That said, my question remains: Can a perique ghost overpower a VA/per? Can the funk become too much?
That said, my question remains: Can a perique ghost overpower a VA/per? Can the funk become too much?
I've never had a terribly Perique haunted pipe......
Yeah, I am pretty meticulous with cleaning. I don't think that is an issue. I am mostly referring to two Castellos I smoke three times a week. They smoke fine otherwise. Do you ever find the perique ghost to utterly haunt a pipe—overtaking the sweetness of the Virginia leaf in a VA/per?
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.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.
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. ️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.
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.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....
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.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.