Chegs
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I've spent most of my vaping journey avoiding tobacco tastes as I expected either burnt vegetation or a cigar type odour. I then tried a "tobacco" juice that tasted like a smoked food without the actual food flavour. Not unpleasant, but not quite what I wanted from vaping. Then recently tried a few of the Manabush range, these were bloody awesome and had me trying different types of tobacco concentrates. No matter what type of tobacco concentrate I used, the juices I got were always missing something (though quite what that something was, I have no idea )
Then I experimented with producing my own concentrates, first up was coffee as this was the only unadulterated substance in the kitchen. The concentrate it created was added to a cream concentrate and resulted in an almost exact taste in the vape as drinking the filter coffee. I was impressed.
Then Glenn posted a thread about tobacco concentrates and this interested me so followed his lead and ordered 5 types of leaf. To convert to a concentrate was too easy, small amount of leaf, grind in coffee grinder for a few seconds before adding to 25 ml of PG. Leave in warm place for a couple days (or heat in pan of boiling water, but a couple disasters with jar shattering, tub sinking, tub lid melting, tub leaping for freedom and redecorating kitchen in diarrhoea brown etc made me switch to patience method of warm place ) before simply sieving the PG out the tobacco (coffee filter paper is good but slow and wasteful )then left the bottled concentrates to settle for an hour or 2 to allow any solids to drop to bottom of the bottle.
Once I had the tobacco concentrates, I mixed up a tobacco only juice so I'd have an idea what tobacco might go with other flavours. I opted for some of the stronger flavours like licorice/aniseed as I doubt the fruity types would blend well with such as butterscotch. Next mixing session, I'll be trying chocolate, menthol, a couple of fruits etc as the tobacco only taste hints these might blend together well.
The juice I'm really looking forwards to trying is a spicy tobacco base with chocolate biscuit tones, as I managed an RY4 based juice of this type that was so fecking nice, I finished the 40 ml I'd made in a couple of days. I just couldn't get enough of it, and as I'd made a few other juices with the RY4 concentrate I'd run out of RY4 and keep forgetting to order more.
Alternating 'tween Old Holborn; Red Virginia/Semi-Oriental Mix & Philippine Sumatra/3% Inawera 'Cigarillo'/1% Inawera Honey Mix......My 1st Ones!! Oh, & Chegs, Don't Give Me Credit on the Steeped Baccy...........Other 'Pioneers' Gave Me the Method!! 
(Again) Works Tho' Don't It!!!
