Agreed 100%.Quote:
Originally Posted by johnnyflake
There are too many pipe tobaccos and cigars that I love to waste time trying to get to like one.
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Agreed 100%.Quote:
Originally Posted by johnnyflake
There are too many pipe tobaccos and cigars that I love to waste time trying to get to like one.
If a tobacco is not a vicious tongue-biter, I'll give it a few chances, then jar it up and revisit every few months. If after a while it's still not working out, I will try adding in some other tobaccos to bring it into an agreeable range of flavors. If the tobacco is a tongue-biter but otherwise tastes okay, I'll introduce some orientals and/or non-bitey burley and that has worked pretty well. Hell, I even fixed Mixture 79 by adding Middleton Apple 50/50 and was able to finish it off (won't buy either again though).
I like to experiment, so I see opportunities in the tobacco blends that fail to win my approval, and I learn about the blender's craft in the process.
I have to go with 4-6 for the same reasons. I will try a couple dryness levels and pipes before passing final judgement.
I see I'm in the minority here as usual :) No second chances! But if I have something I don't like, I can usually reblend it into something good, or at least tolerable.
Neither good sir! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
This is the exact tobacco that made me think of starting this poll!Quote:
Originally Posted by JustTroItIn
Everyone seems to love this stuff. To me, it has way to much perique in it to really enjoy it. I have had about 7 bowls of it now and it just isn't working for me!
I've been with most of my pipes for 30 years so I know how they smoke with most types of tobaccos and I'm limited in what I'll smoke so I have a pretty fair idea with the first bowl. I voted 1-3 because I always give another chance usually with another pipe and packing technique.
Like other posters, I will generally finish a tin if I don't give it away. It's my penance. If I buy a larger pack then I'm stuck as I am now.
I foolishly bought 8oz of Esoterica Scarborough without trying it first and it's bland but not bad enough to abandon and you guys know what this tobacco is selling for. So I dug into the pipes that I haven't been using in my rotation and got my Virginia Beast, a hulking Ser Jacopo L2 Maxima (smooth) billiard taper from the mid 1980s that can magically turn turd into tulips. Scarborough turned into a bed of tulips.
So I unleashed the Beast, and all I want to do is to stuff him full of some tasty Gawith Hoggarth weed but I'm stuck smoking up another 4pz of Scarborough because it's useless in any other pipe. I should have left well enough alone. Sigh.
I like to return to blends after a lengthy period of time. My tastes evolve, and things I used to hate are some of my favorites now. Rattray's OG and HotW are good examples of that.
I also used to really not like any blend with DFK, but blends with that glorious leaf are more likely to be in my pipes than any other.
I have to admit it feels a bit better finding the only other person that isn't a fan.Quote:
Originally Posted by Branzig
What is the Latika flavor?
We very well may be the only 2 in the world lol.Quote:
Originally Posted by JustTroItIn
I am coming to terms with the fact that I don't like any C&D burley blends. At least none of the ones I have tried.
Except junkyard dawg. But that has latakia in it so I'm not really counting it lol