Briar Spirit
The Scary Bear Owner
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I was recently gifted a largish amount of McClelland Mocha Black and I tried a bowl of the tobacco on its own and found it to be absolutely ghastly to my own tastes but I spoke about it to a few friends who insisted they would enjoy it very much so I kept back a small amount and sent off the remainder to those chaps. With the bit I kept back I mixed it with a bit of Bayou Morning and by jove it made an absolutely fantastic blend, the Mocha flavour went superbly with the Bayou Morning and I could have kicked myself sideways for having given the bulk of the Mocha Black away.
Fairly recently I tried one of the Coffee flavoured blends available here in the UK and compared to the flavour I had with the mix I tried as mentioned it was ghastly, the flavour was very weak and the tobacco less than appealing to say the least. Finding a good Coffee flavoured blend here in the UK is a little like hoping to find Unicorn teeth in your back garden, fun to imagine one might just be lucky in finding the obviously unobtainable but in reality one is simply wasting their time.
So I came to the conclusion of "if blenders can make a Mocha flavoured tobacco why can't I", ah but then came the come down to reality, how on Earth do you do it I asked myself and that was the end of that beautiful idea. Ah but you see now I know about this forum which is brimming with folk who know tons more about the great brown leaf than I so why not ask the folk who know I say to myself, I don't know why not I say to myself so here I am asking you knowledgeable folk.
How do you add flavouring to existing tobacco blends without making a mouldy pile of stinky brown stuff and where oh where do you get the flavouring in the first place, I'd love to be able to re-create the McClelland Mocha Black flavouring if at all possible.
I'd greatly appreciate any help and advice on the subject please, thank you for taking the time to read my waffling drivel.
Be well and safe journeys.
I was recently gifted a largish amount of McClelland Mocha Black and I tried a bowl of the tobacco on its own and found it to be absolutely ghastly to my own tastes but I spoke about it to a few friends who insisted they would enjoy it very much so I kept back a small amount and sent off the remainder to those chaps. With the bit I kept back I mixed it with a bit of Bayou Morning and by jove it made an absolutely fantastic blend, the Mocha flavour went superbly with the Bayou Morning and I could have kicked myself sideways for having given the bulk of the Mocha Black away.
Fairly recently I tried one of the Coffee flavoured blends available here in the UK and compared to the flavour I had with the mix I tried as mentioned it was ghastly, the flavour was very weak and the tobacco less than appealing to say the least. Finding a good Coffee flavoured blend here in the UK is a little like hoping to find Unicorn teeth in your back garden, fun to imagine one might just be lucky in finding the obviously unobtainable but in reality one is simply wasting their time.
So I came to the conclusion of "if blenders can make a Mocha flavoured tobacco why can't I", ah but then came the come down to reality, how on Earth do you do it I asked myself and that was the end of that beautiful idea. Ah but you see now I know about this forum which is brimming with folk who know tons more about the great brown leaf than I so why not ask the folk who know I say to myself, I don't know why not I say to myself so here I am asking you knowledgeable folk.
How do you add flavouring to existing tobacco blends without making a mouldy pile of stinky brown stuff and where oh where do you get the flavouring in the first place, I'd love to be able to re-create the McClelland Mocha Black flavouring if at all possible.
I'd greatly appreciate any help and advice on the subject please, thank you for taking the time to read my waffling drivel.
Be well and safe journeys.
