Are you a vegetarian? Most of us meatatarians think burnt cow smells and tastes rather good. ??
??What's the worst blend you've tried?
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Anyone who doesn't like Black XX hasn't lived and has no taste.
A blend from Mac Baren, long discontinued I think, was give to me as a lagniappe with a pipe rack, that had about ten constituent tobaccos that seemed harsh, muddy, and un-tasty. Getting that many tobaccos to harmonize can be done, but it is a masterwork in blending. This blend wasn't. But I tried with it over years, and mixed it to see what might help. I never found it.
No, not a vegetarian, I just couldn't get on with the taste. I love the Gawith flavoured brown Twists tho and Samuel Gawith Brown No. 4 Twist is amazing stuff. There was one shop over here that had a variant of the No. 4 Twist that had a caramel topping. I kept meaning to get a tin but never got around to it and now they don't stock it anymore.Are you a vegetarian? Most of us meatatarians think burnt cow smells and tastes rather good. ??
Borkum Riff Bourbon Whiskey and Paladin Black Cherry were terrible when I tried them. I should give them another shot after years of pipe smoking to see if it's the same. I tend to like OTCs quite a bit normally.
My initial Black XX smokes were God-awful, but I still smoked it from time to time unwilling to put down a tobacco 2 centuries of miners had chewed/smoked/ate. Surely if I kept smoking it the better part of that tradition would grace my efforts.
It did so, but slowly. I don't think I liked it until three years in. Don't laugh. I was fascinated with it. I liked it because it was dark and strong and like nothing else I'd smoked. I liked it because it was harsh.
I smoked it until I liked it.
It did so, but slowly. I don't think I liked it until three years in. Don't laugh. I was fascinated with it. I liked it because it was dark and strong and like nothing else I'd smoked. I liked it because it was harsh.
I smoked it until I liked it.
Borkum Riff, Paladin, Captain Black........and those tobacco tarts drowned in pastry sauces..................I have not had the great luck to smoke these jewels..............
Just about any blend that has more than a "whisper" of latakia.
I like my cows rare not burnt.
But, back to the OP. I've never tried a blend I hated. But, there have been oh so many which never got a second try.
But, back to the OP. I've never tried a blend I hated. But, there have been oh so many which never got a second try.
Of my own creation: 515 RC-1 and Izmir. I mixed it somewhere around 50-50 and it was gross. It would probably be pretty nice if I toned down the Izmir.
Manufacturer: I've mentioned it before, but C&D Capt. Bob's Blend. Grape Latakia mess. Some people love it, I tried to love it, but it ended up in the trash.
Manufacturer: I've mentioned it before, but C&D Capt. Bob's Blend. Grape Latakia mess. Some people love it, I tried to love it, but it ended up in the trash.
For me, C&D Autumn Evening held the spot pretty firmly for quite some time. Sure, once in a while a challenger like Vauen Auenland Evening Mixture or Peterson Nutty Cut (I call it Slutty Cunt) would come along, but alas, all were soundly defeated by AE. And so it remained...until the time I tried Sutliff 515 RC-1, that is.
This was no challenger. This was the champion strolling right up to Autumn Evening and saying, "Yo, get off my seat, you pathetic poignantly-named aro doofus, or I'll make you regret it for eternity!" AE promptly vacated the spot, which positively BELONGS to RC-1. Period. There shan't be a future challenger. It'd be a joke. Like a tennis match between Andre Agassi and Dakota Fanning. Just...no.
God, what a foul, seethingly evil tobacco blend. I'd sooner tongue kiss every member of the US Senate than smoke that again. At least it would taste better than smoking Sutlif 515 RC-1.
I think I'm gonna hurl... ?
This was no challenger. This was the champion strolling right up to Autumn Evening and saying, "Yo, get off my seat, you pathetic poignantly-named aro doofus, or I'll make you regret it for eternity!" AE promptly vacated the spot, which positively BELONGS to RC-1. Period. There shan't be a future challenger. It'd be a joke. Like a tennis match between Andre Agassi and Dakota Fanning. Just...no.
God, what a foul, seethingly evil tobacco blend. I'd sooner tongue kiss every member of the US Senate than smoke that again. At least it would taste better than smoking Sutlif 515 RC-1.
I think I'm gonna hurl... ?
Carter Hall. Bought it to break in a pipe. Couldn’t get through a bowl.
Russ’ candy cane cocoa. It feels dirty even typing that.
Magpiety, you might want to try Borkum Riff Bourbon again. Paladin only if you have a hankering for cherry. In pipe tobacco, it makes my gorge rise, and time won't cure that. Borkum Riff Bourbon, however, is mild and to me tobacco forward, which is the way I like my aromatics, though I admit I haven't bought a pouch in years.
Mixture 79. I just can’t.
Also, 100 bonus points awarded to mso for his proper use of the word “lagniappe”. An excellent and under-utilized word.
Also, 100 bonus points awarded to mso for his proper use of the word “lagniappe”. An excellent and under-utilized word.
I know what you mean about GH Black Irish Twist. For me, it's the oil that it's drenched with in processing. I don't see, taste or smell it in the finished product, but I can taste and smell it in the smoke. It smells a bit like the stuff that smokes off a pan when you heat it up. I can do without it.
I've not had the brown twists but if they're anything like the brown flakes I've had, I think they'd be very nice.
For now it's just about anything Burley based.
Virginia, Orientals, Latakia, are all flavors shared with things I already experience regularly, something about Burley is foreign to me.
Virginia, Orientals, Latakia, are all flavors shared with things I already experience regularly, something about Burley is foreign to me.