Kyle Weiss
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I told you all I had a back log of samples from the generous Brothers!
Today's choice was Reiner's LGF--only because I'm attracted to flakes. I don't know what it is, but the cross-sections and "sedimentary layers" remind me of looking at a cross-section of earth, something I do in my job checkin' out minerals. It's just pretty. The colors, the consistency...
...this one is sliced REAL thin, too. It rubbed out beautifully into some very nice ribbons. The sample I got (thanks again, s.ireland, wherever you are!) was the perfect dryness. Into my Jilsa blowfish it went, which is a fantastic flake pipe (and it looks cool, too).
Lighting up nice, I got very, very faint notes of beet, fresh cut hay and some toastiness. This is a VERY mild tobacco. I found myself really trying to get some body out of it, but while lacking body, it made up for in dynamics. It's just very, VERY subtle. I made a mistake drinking some light tea with it, just because I needed a build-up of flavor on the palette, not to wash it away. The first half of the bowl stayed to this effect. The last half of the bowl left the beet/fresh cut hay and made way to a very faintly vanilla (not the cased kind, but vanilla bean--natural), a touch of pepper, and very faint waxiness. When I say "faint," I mean it. Not what I expected from a blend with some Burley, because it doesn't have Burley characteristics, perhaps except for the subtlety. Even the Perique was so background, it really was just a dusting, which works for me.
That said, it's a little light for my taste, but not to be denied. I've been hitting the Jackknife plug a lot lately, so it's kind of hard to go to something like this and expect a stampede of intensity. It'd be much better early in the day, or for some, an "all day smoke," and for those looking for their first non-aromatic, this would be choice. It smokes cool, has interesting notes, and for me at least, was a two-light smoke.
It's wonderful, and I'm going back for more, just not the evening "hard hitter" I've come to really be into at this point. The mildness is a benefit rather than "something is missing," because nothing is missing at all--my tongue had just been trampled by the joy of what I'd been choosing lately!
Today's choice was Reiner's LGF--only because I'm attracted to flakes. I don't know what it is, but the cross-sections and "sedimentary layers" remind me of looking at a cross-section of earth, something I do in my job checkin' out minerals. It's just pretty. The colors, the consistency...
...this one is sliced REAL thin, too. It rubbed out beautifully into some very nice ribbons. The sample I got (thanks again, s.ireland, wherever you are!) was the perfect dryness. Into my Jilsa blowfish it went, which is a fantastic flake pipe (and it looks cool, too).
Lighting up nice, I got very, very faint notes of beet, fresh cut hay and some toastiness. This is a VERY mild tobacco. I found myself really trying to get some body out of it, but while lacking body, it made up for in dynamics. It's just very, VERY subtle. I made a mistake drinking some light tea with it, just because I needed a build-up of flavor on the palette, not to wash it away. The first half of the bowl stayed to this effect. The last half of the bowl left the beet/fresh cut hay and made way to a very faintly vanilla (not the cased kind, but vanilla bean--natural), a touch of pepper, and very faint waxiness. When I say "faint," I mean it. Not what I expected from a blend with some Burley, because it doesn't have Burley characteristics, perhaps except for the subtlety. Even the Perique was so background, it really was just a dusting, which works for me.
That said, it's a little light for my taste, but not to be denied. I've been hitting the Jackknife plug a lot lately, so it's kind of hard to go to something like this and expect a stampede of intensity. It'd be much better early in the day, or for some, an "all day smoke," and for those looking for their first non-aromatic, this would be choice. It smokes cool, has interesting notes, and for me at least, was a two-light smoke.
It's wonderful, and I'm going back for more, just not the evening "hard hitter" I've come to really be into at this point. The mildness is a benefit rather than "something is missing," because nothing is missing at all--my tongue had just been trampled by the joy of what I'd been choosing lately!
