I didn’t think I was going to like this blend at all from the tin note but it tastes good but definitely a seasonal kind of smoke in my opinion.
What's the worst blend you've tried?
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I really wanted to like it. I got a weird taste of celery of all things. Funny thing is, I got that same flavor from Half & Half. They must use a similar topping that confuse my taste buds.
Don't you think there are blends that either by tobacco component(s) or casing that try to disguise something else in the blend that is obnoxious? I came to one such blend called "Hair of the Dog that Bit-ya" as made my way home after having my fortune read in Cassadaga, FL.
I had walked into the fortune teller's parlor with a pipe in my mouth and the customary fedora, and as I did, a crone bestirred herself from the sofa and introduced herself as Ms. Haley. I reciprocated, and before I knew it was seated behind one side of a dimly lit room, the crone opposite.
Learning that I was soon to have both fame and fortune, I left in exultation, thumbing the tin, above, in my pocket. I loaded a bowl, and though I could puff on it, I felt that something was wrong.
Turns out in very fine script rodent hair and recycled piss were listed.
I had walked into the fortune teller's parlor with a pipe in my mouth and the customary fedora, and as I did, a crone bestirred herself from the sofa and introduced herself as Ms. Haley. I reciprocated, and before I knew it was seated behind one side of a dimly lit room, the crone opposite.
Learning that I was soon to have both fame and fortune, I left in exultation, thumbing the tin, above, in my pocket. I loaded a bowl, and though I could puff on it, I felt that something was wrong.
Turns out in very fine script rodent hair and recycled piss were listed.
Seattle Pipe Club - Plum Pudding.
And Plum Pudding Barrel Aged. Only I never managed to actually smoke the Barrel Aged something about the smell makes me gag long before it ever makes it to my pipe. Those two along with Peterson Early morning pipe and Nightcap resulted in the most confused disappointed hour of my life.
And Plum Pudding Barrel Aged. Only I never managed to actually smoke the Barrel Aged something about the smell makes me gag long before it ever makes it to my pipe. Those two along with Peterson Early morning pipe and Nightcap resulted in the most confused disappointed hour of my life.
Autumn Evening and Half & Half are the 2 that I just can't develop a taste for.
Anything with that Lakeland essence. Just can't get past tobacco tasting like flowers and Earl Grey tea. I know that many of you love this stuff, and I wanted to, but I just couldn't do it.
smudgersmissingleg observed that Black XX smelled like a burnt cow. I quite like this description although I never smelt it. There's plenty of room within the descriptors burnt or seared by a pan too hot to say such things.
I would never have thought of this, and I quite like it.
I would never have thought of this, and I quite like it.
When I began smoking a pipe, I went through the usual disgusting drugstore blends such as Mixture 78, Walnut, and Revelation. All of them were smoked by college professors whom I respected, and I fondly recall graduate seminars in which it was just fine to bring a pipe and smoke it. But in retrospect, it has to be S.G. Firedance Flake. What a way to ruin Best Brown. Hands down, it's the badness "winner" because it will ghost a pipe such as no other. If I want my aunt's blackberry cordial, I'll drink a blackberry cordial. But then, I really don't want to
Yes, I concur wholeheartedly. Even just one whiff of that stuff (which to me smells of an amalgamation of petunia petals and cat urine) tempts me to quit pipe smoking altogether, lest my nose, throat and tongue go on strike indefinitely. It is my opinion that all Lakeland blends should be sold with a complimentary straitjacket, since the two make an appropriate pairing.
Interesting thread. It appears that tastes vary. Who knew? Most blends, in my experience, can eventually become acceptable if you smoke them enough, even ones you initially detest. Even crap like Paladin Black Cherry can be detoxed by blending with a basic burley or whatever, and become quite tasty. And in this instance smell great. But why bother? Smoke what you like, etc.
Excepting something like Penzance that had become mildewed or has had a cat piss on it, the only tobacco that was so obnoxious that I couldn't believe it was Firedance--or Totentanz, as I like to call it. Problem is, I have an unopened tin with five or eight years on it and can't decide whether to sell it, or try it again and discover pure ecstasy. Like other people's tastes, my own tastes vary like the wind, and it bugs me. (Advancing age and an imaginary brain tumor are such pains in the ass to deal with. Ask anyone in high office in this country.)
Full disclosure: I've never sampled other Lakelands. I'm easily frightened and don't dare. And I like Mixture No. 79.
Excepting something like Penzance that had become mildewed or has had a cat piss on it, the only tobacco that was so obnoxious that I couldn't believe it was Firedance--or Totentanz, as I like to call it. Problem is, I have an unopened tin with five or eight years on it and can't decide whether to sell it, or try it again and discover pure ecstasy. Like other people's tastes, my own tastes vary like the wind, and it bugs me. (Advancing age and an imaginary brain tumor are such pains in the ass to deal with. Ask anyone in high office in this country.)
Full disclosure: I've never sampled other Lakelands. I'm easily frightened and don't dare. And I like Mixture No. 79.
Hands down Haunted Bookshop with Autumn Evening a second place. I tried guys, I really did but no.
The worst I've tried so far is Gentleman Caller. It tasted they way new running shoes smell. That's all I could think of while I was smoking it - that new rubber smell when you open the box of band new sneakers. It ghosted my pipe beyond belief as well. I jarred it and left it. Maybe it'll mellow, maybe I'll develop a taste for shoe rubber, or maybe my palette will develop to a point where I can taste whatever else is going on there that people like.
Other than that, although it's not a specific bland, I have a hard time with perique, no matter how badly I want to like it. It's really rough on the back of my throat and I have a difficult time getting through a bowl. It's one of those tobaccos where I get jealous of the guys who love va/pers because their descriptions sound so amazing. I'll get all excited to give it another whirl, but nope, still burns the throat. Maybe someday.
Other than that, although it's not a specific bland, I have a hard time with perique, no matter how badly I want to like it. It's really rough on the back of my throat and I have a difficult time getting through a bowl. It's one of those tobaccos where I get jealous of the guys who love va/pers because their descriptions sound so amazing. I'll get all excited to give it another whirl, but nope, still burns the throat. Maybe someday.
Old Joe Kranz. I know it’s beloved by many, but I’ve tried it twice now and I think it tastes like dry moldy socks. I think it’s the combo of the burley and the Perique, as I like a Perique heavy VaPer and I enjoy a number of Burley blends, but the combination of the two doesn’t do it for me at all.
Captain Black Royal... i could still taste the vanilla the next day... ugh