I used plain SPs and Toast for years, occasionaly sampling and using other snuffs but always going back to the same old snuffs. However, since Toque came along and Dholakia became prominent with the advent of the net my tastes have slowly changed. The choices when I first started were limited to what my local store carried and it was quite difficult to build up any collection, now we’ve got Cola, Absinthe, Grape; just about anyhting you can think of and its a great period right now watching snuff expand in style and direction. The expansion of available flavours has now made me an avid blender to the point where I rarely use a ‘raw’ snuff. Most of my blends are very simple but when I get one I like I’m stuck on it for weeks. This is my latest - simple - blend and its gorgeous: 2 parts Toque Original or WH SP No1 2 parts Toque or WoS Rose 1 part WH Medicated 99 Ive just made about a 1/4 pound of this (and called it Debby’s Delight as she likes the smell!)
Give it to us raw and plain. You keep nasty scents! With apologies to Tolkien & Gollum.
Definite kudos to Toque Rose for blends over here.
2 parts Spanish Gem 2 parts Toast & Marmalade 1 part 1955 Levi Garrett & Sons Scotch and Rappee no name yet, very nice though
1 part Rooster 2 parts Toque Whisky & Honey 1/2 part McChrystals Mild Lemon Very satisfying…
Also take note that after the blend there is a marrying phase and an aged phase among other phases that take place. Different mixes have wildly different phases. There is definite interaction with multiple tobaccos. I know I should have done a better job at labeling my blends. Some of them are really good. I guess I could search this site to get them.
I always have an ongoing jar of what Pieter calls ‘mixed grill’. Just an ol peanut butter jar with the leftovers from tins, old Toque and Dholakia samples and whatnot all blended together. A bit like the old Englsih West country tradition of the ‘rum pot’ - all the unused soft fruit of the season soaking in rum, never getting to the bottom and constantly added to. Its delicious snuff but completely un-reproduceable.
Took all the snuff i did not like about 200g and added about 200g of snuff i do like to produce a mix that i absolutely love. I was very fortune to recieve a beautiful floral mix from ermtony and this influemced my decision to add another 50g floral snuff to further enhance the end result. Agree totally with Juxtaposer about the marrying phase initially i just put all the snuff together and gave it a good shake and left it for a month or so and discovered that it was indeed very different from when it was first put together. Still not 100% happy with the mix because different snuffs have such different grinds i put it all in a large casserole dish and pounded it with the end of a rolling pin for an hour or two and this produced a much much better result. I laid the mix down a couple weeks ago after first filling a 25g tin for now and am looking forward to how it ends up in few months time as time does seem to be a key ingredient to producing a great mix.
You certainly need to rest it a while to let the flavours develop. Its also amazing how something that yo don’t like can contribute to somthing that turns out amazing. Good luck with your blend!
Thanks snuffster i know its going to be good, thats the reason i rarely trade snuff that and the fact that tastes do indeed change a lot over time. Its the thing that has suprised me most about snuffing just how much your tastes do develop. With most things i know whether or not i like something right away but with snuff i know what i like its just not that simple. All the snuffs i liked when i started snuffing i still like maybe a little more maybe a little less but i still like them. I just keep falling in love with new snuffs some of which i hated when i started. Recently for example i have been spending time with Samuel Gawith snuff and loving every minute of it. I think some types of snuff just take time fully appreciate because their charms are more subtle and with some snuffs (heavily perfumed for example) you may need some experience under your belt to fully enjoy.
Do you want to make a nice, super strong snuff and at the same time moisten your US scotches? Mix a bit of NTSU with Rooster, Bruton etc. Very good. Meant for guys and girls with guts.
NTSU is a great mixer. I use it bone dry and its an excellent addition to a home blend
@ Pieter & snuffster Ditto on the blending of moist or semi-moist with scotch snuffs. I’ve had wondrous results blending RR Mills Maccoboy with Garrett scotch. Just a little bit of the bone-dry scotch makes all the difference, I find. Makes it easier to snuff, always a plus, but, at least to my nose, it improves the character of both snuffs immeasurably. The Maccoboy is not only better behaved in the schnoz, but it loses even the faintest suggestion of being effete when it’s got that scotch with it, even as the scotch loses all suggestion of its being crude or one dimensional. I find I can enjoy both together more than I can separately; well, maybe not more, but differently. I’d love to try out the magical NTSU; I’ve cut some Copenhagen with scotch snuff, and gotten wonderful results. Indeed, for those of you afraid to experiment with mixing your snuffs, let me reassure you: I have tried all manner of ill-advised and seemingly brilliant but flawed mixes, and I’ve got a jam-jar where I dump them when they don’t work out. About an 8 ounce size jar, nearly half-full with these mixes, screwed-up homeground, etc. Anyway, from sitting all mixed up like this, some sorta weird and magical alchemy has transformed and melded it into a delightfully complicated and very nice snuff. Guanxi’s Madness, I call it. You get the burn of scotch, but the faintest hint of rose, all the while with geranium and cinnamon from the half-dried copenhagen, a touch of latakia smokiness from a pipe-tobacco blend that was just a bit too smokey, a hint of plums and sweetness from my ground-up Carter Hall, the robust and head-kicking power of some ground up Cotton Boll, all dancing around in there. Any one of them, on their own, was too much this, not enough that, or just plain awful, but blended together, and allowed to mature, and it’s delightful. Mix away, and save your failures, my friends. Remember, it’s not wasted until you throw it away.
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@ juxtaposer Why the evil laugh? or is that a Beavis laugh? I can’t tell.
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@cstokes4 Are you threatening me?
Guanx88, Somewhat like mad scientists some of us have “the mix” like this. I certainly do, and I certainly feel a coy madness with every pinch of it. Somtimes I think to search this site to find out what exactly is in it. Other times I just enjoy it for what it is. Snuff! Good old tobacco snuff.
I started a madness jar of my own last week. I’m sure the flavors will develop in a few more weeks but for now it’s good. The snuffs that I put in there were ones that were half-used ones that I just don’t like and are too small for a trade. Together, I enjoy them and it seems with each pinch I get different subtleties. Very nice indeed.
@Guanxi: Right after I typed that I put my shirt over my head and walked around the house.