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I haven't venture to the pipe side but I took a couple pictures of interesting pipes and a tobacco shop in San Diego I thought you guys might like. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...7fdbfb2438.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...69ee6f17e0.jpg
But nothing, what are you waiting for?Quote:
Originally Posted by SoCal gunner
I have No idea how or where to startQuote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
You know that phrase, "Put THAT in your pipe and smoke it!"?Quote:
Originally Posted by SoCal gunner
The "that" is tobacco.
Put the tobacco in a pipe, and you smoke it.
:pipe:
I kid. I kid.
But really. You just kind of have to jump in. There is a lot of info, here and elsewhere, to help get started.
Come join us on the pipe side!
1 Missouri Meerschaum corncob pipeQuote:
Originally Posted by SoCal gunner
1 Tin of good English tobacco (I.e. Dunhill Nightcap for a cigar smoker)
1 pack of standard pipe cleaners
http://www.cigarbum.com/forum/genera...01-a-5386.html
Total cost for the first 20 smokes: less than one FFOX cigar
Then if you like it at all, n00b sampler trade for pipes (either that or make a few posts about all the goopy bullshit aromatics you're trying and some piper will probably have mercy on you and send you a sampler of decent tobaccos right out of the blue)
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McClelland 2015 in a Rattray's cherrywood with a glass of chardonnay...
Puffing Hamborger Veermaster. The mildest straight Virginia that I know of. Tasty too — perhaps the least hint of a topping. In my old Kirsten Mariner, of course.
This blend doesn't get much love, but I enjoy it a lot.
https://i.imgur.com/oDyqClg.jpg
Smoking a bowl of SG Navy Flake from 2012 accompanied by a glass of chardonnay.
This blend has sure mellowed out with age.
Just finished a bowl of Dark Bird's Eye in a Dunhill billiard.
Managed to lay my hands on a 1/2 kg box of G&H Louisiana Flake. Going to smoke a small bowl at lunch to see if the Lakeland perfume is too much for me. Some of these G&H blends need a grannystink exorcism before they're fit to smoke.
Dunhill Flake and Wessex Classic Virginia are two of my favorite Virginia’s, but both were tasting a bit tart today. So I opened my jar of Solani Aged Burley Flake. That hit the spot. I don’t smoke a lot of ABF, but sometimes it’s just The Right Stuff.
I'm off for the weekend! Just finished a bowl of G&H Dark Bird's Eye in a Sunrise Dublin. Drinking some Earl Grey tea.
The other day I mentioned that I'm having some of Tobias' old Blue Train tobacco. Well, it burned the [expletive deleted] out of my tongue, hurt for about 3 days. So... I let it dry out for a few days and thought I'd try it again, which I just did. Still burned the [expletive deleted] out of my tongue, just not as bad. Still not worth it. Into the English Ivy it goes :(
Y'all might be thinking Bruck, you can't throw away perfectly good tobacco (don't worry, I'm not); send it to me instead (no, I don't want it to burn the [expletive deleted] out of your tongue either).
Followed up with some Esoterica Dorchester - much better! :)
In the last 12 hours, I've smoked four or five bowls of Condor in various pipes. Love this stuff. Mowing the yard with a push mower, 6/10ths of an acre. Had to come in and take a break and make some iced tea. One of my push mowers (the lighter one that I use for trim) wouldn't start after being stored through the winter. After wearing out my shoulder trying to start it, I put some enzyme stuff in the tank and pulled the rope 6 or 8 more times to get it into the carburetor and went and cut grass with the other mower. After about an hour, I tried the other mower and it started right up!
What?!? Where's the 'Don't Like' button? I just LOVE it when they taste tart. :pipe: I wish I could find a blend where that initial sour note they sometimes have would last all the way to the bottom.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pipe Smoker
Just finished a quick bowl of LL Dark Red
Moving on to a bowl of CB original in my Swiss BBK
Smoking a bowl of GH Dark Bird's Eye in a Dunhill Shell straight billiard. Sipping some Buffalo Trace bourbon and listening to Pipes Magazine podcast from Tuesday.
Earlier, F&T Vintage. Now a fill of Hamborger Veermaster. Both in my Luciano squat bulldog. Both tasting exceptionally fine today. Next up: Lunch, which will feature a Westminster Rustic Red cheddar cheese sandwich on German-baked pumpernickel.
Then I suggest that you try Fribourg & Treyer “Blackjack”, an untopped ready-rubbed Virginia. Too tart for me straight, but I use a bit of it to brighten-up dull tobaccos.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
Opened a 2015 tin of Sixpence today. Such an intoxicating aroma! And a tasty tobacco!
I had some of that aging for a couple years. Still tastes like baby powder!Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
Thanks! I'll order a tin on the next go-roundQuote:
Originally Posted by Pipe Smoker
This batch is better than the last. Aging doesn't help unless you age it in a semi-sealed condition, i.e. in a mason jar with the lid disk upside down. Need to keep an eye on the moisture tho, you don't want it to get too dry.Quote:
Originally Posted by BryGuySC
I've tried the upside down lid trick, but can't get that taste out. The floral note dies down, but it still tastes like baby powder. Same with the Rum Flake, Bob's Chocolate, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
Big and Burley in the Bones Fat Author, raspberry vodka and diet coke
Love that baby powder action... in a devoted pipe. You ever want to trade you baby powder flakes, hit me up.Quote:
Originally Posted by BryGuySC
Well yes, it doesn't totally go away but usually it fades to the point where it's at least tolerable. Mine gives a whiff of baby powder at first but seems it's pretty well gone (or you're numb to it) by the time the first 1/4 of the bowl is gone.Quote:
Originally Posted by BryGuySC
Earlier today I put away a couple of bowls of Esoterica Dorchester while winding down after a grueling 5K, LOL :)
It's a charming VaPer but I can't fall too much in love with it as I've only got an inch or so of it left in the jar & my work no longer takes me to Charlottesville, VA on a regular basis, on which trips I would frequent the store that stocks it.
...why would you ruin one of the best parts about Louisanna Flake????!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
Lakeland Snot only brings out character in pipe weeds.
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Smoking a bowl of GH Dark Bird's Eye in a Comoy's Guildhall billiard. Drinking Maxwell House coffee and getting ready to go in to work an hour early.
Puffing a nice blend: 2/3rds Solani ABF for body, 1/3rd F&T Blackjack for zest. As is usual for me, I mixed the two tobaccos, rather than layering.
Quick bowl of Storm Front in an old beat up cob while fertilizing the lawn.
Late To be doing yard work...but the rain stopped and the yellow flowers in the lawn are gonna start popping up.
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Newminster #403 from 2015, in a meer.
The age has softened the harsh edges, but it still holds a bit of brashness.
GH Dark Bird's Eye in a Savinelli Silver billiard during my lunch hour.
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Went with a small bowl of G&H Louisiana Flake again last night (and only managed to burn half of that) and a half a glass of chardonnay. Really didn't have time for much of a smoke but it's probably the last one I'll get in before the weekend.
Morning, boys. How's it going?
I actually managed time for a morning coffee and smoke! Sipping on some Voodoo Queen and a single farm varietal from Guatemala that I roasted Tuesday night.
Puffing Hamborger Veermaster in my ancient Kirsten Mariner. I regret that I made the acquaintance of this mild, tasty Virginia flake only a year or so ago. I also like its cylindrical tin. Relative to an Escudo tin, it’s a bit taller, but smaller in diameter. Easier to grasp and screw down for a good seal.
I’m all out of Dunhill De Luxe Navy Rolls, but just opened a tin of just plain Dunhill Navy Rolls. Still a regal tobacco.
More yard work...planting phlox today and weeding one of the flower beds...remulched the front already.
Taking a quick break with some OJK in another beat up cob before getting back to it.
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