After marinating over a half year: Is your problem solved by now- I hope!
Was it a new pipe when you had the problem of sulphur odor?
Oh long live my first post!
I honestly still have no clear idea, but I have some clues. First yes the pipe I bought was new at the time. It seemed that I was over puffing and not seeping it, and that turned the tobacco acridiy and sour. But I honestly never got that taste again. I bought different Elizabethan tins and never occured to me except that “one” tin. And even that tin was fine as long as I puffed on it slowly, or rather ”sipped the tobacco. I use charcoal filters, and I do blame them to a degree from getting oversoaked and producing all those acrid flavours. But honestly it was not tar-acrid taste, it was genuinely a sort of rotten egg.
That exact pipe I have smoked the Elizabethan mixture in has soured and has a weird funky taste which seems it is beyond repair. I have tried every method from a water cleaning “method” that I believe you have founded. I cleaned it with isopropyl alcohol till I saw the bear wood on the chamber, still it smoked sour and that weird funky taste came back as soon as I lit it. I honestly have no idea why, and I may post a forum soon on it. For now, I am trying to find what is wrong with it.
Now that I am thinking about it, that pipe was my first pipe. I smoked it to hell. Every day about 3-4 bowls with no day rests for about 5 months, and even after I bought another pipe, it was my first choice since it was a pocket pipe and pretty portable. The Elizabethan mixture issue was early on, and this “sourness“ issue of the pipe is more recent. I realized this sourness issue when I when I bought about 6 new pipes, So I’m figuring the pipe was sour from the beginning? That sourness or weird funky tastes resembles a sour apple. God only knows exactly what is wrong with that pipe, but I never reach for it and with each blend I put on it, that exact funky sour apple taste pops up. No exceptions to any blend.
So that is life for now, will I ever know the truth? Maybe when I grow a full beard.
. I have not had a chance to try any of those blends. I do find that the blends I have really taken a liking to like Sutliff 999 and Cult Profile are more mesmerizing than say Carter Hall. I can smoke Carter Hall without really thinking I suppose.
But in terms of the taste, I said I’m not too experienced in pipe smoking, and I tried my best in describing the foul taste. As of now, I learned a new method, which is the ”breath method” which makes me smoke my pipe very slowly to not overheat the bowl, and get most out of the flavor. Amazing results so far.
