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WOOT! New hookah soon!

November 7th, 2007 • chatter, hookah
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Well, my birthday hookah is nearly here. It’ll arrive around 6PM today from UPS and I’m so anxious. It’s a 39″ Khalil Mamoon and I can’t wait to take pictures!#$ I’ll be breaking this in with a nice white peach/regular peach shisha mix and a nice cold water base.

I’M EAGER, CAN YOU TELL?!!

The ‘buzz is in

October 23rd, 2007 • chatter, hookah

I just received a shipment of new hookah supplies:

  • Starbuzz White Peach 250gm
  • Exotica finger coals 1kg
  • Canary Golden Charcoal quicklites, 96 pcs.

    • This Starbuzz shisa is already smelling up the entire office and it’s still wrapped wholly in plastic and in the tub. I can’t wait to smoke this later.

    Shisha flavour updates, pt. 2

    October 12th, 2007 • 3 comments chatter, hookah

    I finally got some quick lites and decided to give the Tangiers another shot. This time I used some cheap Chinese finger coals that Berge gave me to try, they didn’t look like much but burned very hot (no idea what brand they were, the logo was in an “Arabic” dialect that neither Berge nor his wife could read although both can speak Arabic). He was told they last for a long time which if you consider 50 minutes a long time then they live up to the claim. The coal was a regular square shaped silver-coated finger coal, scored into thirds (most are scored into quarters) and broke easily.

    I packed up my Tangiers Small Funnel but I over zealously packed it and ended up wasting a little shisha after the coals were done. This time I got billowing smoke plumes for at least 35-40 minutes, even when the coals were nearly the size of a dime. That’s the greatest asset of this bowl: it gets extremely hot (hotter than my glazed and unglazed ceramic ones) so the shisha stays very warm the entire time you’re smoking. But like last time, the smoke was harsh but had a thicker tea flavour. Soon I’ll try using some halved Three Kings 33mm discs to see if I can get the heat just right. This was a more “productive” outing than the last time I smoked the Tangiers but I still got harsh smoke.

    I did manage to figure out that all those times I was busy poking a hole in the middle of my foil for air to flow down the funnel was a waste of time. I believe the mixture of the heated air through the central air hole I made and the outer air rings I’d put in the foil were just counter-acting each other by mixing flavourful shisha smoke with hot air straight off the coals (and it got more charcoal in my stem than I wanted!). I’ll be nixing that extra hole from now on and figuring out a different foil pattern for Three Kings.

    Shisha flavour updates

    October 9th, 2007 • chatter, hookah

    So I finally got try all the tobacco I got last week and it was a real mixed bag of flavours from 3 different companies. Everything is smoked using Smiley’s Cocoshell charcoal from Hookah Company (except for one bowl of Romman). First up Romman.

  • Romman Peach: reminds me of my local shop’s peach shisha but lighter on flavour. Heavy peach scent from the tobacco itself, almost no anise seed taste, burns for about 2 hours
  • Romman Sweet Start: went into this one blind and didn’t really like it. It’s a mixture of different mints and licorice basically, I’ve never liked anything with mint, licorice/anise seed, or similar in it because I don’t like the harshness of the smoke. I know other people like it. Burns for about 2 hours.
  • Romman Double Apple: tastes like many other double apples but with a anise seed undertone. I could only smoke this for about an hour although it’ll burn for about 2.

    • Next up, the legendary Al Fakher.

  • Al Fakher Two Apples: I smoked this for about 15 minutes and changed bowls because this has a heavy licorice/anise seed overtone. I won’t be smoking this again.

    • Now the most debated shisha I think I’ve ever tried: Tangiers.

  • Tangiers #71 Red Tea: smells amazing, exactly like red tea but I don’t think it smells anything like typical rooibos tea (your typical African red tea) but it does smell exactly like tea. Very wet, feels like it uses tea oil instead of molasses or honey for consistency, use of a Tangiers Super Chief or Tangiers Funnel is pretty much mandatory unless you want shisha juice in your base (and stuck in your stem!). Smoked this for over 2 hours but it was light on smoke, I wasn’t using enough heat. I didn’t have enough similar sized Smiley’s to get this going well and no quick lites at all so I have to give this another go before I can really decide on it.

    • So far I’ve smoked the Romman Peach twice, once with Smiley’s Cocoshell charcoal and once with Muzzle Natural Wood charcoal. Each time the flavour was hardly affected by the charcoal. I’m going to try the Tangiers with some halved Three Kings quick lites to see how it does and will update on that.

    My new shisha came today

    October 3rd, 2007 • chatter, hookah

    I finally got my package from hookah-shisha.com and I’m so eager to try it all. I purchased:

  • Tangiers #71 Red Tea 250g
  • Romman Sweet Start 50g
  • Romman Peach 50g
  • Romman Double Apple 50g
  • Al Fakher Two Apples 50g

    • I ordered 50g when I could so I was able to sample the flavours without worrying about wasting a ton of shisha if I hated the flavour. I’ve been smoking the Romman Double Apple for about an hour now and it has a strong mint undertone with a crisp apple overtone. It’s very refreshing to have an apple flavour that’s not full on in-your-face punches of apple, even though that’s nice too. It’s not your typical Bahraini Apple or Eskandriani Apple but it’s definitely a sweet flavour from Jordan that I’ll probably order a 250g tub of soon enough.

    My birthday is on Saturday and we’re supposed to see Sonata Arctica at the Culture Room so I’m excited about that! I wish I knew what Jess was getting me, I’m antsy for it.

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