So from day one on here I have heard what a dreadful, blend from hell, Mixture 79 is. Last week I was at the B+M checking on how my new Meer was coming along and I spied a pouch on the shelf and figured that I just had to give this a try. The first bowl was....... Not great. It was bone dry, very floral taste that I didn't mind at all but smoked hot as all get out. I re-hydrated it and tried another small bowl and still found it..... wrong.... not bad just not great. Then I decided to try something different, the Mixture itself is a rather fine cut and I knew I had some PS Virginia Long Cut in the cellar from when I was experimenting with Virginias so I mixed the two together at about a 50/50 ratio. The Long Cut is essentially a roll-your-own fine cut pure Virginia and mixed nicely in with the Mixture 79. The moisture was good, the floral smell of the Mixture was lessened a bit and now it had a nice grassy undertone to it. I loaded a bowl in one of my Zenith double wall clay pipes and gave it a try. The results were much better then Mixture alone. I still got the soapy lakeland flavor along with muted virginia grassy-ness as well, I even caught a little bit of the "Dr.Pepper" flavors on the backside of the bowl.
While it was tasty its not something that I plan to smoke daily, but it will be an interesting blend to have now and then as a change-up tobacco.
While it was tasty its not something that I plan to smoke daily, but it will be an interesting blend to have now and then as a change-up tobacco.
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