ZT's Multi Tobacco Leaf steeping experiments

[ZT]

OK .. so i have taken delivery (thanks leisureliquids) of 5 different types of tobacco leaf for an upcoming experiment in leaf steeping I intend to start conducting over the next week or so (just awaiting delivery of a few more bits - bottles etc)

The purpose of this experiment is for me to try an recreate the HOL Virginia Prime steep I got off Mark few months ago .. which along with the HOL Guevara steeps seem to have been the most successful home steeps I have read or heard about. (Note: I mean recreate the process successfully ... rather than recreate the juice)

So I intend to use the same (or similar) methodology on each leaf type and see what I come up with .. the hope is at the end I will have 5 different tobacco base flavours I can either vape as is or mix between .. or use as bases for other flavours/sweeteners

The 5 Tobacco's I have are :

Nicaraguan Leaf
Havanna Leaf
Aged Maduro Dark
Smooth Virgina
Sweet Virginia

so a mix of cigar and cigarette type tobacco's

Methodology

I have been doing my research - and to date it seems the best results I have seen is the method used by eBaron and HOL in their home steeping range (i even did this myself). So this is the method I am going to use.

Rather than trying to create a flavour concentrate out of the leaves. It involves making up a base mixture (in my case I am going to make a 15mg 50/50 VG/PG mix with vodka as a dilutant (can anyone recommend a good amount to use %age wise?)

rather than put the leaves in a steeping "tea" bag I am choosing to line the steeping containers with the teabag - then pack the leaves quite tightly inside and then add the base mix over this ... this way all filtering will be done by lifting the bag out and squonking the mixture out of the bag into the container throught the teabag - I believe having the base mix free access to the leaves may help rather than expecting the base mix to travel through the bag to the leaves.

Im intending to use 10g of leaf to roughly 50ml of base liquid - steeping time will be decided by taste testing.

More to follow over the next few weeks ....

Anyone with any advice or comments I invite you too share!

 

[steffijade]

If it's not a daft question, what are you looking for results wise with this? Is it for flavour or are you hoping for nitrosamines etc.?

 

[ZT]

If it's not a daft question, what are you looking for results wise with this? Is it for flavour or are you hoping for nitrosamines etc.?

Flavour :-) like puros or cigarillos perhaps

 

[steffijade]

Nice one luv... hope they turn out lush for you.

 

[Vaper Train]

Last lot I did I forgot about and left it steeping for 3ish months, I use it at 1% in my mixes with a 3% Vodka kick & its the closest I've got to a real tasting smoke. But that said still reminds me of eating cigarettes or smelling a freshly opened pack rather than smoking them

Good luck ZT let me know how it goes please.

 

[ZT]

What did you steep yours in? Mixture wise?

 

[Purplefowler]

Good luck mate! I think where I went wrong was in the usage of the end product and not the steep itself! It was some throat hit

 

[ZT]

do you think yours shoulda been watered down Purplefowler ?

 

[Purplefowler]

do you think yours shoulda been watered down Purplefowler ?

Yes-repeatedly! It made a concentrate whether I meant it to or not, lol!

 

[ZT]

maybe mine will do the same! tho I hope not .. will be a waste of 90ml of nic base!