Seattle Pipe Club Galloping Gertie

Unlike anything else I have ever seen or tried. My tobacco 'educator' forced me to take a tin. Not sure how old this tin was but upon opening I found this: Looks like a dark brown almost black hard brick of rotten wood sliced into 4 hard crumbling slices. I does not rub out but crumbles into little bits of hard pieces with tight gel like centers looking like compressed figs. Not easy to pack and I use a rather small bowl. Lights easy, tobacco is on the dry side and smokes easy and well with no bite of any sort down to the end with more moisture left if the bowl than I thought. Upon opening I got a nose of stewed fruit, figs and a heavy dose of vinegar casing. Once lit, the flavor is ok, dried figs, woody, I taste the Turkish on it, nice tingle from above average amounts of Perique tingling on the nose. There are flower notes in there like lavender. At the end of the bowl I get dark chocolate too. Complex, full flavor, not as heavy a nic hit as the flavor suggests but way too much vinegar casing. Interesting tobacco but I won't finish the tin. If the extreme vinegar flavor is your thing, that will be perfect.