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Post by Goldbrick on Jun 7, 2023 7:23:40 GMT -5
This morning, about 1:30 am, I awoke from a bad dream, and went to the kitchen to get some water and collect my thoughts. On the table I spotted the Pipes by Lee bulldog That I had loaded the morning before...it's not my habit to leave a pipe unsmoked for so long, but I'd forgotten it as I left for yesterday's supermarket trip, and never got back to it. I lit the charge of Sutliff's Toasted Burley, and I can tell you that in forty-plus years of smoking a pipe, I've never tasted anything like that, and thank goodness! Two puffs in. and the tissue of my entire mouth tasted like onion skins coated with sour orange juice...I forced myself to take a few more puffs, thinking it might be some kind of body chemistry issue  ... then a dim light came on in what's left of my tiny brain " SOUR PIPE ", the term sounded in my head, and spoke the words aloud... My wife turned to me from her computer game, and reminded me she hadn't seen the Everclear bottle in my hand since I retired...she will see it today! Keep em clean Guys, unless you like onions skins and sour orange juice. |
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Post by coalsmoke on Jun 7, 2023 7:52:14 GMT -5
I'm not a fan of a lengthy DGT for just that reason. I can wait a short while before relighting, say when I put my pipe in my pocket when popping back into the house for something, but not much longer. I find the momentum of the smoke gets dampened and the tobacco flavor takes on a more ashen character. I know, I know, I'm getting funny in my old age. LOL.
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Post by Darin on Jun 7, 2023 8:44:09 GMT -5
I find VaPers do well with DGT but Burley not so much.
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Post by Goldbrick on Jun 7, 2023 9:34:11 GMT -5
I find VaPers do well with DGT but Burley not so much. As I understand DGT, and I could be wrong, it's lighting a pipe ,and after a few puffs, finishing it hours later...in this case, I filled the pipe and didn't light it until almost 12 hours later. I think the problem was ,its a pipe I seldom smoke and therefore haven't cleaned in ages  seems to me, I remember someone saying the fastest way to sour a pipe is to leave tobacco in it for a long stretch. I DGT pipes very often, with no flavor issue, some blends even benefit from DGT. In this case, the feel and flavor were both uncommonly nasty, and if a light reaming followed by cotton balls and Everclear don't fix it, it's time to retire the pipe. |
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Post by Darin on Jun 7, 2023 9:47:08 GMT -5
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Post by peteguy on Jun 7, 2023 14:10:02 GMT -5
Pipe retort or whatever they call it. Some surgical tube and a piece of glass tube. I had to do it once on an estate that I could not get the stink taste out of. I am sure if you run a few everclears through it you will be firing her again soon.
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Post by urbino on Jun 7, 2023 14:36:53 GMT -5
Brief though it is, this is a really good thread.
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Post by trailboss on Jun 7, 2023 19:49:47 GMT -5
Few pipes cannot be fixed with either salt/ alcohol or a retort.
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Post by SailorBen on Jun 7, 2023 21:44:59 GMT -5
Great description of your "lightbulb moment." Sounds nasty - I've heard of pipe souring, but a firsthand account of what it's like is really helpful. I've definitely left loaded pipes unlit for 12+ hours too, but it sounds like its best to avoid that. The retort thing is fascinating - thanks for the tip. Great thread.
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Post by Goldbrick on Jun 8, 2023 19:23:32 GMT -5
Great description of your "lightbulb moment." Sounds nasty - I've heard of pipe souring, but a firsthand account of what it's like is really helpful. I've definitely left loaded pipes unlit for 12+ hours too, but it sounds like its best to avoid that. The retort thing is fascinating - thanks for the tip. Great thread. It's important to note, Ben, that this little bulldog is part of what I call my " second string rotation ", a pipe that only finds it's way to a tobacco jar a very few times a year, and as such it's also subject to get much less care. The long stretch with a loaded bowl is only partly to blame... This afternoon I broke out the Everclear, and it took four pipe cleaners before I had the stem clean. After an equal number of cleaners in the stummel, I turned to an Everclear soaked shank brush, then more cleaners. Once the airway was clean I blocked the shank with a cleaner, filled the bowl with cotton balls and topped them with twenty or so drops of Everclear...as a rule I would use no more than ten drops of Everclear on kosher salt, but I had no salt, and somehow it seemed more alcohol was needed for cotton...we'll see.  |
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Post by Goldbrick on Jun 9, 2023 5:31:51 GMT -5
I'm enjoying the sweet taste of success this morning. I've just finished a bowl of Prince Albert in the little bulldog, and the nutty goodness of the tobacco shined just the way it should.
A fresh pipe, Prince Albert, and a good cup of coffee...all my gray clouds have rolled away!
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Post by johnlawitzke on Jun 10, 2023 13:29:03 GMT -5
Congrats on your success! A clean pipe is a good tasting pipe.
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Post by CrustyCat on Jun 11, 2023 9:58:27 GMT -5
Sorry, but what is DGT?
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Post by trailboss on Jun 11, 2023 10:01:15 GMT -5
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... then a dim light came on in what's left of my tiny brain " SOUR PIPE ", the term sounded in my head, and spoke the words aloud...
seems to me, I remember someone saying the fastest way to sour a pipe is to leave tobacco in it for a long stretch.
