Since this craze with McCleland seizing operations I have managed, through the typical eastern block contraband ways, to get me a Frog Morton the original. Nice tobacco, sweet nose and aroma. Quite an interesting combination of sweet virginia and latakia. My complaint though, is that no matter what I did to it is seems that the sugar from the virginia mostly, and probably casing keep biting my head off. It burns very slow to begin with, and my english heavy rotation smokes mostly with oily tobacco and not so much sugary. I guess that when tempted to smoke like your average english I puff it too fast. It needs some relights, and after each it is burning even hotter. Was not very contempt with the blend ... drying it for a bit more than usual ruins it. What I mean to say is that it gets brittle very fast ... annoying. Now matching this with a church warden, different story - just like smoking different tobacco. What did I do wrong? Do I smoke too hot (for this blend at least - like I said night cap for example smokes fine in my usual rhythm) or did I miss match the tobacco pipe pairing? All in all ... I would like to smoke this in a couple of other pipes, not just the church warden.
