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anyone buy commercial chew and then flavor it yourself

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georgewes

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For instance lets say someone would buy 'Red Man' chewing tobacco and flavor it with a concentrate like butterscotch or whatever. Anyone done that? If so what is the process you used?
 

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When I used to be able to get Red Man chew sometimes I'd hit it with some wintergreen or dark rum.
Wintergreen oil: 2-6 drops in a teaspoon of 94% drinking alcohol to treat enough chew to fill a skoal can.
Sometimes I'd use the rum when my chew would get a bit dry, just to hydrate it some.
Nowadays all I can find for loose leaf chew is this Big Mountain crap, I don't like it much.
Someday I'll figure out how to prepare my leaf to make my own, till then all I got to go to is $20 a can skoal.
 

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I've never bought chew but why would you do that and then flavor it? It's so easy to just make it from whole leaf. I have tried various flavors though and some sound good on paper but just do not work. I used bubblegum flavoring once. Unfortunately it didn't taste like bubblegum.
 

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I was clicking this link to say something like jbd said.

Why pay retail when you can get a pound of *dry* leaf for like 15 bucks if you want to do the work anyway? It'll hydrate into probably double or triple the weight if you use all the bulking sauces like the big boys do.

I figured the only people that bought tobacco products retail hadn't found this site yet.

Oh well to each their own, it's your money, I'm just confused.
 

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My reason for buying commercial chew is that I don't own any leaf that is palatable, 30+ kinds of leaf I've bought and/or grown and all as bitter as grapefruit peel. My last hope is to try kilning or fermenting the leaf first. I've tried some of JBD's chew awhile back and it is wonderful but I can't even come close to that.
 
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