Apparently already available in the Middle East, the flavour that has the hookah community buzzing, Al Fakher Energy Drink is coming to North America soon says a recent Hookah John video. The video states that the tobacco is real as it was attained from Sierra, the United States exclusive importer of Al Fakher and will be available for North American purchasing in approximately two months.

Social Smoke Coconut is the closest to an actual coconut flavor that I have found. It is mild and sweet, but neither is overpowering. At the end of the day, Coconut is more of a candy-flavor—similar to what you might find in an Almond Joy bar.

Smoking Starbuzz is always a great experience. With two coals and a windcover, this tobacco will start smoking within a pull or two. The clouds that are produced are large, dense and will last about 45 minutes to an hour until new coals will need to be applied. With a Tangiers small phunnel, we were able to achieve sessions from 1 hour and 30 minutes to two hours. If overheated, the flavour will be nice for a short period of period of time but that will disappear quickly and become extremely harsh.

First we talked about the basics of hookah anatomy. Then, we got into the gritty details of hookah charcoal. This week, we’re going to discuss what it takes to pack your tobacco in your bowl and get a great smoking session out of it. So, lets get started.

If you’re reading this guide, there’s a good chance you’re not using a specialty bowl, such as a Vortex or phunnel bowl. Rather, you’re probably using the bowl that came with your hookah. That’s a standard bowl. It may be an Egyptian bowl, a mod Bowl or a Mya bowl, but regardless, the routine for packing pretty much any of these will be about the same. So, for this guide, we’re going to assume you…

After a long conversation with Eric Hoffmann from Tangiers tobacco (also the genius behind the original phunnel bowl), Eric informed me that there would be some new Tangiers flavors on the market in late June. Also with the new batch comes the reintroduction of an old sweet spot; Pineapple.

HookahPro is a hot-bed for hookah-related video content. At almost any time you can find excellent, video-centric contests to win (or just get) free stuff. This time around, HookahPro and SaharaSmoke have worked together to produce a video-review contest for SaharaSmoke’s Hookah-Hookah tobacco.
The goods are pretty good. In a nutshell, SaharaSmoke will send free tobacco to contestants and all they need to do is get on camera and talk honestly about what they think. Now, of course there is some fine print, but most importantly you have to be …

Smoking Nakhla Double Apple brings back memories of the early days of smoking hookah when it was the only hookah tobacco that was easily accessible. It is a traditional tobacco and, with 2 or 3 coals, will start to produce amazing smoke within the first 2 pulls. With proper coal management, you can achieve very thick clouds and great, anise filled flavour.

Lemon is a mild citrus flavor. The aroma betrays the taste in that it smells more like cleaner than something you’d want to smoke, but tastes very different. Unlike Nakhla’s Lemon flavor, Al Fakher Lemon is much closer to the flavor of a real lemon, but still more of a candy-caricature. You might even compare it to a mild lemon-tea. Lemon is sweet, but not overpowering and it lacks the tartness of a real lemon. The lemon flavor is much more of a lemon sensation that a replication. The natural taste of the tobacco subtly peaks through, though in general, the taste is simple with only a few quiet undertones of tobacco, and the rest lemon. The simplicity and subtlety of the lemon taste makes this a great flavor for mixing.

I used to love Cherry Cola and used to mix it by hand with some Nakhla Cherry and Nakhla Cola, which, once I found Hookah John, became Al Fakher Cherry and Al Fakher Cola. Both mixes were amazing. When I found this Fantasia flavour though, I thought it would have been the end to my mixing Cherry Cola days. I was wrong. The Cherry and the Cola where both there, although the Cola was mild, but that sweetness and freshness of drinking a good Cherry Coke were not.

Nakhla Sweet Melon is a sweet, candy cantaloupe flavor, not a melon blend like the Sweet Melon available from Starbuzz. The aroma and the taste match almost perfectly. The flavor is sweet, but not particularly ‘refreshing’ like the real fruit. The flavor has more of a warming sensation to it. If that’s not your thing, you can counteract this by adding just a hint of Nakhla Mint flavor tobacco. You may find subtle undertones of honey, but I mean very subtle. Sweet Melon is one of the sweeter flavors from Nakhla. Some find it almost sickly sweet, but the majority find that it is a good balance. As with most Nakhla flavors, the natural tobacco taste is present, but well hidden in this flavor.