I started smoking pipes (plural) after many years of struggle with cigarettes. I've never been a fan of menthol.
However, I have been a fan of tobacco taste and smell.
Like most of us, I've enjoyed sampling as many of the blends as I could during my first years in this 'sport', and I've gravitated to unadulterated, dry, bagged blends from D&R.
D&R recently offered a new twist to a couple of their established blends calling them "Green" and in the P&C description of the Pennhooker Green they describe a minty taste.
Unlike D&R's Wintergreen, which does have a minty taste, the Pennhooker Green tastes like menthol. Not what I call minty.
So, I've got a pound of this green Pennhooker that tastes just like a Salem on retrohale, and I'm in that stage where I either keep smoking this stuff till I like it, or I put it away, trade it, give it away or throw it out.
After the initial shock, I did smoke this blend in a couple of pipes to see how that made any difference, and I did become somewhat 'familiar' with the new taste.
I'd say, this will be a polarizing blend.
However, I have been a fan of tobacco taste and smell.
Like most of us, I've enjoyed sampling as many of the blends as I could during my first years in this 'sport', and I've gravitated to unadulterated, dry, bagged blends from D&R.
D&R recently offered a new twist to a couple of their established blends calling them "Green" and in the P&C description of the Pennhooker Green they describe a minty taste.
Unlike D&R's Wintergreen, which does have a minty taste, the Pennhooker Green tastes like menthol. Not what I call minty.
So, I've got a pound of this green Pennhooker that tastes just like a Salem on retrohale, and I'm in that stage where I either keep smoking this stuff till I like it, or I put it away, trade it, give it away or throw it out.
After the initial shock, I did smoke this blend in a couple of pipes to see how that made any difference, and I did become somewhat 'familiar' with the new taste.
I'd say, this will be a polarizing blend.