Just picked up a tin of Eileens Dream by CAO.. anyone tried it it? Could you tell me what you think about it.. I should have time later tonight to crack it open and give a try.. I know the aroma from this tin is GREAT.. thanks guys

Let me know how that goes, trying my first run of Frog Morton Across the Pond right now and kinda unsure about it. Might take a few bowls before I make a firm decision.

So, I got to smoke a little bit of the new stuff and I had absolutely nothing to complain about (taste was great, wife who was sitting next to me reported that the aroma was excellent, and it did not burn too hot) UNTIL I was nearing the bottom of the bowl and BAM my lip got wet, which soon felt numb in that spot and when i took it apart to clean it out afterwards it was definitely wetter than I have experienced before. Now as you all know I am very new to smoking a pipe and I may have not had a full aromatic like this one before, but is this something we could consider normal? What's the deal??

I found out the hard way that as soon as I hear any kind of gurgling noise during my draw it time to run a pipe cleaner or two down the stem otherwise I'm going to get a mouthful. Seems to be intermittent, I can smoke a tobacco through 3-4 bowls or more then all of a sudden it'll happen. Might be technique too, not really sure so far as the why's.

The FM isn't bad, has a kinda odd taste that I'm unsure about, almost a "floral" taste. Might be the Latakia as I've not had anything with that in it before, perhaps one of the more experienced folks could chime in there. The one bowl I've smoked so far burned quite dry, just didn't really wow me.

The sweetness you taste in FM Across The Pond is no doubt the McClellannd Virginias mixed with the sweetness of the Syrian Latakia. If you've not had McC's virginias before, they taste like no other VA's out there. I adore them, but was quite surprised at the natural sweetness of the weed.

Give FMATHP some time. I love it!

Eileen's was my first "good" tobacco as well. I have to say, from the first bowl of it I could tell the difference in the quality of the tobacco versus the store blends I had been smoking. I still have some of the store blend stuff left and it is amazing to switch between that and the CAO or McClelland or Peterson and notice how much better the tobacco from the established blenders is. Some people are pretty down on aromatics, but I am still a new pipe smoker as well and still trying to ease my way into the straight VAs and Burleys and Latakia blends, so having something easy to smoke like Eileen's is nice.

The gurgle happens to me pretty often and I was bothered by it at first as well, but I now stay on top of it by quickly pushing a pipe cleaning down to the bowl, twisting it a little bit, and pulling it back out. When you do this, you'll notice that it comes out pretty wet and the gurgling will stop. From what I understand, aromatics like Eileen's are much wetter than non-flavored tobaccos and as you smoke, liquid will seep out of the tobacco and collect in the bowl. I usually only do this once per bowl, and with some tobaccos it isn't necessary at all.

I've had the cigar version of all of the CAO flavors and they're all really good because unlike other companies CAO still uses high quality tobacco even in their flavored ones. My wife really likes the Cherry Bomb so I snagged that for her in pipe tobacco and i have to say it is quite nice as well.

Have not tried it, but I have to go outside too or get in front of the vent-a-hood, LOL! Well when she's not here sometimes I may get a puff or two inside with out the vent, LOL!

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I'm going to open an online sporting goods store in this thread... Apparently alot of fellers around here need to purchase some balls..

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