The Flavorah Tobacco Lounge

[Simon G]

After a bit of a faff, I have my pack First finger and thumb rub, smell and tongue taste was the Cavendish, smells extremely woody, very aromatic, couldn't tell much from the tongue test. Seems potent though, completely different to the Inawera Cavendish, promising indeed.

Arabian Tobacco: wtf, put that on your tongue (not)

Pucker Tobacco: not for me, unless it's a drop here or there, too minty.

Turkish Tobacco: could be lush!

lol, I wouldn't be tasting (or judging) the concentrates neat.

 

[andipandi]

lol, I wouldn't be tasting (or judging) the concentrates neat.

In trouble with the missus, she's spraying lavender oil everywhere and has opened all the windows and doors, it's freezing in here I've done the smell, taste test with them all, I always do that, with tobacco flavours.

 

[Mr Ripple]

So I've been looking at what's peaked peoples interest off the bat and i really think I'm on my own here.
I don't mind a mild blend in a tobacco and prefer nuts and caramels etc to be in the background only or it becomes a non tobacco for me and tbh think the dirtier the better.
So based on that I've mixed Connecticut Shade at 1% and added Inawera USA Mix at 1% as they both should be quite similar and then gone for something a bit more dirty and mixed Cured at 1.25% with Commercial Cigarette at 0.5% to see how dirty Commercial is.
I'll give them a couple of days to blend before testing.

 

[zouzounaki]

kentucky blend.

mixed this one at 0.5% again. this is really good as well. it has something in common with the red burley. a similar buleyish catch at the front of the throat. but has a bit of sweetness and depth as well and a slight note of the HP sauce thing.

i think these (this one and burley) might blend well with some of the interesting INW tobaccos that are a bit light on the tobacco.

 

[andipandi]

Not sure where to start with this lot tbh

 

[Simon G]

Not sure where to start with this lot tbh

mix them all up at 1% and see what you think.

 

[andipandi]

mix them all up at 1% and see what you think.

Thanks, and yes, but for me, I'll start at 0.50%, possibly lower for ones like Arabian, it's just the steeping - that which you don't really do, which is fair enough. I can get a sense from a vape and shake though, I often start that way, with baccy.

 

[zouzounaki]

Thanks, and yes, but for me, I'll start at 0.50%, possibly lower for ones like Arabian, it's just the steeping - that which you don't really do, which is fair enough. I can get a sense from a vape and shake though, I often start that way, with baccy.

from what i’ve been reading they do t really need a steep. i’ve started at 0.5 with all of them so far, and finding them pretty tasty straight away. will leave the 30ml testers for a week or so after a wee try out and see if they change much.

 

[Simon G]

Thanks, and yes, but for me, I'll start at 0.50%, possibly lower for ones like Arabian, it's just the steeping - that which you don't really do, which is fair enough. I can get a sense from a vape and shake though, I often start that way, with baccy.

I know Zou often takes a different approach but I can't mix with things when I don't know what they taste like or how strong they are, so it's the only approach I take. So I mix them all the same, if some are way too strong then that's something I learn from doing that.

They aren't as strong as you might be imagining though. I mixed the 10 I already had at 1.5% and gave them to a mate of mine (who's used to vaping Manabush and Indigene) and only 1 of them (Native) he thought was too strong. Some of the others he described as 'mild' Those differences are important for me to know.

You can leave them to steep for a few days if you want..... but there's no puke taste or anything weird that needs to be steeped out like custards or whatever .. and as single flavours there's no interaction between flavours, so imo it's not that important at this stage. Red Burly is the only one I find that fades, so you might want to vape that fresh anyway.

.. but anyway yeah.. starting place for me is knowing what they taste like and how strong they are compared to each other. ... it just makes things much easier down the line. .. far less tinkering later on.

 

[andipandi]

They aren't as strong as you might be imagining though.

I do know, that with the Native and Tatanka, that the longer I steep (I have some steeped for 7 or 8 months, merely because I didn't get round to vaping them much), they really become pungent and rather strong tasting, too strong tbh. Whereas, at the start they are quite mellow. I've not noticed that, to such a degree, with any other flavour brand, including FA.