Cigarette Ash, Anyone?

[winterlionpassing]

I opened a new tin of 7ish year old Virgina last (Dunhill 3 year matured Virginia) night and smoked two bowls. The first 15-20 minutes were fine but then it started to become bitter and taste like cigarette ash, the taste of which lingered in my mouth until this morning. mind, I did not eat much of anything the last two days.

I tried it again this morning in a different pipe, (with a couple of mugs of black coffee.) This time being more careful to let it sit and breathe a few minutes before packing and lighting one then twice and smoking slowly. The coffee certainly helped and was a nice contrast but again... first 20 minutes were tolerable and then, cigarette ash. Ughh. completely disgusting and my mouth felt like a tasteless raisin.

Maybe it just didn't agree with me? thoughts anyone?

 

[proteus]

Shake your ash.

 

[winterlionpassing]

Shake your ash.

I will try it, can you help me understand why though?

 

[fireground_piper]

Have you had a different experience before with this blend? How did the citrus topping come through?

 

[winterlionpassing]

Have you had a different experience before with this blend? How did the citrus topping come through?

first time with this one, it was a gift. the citrus? Virtually non existent. Although I have only smoke it three times.

 

[fireground_piper]

The citrus is light on it but I was curious if you had at least tasted it or not. My experience is it’s a very light/ medium flavored blend and very monochromatic. I just finished a tin the other day so it’s fresh in my mind.

 

[warren]

I have no idea what cigarette ash tastes like. I've smoked 'em for sixty years but, never tried tasting the ash. Your palate is maybe telling you to try a different blend. Or, set it aside and try again in a few days. Palates can change frequently for a myriad of reasons.

 

[Sig]

Sometimes I get an ashy taste mid way or at the end of a bowl of a Va blend or a Burley blend. I have no idea why but I've heard others say the same thing. Luckily it doesn't happen often but can last a couple days for me.
When it does happen, I just smoke Latakia blends for a couple days. Lat blends never taste ashy too me.

 

[proteus]

I will try it, can you help me understand why though?

As I see it from my own experience sometimes the air coming through the thick ash cake in some tobaccos that form a lot of dry ash you get the flavor of the ash with the tobacco. Kind of like when you take a pipe out of the rack and just inhale from it. You get the old stale taste.

 

[proteus]

I personally don't mind that taste myself but I can see why others might not enjoy that. But I've smoked cigars and pipes and I grew up with smokers during the 70s at a time when no one stopped smoking around anyone even children pregnant women and infants. I remember burnt melamine ashtrays filled sky high with cig butts matches and ash. Which of course was my chore to empty and to run to the Cumbie to get a carton of marlboros and whatever else was needed. The laws were very different. It was a diff time. But the smell of that is nostalgic for me.

 

[TakeThisCobAndStuffIt]

Possibly still smoking hot and fast...even if you think it's slow.

 

[dottlejockey]

I'm with the set it aside for a bit and return to it later group. If i get off flavors from a bowl, it gets dumped and i move along to something else. Always something going to smoke good in one vessel or another at any given time.