Tobacco Question! How Many Chances?

[Cool Breeze]

If a new tobacco is not doing anything for me, after 2 bowls, max of 3 bowls, I pitch it or give it away. Why waste more time trying to like it?

Agreed 100%.
There are too many pipe tobaccos and cigars that I love to waste time trying to get to like one.

[cpmcdill]

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.

[OnePyroTec]

I have to go with 4-6 for the same reasons. I will try a couple dryness levels and pipes before passing final judgement.

[Bruck]

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.

[Branzig]

Is this about the Pine Grove? ... or the cherry twist?

Neither good sir!

One example is Old Joe Krantz.

This is the exact tobacco that made me think of starting this poll!

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!

[NeverBend]

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.

[Desertlifter]

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.

[JustTroItIn]

This is the exact tobacco that made me think of starting this poll!

I have to admit it feels a bit better finding the only other person that isn't a fan.

[cbr310]

What is the Latika flavor?

[Branzig]

I have to admit it feels a bit better finding the only other person that isn't a fan.

We very well may be the only 2 in the world lol.

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