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  1. Taha

    The Maggot Thread

    @kesiro, well I for one do give a sh!t. :p While its very flattering to see my name alongside Ensar’s, you gotta remember, here’s a guy who’s distilled batches of sinking grade Vietnamese wood, Hainanese and Vietnamese kinams, and so on and so forth. Basically, the holistic view that his sight...
  2. Taha

    The secrets of Indian oud.

    Owwwh... :( Well maybe next time. At any rate though, please share more about what you're witnessing in Kannauj. I have shared some of this info with others before, and have told them what it really means when one says (and I am one of them) that the Indian traditional distillers are THE...
  3. Taha

    The Maggot Thread

    :D... But, also... Oh no! :eek: If the most fleeting of fleeting notions even fleetingly fleeted by for you, then I think its high time I spell it all out, because others are inevitably bound to reach the wrong conclusions about the intent of my recent posts. As a preface, I will first...
  4. Taha

    The secrets of Indian oud.

    Don't forget to check out vetiver cooked in those 'closed-system' setups. In my humble opinion, the higher quality Ruh Khus oils can rival (and even trump) some lower end oud oils. Can't wait for your update from Assam (will you be heading there?). :D In Kannauj they still keep it traditional...
  5. Taha

    The Maggot Thread

    By the way, in case someone STILL hasn't figured it out... The upshot of what I'm actually arguing for, is the supremacy of the likes of Kyara LTD, Borneo Diesel, etc. And so, I urge you all to please not lose sight of the fact that the chap who's playing the devil's advocate is none other than...
  6. Taha

    Distiller's Survial Guide: Counsels and Maxims

    *sigh*... if only.. :(
  7. Taha

    Distiller's Survial Guide: Counsels and Maxims

    ...and keep in mind (with your permission, Ensar, I put these words in your mouth), with high quality wood, once the dust has settled — the oil has aged and gone through self-fixing — even a crude distillation will result in an oil that smells like the raw material. Whereas, with low grade...
  8. Taha

    The Maggot Thread

    I wish there was a ‘highlight text’ option on the forum, because I would then request you to highlight this portion: Its SOoo important for anyone who sees my original and followup posts, to also read about your first-hand direct experience to the contrary, before they make up their minds...
  9. Taha

    The Maggot Thread

    Well, I think there was a huge (and totally understandable) uproar because some folks thought I wanted to collect donations. I absolutely refuse to accept a single peso, because that is a conflict of interest and frankly, no matter how well any of you may know me, it is simply not a good idea...
  10. Taha

    The Maggot Thread

    That is an excellent and thought-provoking post. I have myself sealed oils, in vials, in bottles of various types and sizes, with Argon, without Argon, precisely to make these observations. There is absolutely no doubt that 'abused oud' "ages" far better, where "aging" inquotes implies...
  11. Taha

    The Maggot Thread

    The video I posted is itself the Facebook video (on a computer, you can see the Facebook icon at the bottom right of the video, and you can click to go directly to the Facebook link). I didn't rush by the way, like I said I shared this video with others before ever posting it here (this was the...
  12. Taha

    The Maggot Thread

    You're absolutely right, my one regret with posting that video is that people (FAR more than I had thought!) took it as me implying this is how oils like Assam Organic (and other conscientiously made barn oils) are made. I had clearly said "mass-market", and I'll now clarify that further: Some...
  13. Taha

    SOTD

    :D With you AmberyOudDude, there's no worries. You know what the wood smells like, and you know what all the different genres of oils smell like, and why. And you KNOW what you like, because you are YOU. And that's how it should be. By the way, if you wanna see heavy... oh man, the recent...
  14. Taha

    The Maggot Thread

    Perhaps the most pertinent and most relevant and most deserved footnote ever, to my essay earlier: :p Its a pity that the discussion got dragged around a bit, but I would like everyone to NOT forget Ensar's quite explicit preface. Please don't think Ensar = filthy oils, and Taha = pure oils...
  15. Taha

    The Maggot Thread

    You're being too modest Rasoul :D it went more like you said "here's how I understood that post......." and then I said, "yep, that's exactly it". And I do agree: we need to come up with more accurate terms to describe the non-intrinsic scent notes. I've done it in the past, even went into...
  16. Taha

    The Maggot Thread

    @Ensar, nah, ‘guilty until proven innocent’ wasn’t directed at you, but at the usual guy. The same gentleman who thinks my posting about the hunters’ death / leg crushing has some pity-rousing agenda with sales connotations. He doesn’t know that I refused to sell Pilipinas No.1 (far more...
  17. Taha

    The Maggot Thread

    Oh yeah totally. In fact, like I’ve said before, frankly I don’t understand why anyone even soaks wood prior to distillation, other than for the reason I do, or for an intentional fermentation (art), or for economical reasons (sometimes fermentation but usually rot). I know that you do unsoaked...
  18. Taha

    The Maggot Thread

    It was covered (closed) actually. :( If it was uncovered, I suspect there would have been a lot more of the cotton-candy type of growth which I've seen in open soak vats, which is completely absent here.
  19. Taha

    The Maggot Thread

    @Philip, thanks for asking the questions. Aside from deciding to wear the distiller’s coat yourself, that’s the only way to get these answers! ;) @PEARL has pretty much summed it up, but I will add a bit more. Firstly, I would add that just as Adam brought up within that Facebook post, there IS...
  20. Taha

    Meeting with Taha

    @AZsmell, dunno if you remember, but you were also the first to smell the then-yet-unreleased Mokokchung Oud at my place. ;) So its kind of poetic that with Shabby it was an oud from Mokokchung as well! @kesiro, since you're a coffee 'bean' (get it?), you should ask Shabby what he thought of...