Cult Abacus

I received a sample of this in my TinSociety.com box.

This to me is probably a great tobacco to have with a morning cup of coffee if you like aromatics.

The taste I got was cocoa/coffee with a def hazelnut topping. It burned cool in my radiator with the normal amount of moisture/goop trapped in the tank. The tobacco seems good quality and the moisture level was fine without drying from my sample.

I'm not sure I'd buy more when my sample is up, but it is a good blend.

Bought thus upon a lightning quick finish of Blood Red Moon, a fantastic unique aro that presented it's flavoring with clarity and depth.

Not so much of that here, specifically I believe in the interaction between the vanilla and the hazelnut, which muddled up the works; where BRD allowed an orchestral dance between the Virginias and the cherry, this blend is akin to 90's grunge - especially the gobbly-gook of lyric that genre displayed. This Toby is too mixed up flavor-wise for me too get a liking for it...and it burns through so fast I initially thought I'd only halfway packed it. That was very odd.

Gonna work through their other blends just in case there is another Blood Red Moon out there, but won't be checking this aro out any further.

Very moist out of the tin. Above average tin note, somewhat enjoyable smoke with nutty highlights, but the real story here came after the smoke when I ran a pipe cleaner through my Kaywoodie Drinkless. It took two cleaners to get all the goop out. At first, I thought I forgot to clean it out after my last use, so I lit up again and then cleaned it out afterwards and got the same result. In some of my more traditional pipes, there would have been gurgling! Nothing unique about smoking this, and it might be best to let it dry out before smoking.

I once had my knickers blown off by the sheer topping power of Cult's Blood Red Moon, so I braced myself opening this tin... surprisingly, it was a run-of-the-mill Aromatic. The aroma was similar to a classic chocolate/sweet mixture along the lines of Lane's 1Q, but with a sour cardboard blandness that developed over a few days.

The cut and moisture was immediately ready to make the jump into the bowl and required little attention once rolling. The lit flavor was unassuming at first, but eventually some of the expected sweetness developed, though the Burley and Cavendish remained hidden, so I wasn't sure what the point of smoking it was. At times, I also got a mild bite from what felt like a chemical burn, which was odd since the nicotine level was very light.

Everything about Abacus was doable, it got the job like a bagged lunch with the same sandwich you've seen before.