I Think I've Been Ghosted...

[jackattack]

...by C&D Autumn Evening in my Rossi bent billiard. I smoked a couple Davidoff flake medallions out of it earlier and got a hint of maple throughout the bowl.

After every smoke I twist a paper towel into the bowl and run a pipe cleaner or two through the stem. I'm not really mad at it as I intended to use the Rossi for any aromatics that I smoked, it's just surprising that it happened so quickly.

 

[kcghost]

It is one of the drawbacks you have with aromatics. All you can do is keep things that ghost things in similar fashion in the same pipes.

 

[Hillcrest]

It should go away with 2-3 bowls of something else. Its not permanent. Rinse with water then wipe out.

 

[Waning Embers]

Wet coffee grounds are you friend for exorcism.

 

[jackattack]

Wet coffee grounds are you friend for exorcism.

So just pack the bowl with wet grounds and let it sit for a bit?

 

[Waning Embers]

So just pack the bowl with wet grounds and let it sit for a bit?

Yep, just make sure they're wet and leave them in overnight.

 

[anotherbob]

So just pack the bowl with wet grounds and let it sit for a bit?

also works on a sour pipe. A sour pipe is more like a pipe that taste like dog shit smells.
Oh and sometimes wiping out the mortise a.k.a. the hole the stem goes into, can sometimes help with a ghost.
And if you really want to know what a ghost really is smoke one blend in a pipe year after year. That's a real ghost.

 

[Cracklin' Tobaccy]

I made the mistake of smoking straight mapacho through one of my favorite pipes. Mapacho ghosts a pipe like nothing else. I cleaned it thoroughly. I smoked numerous bowls of Five Brothers and Bold Kentucky through it and it still tastes like mapacho. Now mapacho is the only thing I smoke in that pipe.

 

[AJL67]

Meerschaum is your friend.

 

[Piping Abe]

Meerschaum is your friend.

Meerschaum ghosts worse than briar.

 

[PipeIT]

You can also smoke Burley or Latakia English like blends, both really good at getting ghosts out. Of course the longer you smoke blends that ghost, the longer you need to smoke alternatives like these to get it out.

If you can’t or don’t rotate pipes for specific blends, best to alternate blends after one bowl.

 

[huntertrw]

Ghosted...

 

[AJL67]

Meerschaum ghosts worse than briar.

Ok well Meerschaum doesn't ghost for anyone but @Piping Abe .

 

[bullet08]

Clean out the mortise and see if that helps.

 

[Piping Abe]

Ok well Meerschaum doesn't ghost for anyone but @Piping Abe .

Meerschaum absorbs moisture like a sponge, so it is only common sense. Ask @Chasing Embers

 

[Waning Embers]

Ok well Meerschaum doesn't ghost for anyone but @Piping Abe .

Meerschaum is a natural sponge. It ghosts worse than any other material I've seen.

 

[Zapasta]

I seem to get far more precise flavor out of my meers, whereas my briars taste like a jumbled mess, I had always assumed from ghosting. Maybe my meers are different

 

[Piping Abe]

I’ve also found Corn Cobs to ghost way worse than briars as well.

 

[Hillcrest]

A sour pipe is more like a pipe that taste like dog shit smells.

When I read things like the above, I think, who's the first guy who set out to discover that and then went around telling everyone about it ?? What a party favorite !

 

[Wapask]

Ok well Meerschaum doesn't ghost for anyone but @Piping Abe .

It ghosts, African meer will ghost a lot less than Turkish meer due to it being much more porous but even the much more dense African Meerschaum pipes ghost with enough time.