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Post by Darin on Aug 14, 2017 9:46:48 GMT -5
Carter Hall and Prince Albert
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Post by Ronv69 on Aug 14, 2017 11:54:29 GMT -5
Mr. Henry from the Pipe Pub. Which I am pretty sure was 1Q.
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Post by Ronv69 on Aug 14, 2017 11:56:27 GMT -5
I remember getting some tobacco named after Old Grandad whiskey at one point. Man that sounds good. I think I will try to make my own. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2017 12:21:43 GMT -5
What were your initial reactions to Lakelands? I'd like to hear about about that. ...it was quite a change from the OTC's I had smoked...Condor, St. Bruno Flake, and several of the SG tobaccos...my first exposure to 1792 flake left me breathless...at first I disliked it but something kept pulling me back daily to the 1792...it was much more potent back then, than today...then it was Manchester Tobacco's Revor Plug...an 80 year old retired Lawyer, who I did yard work for led me on a exploration of pipe tobacco that allowed me to experience PM Revelation, Cope's Escudo, and a number of tobaccos that hadn't been around for years...in fact, when he passed away at 92, his wife gave me all his pipe tobacco which I smoked well into the mid 70's... ...at 12 I read "The Pipe Book" by A. Dunhill...then Compton Mackenzie's "Sublime Tobacco"...which continued to fuel my passion...so, a rather unique experience for a young piper! I went on many a learning journey with my older brother and his friends, many pipe smokers. I can't even imagine knowing about Sam G at a younger age. I am looking up the books for purchase as I type. Thank you. David |
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Post by Lady Margaret on Aug 14, 2017 12:21:48 GMT -5
My first tobacco was Carter Hall. I smoked a couple bowls of that, then went out and picked up SWRA, Half & Half and CB White.
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Post by JimInks on Aug 14, 2017 12:46:40 GMT -5
I started out with Borkum Riff Bourbon Whiskey. Tried all the BK blends at the tine, was not satisfied with any of them, so I branched out to other companies' blends. A lot of them. For a short time, I was smoking Skandinavik Regular until I found the Amphoras, and quickly settled on the Original. Then, I smoked a bunch of Tinderbox blends (repacked Lane and Stokebye products), had a personal blend made for me that I smoked for over thirty years (two-thirds Anniversary Cherry, one third latakia), and still experimented with other blends. When I started smoking Three Nuns (1982) and Balkan Sobranie (early'80s), it was hard to go back to most of that stuff, though I did smoke Dunhill English bulks.
your personal blend sounds very interesting!
It wasn't my invention. When I was a freshman in college, there was an pipe smoking old man who was a janitor in the art building who was once a sailor. Looked weather beaten as could be, and he had quite a colorful past. I was fascinated by him, and used to talk to him. One day, he asked me what I was smoking, and I told him "Skandinavik". He said in more colorful language than I can use here, "Ya don't know [crap], kid. Yer smokin' [crap]. Try this." It was half Anniversary Cherry and half latakia. I liked it and smoked the blend for years, though by '81, I changed the formula to 2/3 Anni Cherry and one third latakia. The Tinderbox people always thought I was crazy to smoke, and really gave me jazz about it for years. But, I liked it, and it was a go-to for me at the same time I was smoking other blends. I smoked it until about 2004. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2017 12:47:12 GMT -5
I remember getting some tobacco named after Old Grandad whiskey at one point. Man that sounds good. I think I will try to make my own. Wow, I remember that, too. Didn't care for it, though |
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Post by Ronv69 on Aug 14, 2017 13:06:08 GMT -5
Man that sounds good. I think I will try to make my own. Wow, I remember that, too. Didn't care for it, though Well I have the ad of taking a tobacco I already like and spraying it with OGD. It has to be better than the original I think. |
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Post by Lady Margaret on Aug 14, 2017 13:15:01 GMT -5
your personal blend sounds very interesting!
It wasn't my invention. When I was a freshman in college, there was an pipe smoking old man who was a janitor in the art building who was once a sailor. Looked weather beaten as could be, and he had quite a colorful past. I was fascinated by him, and used to talk to him. One day, he asked me what I was smoking, and I told him "Skandinavik". He said in more colorful language than I can use here, "Ya don't know [crap], kid. Yer smokin' [crap]. Try this." It was half Anniversary Cherry and half latakia. I liked it and smoked the blend for years, though by '81, I changed the formula to 2/3 Anni Cherry and one third latakia. The Tinderbox people always thought I was crazy to smoke, and really gave me jazz about it for years. But, I liked it, and it was a go-to for me at the same time I was smoking other blends. I smoked it until about 2004.
that is a neat story!
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Post by quicklime on Aug 14, 2017 13:34:55 GMT -5
Prince Albert and Carter Hall.
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Post by tedvig on Aug 14, 2017 17:41:27 GMT -5
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Post by JimInks on Aug 14, 2017 17:57:47 GMT -5
It is the same blend. Sutliff lost the rights to use the Old Grand Dad name, so they had to change it. It's the same formula as always and I thought it was pretty good. Here's my review: I used to wonder what Old Grand-Dad's pipe tobacco was like. I now know because this is the very same blend under another name. It consists of ribbon cut brown and black cavendish, the former providing the mildest of bread and honey notes, while the latter provides a slight hint of vanilla. The Kentucky bourbon used is a quality liquor, and is mild to medium in flavor with the slightest sour hit. Has a very mild nic-hit. Burns clean at a moderate pace, but perhaps not too cooly for a fast puffer. It should be sipped for full enjoyment as you would any bourbon you'd stock in your home. Won't bite. Leaves little moisture in the bowl, and needs an average number of relights. Not overly sweet, so it does well for a repeat smoke, and the room note and after taste are very pleasant. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 14, 2017 18:04:05 GMT -5
I tend to stay away from all Liquor named toby. Something like buttered rum might be okay, but where the liquor is in the name I have had bad luck. Weird for someone who grew up on Kentucky Whiskey |
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Post by username on Aug 14, 2017 18:07:03 GMT -5
Dunhill nightcap of the Murray's era i liked the tin art so i bought it.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Aug 14, 2017 18:38:05 GMT -5
I smoked Middleton's Cherry for a few years. From maybe 16-20. I didn't have the internet and lived in the country, so it was all I knew existed. I thought about taking the pipe up again a number of times over the years, but it wasn't until 6-7 months ago when I was trying to quit cigarettes that my brother mentioned pipe smoking and I really got excited about it again. Now that I have the internet, I have been so busy trying blends that I cannot really say that I have a go-to as of yet. If so, it would be Esoterica- Dunbar, Frog Morton Town, and Black House are maybe my top smokes.
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Post by PhantomWolf on Aug 14, 2017 18:45:07 GMT -5
your personal blend sounds very interesting!
It wasn't my invention. When I was a freshman in college, there was an pipe smoking old man who was a janitor in the art building who was once a sailor. Looked weather beaten as could be, and he had quite a colorful past. I was fascinated by him, and used to talk to him. One day, he asked me what I was smoking, and I told him "Skandinavik". He said in more colorful language than I can use here, "Ya don't know [crap], kid. Yer smokin' [crap]. Try this." It was half Anniversary Cherry and half latakia. I liked it and smoked the blend for years, though by '81, I changed the formula to 2/3 Anni Cherry and one third latakia. The Tinderbox people always thought I was crazy to smoke, and really gave me jazz about it for years. But, I liked it, and it was a go-to for me at the same time I was smoking other blends. I smoked it until about 2004. Sounds tasty. I started blending Stokkebye Peaches & Creme with perique and latakia in an attempt at my first custom blend. Still dialing it in. Something seems right about fruit and latakia. |
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Post by Lady Margaret on Aug 14, 2017 20:07:18 GMT -5
It wasn't my invention. When I was a freshman in college, there was an pipe smoking old man who was a janitor in the art building who was once a sailor. Looked weather beaten as could be, and he had quite a colorful past. I was fascinated by him, and used to talk to him. One day, he asked me what I was smoking, and I told him "Skandinavik". He said in more colorful language than I can use here, "Ya don't know [crap], kid. Yer smokin' [crap]. Try this." It was half Anniversary Cherry and half latakia. I liked it and smoked the blend for years, though by '81, I changed the formula to 2/3 Anni Cherry and one third latakia. The Tinderbox people always thought I was crazy to smoke, and really gave me jazz about it for years. But, I liked it, and it was a go-to for me at the same time I was smoking other blends. I smoked it until about 2004. Sounds tasty. I started blending Stokkebye Peaches & Creme with perique and latakia in an attempt at my first custom blend. Still dialing it in. Something seems right about fruit and latakia.
Oh, I like that idea! Have you tried Sterling Tobacco's Country Store Georgia Peach? The Country Store blend is a mild English type, and then there is a peach brandy added. I actually don't detect peach so I throw in a little Peaches and Cream.
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Post by Matthew on Aug 15, 2017 22:33:00 GMT -5
In 1982 I tried Borkum Riff Bourbon in a Swiss BBK.Not know a dang thing about what
I was doing Ipacked it a bit tight and puffed a bit too hard.I Talged fuuny (Talked Funny)
for a week.First Sargent thought it was hilarious,Platoon Sargent did NOT.Nor did I.
Skip forward to 2006,I still had that BBK,so I bought some more Borkum Riff and tried again.
Almost the same results,just not as bad.Stopped into a B&M and purchased a Rossi and some
bulk tobacco,Think it was a butternut blend.After some trial and error I could smoke most of a
bowl before I gave up.In 2012 started smoking cigars again,and around April 2013 my wife,of all
people,askd me "What about your pipes?".Well the Rossi and my BBK had been stolen in 2011,but a
friend had given me a couple Doctor Grabows and a Tally-Ho.So I went to the B&M and picked up
4 ounces of bulk,2 of 1Q and 2 of Scotchmans Blend (a Butternut Blend).I got onto the Forums
and started reading.First I learned how to pack properly,then how and what that tamper thing was
for.And the most important thing was,I learned to relax and just enjoy the smoke.Relighting was
normal,I didn't have to pick up the same flavors as some one else,as long as I enjoyed the flavors
I did pick out.Now after several trades and such,I can say there are very few blends I Don't like,
just some I wont buy.But a lot that I want to cellar !
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Post by rblood on Aug 17, 2017 18:08:35 GMT -5
Smoked Carter Hall almost exclusively for years until I figured out what I was missing. Still go back to it from time to time.
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Post by johnlawitzke on Aug 18, 2017 21:37:00 GMT -5
It was a bit over 30 years ago while in college and I don't recall exactly what it was. If you remember the 80s, you didn't experience the 80s. :-) It was some OTC pouch from the party store where I bought the one token tobacco pipe that was in with the other "tobacco" pipes. In hindsight, the pipe was a small Dr. Grabow bent Omega. However, it has no Dr G markings. It is only stamped "imported briar". I quickly went from that random OTC pouch to buying bulk aros and eventually English from the canisters at the B&M across the street from campus where I already went to buy clove cigarettes.
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Post by just ol ed on Aug 18, 2017 22:24:22 GMT -5
can't pinpoint anymore...too long ago ('62). Sure was one of the OTC cheapies. Possibly even corn silk in a cob.
Ed Duncan, Batavia, NY
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Post by Wolfman on Aug 19, 2017 15:58:24 GMT -5
I started with Captain Black ( original) and Barclay Rum. Once in a while I would smoke EMP (Murray's). I was introduced to English/light Latakia via Davidoff Royal. I then gravitated to some other English blends and lost the taste for Aromatics. The rest is history.
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Post by Zach on Aug 19, 2017 22:10:52 GMT -5
I started with an MM hardwood bent Legend and PA Soft Vanilla. Had a few bowls out of that pipe over the course of about a week, maybe only a couple days before I went downtown to the B&M and bought a Leonessa Briosa slight bent rusticated apple and several 1 ounce bags of various McClelland bulks and possibly a few Lane or Stokkebye. Right in the same time frame within my first couple weeks of smoking I recall experiencing regular intermittent tongue bite from smoking all these Virginias from Mclelland but not really having a proper cadence or drying the tobaccos, guess I was scorching the hell outta my tongue. I bought my first tins then; Dunhill MyMixture 965 and Balkan Sasieni. I was blown away. What in the world was this smoky campfire flavored tobacco!?! Was still burning my tongue a bit on those but I was hooked!
From there it was numerous tins of McClelland and starting to browse forums and smokingpipes.com
All the flavors you see described in aromatics initially got me like many, I was browsing through all the crazy "black Cavendish goopers," fooled by the fantastic sounding names and thinking I wanted that. Didn't take me more than my first year to realize I didn't want to smoke anything like that. I wanted to smoke tobacco! Navy Flakes, cakes, plugs, twists, ropes, pigtails, nicotine! I wanted to try everything there was. I really latched onto McClelland Frog Morton Cellar. It is interesting to note the learning curve I no longer even consider. For example, when I first tried Sam Gawith flakes I just couldn't get it. I didn't understand how wet they were and that they needed drying. I thought FVF, BBF, and St James Flake almost all tasted the same; like wet play dough. Haha, I stayed away from them for over a year after that thinking they were hyped up because I didn't understand how to smoke them. Not knowing they are the finest tobaccos available. What an incredible journey it has been and such an amazing community of human beings.
The things that non pipe smokers miss out on. Astounding.
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