In your opinion, can quality tobacco "ghosting" be a good thing?

mrmachado

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• Jan 25, 2019

• #1

For example, you smoke a lot of good tobacco in a pipe and it leaves its taste there.
Then you return to mediocre tobaccos due to the lack of good tobacco in your stash, but the taste of the previous one is still there.
Do you like it when that happens?
(I don't know if I should have posted in this section, since it's more of a personal taste question...)

 

theosprey247

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Feb 29, 2016

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• Jan 25, 2019

• #2

Yes. Sometimes the “ghost” gives an extra dimension to some limited tobaccos.

 

daveinlax

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May 5, 2009

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• Jan 25, 2019

• #3

I got a great pipe last week with a strong spicy (non aro) like ghost. The pipe had been reportedly retorted by the seller. I hated it at first but I've probably smoked well over twenty bowl in it and either it's fading or I've gotten used to it. 8O

 

johnbarleycorn

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Dec 28, 2015

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• Jan 25, 2019

• #4

I have personally never minded a condor ghost. It’s an enhancement in my opinion.

 

haparnold

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Aug 9, 2018

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• Jan 25, 2019

• #5

I can't say on the specific question (that is, letting 'quality' tobacco intentionally ghost 'mediocre' tobacco), but I like an intentional ghost on occasion. Sometimes I smoke something like 1-Q and smoke a straight VA in the same pipe some time later. Makes for a nice Cavendish undertone.

 

weezell

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Oct 12, 2011

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• Jan 25, 2019

• #6

I have personally never minded a condor ghost. It’s an enhancement in my opinion.

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Glorious I say!... :worship:

 

jpmcwjr

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May 12, 2015

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• Jan 25, 2019

• #7

For example, you smoke a lot of good tobacco in a pipe and it leaves its taste there.
Then you return to mediocre tobaccos due to the lack of good tobacco in your stash, but the taste of the previous one is still there.

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Then that would be a good thing, the ghost from a better tobacco. I try to not smoke mediocre tobaccos.

 

mechanic

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Dec 1, 2018

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• Jan 25, 2019

• #8

I have a mm cob ghosted with half and half. I dont like how it makes my carter hall taste now

 

dottiewarden

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Mar 25, 2014

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Toronto

• Jan 25, 2019

• #9

Mac Baren Cube Silver leaves a tasty ghost after only a few bowls. It adds a subtle sweetness to near any blend. No complaints on this end.

 

seanv

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Mar 22, 2018

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• Jan 26, 2019

• #10

Ghosting isn’t always bad. If you smoke the same thing in the same pipe for a long time it could be considered a flavour enhancing ghost

 

doctorbob

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Mar 18, 2014

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• Jan 26, 2019

• #11

I picked up an estate that I really, REALLY liked. It had a strong lakeland ghost. I decided to smoke the ghost out and in the process developed a real fondness for lakelands.
The ghost introduced me to a dimension of tobacco that I probably wouldn't have discovered otherwise.
Doc

 

mrmachado

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Oct 17, 2018

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• Jan 26, 2019

• #12

I smoked some bowls of Irish Flake in my first pipe, and when smoking a bowl of Seven Seas Regular in it after that...
The Seven Seas tasted just like Irish Flake!
I guess it may be a way of saving money. :lol:

 

mso489

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Feb 21, 2013

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• Jan 26, 2019

• #13

It's a matter of keeping track of ghosted pipes, so you know not to compromise blends where you want no ghosts. Frankly, I've never knowingly experienced a ghost. The cob I just used for Mixture No. 79 may serve as an experiment, to see how another blend will taste in this pipe. Since I don't build cake, 79 may not turn up in any amount I can taste, but I'll let folks know if it does.

 

warren

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Sep 13, 2013

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• Jan 26, 2019

• #14

I don't dedicate pipes to blends so, except for my meers, they are all ghosted, all the time to some degree or another. I keep pretty much to the same six or so blends so, never any real surprises.

 

bosmer

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Jun 27, 2017

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• Jan 28, 2019

• #15

I recently swapped a pipe I had committed to english blends and started smoking a Va/Per in it and I was pleasantly surprised at how the ghosting really enhanced the experience, especially towards the end of the bowl.