CAO Eileen's Dream

[papipeguy]

Another crossover from CAO's flavored cigar line to pipe tobacco. I'm not usually an aromatic smoker but lately I've had a yen for them as a break from my regular 1792 and latikia blends.

Billed as an Irish cream & white chocolate truffles smokes the tin aroma does impart a chocolate nose. The chocolate was evidient on first light and the smoke was rather full bodied; at least to me. Not unpleasant but not interesting enough to make me come back to it more than maybe twice a week. Honestly, about mid bowl it loses just about everything. I smoked it in a Radice Rind, fairly large bowl, so maybe something on a smaller scale may be the way to go.

Anyway those are my first impressions of this blend.

The shop also got CAO's Cherry Bomb in the same order but I'll try to talk one of the other regulars into buying that. At $11.30 a 50g tin I'll do just so much experimenting.

 

[duncan]

Hey I should be heading over to the shop in about 2 weeks. If you haven't gotten anyone yet I will let you know the day before and I will pick it up and let you grab a bowl.

 

[papipeguy]

Thanks. I am curious.

 

[wallbright]

I have been wanting to try Moontrance and Eileen's dream for sometime. Thank you for the inquisitive review I believe I will just try to find someone at my local hangout that can offer me a bowl, instead of buying a whole tin. Have you tried Moontrance by any chance?

 

[classicgeek]

I picked up a tin of Eileen's Dream when I was in Portland a few weeks ago. I stopped in at 82nd Ave Tobacco and Pipe and picked up a few blends that I'd been dying to try. The description of the blend really had me curious. So far I've only had a couple of bowls (my rotation is really, really slow when only smoking twice a week or so) but if you want to know what it tastes like:

1. go find a grocery store that has a fresh-ground coffee section[/*]
2. get some of their Irish Cream coffee[/*]
3. find some chocolate powder (the kind you make chocolate milk with)[/*]
4. make the coffee pretty strong and mix in about a tablespoon of the chocolate powder[/*]
5. Drink it[/*]

I did this (my wife picked up the coffee, and I usually do the mocha thing) and on the very first sip, I went "Whoa! That's exactly what Eileen's Dream tastes like!".
Simon

 

[wallbright]

Haha I will definitely give that a try and I will have to pick up a tin of Eileen's Dream while I'm at it.