Starting up again after a month: but all smokes taste bad

[CrankyChris]

I quit smoking for about a month. I boxed-up my pipes up and stored my tobacco in mason jars. I've had about 5 smokes but they all taste like cheap cigars. I only get a hint of the deliciousness that I remember.

What is up? I've tried 2015, Haddo's, St. James, Solani 633...

Could my pipes (I only have 5) have turned funky in a month? Any ideas?

[Mad Hatter]

Are you on any new medications? Hydrocodone kills my taste

[CrankyChris]

Originally Posted by Mad Hatter

Are you on any new medications? Hydrocodone kills my taste

Nope - everything is the same. The mason jars weren't sterilized or anything, but could that have fouled the tobacco in that amount of time? This is really weird.

[RJpuffs]

Originally Posted by CrankyChris

I quit smoking for about a month. I boxed-up my pipes up and stored my tobacco in mason jars. I've had about 5 smokes but they all taste like cheap cigars. I only get a hint of the deliciousness that I remember.

What is up? I've tried 2015, Haddo's, St. James, Solani 633...

Could my pipes (I only have 5) have turned funky in a month? Any ideas?

Try cleaning the pipes, use a sweetner/vodka and let 'em dry for a couple of days. "Boxing up" pipes may have caused them to pickle in the stinky sauce within. Always store pipes where they are ventilated. Pick up a new cob, try it out.

[CrankyChris]

Originally Posted by RJpuffs

Try cleaning the pipes, use a sweetner/vodka and let 'em dry for a couple of days. "Boxing up" pipes may have caused them to pickle in the stinky sauce within. Always store pipes where they are ventilated. Pick up a new cob, try it out.

Follow up: I cleaned them with Everclear (Pure Grain Alcohol), pipe cleaners and Q Tips. The flavor is back.

I think, as you suggested, the problem was boxing-up the pipes while they were still relatively moist.

Thanks!

[RJpuffs]

Originally Posted by CrankyChris

Follow up: I cleaned them with Everclear (Pure Grain Alcohol), pipe cleaners and Q Tips. The flavor is back.

I think, as you suggested, the problem was boxing-up the pipes while they were still relatively moist.

Thanks!

Therefore, to err is human - to air (pipes), divine!

[MarkC]

Or, as Alan Ginsberg would put it: I saw the best pipes of my generation destroyed by moisture, starving hysterically damp, dragging themselves through the storage box looking for a friendly pipe cleaner...

[EvoFX]

would rubbing alcohol do the trick?

[Pipe Organist]

Originally Posted by EvoFX

would rubbing alcohol do the trick?

Depends on what trick you have in mind.

[EvoFX]

hmm, to clean the bowl of my pipe, its tasting pretty sour right now, i guessing its got stale tobacco, how would i go about cleaning that?

[dmkerr]

Originally Posted by MarkC

Or, as Alan Ginsberg would put it: I saw the best pipes of my generation destroyed by moisture, starving hysterically damp, dragging themselves through the storage box looking for a friendly pipe cleaner...

Great poem!

"...pipesters who hiccuped endlessly trying to clean the gurgle but wound up with a mouthful behind the bowl of Turkish tobacco when a blond and naked Dunhill Root Briar came to pierce them with a white dot..."