Tonight's submission for #pipestr is Missouri Malta.

It is an aromatic blend from the Missouri Meerschaum Company flavored with 14 different varieties of vanilla.

The paradox of aromatic blends is that everyone in the room smells the flavor that was added to the tobacco, but the smoker often just tastes hot air. But this particular aromatic blend has a mild and pleasant Virginia/Burley tobacco flavor and and a very pleasing vanilla room note that gradually changes as you smoke through the bowl.

Smoking it, fittingly, in a Missouri Meerschaum corncob pipe

It's namesake, The Malta, was a steamboat that sank in the Missouri River and was rediscovered a few years ago buried in a cornfield as the river has shifted since its sinking.

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