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.
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