The Flavor Of Meerschaum

[workman]

Is there any?
I got myself a meer recently. An unsmoked estate manx meer, that is, so african meer with Nørdings N on the stem.
I think all flavors seem muted in it, and there is some kind of soapy quality to it.
It's the first meer I've smoked, so in this regard I'm a newbie.
Do meers have a flavor?

 

[BROBS]

Is there any?
I got myself a meer recently. An unsmoked estate manx meer, that is, so african meer with Nørdings N on the stem.
I think all flavors seem muted in it, and there is some kind of soapy quality to it.
It's the first meer I've smoked, so in this regard I'm a newbie.
Do meers have a flavor?

It’s normal. Sometimes they taste like a seashell.

once you’ve smoked it enough it will get heavy with tar and lose that flavor. But yes, every one I’ve owned has a specific taste when new. Often like a funky oceanic scent.

 

[seanv]

It’s normal. Sometimes they taste like a seashell.

once you’ve smoked it enough it will get heavy with tar and lose that flavor. But yes, every one I’ve owned has a specific taste when new. Often like a funky oceanic scent.

+1
Keep smoking

 

[BROBS]

Also yours is African meer I believe which has to me, always seemed extra “funky”

 

[workman]

Also yours is African meer I believe which has to me, always seemed extra “funky”

I'm itching all over trying to restrain myself from making a stupid joke about racism! It's a struggle, like celibacy.

 

[BROBS]

Call that meer George Clinton cuz it’s Funk-Aye.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Call that meer George Clinton cuz it’s Funk-Aye.

Bow-wow-wow-yippie-yo-yippie-yeah.?

 

[BROBS]

?

 

[BROBS]

?

 

[mikethompson]

Never had an African meer before. Is the substance essentially the same as Turkish?

 

[workman]

Allright then. I had to google the funky dude. I can think of other Nørdings that look a lot more like that guy than my simple billiard.

 

[Merton]

My experience, although only with Turkish Meers, is that they frequently do have a funky taste for a period of time. Sometimes it is a salty, swampy low tide sort of taste which is really unpleasant. I have had a couple which were so bad that i just could not do it. The moments of pipesmoking are so fleeting that i hate to waste the time. It has been suggested by others that the off flavor is caused by the Beeswax dip which many meers receive and that, in time , it will burn off. Perhaps so, but it can be difficult to get through.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I had to google the funky dude.

 

[smokiespipesmoker123]

Never got a funky flavor from meers, just tobacco. Now clays, that’s another story

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I've had 4, all smoked quite neutral.

 

[spicy_boiii]

+1
Keep smoking

+2 - I noticed a big difference after about a dozen or so bowls when new, which wasn't necessary with my estate Meer. My Altinay really muted the flavors when new and underwhelmed me, and it's an amazing smoker now.

Mind you I only have three meers or Meer-lined pipes so take it what that's worth.

 

[username]

Never noticed it then agian all the meers I own were estate finds. Someday I’ll pull the trigger on a new one and watch it color from scratch.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I get a chalky taste for many smokes before the tobacco oils start to saturate the sepiolite. There's a muting to familiar blend flavors as well.

 

[olkofri]

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Methinks you need an octopusey Meerschaum. ?

 

[goldenmole]

Smoked my new Altinay Meer for the first time yesterday, and noticed no funky taste at all. I realized though that given my usual fast puffing it was getting hotter than my briars usually get. On the other Hand the pipe is only 35gr and so perhaps my next one will be a bit thicker walled..