You Black Frigate Boys Are Easily Impressed

[clickklick]

There, I said it!

Yes, thems fightin words!
Recently was gifted a tin by a generous forum member and friend who prefers to remain nameless. I was welcomed aboard with hints of rum and a bee propolis smell. I let air dry a bit and loaded her up. Tastes so similar to bee propolis to me that I really can't get past it. I will finish the tin to see if things change but I'm on to my third bowl and my thoughts haven't been swayed yet.
I guess I like my Latakia to be high quality and not need to be hidden behind any over the top flavorings! :nana:

I'll walk the plank now. Thanks for the small tour of your ship. My Balkan Beauty is waiting to pick me up and take me to sweeter seas!

 

[ashdigger]

The proverbial "shot across the bow"

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

Well then.... I've an answer to that!

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:mrgreen:

 

[dottiewarden]

I'd still sail the Black Frigate, if given the chance.

 

[mcitinner1]

The scurvy dog is entitled to an opinion whether it's wrong or right! Now, can you say "boil 'em in oil!"

 

[clickklick]

Your puny cannons are no match for my artillery! Muhahaha!

 

[dottiewarden]

Your puny cannons are no match for my artillery! Muhahaha!

How is the cat going to sink the Black Frigate?

 

[anthonyrosenthal74]

I'll see you, and raise you a few megatons :mrgreen:

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[clickklick]

Congrats, you bombed my decoy vessel and blew your frigate up in the process! Time to rebuild stronger!

 

[Chasing Embers]

Balkan Beauty is okay too. Tastes a bit too much like Balkan Supreme to me. Heavy handed lat blends always put me off because the smokiness overshadows the rest of the blend. Then again, I started smoking Latakia blends over twenty-five years ago, and think I have lost interest in lat forward blends.

 

[clickklick]

The Basma in Balkan beauty sets it apart to my tastes. I consider lat forward blends to be like ... What's the C&D one with 70%? That tastes salty to me almost! That is the great thing about this, everyone should be able to find blends they like since we are still in a time when there are more blends available than ever before!

 

[mcitinner1]

I had my first Black Frigate in about 10 days, during the night, and it really is a nice switch from everything else I smoke.

 

[pagan]

LOOK-OUT click! they sent in the boarding party :rofl:

 

[deathmetal]

Latakia and Dark Fired may work best as condiments. A well-distributed pinch of Latakia can give a blend a hint of richness that is lovely and may have more of a Latakia effect -- since the taste is both distinct and harmonized with the rest -- than a Lat-bomb. $0.02, worth a lot less in this economy.

 

[jackswilling]

I don't get the follow-on Balkan Beauty reference. Not liking any given blend, understandable. What does Balkan Beauty have to do with Black Frigate? Nothing obviously. One could like both, or not. Navy/Rum blends are not for everyone. You should be forced to serve seven years below the mast as the Captain's cabin-boy for this "review." Balkan Beauty is good stuff, similar to FMOTT but both lack "Navy Cavendish (Virginias soaked and aged in Rum) to produce a true Royal Navy blend." Bee propolis, my arse. Freaking landlubbers.

 

[dottiewarden]

You should be forced to serve seven years below the mast as the Captain's cabin-boy for this "review."

:rofl: :clap:

 

[daveinlax]

I've never tried BF but the oversized and animated signatures of the fanboi's are very annoying. 8O

 

[tmb152]

I've never tried BF but the oversized and animated signatures of the fanboi's are very annoying.

Agreed. Black Frigate is a nice blend as are many others, but the way it has been blown out of proportion with everyone making a show of "getting aboard" and trying to outdo each other with pictures of boats and things now has gotten a bit ridiculous. People, get a life, or maybe this is it? It was in good taste and maybe even amusing originally when Duane started it, but I mean now, really?
As to blends, the whole idea of smoking pipe is in the cultivation of taste for the subtleties and complexities that pipe tobacco can have; when someone tells me that they stuff three pounds of perique or latakia into their pipe and it still isn't quite working for them or can't catch a buzz with 50% nicotine content, I realize that this is a course person who has really taken up the wrong hobby for sure.

 

[jefff]

Well....it's no Royal Yacht...

 

[pagan]

Well....it's no Royal Yacht..

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: