Perique and The Souring of a Pipe
- Thread starter BrokenRecord
- Start date
SmokingPipes.com Updates
Watch for Updates Twice a Week
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
Site Sponsors
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
PipesMagazine Approved Sponsor
- Status
I've never had a terribly Perique haunted pipe nor a sour pipe in the past three decades.
Same and I smoke predominantly VaPers and Virginias. No haunting or ghosting issues.
I definitely can taste a perique ghost when smoking a Virginia blend in a pipe that had previously smoked a perique blend.
I smoke VAs and Vapers in the same pipes. But don’t smoke a lot of perique or really strong blends. I’ve not noticed a ghosting.
I've said this before, but:
Yes I definitely notice a Perique ghost. Like other ghosts I don't mind, but it's there for sure. IMO of course.
Yes I definitely notice a Perique ghost. Like other ghosts I don't mind, but it's there for sure. IMO of course.
I clean the piss out of my pipes no matter va,vaper and vaber if I forget one day and smoke a vaper pipe in a va pipe I notice some different flavors but nothing like a Latakia or Lakeland ghost.
Do you go beyond using one or two pipe cleaners? I flush one of the two pipes semi often with tap water. I will do an alcohol salt soak on them and see if that changes anything. I am fine with a ghost, I just think I over did the perique for half a year on a small pipe rotation.
Thank you all for your responses. This helps.
After I smoke a bowl, I run a pipe cleaner through the stem and shank, then I swirl the bowl with the same cleaner bent in half to keep the cake to the level I prefer. I’ll do a deep cleaning 1-2 times per year with Everclear and few cleaners but that’s about it.
️Sounds like my routine.......though I can't get Everclear in the U.K...........so I use the bottle of rank rum I was given by my mother-in-law a few years ago....After I smoke a bowl, I run a pipe cleaner through the stem and shank, then I swirl the bowl with the same cleaner bent in half to keep the cake to the level I prefer. I’ll do a deep cleaning 1-2 times per year with Everclear and few cleaners but that’s about it.
I run one-to-two pipe cleaners after every smoke. After twenty smokes, I run an alcohol soaked pipe cleaner through the shank. However, on one of the pipes I flush with water every so often. I do not experience anything different in the taste between them.
If this is the extent of you're cleaning regimen, you're not doing nearly enough to get your pipe neutral. Your airway is clean when you alcohol soaked fluffy, taper, or taper bristle comes out clean after scrubbing out the shank airway. Whether this take 3, 5, 10, 100,000, the airway is clean when the cleaners come out clean.
Running a pipe cleaner through the airway between bowls is good basic maintenance, but without occasionally removing the stem to clean out the mortise you'll ave a decent draw through a stinky pipe.
And not everyone has the same level of sensory awareness. I worked with a guy at Starz, who owned the second most vile smelling, rancid pipe I've ever encountered. It was a Peterson that he smoked multiple times a day, and it was the only pipe that he owned. He never disassembled it, to my knowledge, and only occasionally ran a pipe cleaner through it when the airway got clogged. You could smell that pipe a block away. He loved that pipe and seemed to have completely acclimated to its rancid sour stench.
- Status