I got a two bowl sample bag of this from @Ahi Ka so I will do two reviews in the form of internal dialogue followed by some contextual history of each smoke.
bowl #1 review:
"Yeah, that sure is bland to the point of boredom...it may as well be renamed Nirvana since it has essentially achieved nothingness."
Bowl #2 review:
"Oh that is delicious, is someone baking bread round here? No, no bakers to be seen anywhere, just a very pleasant sweet, light ,fragrant, hay, sunshine, bread rising aroma rising in a thin nostril tickling tendril of perfection from atop this ol' cob...damn this is SO GOOD, I can't believe I never bothered to pick this up before, mmmmmm, yuuuummmm, mmmmmmmm, oh yeah baby, hitting the spot.....mmmmmm, etc"
Bowl #1 context:
It was a normal day.
Bowl #2 context:
I was driving a forklift for the first time, my parents avocado orchard had its first big crop and they needed help. I was slightly out of my comfort zone and i NEEDED my pipe as moral support, I grabbed the cob on hand and the bag of tobacco I spotted underfoot in the truck...I also got the forklift stuck as light was fading and buried the back wheel in a soft spot of paddock, and that same bowl saw me through the whole digging out/jacking up/stacking boards under wheel episode.
What did I learn? probably more about forklifts than tobacco, but I like to think it was an emphasis on not writing a blend off to quickly, the luxurious position of having too many blends to choose from can perhaps hinder the ability to get the most out of any one of them??? I might go back to keeping just 2 or 3 choices out for a bit, see how that goes....
Isaac.
bowl #1 review:
"Yeah, that sure is bland to the point of boredom...it may as well be renamed Nirvana since it has essentially achieved nothingness."
Bowl #2 review:
"Oh that is delicious, is someone baking bread round here? No, no bakers to be seen anywhere, just a very pleasant sweet, light ,fragrant, hay, sunshine, bread rising aroma rising in a thin nostril tickling tendril of perfection from atop this ol' cob...damn this is SO GOOD, I can't believe I never bothered to pick this up before, mmmmmm, yuuuummmm, mmmmmmmm, oh yeah baby, hitting the spot.....mmmmmm, etc"
Bowl #1 context:
It was a normal day.
Bowl #2 context:
I was driving a forklift for the first time, my parents avocado orchard had its first big crop and they needed help. I was slightly out of my comfort zone and i NEEDED my pipe as moral support, I grabbed the cob on hand and the bag of tobacco I spotted underfoot in the truck...I also got the forklift stuck as light was fading and buried the back wheel in a soft spot of paddock, and that same bowl saw me through the whole digging out/jacking up/stacking boards under wheel episode.
What did I learn? probably more about forklifts than tobacco, but I like to think it was an emphasis on not writing a blend off to quickly, the luxurious position of having too many blends to choose from can perhaps hinder the ability to get the most out of any one of them??? I might go back to keeping just 2 or 3 choices out for a bit, see how that goes....
Isaac.