GL Pease Barbary Coast STINKS Literally

carver · Sep 30, 2015

Hi all,
I bought a tin of it online from SmokingPipes months ago, but I never got myself to smoke it for a simple reason.

It stinks.

It smells like a garbage bag in which old oranges and lemons have gotten rotten.

It has a very citrus-y smell that I find hard to deal with.
Is that normal ?
Thanks for your comments.

deathmetal · Sep 30, 2015

Has the tin been pierced, anywhere, even a small hole?

mso489 · Sep 30, 2015

Various tobaccos don't smell good in the tin or bag. Two excellent blends typify this. McClellands Virginia Red Cake 5100 is famous for smelling a lot like ketchup, but once fired up it's pure elegant Virginia. Tobac-Manil Semois comes in a foil paper package and is unusually dry; it smells like someone swept the horse barn and put it in the package. It's a Belgium grown burley variant. Once lit, to those who like it, it smokes like a single-leaf blend, a rich, robust, earthy taste. Others really hate it, but it's among my favorites. Many other blends taste far better than they smell. Quite a few others smell far, far better than they taste...a lot of aromatics in that category especially.

perdurabo · Sep 30, 2015

Barbary Coast is the top shelf OTC style blend. My family loves the tin note. Has mold gotten to it? Not that I've ever had a mold problem, just heard it stinks like rotten composte.

davet · Sep 30, 2015

A friend commented that Gaslight's tin note smelled like a pigpen, perhaps, but it tastes delicious

carver · Sep 30, 2015

So are you guys saying that it's normal, the tin smell of Barbary Coast IS indeed particular ?

I was maybe a little strong when comparing it to garbage, but it does have a smell of rotten fruit.

deathmetal · Sep 30, 2015

1792 flake smells a bit like fertilizer, but it's great stuff once you let the chemical warfare agent known as "tonquin" evaporate.

jon11 · Sep 30, 2015

Smoke it....let us know what you think. Should be good

cosmicfolklore · Sep 30, 2015

Rotten fruit, yes, yummm... That tin must have some age on it. Did you check the date on the bottom of the tin? Good aged tobacco can have a rotten fruit of vegetable smell. But, nothing like garbage, or maybe my garbage can is just particularly bad.

If it has a visible white mold, then throw it away.

carver · Oct 1, 2015

Hey all, thanks for the advice.

I'll try it and tell you what. In the end, that's the only thing to do, isn't it?

jkrug · Oct 1, 2015

Smoke a bowl or two and see what you think. If you don't like it jar it up and throw it in the cellar for a few months. Then go back to it and see what you think. : puffy

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ericusrex · Oct 1, 2015

What have you been smoking up to this point? If you've only experienced heavily topped aromatics I can see why this would be shocking.

carver · Oct 1, 2015

@jkrug: I'll follow that sound piece of advice.
@ericusrex : hmm, not only aromatics. I have a bit of everything I think. It's the only one that smells that kind of smell.
By the way, i smoked it and though I am not sure I really liked it for a first try, it didn't present the taste of its smell. I'll give it another go when I am quietly on my balcony instead of wandering around and not being able to focus on what I was doing.

If I don't like it, I'll do what jkrug suggests, jar it up, leave it on the shelf for a few month and see what happens later.

mikestanley · Oct 1, 2015

The only problem I've ever experienced with

Barbary Coast is proper packing. It needs a

Gentle touch. Pay no attention to the tin note

it only matters before struck with a match.

Mike S.

pipestud · Oct 1, 2015

It has been my experience that the stinkier the tobacco tin note, the better the flavor at the match!

huntertrw · Oct 1, 2015

"t has been my experience that the stinkier the tobacco tin note, the better the flavor at the match!"
To wit: Gordon Pym!

Snow Hill · Oct 1, 2015

Yep, sounds normal to me.

hedonaut · Oct 7, 2015

There's a certain smell to white burley that's started the fermentation process. I opened a tin of Burley Flake #2 a month or two back that smelled like a neglected dumpster at first. After a few days the smell had largely dissipated. It still has a strange, unruley funk to it, but it's fantastic in the pipe. Give it some air time to settle down and give it another go. There's a whole world of microfauna in there cranking away before the tin is popped, and sometimes it needs some time for all the dust to settle.

natibo · Oct 7, 2015

The only GLP blend I gave under 3 stars. In fact, I gave it one (not recommended)

okiescout · Oct 7, 2015

Rotten? Composting, barnyard, smells may be quite natural to fermentation, but I would steer clear of anything that has the odor of decomposition ( as in flesh or eggs and shows signs of white or black dried mold, as Michael says. Low acid organics in a low oxygen condition environment ie: canned goods, can produce very unpleasant playmates. Even minute amounts of these can, when ingested, can bring about harmful effects.

GL Pease Barbary Coast STINKS Literally

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