I received my Rustica from Roderick yesterday. I took a handfull and put it into my Krups coffee grinder and let it rip. I let it go a bit and was rewarded with some nicely ground Rustica. Sniff away! Nice, natural, kinda funky tobacco flavor. Nose starts dripping. Good Vitamin N hit. I want to start mixing this fine tobacco with some flavors to make some new tastes. Not the same old. same old. Let me know what you have made.

I’ve got a rum/vanilla/cinnamon/nutmeg thing in the works. I was trying for eggnog, but that didn’t work out. The final product is rather pleasant though. I’ve also got a dark roast coffee and vanilla that came out very nicely, although it’s a little dry for what I usually prefer. I’m going to try putting that in a humidor for a bit and see how that works out.

I’m just waiting for one of thje tobaccos to dry out, as I included a couple spirits, then intend to add the rustica.

I love it plain, but for kicks I did start a batch with some “liquid smoke” added to see if I could get that BBQ/Smokey flavor. After one day of infusion, I took a couple pinches and got a subtle BBQ flavor. I figure if my wife adds it to beef brisket to give it a smokey bbq flavor it might just work for snuff.

I think you are right! Meat snuff, aaarrrggghhhhh…

I’m still trying to decide. I don’t drink, so I don’t have any alcohol in the house, but I was thinking of maybe getting a small bottle of some sort of flavored brandy, and doing a brandy-honey something.

I have done nothing with my leaves, as in add flavor. I really enjoy the neked, rich aroma! The plans I have for rustica is to order more and invest in a better grinder! It’s a great, powerful snuff right now but it will be so much better once I can get a finer grind. Once I get the grind down I am going to experiment further and hopefully create a successful “Mocha Rustica,” sounds wonderful to go along with my coffee and get my bum out of bed in the mornings!

I’d like to find some leaves of some really dark tobacco like what is in Gitanes. I think that would be a good mixture with the rustica.

I diluted some honey with bourbon and mixed it in. I have it baking in a towel warmer at 125 degrees for five days. I will be going for a dry snuff so it may end up getting toasted in a crock. We’ll see what it looks like in a few days.

I grabbed about 40% of my initial ‘sample’ bag, and dropped it into a krups coffee/spice grinder, and ground it straight up. I didn’t get too carried away, I tend to like medium grinds. I added 2 pinches of sodium bicarbonate to ~20g of snuff, shook it vigorously, and took a pinch. It was far more ‘peppery’ in the nose, than in the bag it came in. But it had a very nice spiciness and a decent hit, that sustained, because I didn’t get a very consistent grind. Sadly, about 50% of that initial grind took a suicide plunge to the dusty floor during decanting, and now I’ve got about 10g left. It’s now been sitting for about 2 weeks in a re-used Wilsons container in my snuff humidor, I think I’m going to take a pinch. It’s mellowed a bit over time. It’s still got a peppery beginning, but that shifts into what I can best describe as almost ‘cardboard box’ kind of main part, though. Really nice head feel, though. My grind is medium-course, so it doesn’t punch like a scotch, but it sets in over a couple minutes. But it seems less jittery, more focused. With this preparation, I give myself about a 3 out of 5. It’s a bit too dry, and still a bit too course. The base tobacco scent is interesting, though, like it’s been lightly cooked. I think that I’m going to take the rest of mine, and rinse the leaves in some good scotch, then dry them slightly before grinding. I think my current recipe lacks moisture, plus the smoky flavorings of the scotch should add a bit of depth to the ‘box’ scent. I also think that I’m going to grind more finely, maybe even re-grind this first batch that I’ve made. For my second batch, I’m going to try the pantyhose sifting technique that I’ve read about elsewhere on snuffhouse. I wanted to start with just grinding it, though, so that I had something to judge my various recipes against. This batch is like the ‘base’ and I’m trying to use it to guide me towards what it needs. This is my first foray into snuff making, so I learn as I go!

I’ve ground mine all up and stored it. Have not yet made any custom snuffs. I would like to mortar it finer first.

Ground the leaves to a medium/fine snuff added some brandy to taste then left a 21g tin on a warm pipe for 5 days the end result is a lovely snuff with a sour brandied taste with sweet notes of tobacco, lovely long slow hit, minimal burn. I like this a lot its ideal for Xmas.

I’m going to take 100gm and make a prick. After watching that “How to make a perique” video on You Tube, how could I not?

Well, I ground it all up and put it into a container. Don’t know where to go with it now. Maybe it will mellow with some shelf age? I know it is next to impossible, but if only I could transform it into Spanish Jewel…

So far all I have done was make my credit card bill go up with the rustica.

OMG!!! I think I found the answer to that weird flavor of the original SJ. After reading PuffPuffs post [above] about sifting the ground snuff thru pantyhose it finally came to me. Here is the answer… When sifting it thru the pantyhose first make sure the pantyhose are dirty and be sure to only sift thru the crotch area. I haven’t tried it yet but it HAS to work. The worst case senerio would be that the snuff might end up having kind of a fishy taste. don’t laugh…I could be right.

@PP LOL. Maybe that will put the tang into it…

I’m telling you, this is how the Fubar Grunt is produced with that Pantyhose technique. Try it!

Lazer, I believe I read somewhere that Gubar Frunt IS produced with the pantyhose crotch method. Its unique flavor because it can only be produced on those several special days of the month. Spanish Jewel can be produced with any old ladies panty hose.

After a week at 125’ it’s doing well. I reground with a little baking soda and another dash of bourbon. Instead of drying in a hot crock I put it in an unglazed clay jar for slow drying. Should be a ship voyage or so till it’s done. That won’t stop me from snuffing it. But it does stop me from doing a review on it.

I’ve just now discovered that some of the Rustica which I have in a sealed glass jar is going somewhere. I took some freshly ground Roderick’s Rustica and added my own “Spanish brandy”. Spanish brandy is made by maturing good brandy in oak casks which was formerly used to mature sherry. As I do not have Spanish brandy I made my own. I added 25% of pale dry sherry to 75% of 15 years old brandy. This mixture I used to moisten the rustica. It’s been sitting now for about 10 days and I’m sure this is going to be something special. I’m not saying it’s gonna be SJ but it’s moving in that direction. I’ve filled a large glass cigar tube and will leave it for at least 2 months. The rest I will try from time to time.

I just received mine today and after opening the envelope,set it on the counter to tear into a bag of SP extra to help kickstart my coffee. I started smelling a wonderful aroma! What a great smell working its way thru the plastic bag. I could smell it clear across the room and that was all the motivation I needed to get the Krups grinder out. Separated the stems out and started reducing to snuff,and then ran it thru my tea strainer. I like it just the way it is but… I’ve been thinking of trying a “Southern Jewel” snuff by fermenting with Southern Comfort liqueur. Its got vanilla bean,cinnamon,various fruits and citrus all topped off with honey. Hopefully I can find a couple airline bottles tomorrow as I don’t want a whole 5th or pint.

Actually I really like the natural flavor of Roderick’s Rustica. If Roderick made a straight rustica natural snuff, the stronger the better, I’d buy it in volume.

ermtony got some leaves from Roderick and gave my some plain snuff he had ground and I’m with springalong it’s good just as it is, in fact it has a kind of licorice taste to it.

OMG the drip is going into my ear canals! Yowza! At this point I don’t think I care what these lovely smells are reminiscent of. They will hereafter be associated with pure pleasure. I would advise anyone on MAOI’s to use caution with N. Rustica.

I took a little time to make a grinder lid harvest. Sort of a “cabinet” snuff if you will. That was the last aspect that really needed to be worked out. I want to reiterate that this Rustica from Roderick is the shiznit. I could explain that using a coffee grinder I spun, collected the cover dust, and repeated till I had a box full, but you all should know that trick. What you may not have known is that steaming up the lid with a warm breath expedites the process a few fold. I’m so frickin’ elated right now. I’d like to thank every one for contributing comments here at snuffhouse. Without which I would have never achieved this success however trivial. (the comments and the success). Cheers!

The Inquisition now in a Heartwood Creations box with a sliced vanilla bean. Already having been refilled once. I don’t think the ten gram clay pot will get to age for a year. My snuff buddies all say “I want some of that”. I need to figure out what to do with the “heavier” particles. Maybe a schmalzler or a toast. Maybe snus.

About 6 weeks later now… My Rustica is still Rustica…

A model of Paddington station.

I finally got some of this in a gift box from a friend. I think it’s an almost perfect snuff with only it’s natural flavor, but just to do something I dropped 3 whole dark roasted coffee beans in the smashbox with about 5 grams of Rustica. Let it sit for 4 days, now I have a lightly scented coffee snuff. Just enough coffee scent to notice, more of a background scent keeping the tobacco in the forefront.

I have used a part of the sample Roderick sent me to make some snuff. First i beat the living daylights out of it in a wooden mortar & pestle , and added a bit of green tea , a dash of salt , a tiny bit of rustica ash to offset the ph and a few lemon tree leaves for scent. I then heated the snuff up with the leaves still in the bag just to get all the volatile oils out and floating about. Left it for a few days , then removed the leaves and it’s now been sitting in a sealed bag , inside an old snus can for quite some time (A month or two , can’t remember exactly). What i got is one STRONG and fairly tasty snuff. The drip is kind of nasty on the throat , but otherwise it’s pretty good for my first try. I have smoked an equal amount of the rustica and estimate i have about half of the initial bag left. //later: Scratch that , don’t try it at home.Took another pinch and I’ve been sneezing like crazy , and that drip is just annoying.

I’ve sieved some of my ground Rustica through pantyhose. I added some brandy and a wee bit of bicarbs and then dried out the snuff again. This has been sitting in a snuff box for about two months and I’ve tried some today. The result is a plain tobacco taste with quite a good nic hit and a bit of nose burn which I like. It seems to me as if this snuff should be left alone to mature for quite a while. I’m going to order some more Rustica from Roderick and treat it with some brandy and honey once more. But this time I’m going to go slow. I’ve learned my lesson well; to make snuff needs a lot of patience. In the mean time my Rustica plants are growing beautifully and I will soon have some more tobacco to experiment with.

when I started trying to grind I first took and used everything my fingers picked up to go into my little couple dollar electric coffee bean grinder – until I came across a literal stick (this is no vine or stem – this is a tobacco stick) which there was no way I was going to grind up, but its big enough to set aside for other experiments (one day I may try the old southern method I’ve read about of using snuff orally that normally requires a hickory but with this tobacco stick instead). It was at this point, third grinding round I started trying to take only leaves and putting the more stemmy stuff back in the bag. These first grinds were done in three sets (my little grinder doesn’t hold much at all and on the third grind I used some I had tried to make into a cigarette and had tried to use in a pipe (neither would stay lit). I did my best to collect only the tobacco and no other remnants (not the little ashy parts from the smoking attempts). Each grounding set got sifted through a Lipton Pyramid Teabag (I had been emptying and saving these for e-cigarette cartridge material). I don’t know about all this pantyhose business but the Lipton pyramid teabags (not to be confused with regular teabags which are completely different) make really nice ready made sifting baggies if you just carefully pull apart the top and extract the tea, there you go. Takes a while if you have a lot of tobacco to sift, but a small measuring spoon and three bowls (one you start from, one to sift over and one to dump the too-large won’t-sift remains into), then folding a lip over the open edge of the teabag for shaking feeling and working the fine posder out over the larger bowl works well for me (you will get powder all over your fingers too but oh well, sniff as you go every once in a while). I can’t compare this method to a nylon sifted event (though I have looked at a nylon I have and this pyramid seems teabag method seems to make more sense, may even be giving me more finely sifted than you guys with your nylons, I don’t know. I took the stuff that didn’t sift through and ground it again then sifted it again. This whole effort took me most of the night and a bit of today to end up with a total of about 10g finely ground/sifted snuff (approx half a square 1oz tea tin) This last of the three grinding sets (that I got from the pipe and tore open cigarette) was noticeably different, better, had an ashy flavor to it (must have gotten a bit of ash in it anyway) and I mixed them all together and that seemed to be the trick. This makes sense to me since other plants in other countries are mixed with lime or (wood?) ash apparently a little ‘hair of the dog’ accidental (this time) method works well… a little pinch (or less) of ash of the very same tobacco you are grinding in about 10g seems might make the batch stronger in nicotine plus give what I’d call slightly toasty flavor to it. Don’t use too much or it will be too much and give a slight ashtray flavor (what it was a bit more like when it was just in its original cigarette/small pipe about 1/3rd of my completed product but still wasn’t too bad) until that bunch was sifted and mixed in with the other (which was more the right amount). All of this barely made a dent in the contents of the N Rustica bag (I can barely even tell I got into it and took anything out). EDIT – I take that back about the teabag being a finer sieving… I finally decided to take the tin and slide it down to the foot of a set of nylons (the thickest set of them I could find), once there, slipped the lid off and started thwacking on the back of the tin into a bowl, once done I could see not everything went through and sure enough there are less finely ground bits left in the tin when I extracted it. Not all nylons are created the same and I’m thinking on top of this that some would sift more finely than others.

I just ordered some Rustica and am wondering if anyone has just tried mixing a little of it with their favorite snuffs? I really am not trying to create a snuff just seeing if I can get a good nicotine booster.

I just tried putting one single layer medium-sized complete leaf piece placed along my upper gum and lip on the right side (sorta like I’ve read other people do with other leaves in other countries, but located ‘upstairs’). That worked pretty well actually (until about maybe 15 minutes to a half an hour later when my chest started hurting and I figured I’d better take it out). Didn’t make a bunch of juice, didn’t make me spit and it didn’t fall apart or anything (no crumbs to go anywhere and it stayed as one piece) and wasn’t too strong of a flavor, was pretty nice that way too (just maybe a little too strong on nicotine according to my chest a bit later), was really quite nice actually and I might try that again another time, but with a smaller piece.

8-12 times stronger in nicotine! Wow. Where did you find this information, Roderick? I just made some snuff this weekend out of this. I have a fairly nice Cuisinart coffee grinder at home ($60) that does a great job on beans. I cleaned it thoroughly and ran it through the dishwasher as I did not intend to make a coffee flavored snuff. I cleaned the leaves of most woody stems and put about 12-15g of leaf material in the grinder. The grinding process went very quickly, reducing most of the leaf material into a very finely milled powder in a few minutes. As others have mentioned, I noticed a very fine snuff building up on the lid of the grinder. Upon closer examination I estimated this snuff to be toast or scotch-like in grind. I collected this about half-way through the grinding process (maybe 1g or so) and then again after I was finished (another gram or so) and put it in a smash-box. With the bulk of the ground material, I used the pantyhose method to sieve out the coarser grains. In the end, I had about 2g of extremely fine, 7-8g of medium-fine snuff, and about 3 g of Berwick Brown-like course snuff. I added a pinch of sodium bicarbonate to the medium-fine batch. I tried the toast grind immediately and it promptly slaughtered the back of my throat and sent me into a sneezing/coughing fit. User beware! The drip on this is inexplainable - horrid taste, almost acidic like burn. The meduim-fine snuff was easier to take and had less throat contact. The aroma from the rustica is very different than anything else I’ve snuffed - very barnyardish at this point with notes of hay (but nothing like NTSU). I did not notice 8-12 times the nicotine with this, but my palms did get slightly sweaty. I think I will let this mature for several weeks before coming back to it. The moisture level at this point is bone-dry. Some experimentation with hydrating this snuff could yield good results. I want to test mixing it with some of my favorite snuffs and then maybe make a foray into flavoring this myself with perhaps orange or lemon peel. For now, I will probably just sprinkle some of the course grind into my occasional pipe bowl to see if I can perceive the higher nicotine that way.

@Roderick I think you’re right. I wont do that leaf-in-cheek thing again, even though my blood pressure and all are remarkably good and low since stopping smoking (I talked about this in another post) and for all I know it might’ve just been indigestion/heartburn that felt but I can’t tell one type of chest pain from another, there’s still no reason to ‘push the envelope’ on things. its hard enough work just to get it ground up and sieved anyway so I after all that I don’t suppoe I want the extra work of trying to add other ‘make it more potent’ stuff to it. I might just mix it as is with other things as you suggested (maybe taxi or NTSU once I get some etc, never know) I put some in a bullet, seems just fine as long as I sniff it solo (if I sniff it after one of the properly produced ones like one of your toques or other proper production snuffs then it doesn’t seem as good) but thanks for remind me that its really mean to be a good mixer, and I think it will be. I wish I knew the best way to store it with what I still have on hand (I have no big glass jars around and its bugging me that most of it is just laying there in its original double bagged state you send it in, but I’m not satisfied thats going to be anywhere near good enough for long term storage).

Well I ground mine up with a coffee grinder and tried a little of it in this dry state. It does produce a lot of drip, not something I would want to snuff out and about. I put some in a small jar and threw some fresh orange peel in it, that snuff is now much moister and I tried some of this today. Still got a awful drip to it, no real scent although you can smell the orange in the jar, just not the nose. I am going to try mixing some of it with some other snuff and see what happens.

@dgriego, if you want to flavour your Rustica with orange peel, spread the snuff on a piece of paper. Then squeeze the orange peel to spray the snuff with the juice from the peel. If you can get hold of some orange blossoms, place it in a glass jar with the snuff and seal. Leave it for about a week. The tobacco will absorb the aroma from the flowers.

I’ve “treated” some Rustica for 2 days and today I’ve ground it. Super strong snuff, huge nic hit but still very roughneck like. I’ve mixed an airline size bottle of brandy, 2 teaspoons of pale dry sherry, 4 teaspoons of water, half a teaspoon of honey and half a teaspoon of bicarb of soda and added this mixture to 100g of Rustica. I had the tobacco sitting in a clear pyrex casserole for 2 days, turning it every 2 hours. Today I’ve placed the casserole in direct sunlight. It’s been a very hot day, 39 celsius, and this afternoon the tobacco was dry enough to grind. I removed all the stalks according to Roderick’s advice. I will now leave it to mature because I know from past experience that it will soften up with time. I have a small amount, to which I’ve added a pinch of Toque Cheese & Bacon, in a snuff box. Guess what it tastes like!!

Royal George?

@Xander, NO!!! It’s more like Royal George’s arse.

Spanish Jewel of course!

I mixed some home-ground TR 50/50 (my home grind is kind of a mix of fine and coarse) with Standard Scotch. It is a very pleasant mixture. Great texture, easy snuffing. The Standard adds flavor without too much smokiness, plus a silky texture, and the TR contributes sweetness, nicotine, and that interesting “outdoor” or wild note. I find it very easy to take, interesting and satisfying.

My Toque Rustica had been sitting for a couple months (ground) in a recycled Wilsons tin until yesterday when I decided to re-hydrate it following instructions I found here @ snuffhouse. I put the snuff into a plastic tin, then put the opened container into a 4x8 inch tupperware container with 1/4th inch of water on the bottom of the tupperware. I put the lid on the tupperware and I left it for about 12 hours, stirring at hour 2, 4 and 8. It’s been given a new life. It holds together enough now to snuff nicely and I was really impressed by the the delivery, even despite taking a little pinch. I probably would have left it for even longer, but I didn’t want a mold farm in my snuff! Thanks, guys, for the tips!

I picked up a stainless steel toothpick holder that looked like it would make a good press, filled it with de-stemed Toque Rustica flakes, then put it in a C-clamp. Opened it up 24 hours later to check, I had to use a knife to get the brick out. It looked like a good crumble cake but was a little dry for my intention of a perique style anaerobic fermentation/oxidation, so a little 18 year single barrel bourbon was mixed in to moisten. This pressing excreted black syrup which I happily took as a sign that I may have achieved a near optimal condition for my plan to work. I will be “stirring” once a month in accordance to my theory of processing which will also allow me to examine and sample my work as it progresses. I understand that whole de-stemed but uncut leaves are used in the real perique technic but I am hoping that there is enough inherent natural oxidizers remaining whole cells of the material that I am using to make this work. I also understand that only partially cured leaves where used and certain tobacco, and then there is the hickory barrels and the oak blocks and the blee, the blah, and the blue, whatever… I’m not expecting perique tobacco from this but I do expect to effect some kind of aging. I will comment on this thread for those interested in following the results.

Alright! This tobacco is officially on it’s way. Today was the first monthly aeration of this beautiful crumble cake. I’m certainly inspired to get a few more presses going. I sieved off a little pinch and was quite pleased with the direction this project is headed. Although the addition of the bourbon limits this tobacco as a control sample I have no regrets, however I now do not think it was necessary for the moisture level has waned back to the constant. Can’t wait for the coming months ahead. I’s exiting that I can pinch off as much as I want at the time of aeration. Cheers!

@Juxtaposer, congratulations on your achievement!! Rustica is a very interesting tobacco and I know that your snuff will mature nicely. Experience tells me so. I have 100g, which was treated with brandy and honey and another 100g just pure Rustica snuff sitting in glass jars since 17th of February. I’ve taken a pinch of the brandy/honey snuff now and I’m happy.

It’s that time again. Time to pull out the plug from the clamp and give it some air. Things are looking good here. The tobacco is practically grinding itself as it falls apart from this processing. I think I’m getting a little fig, raisin hints but it’s likely scents from the bourbon. Still, the tobacco mass is smelling a lot more mellow. The make shift press is starting to fall apart from the pressure. Nothing that will stop me from seeing this through though.

It’s nice to experiment with snuff making, isn’t it? I made my own in a wooden mortel adding whole clove pods in grinding process. there was some serious tobacco dust in the air while grinding. . and the grinder was high from it, what a boost for a grinderman I think the result is good, strong and fresh clove adds nicely to rusticas wild nature, burning and intoxicating snuff. after I made another variation adding cardemom to my fresh clove snuff and put 1/3 snuffstores cafe noir to it and sim sala bim! there is Cafe Masala Mix! still . . . need to make more good snuff. . . next in line will probably be camphor snuff. we’ll see how that works out. thank you toque for that rustica! do not know where else is possible to buy that stuff.

All is well out of the press after three months. More mellowing is noted and the Bourbon topping is becoming quite clear. The tobacco is a little drier and the color remains brown. The tobacco strength remains very high. The sour note is subtle but thank goodness it is still there. I am tempted to leave it out of the press for the remainder of aging but alas the press may not withstand a fresh batch as it has become deformed by the pressures. At this time I feel that I could skip a few checks until the first of september. The tobacco does not smell as if it has used up it’s oxygen as desired for this project. At that time I will try to take out the block as a whole and seal to store as a brick with as little air as possible. Looking forward to using the Thouc Lao provided. That tobacco seems in no need of processing and is ready to grind and go. It does not have the same unnerving components the rustica has (that rustica aggravates my anxiety).

I’ve added some baking soda to a bit of Rustica snuff. The nic kick is much better but the “freshly cut lawn” smell spoils the taste.

I’ve tried my Rustica snuff, which has been sitting in a glass jar since 27/02/10, today. It is turning into a very decent snuff with a good nic kick. Makes my nose run a bit, otherwise it’s OK. I have two batches, one straight Rustica, which is very good. This I will leave to develop some more. For the other batch I’ve added some brandy to the tobacco before grinding. This one is not so good and I think I will add some strong smelling pipe tobacco snuff to alter it a bit.

Reading through these old threads made me stop to ask myself: why is everyone mixing the R. and trying to make something different with it? I just received my 50 gm bag of Roderick’s fine ground rustica and am enjoying it straight. To my taste, its quite mild, greenish flavor, fine the way it is. I don’t find it unpleasant at all. In fact I like its plainish character. However, its easy to overdo it for me anyways, because its so mild I snuffed 3 or 4 big pinches, then had to lay down as the N coarsed through my head. I hope Roderick continues to make it available. As of this writing(2013) he has it on the Toque website. Perhaps since the OPs he has refined the snuff, as mine is a finely ground, smooth, slightly moist product. I guess I can see how everyone was writing about mixing it. I like it more than the White Elephant, not so powdery…

Update: I am now making rustica/ marijuana snuff! I live in Colorado where M is finally legal for general use. I made about 2 quarts of “Green Dragon” tincture with grain alcohol as a base, plus cinnamon and fresh raspberries. Dark green in color, high in THC, pleasant green taste. I added a few drops into a small amount of Toque Rustica fin, the result was a mind blowing explosion of nicotine combined with the psychoactive properties of cannabis. Not something to put in your pocket as you venture forth into the civilized world, but at home, with a cup of tea, or something to smoke…I may have stumbled upon something fantastic.

You just answered a question I have been wondering for a while now! So a green dragon will retain the properties of the THC when used to flavor a snuff?! You deserve a damn medal or something!

At some point I hope to make a black Rabbee out of it.

Update: I am now making rustica/ marijuana snuff! I live in Colorado where M is finally legal for general use. I made about 2 quarts of “Green Dragon” tincture with grain alcohol as a base, plus cinnamon and fresh raspberries. Dark green in color, high in THC, pleasant green taste. I added a few drops into a small amount of Toque Rustica fin, the result was a mind blowing explosion of nicotine combined with the psychoactive properties of cannabis. Not something to put in your pocket as you venture forth into the civilized world, but at home, with a cup of tea, or something to smoke…I may have stumbled upon something fantastic.

I wasn’t aware THC was water soluble, ie in mucus?

im pretty sure it shouldnt have an effect, particularly in quantities that small.

Toque Rustica 50% Toque quit 20% & Toque Almond toast 30%. This mix is the bomb,bitch [Jesse Pinkman]

I can’t find this product on the toque or mrsnuff websites. Was this a specialty item that was only offered once? Or does it come out every so often? I’m still relatively new to snuff and I’m really liking the plain(er) ones.

@Ryan265 only available at Toque. It’s offered and then it gone. Act quickly when it is in.

@Ryan265 I just checked the Toquesnuff.com website and the Rustica is on the main page. Looks like it’s still available, I ordered some of the fine ground about a week ago so I should be receiving it in the mail soon, hopefully. :-bd

I’m not really one for blending. I tend to prefer to leave it to the experts, but the rustica is made for blending and I’ve had lots of fun with it. I really, really love this tobacco. Like love it so much I bought 1.8kg of it. It has a psychoactive affect which is very positive for my depression and anxiety and it has also helped enormously this year with Winter Depression (SAD) which I’ve been suffering with badly since I was a teenager (I’m 44). That’s why I bought 1,8kg. I really do not want to run out of this stuff. I doubt I’ll use much rustica in the fairer weather but in deep, dark winter, it’s a blessing. Anyway, I’ve done loads of mixes, most of them very simple, using a play-it-safe approach. Use a strong scented with various amounts of rustica FINE grind. The only ‘complex’ blend I’ve done, I’ve named Suicide: * ALL BLENDING DONE IN 50g AIRTIGHT GLASS JARS * Suicide: 1/4 Rustica 1/4 White Elephant 1/4 Cheetah (6Photo white) 1/4 Bruton This was blended purely for a high nic kick and boy does it deliver. This kicks me harder than any of the single snuffs on their own because you get a cumulative effect of the different tobaccos and grinds. I can’t take more than a few pinches of this before my heart starts palpitating uncomfortably! The rest if my blends are much simpler. Rustica Crumbs of Comfort: 50g jar 4/5 rustica 1/5 Crumbs of comfort With this much ratio of rustica you really don’t need to take too many pinches before your head’s spinning, so caution required Rustica Cherry Menthol (WoS): 50g jar 4/5 rustica 1/5 Cherry Menthol (WoS) I like Wilson’s mentholated candy snuffs and they go great with rustica. Rustics Raspberry (WoS): Same as above but with their mentholed raspberry snuff which in my mind is the pinnacle of candy snuff heaven. I live this snuff. Yes it’s heavily mentholated but I love menthol and the raspberry is strong and long lasting and I like that too. WoS Raspberry is one of my favourite snuffs to mix with rustica! I’ve done the 4/5 Rustica 1/5 another snuff with the following and am pleased with all of them: 1/5 McCs Supermint 4/5 rustica 1/5 L260 4/5 rustica 2/3 O&G 1/3 rustica (felt more o&g was needed to preserve aroma) 1/5 Grand Cairo 4/5 rustica 2/3 Toque Raspberry Menthol 1/3 rustica 1/5 Tom Buck 4/5 rustica I put more O&G and more Toque Rasp M in to those blends because they’re not so pungent and I didn’t want to lose the character of the scenting snuff. Even with 1/3 rustica, still strong snuff. And that’s it. That’s all my blending done so far with Rustica.