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Hey, I've been smoking for awhile but I'm new to the forum. Had bad experiences with tins of Royal Yacht and a tin of Elizabethan Mixture lately. Both had a really bad taste that made them unsmokeable (at least for me).
The Royal Yacht was a few weeks ago. The first bowl was fine, the next one was harsh and chemically tasting. I tried it in three different pipes and it was the same. Other tobacco tasted fine in the same pipes immediately afterward.
Tonight, I cracked my first tin of Elizabethan, smoked some in an Ardor estate calabash I just got. The pipe smokes great, but the taste was not great - I kept waiting for the flavor to perk up but I was just getting a bland, floor waxy flavor. I switched to an unsmoked Castello estate I got recently, only filled it halfway up - tobacco tasted even worse in this pipe. I emptied the unsmoked Castello out and filled it with a new tin of Esoterica Dunbar, which tasted great - no weird aftertaste, not a trace of what I was getting with the EM. (Btw, I've smoked 2 tins of Mixture 965 lately and both have been perfect).
The guys at my local shop thought the Royal Yacht was not properly cured (at least I think that's what they said) so I'm gonna age it for at least 6 mos (I put all my tobacco in ball jars) and see what happens.
I have a pretty discriminating palate, and like to think I can discriminate between what doesn't suit my tastebuds versus what could knock a buzzard off a garbage truck, These two taste experiences definitely fall into the "what crawled in here and died ?" category. Thoughts ?
The Royal Yacht was a few weeks ago. The first bowl was fine, the next one was harsh and chemically tasting. I tried it in three different pipes and it was the same. Other tobacco tasted fine in the same pipes immediately afterward.
Tonight, I cracked my first tin of Elizabethan, smoked some in an Ardor estate calabash I just got. The pipe smokes great, but the taste was not great - I kept waiting for the flavor to perk up but I was just getting a bland, floor waxy flavor. I switched to an unsmoked Castello estate I got recently, only filled it halfway up - tobacco tasted even worse in this pipe. I emptied the unsmoked Castello out and filled it with a new tin of Esoterica Dunbar, which tasted great - no weird aftertaste, not a trace of what I was getting with the EM. (Btw, I've smoked 2 tins of Mixture 965 lately and both have been perfect).
The guys at my local shop thought the Royal Yacht was not properly cured (at least I think that's what they said) so I'm gonna age it for at least 6 mos (I put all my tobacco in ball jars) and see what happens.
I have a pretty discriminating palate, and like to think I can discriminate between what doesn't suit my tastebuds versus what could knock a buzzard off a garbage truck, These two taste experiences definitely fall into the "what crawled in here and died ?" category. Thoughts ?
