Sometimes you want a light and airy smoke that won’t knock you about the head with nicotine. This isn’t the tobacco for those times. This is Nirvana Super Shisha and it’s blended with an extra…
We recently went over how to make do when you forget your tongs, but what are you supposed to do when you don’t have a bowl? Hit the produce aisle. https://www.youtube.com/embed/idJOnOhzvms An apple bowl is…
Cherry tobacco is pretty hit or miss because so many of them taste like cough syrup if they have even a slight chemical flavor. The ones that avoid this pitfall are few and far between…
There is nothing quite like Tangiers Blue Flower. You all know how I feel about floral flavors and this is some top tier tobacco. What is a blue flower? read on and find out. The…
It’s unfortunate, but not every tobacco you smoke is going to be a flavor bomb. You wait and wait, but the flavor never picks up and the whole experience just ends up leaving you bored.…
Who loves orange soda? About half the hookah community if you read the forums. A long time ago there was a rabid love of Tangiers Orange Soda that drove up demand and made the tobacco…
We have all done it. You’re at a friend’s house, you have carefully setup your hookah and your coals are ready… when you realize that you don’t have any tongs. Crap. Is it time to…
A long time ago I had a conversation with Bassem Chahine who is the owner of Medwakh.com and the man who brought us Othmani tobacco. He has introduced many folks in the western world to…
If you’ve been keeping up with the blog, you know my thoughts on floral flavors. They need to be realistic or they taste like soap scraped from the bottom of a hotel tub. I would…
A strange stigma seems to have arisen in the hookah community that Tangiers tobacco is in some way special and above mixing. There is an idea that to mix Tangiers flavors would ruin the session…
Easily one of my favorite hookah tobaccos; this is Nakhla Lemon. It’s a part of the Fakhfakhina line and it is probably one of the most true to name tobaccos you will ever smoke. I…
Uh oh. Do you feel that gurgle? Did you just take a drag and get a nice mouthful of nasty? Congratulations! You have water in your hose. Isn’t that exciting? No. It’s a terribly effective…
There are very few tobaccos that I just outright suggest to everyone. Tangiers Lucid Mimon is one such tobacco and I think that if you snag yourself a pack and serve it up at your…
The vast majority of the smoke from hookah tobacco is a result of vaporizing the molasses, glycerin and flavorings that are applied to the actual tobacco leaves. We’ve discussed the issues that can come with…
Delicious and nutritious… wait. That’s not right. Well at least it’s delicious. Watermelon tobacco will never be an accurate and natural flavor without being abysmally weak. If you keep this in mind when smoking them…
I’ve been revisiting Al Waha a lot recently and I’ve been pretty happy with the results. Al Waha Apricot is the latest tobacco on the menu and I’m not entirely disappointed. I know that this…
I was sent a PM a few days ago asking for some advice on starting to smoke traditional and I felt that more people could benefit from a little introduction. Where do we start? Price.…
I’ll admit that I have not given Al Waha the time of day in the better part of 6 years. I had written off the brand as low quality and not worth trying, but they…
Oh how I love a good peach specially a Nakhla one. It always seemed like fresh peaches had a window of about an hour in which they were ripe. Any sooner and it was like…