Escudo

[peckinpahhombre]

We fly in different tobacco circles aldecaker. I tried OGS when I first started out and thought it was very bland and uninteresting and I have never returned to that one. I do enjoy the bullseye flake, but much prefer Escudo. The bullseye flake is very cheap, and a good deal, but to my palate completely unsmokeable until it has at least 2 years of age on it whereas I do enjoy a fresh tin of Escudo.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

My notes from my last bowl of Escudo were "tastes like candy", and my notes from Bullseye flake are "doesn't have much sweetness to it".

(I didn't like a fresh tin of FVF either, and I'm pretty sure my tin of Escudo did have a few years on it.)
Maybe we're all getting tobacco from completely different stockpiles and all the aged LBF is on one side of the continent and all the aged Escudo is on the other side.
Regardless of what you prefer it needs some time on the shelf. If you happen to prefer Bullseye Flake all the better, you get to save some money.

 

[iamn8]

I'm very sorry, but your lack of enthusiasm for Escudo has been brought to this panels attention resulting in a review of your application. While tastes will always vary, we must have at least one tobacco in common and this has always been Escudo. You have thirty days to appeal, but the panel suggest you give it another go. If your opinion hasn't changed after repeated efforts our advice is to lie. **
**asterisks denote a tone of light hearted playfulness as no such panel exists... Or does it?

 

[jpmcwjr]

Well, certainly, The Shadow knows!

 

[aldecaker]

Hey, if you guys are sentencing me to a few years in the Pipe Tobacco Re-Education Gulag, all I can say is "Give me a minute to grab my hat"!

 

[prairiedruid]

Gulag???? More like Stalag 13 from Hogan's Heroes but then......"I know nothing!!!!"

 

[saltedplug]

Escudo ranks third in poundage in my cellar. It is one of the most dependable tobaccos that I smoke. I've always loved it, and it's never not performed.
However I have smoked about 6 blends that seemed flavorless for an entire tin, Triple Play, for one. So I let do time in a jar for three years, and when I opened it a few day ago, the lid came off with a loud, forceful pop, gas from fermentation. I've only smoked a bowl but the first gave every indication of great flavor with the promise of Mr. Pease's customary magic.
Why? I don''t know. Why with this one blend at that time, when I seemed to be tasting other blends fine? I will say that I've isolated a pattern wherein I light up and start writing on the computer with the goal to enjoy a smoke while I work, get very focused on that work, stop paying attention to the pipe and stop tasting the tobacco, and my palate turns off. Taste doesn't stop but it goes flat, and I may not have a bowl for the balance of the day that's worth smoking. If I can influence taste to be flat then it would seem that I can turn it back on, but so far no progress on that track. In any case next morning I taste fine.
Under other circumstance my palate varies from fair to so acute that the flavor almost hurts. This does not seem to have to do with anything other than the normal physiology of taste.

 

[cobguy]

You are not alone ... no Escudo in my cellar.
St. James Woods and Beacon Extra, on the other hand ... ::