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JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
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Listing this a little early: year 2012 Rolando’s Own in a smooth straight early ‘60s Lane era “William Conrad” Charatan Executive Extra Large stretch apple with diagonal channel cuts on the lower right and left of the bowl along with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem.
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tfdickson

Lifer
May 15, 2014
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47,215
East End of Long Island
I’m thinking about buying some of that blend. The high Perique content piqued my interest.
How do you like it?

It’s good, not nearly as strong as you might think. Solid medium in that category. Perique leads the way of course but the VAs start to assert themselves in the second third of the bowl and firm up in the bottom third. Gets smoother, sweeter, rounder as you smoke down the bowl. This level of perique leaves the usual stewed fruit vs spice question aside, it’s neither. More earthy, mushroomy, barnyardy. It’s a very moist blend, I dried it for 40 minutes and that wasn’t enough- I’ll do an hour and a half next time.
 
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