Hoes the typin in paragraphs doin? Come on, im an old man…
I have decided to keep trying to make my own, kind of a nice lil side hobby I thought My local area produces Burley tobacco and about 30 min away in Weston Missouri I found a tobacco warehouse willing to sell me smaller amounts for my use. So, with that in mind I am going to get a nice mortar and pestle and try my hand at making snuff. I found a really superb looking one at Snuff Gear online. It has a nice textured interior that should make the grinding process go more quickly. As far as the ingredients, I am going to make SMALL amt batches, of lets say 10gms per and keep really good notes. My ingredients I will start off simply as Lemon rinds, Orange rinds, Grapefruit rinds, spices such as cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, clove, whiskey rum and brandy, and I think I shall purchase at some point some essential oils, but have not decided what ones to get, any suggestions will be welcome. Thanks steve aka graybeard
That mortar and pestle should be good for a rough grind. But you might want to get a ceramic one for a finer grind.
I have never tried it myself, but I have been told that Pipe tobacco is perfect for it.
I made some beautiful snuff today, using my new burr grinder and pipe tobacco. First one is Black Ambrosia, a sweet but strong black tobacco. The aroma stays a long time and the nic hit is high and long lasting. Very good tobacco taste too. The grinder is easy to use with no mess. I’m very happy with the results.
Pieter, you mentioned using a ‘grinder’, is that one of the round kinda flat devices that have the ‘gears’ or whatever inside? I hate to be so vague as to what I mean, but I saw these things on ‘snuff gear’ website where I saw the ‘suribachi’ mortar and pestle. Someone here mentioned the rough grind from that style of mortar/pestle set up. I wondered about that. SInce I grew up in the midwest, I am used to the finer, almost chalklike garrettes and such. Not a big fan of the courser styles. I do adore the english snuff’s , although I have not yet tried the windmill snuff’s I imagine those to be excellent, everyone seems to rave about them. I may get a grinder instead. That way I will have a small batch to experiment on. A note here, I used two cans of W.E. Garrett sweet snuff to make a batch of my fall pumpkin pie spice blend. Now actually it is fairly nice, but two tins was a bit of an overkill. It will take me a yr perhaps to use it all. My best effort thus far has been the easiest to make, jamaica me crazy whole coffee beans, and garrett sweet snuff. Love it dearly. I keep in in a nice stoneware bottle with big cork. I keep adding garrett to it and it works great, my everyday snuff. I have a few that I made with lots of other stuff, but sadly my notes on what was in it are now lost. A word to those of you who like me have AD&D, dont space out the important stuff like that! thanks again for the tip on the grinder! Here is a link on snuff gear for the essential oils in case that is useful, http://snuffgear.com/index.php?main\_page=index&cPath=22
@greybeard19, I use an electric Krups burr coffee grinder. The gadget which you are refering to, is a toy. No good at all unless you just want to play around.
Before buying snuff online I made heaps of homemade snuff with rolling, pipe and cigar tobacco as a base, and spices, dried herbs, flowers and citric peels, tea, essential oils, shisha tobacco and an amazing chocolate soap (of course it didn’t touch the base tobacco) as flavoring, bute none of it is as good as the professionally made ones I’ve tried, specially because of the grind (I’ve used mortars, electric grinders and a pollinator to make it, but it’s either too coarse or too fine). Also, I don’t know why, but almost everything I make ends up not smelling at all when it’s in my nose. I guess I’m too bad as a snuff maker. By the way, unless you really know what you’re doing be very careful with adding ground spices directly to the tobacco, because it’ll burn way too much (specially if you add cayenne pepper, but I guess it’s not surprising).
Graybeard19, Glad to see someone grinding twists! I rave about the Cotton Boll twist, I have made some with the Stoker’s too, but I think I like the CB better. Kick ass! I have not tried flavoring it much, other than with booze flavors. The natural tobacco flavor is great alone, imho. Cheers!
Bumped up for the sake of newcomers
Samuel Gawith St. James Flake is a terrific pipe tobacco, and it grinds into a wonderful snuff. My first attempt came out a bit coarse because I haven’t yet invested in a burr grinder, but I’m enjoying it immensely nevertheless.
Gonna head into town tomorrow myself and pick up a coffee grinder, some pantyhose, and some pipe tobacco! Ooooh, so excited 
You will be astounded as well as pleased. Not to mention bewildered about how the professionals actually do it…
I use a pestle and mortor , makes a very fine grain…little bit of work tho…my tobacco store gave me a box ofAcid brand Kuba Kuba , minus the cigars (they asking $150.00 for a box). its just the packing leaves…Can anyone tell me the scent that those leaves have? Will they be a decent base ?
http://snuffhouse.org/discussion/539/acid-snuff/#Item\_51 Have a look at this old thread; it should answer some of your questions.
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I have had great success with the coffee grinder and pantyhose… Gets a nice fine grind. I love it 
That’s next on my agenda too. I did the mortar pestle thing with real success and am looking forward to my Acid Blondie experiment next. I’ll be at the tobacconist today… I’ll try that old unused coffee grinder and some random panty hose to see what I can develop. Sounds like fun to me!
It is fun 
. I sat there for a couple hours I think… Sniffing snuff and grinding it up . I uploaded a video to my YouTube if you want to check it out!
Mike I know you’ve posted your channel before but I can’t find it; would you list it again for me? Thanks. For what it’s worth, I have discovered that orange peel does not make a good orange flavoring. Anyone know what part of the orange might impart its flavor to our homemade snuff?