Hello from New Hampshire, Strange Things are Happening

[Grangerous]

Welcome from the New Jersey Shore!

There are blends I have that start out tasty and then suddenly, as if a switch was thrown, taste like hot air. Completely tasteless. I’ve waited, smoked others and rotated back only to find the same thing.

For the curious, that blend was Haunted Bookshop. We’re all chemically complex. Which is why I always feel that when you’re lucky to find that blend that seldom lets you down, don’t take it for granted— those few are keepers.

 

[Merton]

Welcome from Bonnie Scotland ???????
Happy smokes
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what a photo! sets my heart ablaze...

 

[coming to_falling too]

Did you dry your tobacco?

 

[cigrmaster]

I miss the days when you could buy 25 tins at a time. That was the best way to build a cellar, it was fun buying 25 at a time and building a cellar that way.

 

[Derby]

Welcome from Minnesota ?

 

[Jacob74]

 

[Ethan]

Welcome from MA...hope you figure out what works on this. Windjammer is one of a favorites. Good Luck!!

 

[saltedplug]

In the early days you're trying to develop your palate and master smoking technique. You're trying to understand if what you taste is similar enough to the blender's notes so you can verify, at least in this instance, your palate's accuracy. You're trying to remember to enjoy yourself in the midst of an experience that's so new and complex that it can be overwhelming.

In the crush of all this I think's it's unlikely that all of your palate's reports are accurate. I think it impossible to diagnose the problem. Your best answer may be to enjoy yourself and keep on smoking.

 

[chopper]

G'day and welcome from Australia.

Since you're a relative newbie, I'd suspect that either your taste buds are still adjusting, or, Red Virginias have an affect due to your oral chemistry.

Tastes change. Many, if not most of us, go through stages where we turn off particular genres for a while [or not like a particular leaf or genre with the first bowl] then find in time that we go back to them.

Personally I'd just jar those blends and stick to those that you do enjoy.
Then in several months give them another try.

Blends change with age, usually for the better [Virginias in particular], so no harm in cellaring.