Kyle Weiss
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*sigh*
After my really good experience with Mac Baren's "Navy Flake," and my burnt rubber/tar aftertaste experience with Escudo, I'm thinking perhaps Perique really isn't for me. Please keep reading. Please.
Yet again, I was revisited by flavors that made me stop 3/4 through the bowl and reset with some other kind of tobacco.
The top notes of first-light on the PSLNF were okay, compared to Escudo (the only other VaPer I have to reference), I found it lagging in dynamic nature, and I couldn't find much. It burned less "tarry tasting" than Escudo, and if I were to revisit one, I'd choose Escudo, if that makes a difference.
Here's the deal: Different pipe, VERY slow smoking approach (as is normal for me), palette cleanser (just water this time), nothing fancy. I left the tobacco a little chunkier to prevent too fast of burning on purpose. The same result happened as with Escudo to my pipeful of this.
As the President says repeatedly, "Let me be clear"...
1) I will revisit VaPers another time. I'll give it a month and see how it goes.
2) I do not begrudge anyone who likes them--right now, my palette is flat rejecting Perique. Yes, aged may help. I'm not going to buy tins of something I'm not into right now and go for it years. I'm poor.
3) I'm here to enjoy tobacco, not tolerate it until I "get the taste." Either I will or I won't. Luckily, I have plenty to choose from.
4) My tongue works. Really. I will be pursuing that which intrigues me, and take suggestions, but not peer pressure just because others say it's awesome. This would sell myself short and make me a pipesheep. I am not a pipesheep. I'd rather get to Nirvana on my own.
4) Please reread #1.
Okay, that said, I very much appreciated the comments in my Escudo thread experience. I don't need repeats of those posts. 8)
It's okay I don't like this stuff right now. I don't feel qualified to give a "like" or "dislike" final decision on this, but I'd like my experience here to be read, even if it's by me in two years and I'll say, "Geez, what a noob," as I puff my Escudo in bliss.
Things may change. In fact, I'm counting on the fact they do. 8)
After my really good experience with Mac Baren's "Navy Flake," and my burnt rubber/tar aftertaste experience with Escudo, I'm thinking perhaps Perique really isn't for me. Please keep reading. Please.
Yet again, I was revisited by flavors that made me stop 3/4 through the bowl and reset with some other kind of tobacco.
The top notes of first-light on the PSLNF were okay, compared to Escudo (the only other VaPer I have to reference), I found it lagging in dynamic nature, and I couldn't find much. It burned less "tarry tasting" than Escudo, and if I were to revisit one, I'd choose Escudo, if that makes a difference.
Here's the deal: Different pipe, VERY slow smoking approach (as is normal for me), palette cleanser (just water this time), nothing fancy. I left the tobacco a little chunkier to prevent too fast of burning on purpose. The same result happened as with Escudo to my pipeful of this.
As the President says repeatedly, "Let me be clear"...
1) I will revisit VaPers another time. I'll give it a month and see how it goes.
2) I do not begrudge anyone who likes them--right now, my palette is flat rejecting Perique. Yes, aged may help. I'm not going to buy tins of something I'm not into right now and go for it years. I'm poor.
3) I'm here to enjoy tobacco, not tolerate it until I "get the taste." Either I will or I won't. Luckily, I have plenty to choose from.
4) My tongue works. Really. I will be pursuing that which intrigues me, and take suggestions, but not peer pressure just because others say it's awesome. This would sell myself short and make me a pipesheep. I am not a pipesheep. I'd rather get to Nirvana on my own.
4) Please reread #1.
Okay, that said, I very much appreciated the comments in my Escudo thread experience. I don't need repeats of those posts. 8)
It's okay I don't like this stuff right now. I don't feel qualified to give a "like" or "dislike" final decision on this, but I'd like my experience here to be read, even if it's by me in two years and I'll say, "Geez, what a noob," as I puff my Escudo in bliss.
Things may change. In fact, I'm counting on the fact they do. 8)