Hey Folks,
I started out smoking aromatic blends 5 or 6 years ago. Mainly Captain Black and cheap store blends. I was perfectly happy with them until I bought my first English Blend. Then I had to try more English blends and eventually lost all interest in my mason jars of cheap aros. Then last July I decided I wanted to try them again. I took a ziplock bag of some along with a beater pipe out to the local trout stream where I spent the afternoon fishing, pitched a tent in the evening, built a fire, sipped some scotch, and fired up the pipe. Immediately I was hit with disgust. I hated it. I tried to tough it out to the bottom of the bowl but only made it a third of the way through before I was cursing it and dumping it into the fire. About 30 minutes later my stomach started to hurt. I got in the tent and lied there feeling sick. At about 1:00 in the morning I woke up feeling REALLY sick. I will spare you the details, but I spent the rest of the night until 7:00 AM outside the tent and the rest of the next day feeling bad. Now, it might not have been the tobacco. It could have been the small town SubWay sandwich I ate. Or slight dehydration (it was over 100 during the day) coupled with a beer or two and the scotch at night. But the tobacco seemed to be the tipping point. I mean, I haven't had the desire to give up going out in the heat, or fly fishing, or eating at SubWay , or beer, or Scotch, but I threw ALL that darn aro junk away and never looked back. But now I kinda miss that nostalgic aro smell and room note. I don't know that I have ever actually had a GOOD aro. So, do you think the tobacco made me sick? If I were to try just one aro again, what should it be? I know it is ridiculously subjective, but what is the BEST blend to get me back on the aromatic horse?
CW
I started out smoking aromatic blends 5 or 6 years ago. Mainly Captain Black and cheap store blends. I was perfectly happy with them until I bought my first English Blend. Then I had to try more English blends and eventually lost all interest in my mason jars of cheap aros. Then last July I decided I wanted to try them again. I took a ziplock bag of some along with a beater pipe out to the local trout stream where I spent the afternoon fishing, pitched a tent in the evening, built a fire, sipped some scotch, and fired up the pipe. Immediately I was hit with disgust. I hated it. I tried to tough it out to the bottom of the bowl but only made it a third of the way through before I was cursing it and dumping it into the fire. About 30 minutes later my stomach started to hurt. I got in the tent and lied there feeling sick. At about 1:00 in the morning I woke up feeling REALLY sick. I will spare you the details, but I spent the rest of the night until 7:00 AM outside the tent and the rest of the next day feeling bad. Now, it might not have been the tobacco. It could have been the small town SubWay sandwich I ate. Or slight dehydration (it was over 100 during the day) coupled with a beer or two and the scotch at night. But the tobacco seemed to be the tipping point. I mean, I haven't had the desire to give up going out in the heat, or fly fishing, or eating at SubWay , or beer, or Scotch, but I threw ALL that darn aro junk away and never looked back. But now I kinda miss that nostalgic aro smell and room note. I don't know that I have ever actually had a GOOD aro. So, do you think the tobacco made me sick? If I were to try just one aro again, what should it be? I know it is ridiculously subjective, but what is the BEST blend to get me back on the aromatic horse?
CW