Homebrew Recipe

Okay, so for starters I’m new to the forums, so I’m not even sure if this is the right place to post this. I’m a tinker-bot by nature, and surely there are others like me. So far out of over a dozen attempts at homebrewing I have had two successes. This is one of them. I will omit volumes/weights. Just want to give you the general idea so you have something to play with. So I started with a natural Danish Cavendish. Shred, air dry, and toast in oven at 250° +/- for 15-20 minutes, or until it starts to smell delicious. Then I ground it (still warm) VERY course (one quick pulse, not trying to make flour just yet. I then placed the tobacco in a jar with dried rose petals, and a cheesecloth wrapped ball of pulvarized hibiscus (get fresh and use a mortar and pestle). Seal and let sit three days. Then i removed the ball, sifted the tobacco from the rose petals and put back in the jar with fresh rosehips, let sit for another three days, aggitating occasionally. Sift out rosehips. Grind finely and sift for flour. Alkalize with Sodium Carbonate and pulvarized pink sea salt dissolved in distilled water, misted finely over flour, while stirring. Put flour back in jar to sit 5-7 days, then take out to dry near heater or warm vent. Put flour back in jar and PACK it with cedar wood flakes. Let sit for another three days. Sift flour from wood, using panty hose to avoid any fine wood ending up in your snuff. Spread out thinly on glass tray, toast again at 260° in oven for another 20-30minutes, or until you like the scent. Once more through the grinder to break up any clumps. Enjoy the hell out of it :slight_smile: There’s a bit more to it, but thats the basic idea. To me, it tastes like Raisin Bran, but only subtly, with mostly a wonderful toasted tobacco forefront. I call it “Fairfield”. Salud!

That sounds like a very good snuff. I have made my own snuffs using old cigars, Perique, grain alcohol infused with fresh berries, and Saigon cinnamon. It has turned into a pretty decent snuff, even though it has a noticeable alcohol burn to it. I like you, used sodium carbonate and salt( just regular iodized) mixed w/ water. I did not use the oven at all, just air-dried the whole thing, ground, sifted, stored in a drawer for a couple months, then started snuffing it. I may try the toasting when I make my next batch, this time using my Rustica that I grew last summer, which has been maturing in a old coffee can sitting in a window sill since last September. I plan to mix it with the last ounce of Perique I have. Thanks for the recipe!

@mrmanos that sounds lovely! I haven’t tried any alcohol infusions yet. Still experimenting with letting the tobacco absorb scents naturally. Upside to that is the scents are all there, but still allow the base tobacco to take center stage. Downside to it being the scents fade somewhat quickly, so it only really works with small batches (< 2oz) and takes a little longer. BTW, where were you lucky enough to find Perique? I’ve had no luck with that. Was it whole leaf?