This will be 2+2 = 4 math for experienced folks but figure it may help some newcomers as myself.
initial goodies were scissor cut and used the
All number below are percentages too lazy to keep hitting the percentage button....
30 bright leaf va
30 red va
20. Md 609
10 dark air
10 prilep
did a quick roll with local roll papers without casing ...it was a bit rough around the edges
sprayed wlt casing dark air type onto the whole blend... Four squirts..let sit for an hour...better / smoother
made a few more ounce batches to see how that works
what was intereting was it wasnt for a few days...mid week that the real enjoyable flavour kicked out one morning.
at first i thought it was the casing settling on (it does marinate better by letting it sit for at least several days).
that said.the taste was a deep rich flavour almost like a sugary tangerine/orange depth after taste that if you smacked your lips a few times i noticed more so.
2nd half of the batch / pouch was left out on the sun during a day of weed killing with the backpack sprayer ...had an infestation of crabgrass throughout the bermuda..so this was a full day spray day.
i was notcing that the rest of the pouch was empty smoke taste and thought it was leaving the pouch in the sun that killed off the glycerin (glycerin degrades quickly in sunlight).
After more weeks of blending / casing trying to dup the perfect taste i lost..i figured out the issue
the issue was not casing related it was the blend settling back into groups
the taste that was the lip smacker was the red va.
the bottom of the pouch was the other tobacco grouping together..ie..i probably had a lot of prilep / md/ some bright at the bottom. Therefore the red was gone and the related taste was gone.
this took me a while to figure out and it consummed a lot of time and case diy experimenting which wasnt the issue.
now that i understand the settling issue i have noticed this with 1 ounce pouches...the 2nd half bottom tends to lighten up in depth and flavour ...
i plannto remedy this with addding more red va into the pouches after the first half is gone.
this would probably not be an issue if you use powermatic machines as you are stuffing right after blending.
but if you handroll and carry pouch and papers you may encounter this.
it is probably where carrying the pouch where the "like density" tobaccos sort themselves into groups and your blend is incomplete at the 2nd half of a pouch blend.
So this may help some folks or i may be the pink elephant in the room where i am the only one encountering this perpelxing issue which is now diagnosed and remedied.
initial goodies were scissor cut and used the
All number below are percentages too lazy to keep hitting the percentage button....
30 bright leaf va
30 red va
20. Md 609
10 dark air
10 prilep
did a quick roll with local roll papers without casing ...it was a bit rough around the edges
sprayed wlt casing dark air type onto the whole blend... Four squirts..let sit for an hour...better / smoother
made a few more ounce batches to see how that works
what was intereting was it wasnt for a few days...mid week that the real enjoyable flavour kicked out one morning.
at first i thought it was the casing settling on (it does marinate better by letting it sit for at least several days).
that said.the taste was a deep rich flavour almost like a sugary tangerine/orange depth after taste that if you smacked your lips a few times i noticed more so.
2nd half of the batch / pouch was left out on the sun during a day of weed killing with the backpack sprayer ...had an infestation of crabgrass throughout the bermuda..so this was a full day spray day.
i was notcing that the rest of the pouch was empty smoke taste and thought it was leaving the pouch in the sun that killed off the glycerin (glycerin degrades quickly in sunlight).
After more weeks of blending / casing trying to dup the perfect taste i lost..i figured out the issue
the issue was not casing related it was the blend settling back into groups
the taste that was the lip smacker was the red va.
the bottom of the pouch was the other tobacco grouping together..ie..i probably had a lot of prilep / md/ some bright at the bottom. Therefore the red was gone and the related taste was gone.
this took me a while to figure out and it consummed a lot of time and case diy experimenting which wasnt the issue.
now that i understand the settling issue i have noticed this with 1 ounce pouches...the 2nd half bottom tends to lighten up in depth and flavour ...
i plannto remedy this with addding more red va into the pouches after the first half is gone.
this would probably not be an issue if you use powermatic machines as you are stuffing right after blending.
but if you handroll and carry pouch and papers you may encounter this.
it is probably where carrying the pouch where the "like density" tobaccos sort themselves into groups and your blend is incomplete at the 2nd half of a pouch blend.
So this may help some folks or i may be the pink elephant in the room where i am the only one encountering this perpelxing issue which is now diagnosed and remedied.
