Pipe Tobacco Blending Recipes

[Haebar]

Please post your favorite blending recipes here. I'm just getting started and would like to know what blends you have come up with.

[OnePyroTec]

I call it No Clue because I had no idea what to call it when buying the main ingredients from P&C

Save on Blending Tobaccos - Pipes and Cigars (http://www.pipesandcigars.com/pipe-tobacco/blending-tobaccos/) they used to have a Make My Own Blend section which I can no longer find. I assume these are the same tobaccos they used for that in the past.

1 oz = 11% Yellow Virginia P&C
1 oz = 11% St. James Perique 1 oz jar from ebay MUCH better than P&C Perique. I can supply a limited amount of jars if needed to replicate my blend.
2 oz = 22.25% Oriental P&C
2 oz = 22.25% Latakia P&C
3 oz = 33.5% Red Virginia P&C

[Bruck]

Haebar, as you know, I make primarily pressed flake for pipe smoking. My "recipes" are too varied and numerous to list here, and frankly I never make the same thing twice :)

My basic drill is to start with a base of either VA or cigar rolling scraps (fermented VA, basically), then add stuff for flavor profile and balance - burley, cavendish (usually made by steaming cigar scraps), latakia, oriental, Maryland, perique. I usually add some kind of flavor/sweetener, such as a peach/vanilla topping that Madbricky concocted, a rum/molasses/vanilla mix, or an ounce or so of an aromatic.

I recommend smoking components individually just to get a feel for their individual characteristics, then simple combinations to see how they interact, then work your way up to more complex blends. IIUC, this is the process professional blenders employ. They do this in cigar blending school as well.

[Haebar]

I call it No Clue because I had no idea what to call it when buying the main ingredients from P&C

Save on Blending Tobaccos - Pipes and Cigars (http://www.pipesandcigars.com/pipe-tobacco/blending-tobaccos/) they used to have a Make My Own Blend section which I can no longer find. I assume these are the same tobaccos they used for that in the past.

1 oz = 11% Yellow Virginia P&C
1 oz = 11% St. James Perique 1 oz jar from ebay MUCH better than P&C Perique. I can supply a limited amount of jars if needed to replicate my blend.
2 oz = 22.25% Oriental P&C
2 oz = 22.25% Latakia P&C
3 oz = 33.5% Red Virginia P&C

Thanks for posting. I was also looking for the P&C "My Own Blend" area on their website but the FDA put a stop to that, or that's what they said.

[Desertlifter]

Like many, I tried my hand with the My Own Blend thing at P&C. Turns out that I loved what I came up with.


3oz Red VA
2oz Toasted Burley
2oz DFK
1oz TBC

[Haebar]

I lost my recipe for my last blend (Navy Kake) when my hard drive crashed last month. The last backup that I had was in January and I had saved it since then, so it is gone. I remember posting it here but can't find it. If you can find it, please let me know and I'll send you some of my next batch.

[Bruck]

Haebar: I don't have your recipe but here's mine (quotation from my tobacco notes):

Hydrating Batch 38, some cigar scraps, mostly red and bright VA, a bit of Imzur, and some cigar scrap cavendish. Topped w/ rum and vanilla. This is a psuedo-navy flake for Haebar.

[Haebar]

Haebar: I don't have your recipe but here's mine (quotation from my tobacco notes):

Hydrating Batch 38, some cigar scraps, mostly red and bright VA, a bit of Imzur, and some cigar scrap cavendish. Topped w/ rum and vanilla. This is a psuedo-navy flake for Haebar.

Thanks Bruck, I appreciate that!