ATTENTION: CB Pipe Tobacco Review Bombing Run Version 2.0

[Alligator Gar]

Date 17APR15
Name Alligator Gar (Jim)
Tobacco Q Yellow Balkan Sasieni
Pipe MM Diplomat
Indoor / Outdoor Covered Porch

Before smoking I purged my palate with a large chocolate malt and a Fausto Lancero with water back.

This sample looked pretty ordinary. It was a big bag of black and tan.
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I loaded it in a MM Diplomat. Cow head for scale.
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I paired this with some Amrit tea and gall berry honey. Amrit is some weird looking tea.
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The tobacco has pleasant barn scents of hay and warm critters.

A little drying made the tobacco less springy and it loaded well. Opening notes were a mid range tobacco and cream taste. Baking spice was present on the smooth retro-hale. The nose feel was actually better than the mouth feel. The ash is a clean white scalloped layer.
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A little swish of tea cooled the sides of my tongue and throat.

The blend burns well and cool and profits from an occasional tamp. It never billows smoke but is very refined in how it burns. The flavor is a very mannerly spice, cream and hay. No heavy leather or earth flavors emerge, just a little umami characteristic of well aged tobacco. The room note is weedy. Yes, that kind of weedy. It is a good mild mannered experience, something along the lines of Early Morning Pipe. I would make this my first smoke of the morning, much as I do Cubans. It has some nice nutty and vegetal subtleties that would be fascinating on an unburnt palate.

I've smoked three bowls of Q since I received it and I don't have anything bad to say about it. I would recommend it to a novice smoker or someone who doesn't like getting their face melted and Nic buzz on. I suggest you try you a bowl of Q and see if you agree!

4/5 Would smoke again, wouldn't mind keeping a half pound back.