[Alyks]

I was hoping to pop the cherry on this virginia, but you snooze you lose.


Place & Date: My Garage
Tobacco: Samuel Gawith's Best Brown Flake
Tobacco Cut: Flake
Cut Width:
Cut Length:
Ingredients: Virginia

Evaluated Aspects scale of 0-6 (by twos - 0-2-4-6):
Appearance (tobacco): 6 - great looking brown flakes
Condition (humidity level): 4 - a bit on the moist side, but nothing a little drying can't take care of
Smell: 6 - mild, fruity
Packing (easy to difficult): 6- after rubbing out packing was easy
Lighting (easy to difficult): 4 - got through about 3-4 matches on average, on most blends I use 2
Taste: 6 - mild, tangy, sweet, almondy taste
Room Note/Aroma: 6 - the wife didn't seem to mind
Consistency of taste: 6 - same all down the way down the bowl
Combustion: 6 - a relight or two which is to be expected
Humidity during smoke: 4 - a bit of gurgling, but that might be due to my overzealous puffing
Tongue irritations: 6 none
Throat irritation: 6 none
Satisfaction of smoke: 6
After-taste/Finish: 6 - very consistent and straight forward
quality-price rapport: 6

Impressionistic Evaluation (choose one):
_X_this is one of the best of this genre.... (10 pts)
___I wouldn't mind paying for it... (7 pts)
___only if someone gave me a tin, etc (5 pts)
___I don't like it, but can understand other may (3 pts)
___one of the worst tobaccos I've ever smoked (0 pts)

TOTAL SCORE OUT OF 100: 90

Freeform Thoughts/Impressions:

I had a hard time placing the taste at first, but I was eating a bowl of cereal with almonds when I realized what it was. One of the best virginias I've put in my pipe. I will surely buy more.