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Had a good walk-and-smoke tonight. A bit of Nightcap after ignoring it for a while. A couple more relights than I prefer but still a good bowl.
Question: In tobacco reviews and such I see people talking about a tobacco smoking down to 'clean white ash'. I never ever get this. Usually what will happen is I get down to the last 1/5ish of the bowl, lots of dottle, and it starts tasting ashy and burnt. Gross. So I grab a couple more puffs to be sure and then scrape the bowl. But still, good bit of dottle, not 'clean ash'. In fact theres still a few little bits of untouched tobacco. What's happening?
This is with a fairly loose pack that I wind up tamping a couple times. Do I need to pack tighter? Too much air? I started packing looser because I wasn't able to finish most pipes due to time constraints or just being 'done', wanting to go to bed etc.
