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   Kevin Riner
   

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   Every once in a while, I'll get brown smoke. Not the blue or sometimes gray color. Any reason why this happens. I'm smoking Meade Hall right now.

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   Kevin
   

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   Hmmm ... Aside from this picture, I have never seen that before. I hope you're not smoking the wood.

   

   Anyone else know?

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   Bob
   

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   I have no idea why you would be getting brown smoke. I have never seen that.

   Make sure that you are not smoking too fast and are not burning the briar. But then again, I am not sure if burning brair or wood would produce brown smoke either.

   Hopefully some others will weigh in with something.

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   Kevin Riner
   

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   It doesn't happen often. It seems like it happens when I get near the end of the bowl. Plus I think the tobacco is a rather wetter tobacco and I don't dry it out before I smoke it. Also I can always tell when I get near the end cause the smoke gets hotter in my mouth and that seems to be when it happens. And it's only like a few puffs, not too much. It doesn't last long.

   So it may just be a common case of smoking it too fast and getting it too hot.

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   When I get to a point where the ember has died-out, I too notice that the last, cold puff is dark and sooty. Brown smoke would be a good description. It doesn't taste too whippy either. I can't say that one tobacco does this more than another -- or even that it happens all the time. My guess is that I'm sucking ash (no scatological cynicism intended.)

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   as if I could kill time without injuring eternity. -- Thoreau

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   Kevin Riner
   

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   Yes, that's right. That's exactly what I think is going on. I'm glad I'm not the only one. You explained it well.

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