Since you have been partaking in snuff, whats the maximum number of different snuffs you have combined in one mix? ( I only ask since I have a dozen or so getting real low and I am considering mixing them all into one blend ) I don’t wanna take snuffs I enjoy and create a witches brew. If you have time list how many different snuffs you have mixed, and how you felt about it? Would you do it again? Any problem with different grinds? Did you have to mortar and pestle it? Moistures? Do you also do this regularly when multiple snuffs get low? Thanx
many people mix in final pinches of snuff etc, im going to start.
Mix a few you think might work, taste it, and tweak it with whatever you might have left. It’s a bit like cooking, it’s not how many ingredients are there but which ones and in what quantity. My “Granny’s Stew” was quite overpowering with Crumbs of Comfort and Royal George, but when I added in a dollop of Best SP the result was much more pallatable … very nice in fact
I have a leftover bottle. I dump the drabs from the bottom of tins or the end f my daily snuffbox into it. It might have 10-20 different snuffs in it and in varying levels of dryness. It’s not bad, always different, completely not repeatable. Every now and then I get a pinch of such complexity that I can’t figure out what it tastes like, but most times I can pick out individual scents. It’s an adventure. I have a pipe tobacco jar that I do the same with. When I get to low in the tin to fill a bowl I add it to the mix.
My largest mix was over 30 snuffs, menthols, fruits, left overs and coarse dark snuffs, stuff I wasn’t really enjoying at the time. A consolidation. The original mix was ok but had some problems, namely, too many different grinds and too dry, so I seived it and rehydrated and now it’s my “gentleman’s mix”, singularly undistinguished but definitely usable.
Just binned one of my experiments gone wrong and I didn’t want to waste any more time over it as I’ve just placed another largish $100+ order with Mr Snuff to try some of these new to me snuffs that everyone has been mentioning. It was as if there was something right with the mix but also something pretty wrong and this time not fixable. It just had to go. Put a bit of a dent in my blending confidence and I do hate wasting what was good snuff before I ruined it but I hope I will be better in future! The price of experimenting can be failure but it is not always easy to stop messing with blending even when you have achieved a good result. I just follow my instinct which is not to be trusted I have discovered.
I have a Kilner jar I keep in the cupboard that I stick all my final pinches/left over bits in. It’s actually not bad as a snuff in its own right, kind of a dry SP with little hints of other things. Reminds me of Top Mill from the crappy blue tins. Its the snuff I use in my desk top box because it won’t dry out anymore.
If you have friends who you can peer-pressure into snuffing, get them to try your mixes. I made one unsuccessful mix that I let my buddy try and he ended up buying it off me!
i currently have a mix on the go, im working on it, it involves molens potpourri, wos grand cairo, viking dark, swisher superior, and hedges. i think im going to add molens A/P too, it seems perfect for it. quite a big list since often the less snuffs are involved the better, but it works with the right amounts and maturing.
I am currently hydrating SG Zip with clementine fruit skin. I have had great results hydrating with citrus rind in the past.Not only does it moisten the snuff it also pick up the wonderful sunniness.Brings life back into a dying powdery snuff. I also hydrate with fresh cut herbs like mint and may try other garden herbs when they come into maturity