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How many bowls for an accurate evaluation?
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<blockquote data-quote="adauria" data-source="post: 28801" data-attributes="member: 193"><p>What Greg said... but then that's his job isn't it!</p><p></p><p>As for me, I can tell in a few bowls usually if it's a like or dislike. Now to fully uncover nuances and really "understand" a blend, 5-10 bowls maybe (and my palette is not too sophisticated).</p><p></p><p>I've found that I can actually accelerate my understanding of a tobacco by smoking it in a meerschaum pipe. I'm not saying that I will get all the nuance of smoking the same tobacco in a briar long enough to get the pipe and tobacco working together, but you do get a nice, unadorned taste of the tobacco in the meer that you may never get smoking the same tobacco in a bunch of briar pipes. YMMV.</p><p></p><p>And I generally don't write reviews. In fact, I don't even often repurchase the same tobaccos unless they really speak to me (e.g. GLP Westminster, SG FVF, Nightcap, EMP). And I only buy in tin quantities, so there's no need for me to decide if I am going to make that big investment in lbs of the stuff. </p><p></p><p>-Andrew</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="adauria, post: 28801, member: 193"] What Greg said... but then that's his job isn't it! As for me, I can tell in a few bowls usually if it's a like or dislike. Now to fully uncover nuances and really "understand" a blend, 5-10 bowls maybe (and my palette is not too sophisticated). I've found that I can actually accelerate my understanding of a tobacco by smoking it in a meerschaum pipe. I'm not saying that I will get all the nuance of smoking the same tobacco in a briar long enough to get the pipe and tobacco working together, but you do get a nice, unadorned taste of the tobacco in the meer that you may never get smoking the same tobacco in a bunch of briar pipes. YMMV. And I generally don't write reviews. In fact, I don't even often repurchase the same tobaccos unless they really speak to me (e.g. GLP Westminster, SG FVF, Nightcap, EMP). And I only buy in tin quantities, so there's no need for me to decide if I am going to make that big investment in lbs of the stuff. -Andrew [/QUOTE]
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