Ash topic:
Left: dry tobacco flour, mixed with pine, alder and birch ash from a masonry stove. 4 parts tobacco to 1 part ash, by volume. Tobacco flour and ash was sifted through 150 micron sieve before mixing.
Right: very same snuff, greased with USP grade mineral oil (2 drops oil per 1 g snuff).
Tobacco: Don Tomas Dom. Churchill cigar.
Noteworthy, such relatively small part of ash in snuff - 1/5 of total, by volume - is sufficient to render very high nicotine delivery capability (this is not to say that this stogy lacks NDC in its pure shape; being naturally alkaline, it packs a solid punch without any additives). Another peculiarity of this snuff - it emits loads of ammonia in the nose upon a contact with nasal fluids (there’s not even a hint of it in the tin). A couple of different rusticas I had didn’t even come close to it in those terms, mixed with the same ash at same ratio.
The dry mixture feels just like Dholakia’s FUBAR Toasted (bar roasty aspect), the oiled one is akin to 6P M.G. Madras (bar Latakia aspect).
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