiness would help to make the nutty note from the RB more prominent. As it stands, there isn't much in the way of nut really showing up here. I could also see the addition of an ry4 or FA Soho being a welcome accompaniment. The world is your oyster, my diy friends.
- If you choose to eliminate the Cap VC you may need to add a little sweet flavor to match the HS AC.
Steep time
Can be SnV but needs at least 24 hours to settle in in my opinion. Better after 3 days, but at 7 days it seems to be as mature as I'd need it to be. Didn't last much longer than that for me :)
Edit: Reddit is hard.
I'm pretty new to mixing and didn't really know what I was doing. u/isuamadog took the time to put this together for me as well as talk me through the concepts of why he was using the specific flavours he was.
I really want to thank you again, for your time and help on this.
The liquid has only been steeping for about 5-6 days during which time I've been vaping a little bit of it here and there. Elements of the liquid keep disappearing and coming back in new and different ways which isn't something I've ever experienced to this extent before. As I normally only mix/vape simple fruits and desserts.
The first 2 days or so, it was a powdery cacao upfront, followed by raisin, and a woody tobacco. With a sweet cream texture enveloping the whole flavour profile.
The next 2 days, the raisin developed into more of a rich tobacco note,but got considerably weaker as well. The chocolate almost disappeared, and the custard started to overtake everything.
I can tell this still has some time to go to really settle down and come to a final finish but it's already leaps and bounds better than the things I was trying myself and even where it started from.
We're now on day 6 and the chocolate has made a resurgence but merged with the VC1 and turned into smooth milk chocolate, the tobacco is in it's own space and very authentic and there are now hints of brown sugar as well.
As u/isuamadog said, this is a heavy on dessert with a strong tobacco and creamy finish. It's been a very easy step into the world of tobacco for someone like myself who has a sweet tooth and loved the heavier commercial eliquids from 2015.
I plan to keep tinkering with this mix as it's extremely versatile and a great first step into the world of tobacco eliquids. Especially as someone who does sneak the odd cigarette once or twice a year because I miss that taste.
We need more beginner recipes. Like lychee recipe. Lychee is great!
hey... that's a sneaky profile pic you have there, stranger! lol all my recipes feel like 'beginner' recipes but truth is that using flavors that are widely available is something i need to do more consciously. Or make some more 2 flavor combos for bacco beginners.
Heh, cause I am sneaky hehe. I think it is very good material for beginners, though it is true that it is using quite a variety of flavors. I think one of the best things to learn diy is to start from mixing two flavors combo, then add the notes you want, one by one. That is what I would if I would have patience