I have only started to tinker with blends in the last few months. The only big oopsie I have made was RO Firestorm with some Creme Brulè. Yuck!

I haven’t had any notable blending mistakes, never even thought about it. Now thanks to you guys I’m feeling a little paranoid about my next blending session 😜.

I had about a pound and a half of 2010 Luxury Bullseye Flake. I liked it but didn't love it. So I kept a half pound and rubbed the rest out, mixed about 40/60 with PS burley and jarred it. It's fine. I'm using it as a blending case. But that LBE became magical in 24 years and I pretty much ruined it by blending it. 

Ron mybe you've invented the next great blend. 

People will be 4 starting Bohr's Best left and right. 

Jars been sitting sealed for an hour. Opened it and it doesn't exactly reek... 

Not a blending mistake but a stoving mistake. This was about 10 years ago.

I didn't like HH vintage Syrian so I decided to stove it for a few minutes, which turned into 4 hours because I forgot I had it in the oven and went out to eat dinner with my dad and wife. When we came back, I kept getting a wiff of a burnt smokey smell and that's when I realized what it did. Stoving latakia for 4 hours is probably the worst smell I've ever dealt with when it come to tobacco.

This is not a mistake but more like an adventurous style of blending.

A great friend of mine used to blend all, I mean ALL the rests of the differents mixtures he smoked, a majority of heavy black cavendish and perfumed aromatic that smelled like a panettone or, I don't know, christmas pudding for the anglophones...

A big pot of everything and "let's see what happens" 🤣 

Sometimes I try it, just not to throw away old tobacco crumbles, but it's rarely good, even though I never smoke aromatics.

But it's fun to do a mess sometimes...

Once i had the ends of a pure burley that i tried to "improve" a vanila-chocate aromatic with some 'body and nicotine' ... simply gross hauahauahau since them i don't mix aromatics anymore only the ends of english mixtures.

@RonBohr, Can’t top that… You win 🤠…although I may surpassed you in repeated micro-failures. For instance, I recently smoked much of a 2oz tin of a particular popular blend, which had a disgusting barnyard funk (and shall remain nameless) - by “blending” it with various combinations of stuff I love - hoping to find a passable combo. Maybe a dozen single-bowl “fails” before I gave up. Barnyard funk just doesn’t go away. 😐

Almost 24 hours later and I'm sacrificing a cob to see how bad it is. It's not great but not too very terrible. Maybe it'll improve with age. For now, it's a true Desert Island tobacco: if this was the only thing you had, would it be smokable? Well, yeah, but nowhere near the top 25 you'd prefer. Not even top 50.

My mistake it's more like a "cellaring disaster".

I wanted to store some kentucky to age for some years, and I read, years ago, in an old italian pipe blog, that it was fun to put the tobacco in a jar and cook it to make it vacuum-packed. It worked with a batch, but the second was bad closed, so now i have like 80 grams of very humid kentucky 🤣 

Can it be dried out again? 

50:50, Virginia Goldleaf and HH Rustica. What was I thinking?! 😞