As a rookie pipe smoker I find I often fall prey to smoking too fast (against the majority of great advice on this forum). With increasing experience I am certainly slowing down and finding a better pace for many of the tobacco blends I enjoy. However, every once in a while I smoke a blend that just seems, to my taste, to do better when "pushed" or smoked a little too fast. Right now I am smoking Rattray's Black Mallory and to me it is just such a blend. I get what I feel is the best flavor if I smoke it a little too fast and create a few gurgles throughout the bowl.
I am curious if any of you also find certain blends are more in their sweet spot when "pushed" a little?
I will also admit most of time the opposite is true as well. For me, Peterson Founder's Choice is best smoked very slow which allows the mango to really come through. That blend to me it is rather flat when smoked too fast.
Just curious.
I am curious if any of you also find certain blends are more in their sweet spot when "pushed" a little?
I will also admit most of time the opposite is true as well. For me, Peterson Founder's Choice is best smoked very slow which allows the mango to really come through. That blend to me it is rather flat when smoked too fast.
Just curious.