Im smoking a bowl from a 6 year old tin of GLP Quiet Nights and I’m getting that famed Soda note. Has anyone else experienced this with Quiet Nights?
Quiet Nights and the Soda Thing
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Ive only ever smoked 1 year old Quiet Nights, but I am curious what this soda note is?
Quiet Nights is one of my favorite blends, though I’ve never smoked a tin with that much age on it. I’ve heard of the McClelland ketchup not but never the Quiet Nights soda note.
I do enjoy quiet nights but I don’t recall a soda note in it. The soda note is usually associated with yenidje and I don’t believe quiet nights has any yenidje. Perhaps the age is doing something to bring out that note. I’ll have to try some again and see if I can get that flavor, though my qn is only at the 3 or 4 year mark.
I’d be keen to understand that soda note too, it’s something @jiminks has mentioned in White Knight and the original Sobranie. Reading “unflavoured” makes me think of sparkling water, but can’t fathom that in tobacco as it’s more of a feeling than actual taste for me.
I couldn’t remember what Oriental causes it, and hell if I know what Pease “C&D” puts in these blends, when orientals are stated. I started picking it up in the last 3rd of the bowl. That tingley soda sensation in the mouth feel and around the edges of the tongue. The only other blend I’ve experienced this is White Knight. It was worth sharing with you guys who’ve smoked more of Quiet Nights than me. I just opened the first tin I got back in 2015.
It’s a Sparkling club soda taste around the edges of the tongue. I am still getting the soda note, but it’s more prominent in a larger pipe and 2/3 in. I just wanted to know if anyone else got the same flavor. Obviously not.
@perdurabo
I have a story to share. The other night, I got the soda effect with Quiet Nights. Couldn't believe it. Totally had that sour, effervescent soda texture/taste. Tin is only a year old.
Then I smoked some others, and they had the soda note too. That's when I realized that it had to be my body chemistry. So I started looking at variables: I was tired as hell, a while week if 4-5 hours of sleep a night, mentally, emotionally and physically exhausted, I drank hot tea made of echinacea root (makes your tongue tingle and almost certainly affects taste ability), licorice root (same effects as the echinacea), and I had a seltzer water with 1 drop cola concentrate flavor and 1 drop spiced rum flavor.
I believe all these variables, especially the echinacea and licorice root tea and the flavor concentrates in my seltzer, completely changed/wrecked my palate and my ability to taste. If you have any doubts, I smoked 3 more bowls after the haunted bookshop, Bijou, C&D Burley Flake 1, and C&D Dark Burley before giving up in smoking, and the only one I didn't get the soda note with was the Dark Burley.
I do believe that all these variables had the effect of sensitizing my palate to casings. The dark Burley doesn't have casing, if I am correct, and that's why it didn't have the same effect
So maybe the soda thing is just a confluence of chemical variables all lining up? Maybe not, but I am telling you, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that Quiet Nights and the other 2 tasted absolutely like soda.
I have a story to share. The other night, I got the soda effect with Quiet Nights. Couldn't believe it. Totally had that sour, effervescent soda texture/taste. Tin is only a year old.
Then I smoked some others, and they had the soda note too. That's when I realized that it had to be my body chemistry. So I started looking at variables: I was tired as hell, a while week if 4-5 hours of sleep a night, mentally, emotionally and physically exhausted, I drank hot tea made of echinacea root (makes your tongue tingle and almost certainly affects taste ability), licorice root (same effects as the echinacea), and I had a seltzer water with 1 drop cola concentrate flavor and 1 drop spiced rum flavor.
I believe all these variables, especially the echinacea and licorice root tea and the flavor concentrates in my seltzer, completely changed/wrecked my palate and my ability to taste. If you have any doubts, I smoked 3 more bowls after the haunted bookshop, Bijou, C&D Burley Flake 1, and C&D Dark Burley before giving up in smoking, and the only one I didn't get the soda note with was the Dark Burley.
I do believe that all these variables had the effect of sensitizing my palate to casings. The dark Burley doesn't have casing, if I am correct, and that's why it didn't have the same effect
So maybe the soda thing is just a confluence of chemical variables all lining up? Maybe not, but I am telling you, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that Quiet Nights and the other 2 tasted absolutely like soda.
I’m still catching the soda note in bottom third of the same pipe. I’ve smoked Quiet Nights in another smaller pipe with no sign of the soda note. It seems to be this specific pipe and it’s larger size chamber. 