How do you tell tobacco types? Newbie help

11-01-2009, 11:04 PM

Ok, so we're getting closer to what I'm looking for, thank you.

I have a few cobs, and a briar. What I am asking is, how do I tell if a tobacco is aromatic, American, English, or Oriental?

I wouldn't want to say if it's not flavored, it's not one of the three, because it seems to me that certain blends would have a 'flavor' even if they weren't aromatic...does that make sense?

I just want to avoid ghosting...frankly, I have no idea what I'm even trying to ask now. I've just read that some of you have pipes for certain blends (naturally) so I'm just trying to follow suit and keep things tidy.

11-02-2009, 04:58 AM

Read all the discriptions of the different blends on the C&D site, you'll figure it out.

11-02-2009, 05:42 AM

Read this as well.

11-02-2009, 07:54 AM

The Ghost of Tobacco past.

Scrooge had smoked nothing but vanilla cased Black Cavendish in his pipes for over twenty years. The briar stained dark with the oils, and a cake of the tar and ash from many a bowl of his favorite tobacco lined the inside of these pipes. One day he decided to try something different, a light English mixture.

No matter how many bowls of this new tobacco he smoked, his pipes where haunted by the Cavendish ghost.

Flavor and Flavored is not the same thing, but you know that.

When changing from an aromatic or flavored tobacco like a vanilla cased Black Cavendish to a natural or unflavored tobacco like a light English mixture, one might taste the flavors of the tobacco previously smoked in the pipe.

This is what you’ve read about when folks are talking about ghosting.

At this point of your journey into the hobby of pipe smoking it’s not likely something you need worry about.

Puff slow,
D.

11-01-2009, 11:04 PM	#1
kzm007 Guest Posts: n/a	Re: How do you tell tobacco types? Newbie help Ok, so we're getting closer to what I'm looking for, thank you. I have a few cobs, and a briar. What I am asking is, how do I tell if a tobacco is aromatic, American, English, or Oriental? I wouldn't want to say if it's not flavored, it's not one of the three, because it seems to me that certain blends would have a 'flavor' even if they weren't aromatic...does that make sense? I just want to avoid ghosting...frankly, I have no idea what I'm even trying to ask now. I've just read that some of you have pipes for certain blends (naturally) so I'm just trying to follow suit and keep things tidy.

11-02-2009, 04:58 AM	#2
Demented Guest Posts: n/a	Re: How do you tell tobacco types? Newbie help Read all the discriptions of the different blends on the C&D site, you'll figure it out.

11-02-2009, 05:42 AM	#3
Demented Guest Posts: n/a	Re: How do you tell tobacco types? Newbie help Read this as well.

11-02-2009, 07:54 AM	#4
Demented Guest Posts: n/a	Re: How do you tell tobacco types? Newbie help The Ghost of Tobacco past. Scrooge had smoked nothing but vanilla cased Black Cavendish in his pipes for over twenty years. The briar stained dark with the oils, and a cake of the tar and ash from many a bowl of his favorite tobacco lined the inside of these pipes. One day he decided to try something different, a light English mixture. No matter how many bowls of this new tobacco he smoked, his pipes where haunted by the Cavendish ghost. Flavor and Flavored is not the same thing, but you know that. When changing from an aromatic or flavored tobacco like a vanilla cased Black Cavendish to a natural or unflavored tobacco like a light English mixture, one might taste the flavors of the tobacco previously smoked in the pipe. This is what you’ve read about when folks are talking about ghosting. At this point of your journey into the hobby of pipe smoking it’s not likely something you need worry about. Puff slow, D.