The stuff tastes like moldy goat ropes delicately seasoned in rancid yak barf, and is twice as strong as bull's p*ss with the foam farted off. Not in the good way, either. "
Many years back I had a chance to smoke real Good twist tobacco right from the drying shed .
One of my men’s family grew tobacco and was kind enough to take me to their plantation .
After a very long inspection of their collection of pipes , we went out to the sheds .
The smell , I will never forget . Such a sweat aroma .
After being ask if I would like to sample their product , I made the mistake of taking out my Briar which got an instantaneous frown .
. We walked down the rows of hanging tobacco. His father carefully smelling and feeling each mass of leaves .
Finding just the right one , he took it down and we went to main house .
Out on the back porch was a rolling table that I was told had been in their family since colonial times .
We sat down and a glass of fine whisky was poured while his father masterfully removed the stems and centers of the leaves . Then rolled the leaves into a rope . Within just a few minutes he made me a dozen twists .
Eh then took a knife from his pocket and cut a ¼ inch section from the end of one of the twists and handed it to me . I again pulled my Briar . But was told that it wasn’t proper and would not give the proper flavor of the tobacco, unless it was very clean .
A drawer was opened in the table , which was of short stemmed clays .
First thing I noticed was that the bowls were rather small . But they held the amount that I was given perfectly
I can tell you the flavor of the tobacco mixed with the whiskey was Very pleasing and simply wonderful . It was not hot like many of the specialty pipe tobaccos. But it was much stronger then I was used to .
I sure wish i had some of that now .
I also had a chance to sample Cuban tobacco while in South America.
that’s a completely different flavor and also very pleasing .
IMO the twists you get from traders is of very low quality . It is also many times old and dry. Not good for anything other then past needing a tooth brush and some mouth wash . .
as to pipe hawks . IMO these probably were not smoked all that much . basically just for special occasions where enjoyment of the tobacco was not any real concern