Black Cavendish

[fafnir]

Hi Guys, So I am a newbie smoker happily puffing away on my OTC ''Rum & Maple'' and a blend obtained from the local tobacconist. I was told to avoid cherry tobacco blends as this can leave a ghost taste in the pipe. My question, will Black Cavendish (Holland House) leave a ghost taste or is this safe to use and even to mixed with R&M ?

 

[jazz]

Any aromatic can leave a ghost in your pipe including your rum and maple. Even non aro's can leave ghosts. I won't smoke virginia in something I smoke a latakia in for example.

 

[mso489]

Some of us are far more particular and sensitive to "ghosting" than others. Likewise, if you have a number of pipes, so you aren't repeatedly smoking a blend in one pipe, it may not matter as much. Also, ghosting may depend on caking. Some of us aren't cake builders, scoop and wipe out a pipe after every use, just relying on a thin layer of carbon; my pipes bought new thirty-forty years ago like this method very much. No cake means little or no ghosting with most blends. A few blends, like U.K. Lake District "Lakeland" blends, particular ones with specific ingredients, will ghost anything, so if you get into those, just smoke them in designated pipes marked with heavy day-glo duct tape (just kidding) or cobs.

 

[ray47]

I guess my palate isn't all that sensitive because I don't notice any ghosting in my pipes from black cavendish. Now Mixture 79 is a different story, but I don't want to go off thread.

 

[cigrmaster]

fafnir, I dedicate most of my pipes to categories of blends. For example I have my Virginia/Perique pipes, my Virginia/Burley/Kentucky pipes, my aromatic pipes and so on. There are some of my pipes that I dedicate a particular blend.

If you are smoking mainly aromatics I would not worry too much about a ghost. I would not smoke a Latakia blend in my aromatic pipe as the Latakia will take on a flavor not intended by the blender.
In regards to a cherry blend. I agree about them except for one blend. Cult is the name of the mfg, and the blend is named Blood Red Moon. I am not a cherry guy, but this blend is very tasty. It has a nice flavor and does not goop up your pipe like most of the other cherry blends out there. I would give it a shot if you like aromatics. These guys have it in stock.

http://www.pipesandcigars.com/pipe-tobacco/78834/cult-blood-red-moon/

 

[pitchfork]

Black cavendish and your rum and maple blend will both ghost, but those ghosts should go together just fine.

 

[fafnir]

Thanks guys for the response, both my uncle and grandfather used to mixed Rum&Maple together with Black Cavendish, and this is the smell I associate with my childhood, in fact when I started to smoke a pipe the tobacconist supplied a house blend, it was only on the insistence of non smoking family members that I try Rum&Maple which I am now very fond of.

 

[hextor]

I use my corn cob to smoke areos, I have never had anything ghost in my corn cob before, but my briar I use English tobacco.