Hint of Ammonia at end of bowl

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• motie2 Master

  November 2018

  This is exactly why I stopped smoking Dunhill Royal Yacht back in the day. The bowl smelled of ammonia, and not only at the end of the bowl.

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• mfresa Master

  November 2018

  @motie2, do you think it is connected to Virginia blends, or just maybe the blend wasn't aged properly?
  

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• motie2 Master

  November 2018

  No idea. Used to make me nuts because none of my friends could detect the ammonia smell.

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• mfresa Master

  November 2018

  We must have sensitive noses

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• mapletop Master

  November 2018

  Have only once gotten a whiff of ammonia in pipe tobacco but have noticed it in in cigars numerous times.

  As I understand it, ammonia is a byproduct of the fermentation process / curing of tobacco.

  So if you notice it it means the tobacco is not fully cured.

  The solution is more aging but you also have to open the container occasionally to allow an air exchange to vent the ammonia off.
  

  
  

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• mfresa Master

  November 2018

  Good idea, @mapletop
  

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• Londy3 Master

  November 2018

  ...or send it back for a new tin.
  

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• KA9FFJ Master

  November 2018

  @mfresa If it tends to give you a Timothy Leary experience, don't tell anyone, or everyone will want it...

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• mfresa Master

  November 2018

  @KA9FFJ , OK

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• ghostsofpompeii Master

  November 2018

  Are you smoking a Perique blend? I had blending Perique and the pouch note was the barnyard stench of goat urine on a bale of straw.
  

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• KenofAhwlby Enthusiast

  November 2018

  Ghostsofpampeii....I looled at your profile,,it says professor,not farmer,,,so I am not sure how familiar you are with goat piss??/?

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• riobrusa Master

  November 2018

  Never tasted in my pipe tobacco but in cigars, yes. The problem is at tobacco's cure. The tobacco was not fermented for enough time, it was too "green".

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• mfresa Master

  November 2018

  Thanks everyone for your inputs on this.  I believe @riobrusa is correct.  Curing tobacco has to be done properly, and most times it is.
  

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• ghostsofpompeii Master

  November 2018 edited November 2018

  @KenofAhwlby Haven't done any farming but I've taken my kids and grandkids to enough petting zoo to know the smell of goat piss on straw. And that was my first thought when I got my first sniff of Perique. 
  

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