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gently caress COREY PERRY posted:Smoking some semois for the first time (Reserve du Patron) and this poo poo is fascinating. Presentation is pretty radically different being packed tight into a dry brick and it goes up like kindling as soon as you put a match to it. Despite that there's no harshness as long as you sip it, and a nice rich taste. Seems like it'll be a great summer smoke. I'm dying to try semois but I have so much tobacco I still haven't smoked
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# ¿ May 21, 2021 12:47 |
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# ¿ May 21, 2024 18:28 |
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gently caress COREY PERRY posted:If you are a fan of burley in any way, do yourself a favor and grab some semois. It's both fantastic and unique for the genre. Glad you liked it! Yeah supposedly Prince Albert is getting back in stock after people started hoarding it due to some spurious discontinuation rumors, so hopefully Carter Hall is the same. I know I'm going to buy some semois soon, just a matter of time.
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# ¿ May 22, 2021 22:08 |
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I'm a cigar idiot but I smoked a smallish Ashton Connecticut and it was real good
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# ¿ Jun 8, 2021 02:44 |
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Smoking a Leaf by Oscar Connecticut at (apparently) their flagship cigar lounge in Pittsburgh. Was a little worried at first that this was going to be too intense, but smoking it gently I'm in heaven. I started smoking a pipe occasionally, mostly Virginia, and found I much preferred it to cigars, which were too intense. But recently I've smoked a few Connecticuts that I've really really enjoyed. The mild flavors nicely temper the fact that I'm sucking on a giant wad of tobacco.
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# ¿ Jun 13, 2021 19:44 |
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I finally tried Semois, and that poo poo is wild. Really good but not something I'd like to smoke all the time.
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# ¿ Aug 19, 2021 19:58 |
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Finishing up a nice bowl of Full Virginia Flake in the hammock. What a totally classic tobacco.
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# ¿ Oct 10, 2021 23:29 |
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Virginias tend to burn hotter because of their high natural sugar content, or so I've been told. They're the best though, not much better than a good Virginia or Va/Per.
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# ¿ Oct 30, 2021 01:29 |
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Smoking some HH Pure Virginia. If you want a widely available straight VA that stacks up to much of the poo poo that's constantly out of stock, buy some of this and forget about it for a couple years.
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2021 14:28 |
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Yeah mason jars, particularly the ones with a two-piece lid, are literally all you need to properly store tobacco. Storing them in a cool dark place is good, too. Mylar bags also work.NewFatMike posted:A lot of my Virginia blends have been in hot-pressed flakes, and I don't think I'm a big fan of the format. Even with filters, it gets too steamy and I get a lot of tongue bite. Are you drying your tobacco? That's a big cause of tongue bite, along with packing too tightly and smoking too fast. Booze with the pipe can also exacerbate bite. Try fully rubbing out your flakes/coins, drying for at least 15 minutes (more like an hour if we're talking Sam Gawith), and packing using the Frank method or even the gravity fill. Packing too lightly just means a shorter bowl, while packing too tightly means a crappy experience and probably a burnt tongue.
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# ¿ Jan 25, 2022 13:38 |
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Gotcha. Yeah some blends are just a pain in the rear end.
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# ¿ Jan 25, 2022 17:25 |
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Edit: nm
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# ¿ Jan 30, 2022 17:17 |
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I've smoke my new Stanwell (shape 54) a couple times now, and I will be getting more Stanwells down the road. Knockout quality for the price.
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# ¿ Feb 8, 2022 21:28 |
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Howard The Dork posted:Anyone ever use a FoodSaver jar vacuum sealer on their pipe tobacco? I'm borrowing one to try out for cellaring bulk varieties. It seems to work pretty well sealing up the wide-mouth canning jars. There seems to be some debate as to this. For me, I'm lazy, and there's no clear benefit to vacuum sealing the jars, so I don't.
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# ¿ Feb 24, 2022 16:25 |
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St Bruno is a great intro to that style of tobacco, very nice stuff. I have indeed heard that Ennerdale is the King of the Lakelands. Rum Flake is incredibly rich in taste and fairly high in nicotine, as well. I honestly still don't know if I like Lakelands yet, but the non-sauced Sam Gawiths are probably my favorite blends. Edit: GL Pease Stonehenge is manufactured by Gawith and Hoggarth if you're looking for something that's always in stock. big boi fucked around with this message at 15:37 on Mar 14, 2022 |
# ¿ Mar 14, 2022 15:34 |
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NewFatMike posted:ENNERDALE IS INCREDIBLE Lol, I have to dig out my sample of Ennerdale now
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# ¿ Mar 20, 2022 17:09 |
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There's still a bunch of Samuel Gawith tins kicking around. Several of their blends are must-try. I grabbed 3 tins each of Full Virginia Flake and Best Brown Flake last night. Check TurboTin if interested.
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# ¿ Apr 10, 2022 13:02 |
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NewFatMike posted:Thank you very much for that heads up, I’m antsy to buy a 500g bag of Ennerdale Boswell's has it for 4.95 an oz. That's a deal.
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# ¿ Apr 10, 2022 16:15 |
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I smoked some Peretti 150th and Cringle '21 yesterday. Both good but not great. gently caress COREY PERRY posted:Concurred that Boswell's is the best, I've already got half a pound of Ennerdale but I'm still tempted to get some more from them. The Esotericas go faster than TurboTin can keep up, probably but something like Rattray's should stay up for long enough to make the site useful. Not that I've seen Rattray's in a long time. You can also sign up for the one-time email notifications for those blends. Tedious but worth it. NewFatMike posted:For those of you interested in smoking pipes, I made a mistake in spending more on pipes than I did on my tobacco (which still isn't all that expensive even for nicer stuff). Grab some cheap as hell Missouri Meerschaum pipes and just go hog wild on an ounce or two here and there on whatever you can find that sounds interesting, and good tobacco is so worth it over cheap stuff. The easiest way to tell is "if you're pulling stems from your tobacco, it's not the nicer stuff". Yeah agreed, the MM cobs are 100% the way to start along with an oz of a couple different genres of tobacco.
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# ¿ Apr 11, 2022 17:05 |
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I also like small, straight pipes, and my best pipe is a Stanwell 54. Perfect little VA flake pipe.
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# ¿ May 4, 2022 11:59 |
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DerekSmartymans posted:Am I misunderstanding, or are you folks talking about removing the pipe stem to swab it during a smoke, or after the bowl has finished and cooled down? Because it’s a really bad idea to move/rotate/break down a hot stem on a briar/vulcanite/clay/meerschaum pipe, because it could expand and/or cool unevenly and ruin a well-fit pipe permanently. That’s if you’re lucky enough not to just snap the stem off in the first place. Are these pipes you’re discussing made to where this doesn’t matter anymore? I would be interested if this was “new” (at least to me!) technology for briars—-I break cobs all the time because usually I’m more interested in just putting it away quickly cleaned, even if the bowl is still hot/warm to touch. I’ve seen broken briars from the same treatment, though. Falcon pipes. Google 'em
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# ¿ May 18, 2022 00:17 |
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Finally smoking my Ennerdale sample. I like it.
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# ¿ Jul 23, 2022 01:17 |
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Presby is very good agreed. I gave some away because it was biting me, but I should have just kept it and let it age. If you like light Englishes, try out Chelsea Morning. That stuff is excellent with coffee, and with a year or two of age it's spectacular.
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# ¿ Aug 2, 2022 21:02 |
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Howard The Dork posted:It’s not a sweet as I expected… If you want aromatics that actually taste like something, try H&H Classic Burley Kake, Mac Baren Vanilla Roll Cake, or a heavily sauced Lakeland like Ennerdale or Rum Flake.
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# ¿ Sep 6, 2022 21:13 |
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NewFatMike posted:That’s good to know! Do the bent ones rest as well as the straight ones? I hear good things about the following: Rum Flake Dark Flake Scented Bosun Cut Plug Bob's Chocolate Coniston I've tried Bob's and Rum Flake of those. Bob's is quite pleasant and easy smoking. Rum flake is super rich and sweet. Too much so for me, but if you like Ennerdale you'll probably love it.
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# ¿ Sep 20, 2022 03:51 |
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ComradePyro posted:- Cornell of Diehl Haunted Bookshop (the name sounded cool) Not a bad selection. I've heard of people mixing Five Bros with 1Q to balance both. There are a few different directions you can go from here, but as I see it you've got two or three ample holes in your stable: Virginias: I would start with a Virginia/Perique instead of a straight VA. Try Orlik Golden Sliced, Luxury Navy Flake (bulk), Escudo, or Match Victorian (bulk). Dark Fired Kentucky: Honestly I don't really like this stuff, but people go nuts for its bold smoky flavor (which is different from latakia's bold smoky flavor). Popular blends include Old Dark Fired, Bold Kentucky, Amphora Kentucky. Lakelands: This is a whole other animal but very much worth trying. They're generally stout British aromatics with natural flavorings. They can be made with just about any type of leaf. Anything by Gawith and Hoggarth falls here.
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# ¿ Sep 26, 2022 03:58 |
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ComradePyro posted:Having gone through most of what I bought, I can solidly say I'm hooked. And also the Haunted Bookshop is kinda bad. Good choices. Jar all the blends as you open them and leave them be for a while if you don't enjoy any of them. You may find that you like them after all as you gain smoking experience and as your tastes change.
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# ¿ Oct 9, 2022 05:39 |
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Yeah, preferring strong flavors is common when you're first starting out. Not to say that you won't always like them, but as smoking technique improves people generally start to appreciate more subtle blends. OTOH Haunted Bookshop has a lot of haters, so the other VA-based stuff you got may be more of a test.
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# ¿ Oct 9, 2022 14:18 |
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ComradePyro posted:same tbh I may have been the one to recommend it. Unfortunately I have not smoked it, so I can't answer here. It is a very popular Va/Per bulk. My advice would be to troll sites like TobaccoReviews, PipesMagazine forums, or Pipesmokersden for discussion about the blend. Sorry you don't like it.
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# ¿ Nov 1, 2022 20:55 |
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NewFatMike posted:The man's goggles are really throwing me for a loop. Rum Flake! Edit unless you said you already tried it
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# ¿ Nov 18, 2022 20:27 |
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H&H Louisiana Red is an excellent bulk Va/Per. That is all.
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# ¿ Nov 28, 2022 20:51 |
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RoboJoe posted:Thank you both for the super useful info, it's much appreciated! So much more detailed than I expected which has given me a lot to think about and I'll definitely check out those recommended cigars. See you in five years when you discover pipes
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# ¿ Dec 20, 2022 17:04 |
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# ¿ May 21, 2024 18:28 |
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Empty Pockets posted:Greetings, can anyone make me some recommendations for a good “Balkan” blend pipe tobacco? That is to say, an oriental-focused blend with some latakia but distinct from English blends. I want it sour! Tangy! Latakia is assumed but can’t be the only oriental leaf tobacco present. Presbyterian and Mississippi River
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