Boxworthy recently has been Toque Whisky Honey and Toque Toast Marmelade.
I’m still in the ‘throes of the newbie’ and some days use maybe 10 different snuffs or so, guesstimating. Favorites are W&H of course, rOOster, O&G, crumbs, taxi, Dholakias, IHT… that’s just whats sitting on my desk right now. I only have about 40 more in my new snuff curio (transformed old Small Batch Bourbon box). I may have developed a small problem.
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Im very boring, I get stuck on one type and just carry it for ages.
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Has anyone noticed if it helps to age your mix a bit in a particular wooden box? I have my ‘mixture’ snuff sitting in a rosewood box and I think I can detect a bit of extra flavor to it as a result. Or is it just my imagination? I also filled a plastic canister full of some old dried out 20 year old Scotch snuff. The canister held wintergreen oral dip originally so I’m waiting to see if any of the wintergreen gets imparted into the old snuff since its virtually impossible to get the oil out of the plastic can. It still smells like a dinner mint when I open it and I’ve soaked it and run it through the dishwasher. Should make for an interesting experiment I guess.
I have noticed that the oh so fresh untoasted Toque tobaccos breathe beautifully in wooden smash boxes.
I mixed some toque fruit cocktail in my teak wilsons box. It seems much rounder and more pungent. I had F&T Bordeaux then st. clements then a blend of both. The st. clements is in the fruit cocktail so it may have a bit of extra bordeaux. Whatever, It is way better than in the toque tin.
I’ve got two bullets whit toque blueberry ( that don’t last so long as I adore this stuff) and toque original, plus another one whit ozona president
Snuff will definately alter in character stored in wood. Firstly there will be a slight moisture loss due to even the best boxes being not a 100% airtight fit and then it will pick up the character - to a greater or lesser degree depending on quantity - of the previous snuff kept in the wood. The important thing is quantity - a small amount of snuff will dry up more quickly in a box compared to a larger amount; in effect the snuff dries around its edges going inwards if that makes sense, and the greater the mass of snuff the slower this will happen. An interesting thing to do would be to store a large quantity - tens of pounds - in wood and see how it ages; very much in the same way as some liquors are aged in certain types of wood. I think that would make for very mellow snuff but I don’t have the quantity or barrel to try it out!
Absolutely! Snuff ages well in Wood! Wood breathes beautifully for aging snuff. Clay breathes less and is even better for aging tobacco. I guess it really depends on your aging goals. My Wilson’s snuff box now has a Toque Chocolate Peppermint mix. After some taste testing I may add a third Toque to balance things out. Any suggestions?
I would go for a neutral snuff like the natural. I’ve found this to be more or less a magic ingredient when added to my own blends because it balances the mix. I liken the blending I do to making alcoholic drinks; they all have the neutral basic ingredient of alcohol and then the flavours come on top. Try a small amount to see what I mean. However…if you want to make it more complex, I agree with bigblue - vanilla would be agood choice for anything that has chocolate in it.
Ummm chocolate. I haven’t met a chocolate snuff I didn’t like, and speaking of chocolate… tonight’s mix is Toque Cherry & Toque Chocolate 50/50… and they mix well. But y’all knew that.
Pepermint? I haven’t a clue.
Love chocolate, hate chocolate snuff. I left some Dholakia chocolate in a snuff box and forgot about it. When I just happened to take a pinch a coupe of weeks late I almost puked, I can only say that in some way it had turned like milk going sour or something. Now I can’t smell choclate snuff without immediateley being put off.
Well…I chose St. Clements. This really spiced it up. Vanilla was too obvious a choice. Natural was also considered but I wanted to tone down the chocolate not accentuate it. Toque Orange Peppermint Chocolate snuff. I put it all in a tin to marry for now.
I had an empty SG apricot flip box which I filled with 5g toque toffee, 2g WoS SMBlue, and 3g QWS apricot. It’s lovely.
Now that I have 4 PCBs and 2 Wilsons boxes I thought I would revive this thread. ash PCB - Dholakia Swiss Chocolate mahogany PCB - Wilsons Honey Menthol Poplar PCB - F&T Seville walnut PCB - WE Garrett Sweet Mild teak Wilsons - Toque fruit cocktail cherry Wilsons - a dry american and toque toasts mix I like having them ready to go when I go out and about. I take 2 or 3 with me every day.