Allergic To Red Virginia

[anotherbob]

I thought I would post this here as am interested to see if anyone else has a similar experience. I loaded a bowl of 403 in a trombone meerschaum pipe the other night and I got zero zing from the red Virginia. Despite being somewhat sensitive to red va, I do sometimes enjoy placing my tongue into the smoke stream and getting a small controlled bite from this blend. Kinda adds a tangy apple note to the smoke.

Anyways, I had the fullest flavour from this blend ever.

Could it be the meerschaum, or the long shank?

meers and long stems/shanks can mellow out a smoke. Or at least that's been my experience with it.

 

[Mr. Beauregard]

I think I'm allergic to some of the responses on this thread.