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Ok just got done smoking a bowl of nakhla double apple, but towrds the end there ws a bit left i pulled of the foil and placed the coals directly on the nakhla. it was very zaglhoul like in a way. anybody have any info on nakhla smoking with no foil?

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QUOTE (yoyoyo @ Jan 30 2009, 10:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE (NIGHTS OF BAGHDAD @ Jan 30 2009, 06:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
i just tryed it with my al fakher it was straight ass taste..lol


Also with foil AF has a straight ass taste biggrin.gif

actually when i use 1 coal it goes great..when i add another it starts to get really bad..i had some af capuchino and it was great..but adding the coal straight to the tobacco is really nasty
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Tumbak you def. smoke with no foil...as for Zaghloul I think you smoke it with foil because from what I understand it uses the old way of flavoring using some molasses (maybe) and some dates.
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tombak you smoke with no foil after you pack it properly on the proper bowl. zaghloul is not tombak it is mu'essal. that being said i have heard of people that smoke zaghloul with foil and without, both giving good experiences if done right.
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QUOTE (inino @ Feb 2 2009, 02:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
tombak you smoke with no foil after you pack it properly on the proper bowl. zaghloul is not tombak it is mu'essal. that being said i have heard of people that smoke zaghloul with foil and without, both giving good experiences if done right.


Excellent. That was a perfect explanation. Those black styles are very strong and robust, and can hold their flavor when a lot of heat is added because a lot of their flavor is directly from the tobacco leaves themselves; as opposed to the lighter fruit flavors, which use a lighter golden brown tobacco that is close to flavorless.

"Zag. Like" ... do you mean it tastes like burned shisha? Because the burning Apple and Licorice flavor could not have mixed well with the burning golden tobacco leaves. It would have just taste something like charcoal.

If you only taste "burning" you are not smoking Zag right, maybe you need to add foil, etc. Just like when you smoke a cigar. If it tastes bitter or burnt, you are smoking too fast and torching the tobacco, and getting crap flavors, instead of individual flavors along the lines of caramel, bittersweet cocoa, leather, spice, pepper... etc.

Zag should taste like a full-bodied tobacco, and that's the only taste you should get, with sweet notes of course, because it was used as an after-dinner follow up, so sweet was highly accepted. Edited by Hippo_Master
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