Pipe Tobacco Blends: Under The Label

[c.ortiz108]

I've only smoked the Stokkebye (photo on the right). The Comoy is beaten up some but they look very similar made in the same difficult pressing technique and all made in Denmark. Anyone tried more than one of these?

Comoy's appears to be owned by Stokkebye, according to this website Comoy’s – Cask #7 | Confessions of a Pipe Smoker, while DFM is made by Orlik (according to TR). I wonder if Orlik manufactures for PS? I also wonder if these are essentially the same only made with slightly varying grades of tobacco. I guess there are no "apprentice rollers" in the pipe world, so cost differences wouldn't be due to manufacturing.

I believe that this is his 'master list' of VaPers, not necessarily the same cut, strength (etc.) but all of the same generic type. It's possible that some are the same mixture. I added some entries at the bottom from what's already been discussed here.

1) McConnell Scottish Cake
2) Samuel Gawith’s St. James Flake
3) GL Pease Tribute
4) Escudo
5)GL Pease Triple Play
6) GL Pease Filmore
7) Former’s Straight Grain Flake
8) H & H AJ’s VaPer
9) Low Country’s Waccamaw
10) Peretti’s Park Square
11) John Patton’s Cool Hand Fluke
12) H & H Rolando’s Own
13) H & H Anniversary Kake
14) G & H Louisiana Flake
15) Sherlock Holmes Pipe Club VR Blend
16) C & D Poplar Camp
17) Dunhill Elizabethan Mixture
18) C & D Night Train
19) H & H Louisiana Red
20) C & D Bayou Morning Flake
21) Reiner’s Long Golden Flake
22) Treasures of Ireland - Limerick
23) Dorchester
24) Solani #633
25) Luxury Bullseye Flake
26) McClelland Bulk 2015
27) GL Pease Telegraph Hill
28) Kajun Kake
29) Luxury Navy Flake
30) Dan Tobacco's Tordenskjold Virginia Slices

PS Added: 8-23-15
31) Davidoff Flake Medallions (Stokkebye Bullseye Flake)
32) Comoy Cask #7 (Stokkebye Bullseye Flake)
33) Comoy Cask #4 (Stokkebye Luxury Navy Flake)

Are those in any particular order?

[NeverBend]

Comoy's appears to be owned by Stokkebye, according to this website Comoy’s – Cask #7 | Confessions of a Pipe Smoker, while DFM is made by Orlik (according to TR). I wonder if Orlik manufactures for PS? I also wonder if these are essentially the same only made with slightly varying grades of tobacco. I guess there are no "apprentice rollers" in the pipe world, so cost differences wouldn't be due to manufacturing.

Are those in any particular order?

Hi Chico,

I don't know if these tobaccos (list) are in any particular order other than the three that I added at the end.

Orlik was part of the Cadogan portfolio of brands and hasn't (to my knowledge) manufactured anything in over 30 years. Orlik, once an English company, is now extinct except for the use of it's name on Danish made tobaccos and while I'm not sure who TR is, Davidoff Flake Medallions are made in Denmark so it must be either Stokkebye (probable) or MacBarren.

I don't know if Stokkebye owns the Comoy's or Orlik names outright or just for use with tobaccos or even if they own it at all. The difference is that the Davidoff name wouldn't be owned by Stokkebye. I'm sure that the young fellow who wrote the blog is very nice but his knowledge about tobaccos is very limited and he shouldn't be considered an information source. For example, he writes,

One thing I really appreciated about this blend was how the Black Cavendish tobacco was packed into the center of the coin, not just dispersed randomly throughout. What this tells me is that Comoy’s cares greatly about their tobacco. The time and finesse it takes to accomplish something that honestly adds so little to the tobacco is a true testament to the quality of this blend.
No. It's more difficult to intersperse the black cavendish but it wouldn't really be random because any flake processing has a method to it's preparation. He made this up or was told this by someone who made this up or they were told by someone who did (etc.). Thus the problem with much Internet content about pipes, tobaccos and cigars on the Internet (and other things of course).

One thing I noticed about this blend is that when rubbing it out, I could really feel the oil and the nicotine collecting on my fingers. It reminded my of Mac Baren Bold Kentucky and how I got a nicotine buzz from just absorbing the oil on my fingertips. Cask #7 was not nearly that bad, but it was most definitely an oily tobacco.This made me blink. He got a nic buzz from touching the tobacco?? I guess he gets drunk looking at Jack Daniels bottles too? Maybe if he chewed a flake.

Pete

[El Whedo]

This made me blink. He got a nic buzz from touching the tobacco?? I guess he gets drunk looking at Jack Daniels bottles too? Maybe if he chewed a flake.

Seein' as how you are the only Worthy Font of Tobacco Knowledge, you never heard of it, so it can't exist, right?

CLICKY---> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Tobacco_Sickness

Now a days it's usually migrants that suffer from this, but when I was a kid, all the kids were let outta school to bring in the harvest, and it was mostly kids suffering from GTS. A few would even die each year.

[c.ortiz108]

Seein' as how you are the only Worthy Font of Tobacco Knowledge, you never heard of it, so it can't exist, right?

CLICKY---> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Tobacco_Sickness

Now a days it's usually migrants that suffer from this, but when I was a kid, all the kids were let outta school to bring in the harvest, and it was mostly kids suffering from GTS. A few would even die each year.

Wow, that's harsh. Was this in NM?

Not surprising that that kind of intense exposure would have dire consequences, but getting a nic buzz from rubbing out flakes....?

[NeverBend]

Seein' as how you are the only Worthy Font of Tobacco Knowledge, you never heard of it, so it can't exist, right?

CLICKY---> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Tobacco_Sickness

Now a days it's usually migrants that suffer from this, but when I was a kid, all the kids were let outta school to bring in the harvest, and it was mostly kids suffering from GTS. A few would even die each year.

Hi Mark,

You can’t compare the problem of nicotine poisoning in a tobacco harvester, who handles thousands of raw,wet leaves a day and over time, to some guy who thinks that he got a buzz from sticking his fingers into a tin of processed pipe tobacco. Does Hamborger Veermaster give you a buzz when you touch it?

This isn’t the first time that you’ve made a snide response to me and I sent you a PM the last time, to keep it off of the forum, but you didn’t reply. I don’t apologize for my expertise and I’ve responded to you, here and before, with respect and trust that you’ll do the same going forward.

Pete

[Emperor Zurg]

Seein' as how you are the only Worthy Font [sic] of Tobacco Knowledge, you never heard of it, so it can't exist, right?

Mark,

I must say I consider you an expert in the realm of pipes and baccy and while I have no problems with you or anyone else disagreeing with another member, I hardly see it as constructive to be a fvcking a$$hole about it.

Just my worthless 2 bits... take it for what it's worth.

[BryGuySC]

Are those in any particular order?

The OP was rating them. #1 being his favorite.