My tin finally arrived and I have dived into my first bowl, so I thought that I would post my first impressions and follow up when I have had another couple of bowls.
When I opened the tin I was greeted with DARK flakes (they were not joking when they named it Dark stoved), nice and damp and full of nice smells. I got hints of figs, strawberries, a little brown sugar and raisins. I rubbed out a couple bowls worth and left them to dry for a couple of hours. I am about halfway through my first bowl and am thinking it needed a little more drying, I will see how the second bowl goes with some more air time. It is smoking cool enough, considering that I got into it a little early, and no gurgling at all yet. I am finding that the flavours are very subtle, nothing that jumps out at me, I have to kind of find them (but that does add some enjoyment, almost like a game
). I am getting hints of caramel, and even a little chocolate chip cookie (perhaps I am just hungry though), with just a bare background of citrus.
I will admit that I tend to like a bolder tobacco, but I think that this would be a great early day smoke, sitting with a coffee and a paper in the morning. The room note is really enticing as well, and not too overpowering.
Just my
at the moment.
Robert