Maybe It Is Just Me...

[LOREN]

I've never been able to taste the flavors everyone else tastes when smoking aromatics. So I guess I don't like aromatics for that reason.

 

[BrokenRecord]

Leather molded by saltwater ?

Sounds like a nice tin note or an Islay Scotch.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Except that last part about tastes changing. I wont suddenly enjoy aromatics in the future

Too late.?

 

[Chasing Embers]

Sounds like a nice tin note or an Islay Scotch.

Maybe if distilled in a septic tank, and I like Islay Scotch.

 

[canucklehead]

I've had some tobaccos that weren't that great, but have never thrown any away. Kind of like my view of pizza, even bad pizza is better than no pizza.

 

[Buckler]

I tend to get little enjoyment from many English blends. However Yorktown is a 4/5 for me. I really like aeros Nutty Irishman and Hobbit weed are also 4/5 and Founding fathers just blew me out of the water <3.
And then there are a bunch that just don’t grab me like Autumn Evenings.
It seems that English blends are something one grows in to but there are a bunch that are just meh to me... ?‍

 

[tschiraldi]

I remember the day after the switched flipped and I went from loving to hating Latakia. I must have thrown away 20 lbs of tobacco!

 

[canucklehead]

I remember the day after the switched flipped and I went from loving to hating Latakia. I must have thrown away 20 lbs of tobacco!

I hope you didn't literally throw it in the trash, and at least gave it away or something. Like if you saw a homeless person begging at a stoplight give them a pound of Balkan Supreme lol.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Aromatics often taste very little like the topping. I find blends with Lakeland essence nauseating. Taste is one of the most subjective senses.

 

[olkofri]

Taste is one of the most subjective senses.

Definitely. Some swear by fish and caviar, but both make me nauseous. The one day I tried a bite of a caviar topped canape I immediately spat it out. Pukish stuff.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

The most divine U.S made blend if have tried by this day was GL Pease Stonehaven

 

[Grangerous]

Too late.?

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FAKE NEWS, DUANE!?

YOU of all people! ??

 

[Ziggywm]

But I find it hard to understand how any of the basic types of pipe tobacco can be disliked.
How can you not find aros delicious? Seriously vanilla or fruit taste great and when combined with tobacco wonderful.
Va blends how can you not enjoy the subtle sweet invigorating smoke?
How can you not enjoy the comforts of a good burly?
How can you not marvel at the multifaceted and exotic tastes of a great english blend?
Sure I get how you can have favorites and how you could consistently desire one of these over the others. But to actually not like them at all seems baffling and perplexing to me.

Well I for one understand it. Often its the proportion or ratio of tobaccos in a mixture or blend. For example, I pulled out a tin of Stilman's I had in my humidor for 15 years. After a bowl I remembered why I put it away; It was a Latakia/Burley "bomb" with no complexity. It left my tongue and palette scorched such I haven't smoked my pipe for 2 days, and it may be 3 or 4. I know some people like such blends, but a mild Am/En blend is preferable for me some of the time. Mostly I enjoy mild Va/Burley flakes. Taste is as individual as the human fingerprint, and tobacco, like food or wine, beer, or whisky is not equally liked by all. I can't stand the taste of egg yoke. When forced to eat it as a kid I threw-up all over the table. My parents never forced me again!

But I find it hard to understand how any of the basic types of pipe tobacco can be disliked.
How can you not find aros delicious? Seriously vanilla or fruit taste great and when combined with tobacco wonderful.
Va blends how can you not enjoy the subtle sweet invigorating smoke?
How can you not enjoy the comforts of a good burly?
How can you not marvel at the multifaceted and exotic tastes of a great english blend?
Sure I get how you can have favorites and how you could consistently desire one of these over the others. But to actually not like them at all seems baffling and perplexing to me.

 

[tschiraldi]

I hope you didn't literally throw it in the trash, and at least gave it away or something. Like if you saw a homeless person begging at a stoplight give them a pound of Balkan Supreme lol.

Nope. It all went in the dumpster!

 

[Ziggywm]

The most divine U.S made blend if have tried by this day was GL Pease Stonehaven

If you can get it!

 

[bullet08]

I don't have any of 'em. I just enjoy some more than the others.

 

[Dutchland Pipe Smoker]

The most divine U.S made blend if have tried by this day was GL Pease Stonehaven

If you can get it!

He might have meant GL Pease Stonehenge, which is good and available. I have not tried Stonehaven yet, but am waiting on a day I walk into a place and find it. The two Esoterica blends I have not come across are Stonehaven or Penzance.

Info I found on Stonehenge:
"From Gregory Pease:
In 2001, I had the honor and pleasure of collaborating with G.H. & Co.'s John Gawith on a very special tobacco, and after nearly a year of development, Stonehenge Flake, a modern VA/Perique blend steeped in English tradition, was born."

 

[BROBS]

FAKE NEWS, DUANE!?
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YOU of all people! ??

It does have top flavoring.

 

[Grangerous]

It does have top flavoring.

Show me. It’s cased, of course. Topped? With what?

 

[saltedplug]

I hate babies. Everyone is making over them while they are putting that same stinking stuff in their drawers, which we feel compelled to clean up. Who says? All the women are leaning over to whisper sweet nothings in their ears while I I'm thinking of sitting on it. Surprising my daughter survived infancy.