Terrible Taste... Normal?

[dapperdan]

I've smoked a great deal out of my corncob pipe and the taste is very nice, normal, and appealing. I've recently purchased a Mr. Brog #21 Old Army pipe. I packed the bowl and tried it out on the spot right after I received it. The taste still gives me shivers. It was something related to plastic burning or something just noxious. The bowl is of peachwood with a grey coating on the inside. Since I've not had this problem with a corncob, I can only blame the material. But I'm not sure. Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated regarding stopping the taste. Thanks

 

[jacks6]

You must have smoked Royal Yacht in it.

 

[dapperdan]

No jacks6, it's #1 blend. I think it's local.

 

[zekest]

Sand that "gray coating" off the inside of the bowl.
Fill it with tobacco you know, and smoke that Brog again.
If that "plastic burning or something just noxious" taste and smell continues, it prolly ain't the "gray coating". If all is well and you have a cool, dry, sweet smoke, all is well.

 

[jndyer]

I have four Brog pipes and not of them had the issue you described. I would get a flash light out and check airways and such to discover what is causing the off taste. Please keep us updated.

 

[dapperdan]

Thank you all very much. Just curious, could two different pipes give off two different tastes of the same tobacco? The corncob gives it something similar to a coffee flavor is why I ask. Also, the smell is no different from the cob. Could it be the stem?

 

[jndyer]

I wondered if it would be the stem; however, I could not figure out how it would be burning.

 

[dapperdan]

I've just figured out what it was. It was the stem. I took the stem apart from the bowl and you could smell the taste emitting from the stem but not the bowl. The question now is what to do? When I checked the amazon store comments, one comment had the same problem as me. A terrible plastic taste

 

[perdurabo]

Gray coating taste like chemical asshole, whatever that taste like. Anyway, clean it with Golden Grain and Q-Tips.

 

[phil67]

What the hell is Golden Grain?

 

[pagan]

Brog has good customer service, contact them and see if you can gt a new stem

 

[jerwynn]

+1 with pagan.
I've had 3 or 4 Brog pearwood pipes and been totally satisfied with them!! I once had a very similar issue with a Peterson... came to find like a very fine filing in the airway at the mortise and tenon that the heat was somehow burning/melting... gave me the aromatic ambience of living next to a burning tire pile. I removed that, sanded a little, and was back in business. It took a magnifying glass, light, and a couple medical dissection tools to get to the bottom of it, but it was worth it.

 

[perdurabo]

Golden Grain is 98% Grain alcohol, it's like EverClear. Its what I use to clean the pipes, when it's deep clean day. It takes that coating out as well.