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Post by just ol ed on Oct 21, 2021 10:52:37 GMT -5
just got done with nightmare of trying to get my Covid booster. All the hoops to run thru, button pushing etc. Earlier, full walks, company of no-band 6x42. Ed is fed, next Boswell Northwoods in Castello "Castello" grade bent dublin, round bottom. To Target to get the above early afternoon
58, overcast at present
Ed Duncan, Batavia, NY
pipe/cigar since '62
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Post by darktater on Oct 21, 2021 11:33:06 GMT -5
October 21st. Had to toss the tainted sparkplug. just not the original blend at all. I thought it possible to not waste the tobacco but again, I was mistaken. this morning is the venerable GBD 256 canadian filled with blockade runner as I consider what to do next now that I am 3.5oz shorter today. that sucks |
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Post by darktater on Oct 21, 2021 11:33:25 GMT -5
C&D Epiphany in the Thursday Grabow.
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Post by william on Oct 21, 2021 11:33:29 GMT -5
You’re the second person to post Skiff this morning. As I haven’t had the pleasure of trying this SG blend, I’d appreciate a review please. Gypo (Ted) you too please? Thanks, gents. 👍👍 The Skiff I received from isett2860 is from 2017. I did not detect any heavy or even mild castings on this blend. It to me who knows little would call it a very mild + English style blend. I hope this helps a little. I agree with Gypo. It is a fairly tame English blend. I'm not good at sniffing out what is in any given blend, and I honestly can't tell the difference between Skiff and Squadron leader--and I like both. If anything, the Skiff might have a bit more of the oriental tobacco that both blends share. |
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Post by william on Oct 21, 2021 11:38:53 GMT -5
Interesting discovery... I just got a tin of Peterson's NIGHTCAP. Alone I am unimpressed, but I tried mixing a goodly pinch with my every-day smoke Sutliff's Z91 and it was quite good. I'll be smoking that for a while. I thought this was a sin in the tobacco world. I am glad to see this and will confess that I have a large jar of Presbyterian (which is fairly mild to begin with) mixed with a bit of Peter Stokkebye Black Cavendish (201). Herbert Goldbrick has alluded to a "Lion and Lamb" mix he smokes. I assume he is doing something like this as well. Maybe he will share....  |
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Post by Silver on Oct 21, 2021 11:43:24 GMT -5
Revisiting Bald Headed Teacher in a carved Dr. Grabow Silver Duke Pot.  |
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Post by just ol ed on Oct 21, 2021 14:40:03 GMT -5
in from both Phizer booster & while there, flu. Tea at desk, Boswell Northwoods in LaughingBacchus meer in smoking room. Nap next then to sups. Easy day so far, course depending on wifie's many needs
67, steady light rain for now
Ed Duncan, Batavia, NY
gots 'em, smokes 'em since '62
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Zach
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Posts: 4,365
First Name: Zach
Favorite Pipe: Too many currently, bound to change
Favorite Tobacco: Haunted Bookshop, Big 'N' Burley, Pegasus, Habana Daydream, OJK, Rum Twist, FVF, Escudo, Orlik Golden Sliced, Kendal Flake, Ennerdale
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Post by Zach on Oct 21, 2021 14:57:32 GMT -5
October 21st. Had to toss the tainted sparkplug. just not the original blend at all. I thought it possible to not waste the tobacco but again, I was mistaken. this morning is the venerable GBD 256 canadian filled with blockade runner as I consider what to do next now that I am 3.5oz shorter today. that sucks Just to note here and to stop you from throwing out a bunch of fine tobaccos. All crystally "Bloom", or "Plume" or cigar or pipe tobacco "sugar crystals" from aging are fungal bodies. None of this in tobacco is sugar at all, it is all in fact fungal blooms and bacteria. Unless the tobacco was growing raised up, hairy mycelia structures that are blue/green in nature and potentially forms of clustered penicillium/aspergillus molds (furry,hairy mold like on bread) then it should be just fine. The first ingredient in C&D tobaccos is MicroBan.
Common molds on tobacco thought to be sugar crystals:
Candida Parapsilosis
Penicillium ascomycetous
Aspergillus Wallemia sebi
These are what people always commonly mistake as cigar "bloom and plume" no such thing as sparkly sugar crystals ever found in cigar and pipe tobacco. It's all 100% mold.
"Aspergillus is defined as a group of conidial fungi - that is, fungi in an asexual state. Members of the genus possess the ability to grow where a high osmotic concentration (high sugar, salt, etc.) exists. Aspergillus species are highly aerobic and are found in almost all oxygen-rich environments, where they commonly grow as moulds on the surface of a substrate, because of the high oxygen tension."
This is a nice closeup of a frosty, high end cigar. It was tested by lab.
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Zach
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Posts: 4,365
First Name: Zach
Favorite Pipe: Too many currently, bound to change
Favorite Tobacco: Haunted Bookshop, Big 'N' Burley, Pegasus, Habana Daydream, OJK, Rum Twist, FVF, Escudo, Orlik Golden Sliced, Kendal Flake, Ennerdale
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Post by Zach on Oct 21, 2021 15:40:27 GMT -5
Smoking the last remainder of a tin of Heinrich's Golden Sliced. Haven't smoked the whole tin, majority is jarred and I'd left a few long flake pieces in the tin. In a Peterson Aran large billiard.
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Post by william on Oct 21, 2021 16:55:23 GMT -5
Smoking Fribourg & Treyer Special Brown Flake in a chubby little apple by Mimmo Provenzano. Sipping on a Crown & 7....  |
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Post by Darin on Oct 21, 2021 17:18:24 GMT -5
2015 HH Vintage Syrian in a Ron Powell sandblasted Bulldog Nosewarmer  |
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Post by darktater on Oct 21, 2021 17:33:35 GMT -5
2015 HH Vintage Syrian in a Ron Powell sandblasted Bulldog Nosewarmer nice pipe! Love the stem |
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Post by darktater on Oct 21, 2021 17:46:21 GMT -5
Bald Headed Teacher in the Thursday Grabow.
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Post by don on Oct 21, 2021 17:53:30 GMT -5
London Dock in an Arley Curtz pot.
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Post by Darin on Oct 21, 2021 18:18:09 GMT -5
2015 HH Vintage Syrian in a Ron Powell sandblasted Bulldog Nosewarmer nice pipe! Love the stem Thanks! 🙂 |
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Post by urbino on Oct 21, 2021 18:20:01 GMT -5
Just to note here and to stop you from throwing out a bunch of fine tobaccos. All crystally "Bloom", or "Plume" or cigar or pipe tobacco "sugar crystals" from aging are fungal bodies. None of this in tobacco is sugar at all, it is all in fact fungal blooms and bacteria. Unless the tobacco was growing raised up, hairy mycelia structures that are blue/green in nature and potentially forms of clustered penicillium/aspergillus molds (furry,hairy mold like on bread) then it should be just fine. The first ingredient in C&D tobaccos is MicroBan.
Common molds on tobacco thought to be sugar crystals:
Candida Parapsilosis
Penicillium ascomycetous
Aspergillus Wallemia sebi
These are what people always commonly mistake as cigar "bloom and plume" no such thing as sparkly sugar crystals ever found in cigar and pipe tobacco. It's all 100% mold.
"Aspergillus is defined as a group of conidial fungi - that is, fungi in an asexual state. Members of the genus possess the ability to grow where a high osmotic concentration (high sugar, salt, etc.) exists. Aspergillus species are highly aerobic and are found in almost all oxygen-rich environments, where they commonly grow as moulds on the surface of a substrate, because of the high oxygen tension."
This is a nice closeup of a frosty, high end cigar. It was tested by lab.
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Pro Member
If you can't send money, send tobacco.
Posts: 4,365
First Name: Zach
Favorite Pipe: Too many currently, bound to change
Favorite Tobacco: Haunted Bookshop, Big 'N' Burley, Pegasus, Habana Daydream, OJK, Rum Twist, FVF, Escudo, Orlik Golden Sliced, Kendal Flake, Ennerdale
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Post by Zach on Oct 21, 2021 18:27:02 GMT -5
Just to note here and to stop you from throwing out a bunch of fine tobaccos. All crystally "Bloom", or "Plume" or cigar or pipe tobacco "sugar crystals" from aging are fungal bodies. None of this in tobacco is sugar at all, it is all in fact fungal blooms and bacteria. Unless the tobacco was growing raised up, hairy mycelia structures that are blue/green in nature and potentially forms of clustered penicillium/aspergillus molds (furry,hairy mold like on bread) then it should be just fine. The first ingredient in C&D tobaccos is MicroBan.
Common molds on tobacco thought to be sugar crystals:
Candida Parapsilosis
Penicillium ascomycetous
Aspergillus Wallemia sebi
These are what people always commonly mistake as cigar "bloom and plume" no such thing as sparkly sugar crystals ever found in cigar and pipe tobacco. It's all 100% mold.
"Aspergillus is defined as a group of conidial fungi - that is, fungi in an asexual state. Members of the genus possess the ability to grow where a high osmotic concentration (high sugar, salt, etc.) exists. Aspergillus species are highly aerobic and are found in almost all oxygen-rich environments, where they commonly grow as moulds on the surface of a substrate, because of the high oxygen tension."
This is a nice closeup of a frosty, high end cigar. It was tested by lab.
Great. Next you'll tell me there's no Santa Claus. Actually, I apparently forgot part of what I was trying to say in my post. 100% of tested cigar bloom is mold. Most all tested sugary Sam Gawith, Balkan Sobranie, Dunhill Flake and various pipe tobaccos are tested to be bacteria, not mold. Single cell organism rather than multicell.
Here's a pretty picture of some St. James Flake. It's bacteria.
Here's the great part. Bacteria in the pipe tobaccos is better/safer than phony cigar plume! So rest easier now.
I'm finishing some Golden Flake in that same large Pete, and then I'm looking towards smoking some Eight State Burley in a Twain cob.
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Post by Goldbrick on Oct 21, 2021 18:56:19 GMT -5
Interesting discovery... I just got a tin of Peterson's NIGHTCAP. Alone I am unimpressed, but I tried mixing a goodly pinch with my every-day smoke Sutliff's Z91 and it was quite good. I'll be smoking that for a while. I thought this was a sin in the tobacco world. I am glad to see this and will confess that I have a large jar of Presbyterian (which is fairly mild to begin with) mixed with a bit of Peter Stokkebye Black Cavendish (201). Herbert Goldbrick has alluded to a "Lion and Lamb" mix he smokes. I assume he is doing something like this as well. Maybe he will share.... The Lion and Lamb mix began it's life as P.S. Balkan Supreme. The Balkan Supreme was sent to me ,package with some Virginias that had been topped with Irish Whiskey. Shipped in the heat of summer, the taste and aroma of the Whiskey took over the entire shipment. I added a healthy percentage of Mc 5100, but still the flavor of Bushmills stood out. At last I left the jar open for three days, then added a shade over an ounce of Lancers slices and a small amount of Blackwood flake. One evening, after a bowl of the still whiskey forward mix, I gave the a good shake and tucked it away in my closet, where it rested until, digging out a box of summer T-shirts, three or more years later, I ran across it... Mellowed to a fruity/ earthy depth, with the Bushmills well represented in the jar note, but much less in the smoke, I find this a part of my rotation two or three times a week. I have a few "stew-pot" mixes that I still add to now and then, but this one stands out as a job well done, and If I do add anything to it, it would be some very old Lancers , and that, only if needed. |
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Post by darktater on Oct 21, 2021 19:10:49 GMT -5
Northwoods in the Thursday Grabow, works pretty well.
One thing I have noticed since switching to a 1 pipe a day rotation, I'm really learning what blends work (or not) in what pipes. Interesting so far
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Post by Silver on Oct 21, 2021 19:17:21 GMT -5
Out and about all afternoon with my wife. I brought along a MM Diplomat 5th Avenue and Epiphany, Haunted Bookshop and Oak Alley.  Now I'm smoking Three Friars in the Thursday cob.  |
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Post by Goldbrick on Oct 21, 2021 19:25:58 GMT -5
The Lion and the Lamb, in a little ,unmarked ,sandblasted pot. Heading out to the back porch swing ,for some cool evening air.
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Post by trailboss on Oct 21, 2021 19:26:47 GMT -5
A GBD seconds made for the long ago shuttered Grant's pipe shop in San Francisco, the aged Briar Fox smokes beautifully in it, much better than last night's smoke in the Dublin...the pipe quite often makes the difference!  |
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Post by johnlawitzke on Oct 21, 2021 19:37:44 GMT -5
2012 MM965 in my Scott Thile bent Egg.  |
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Post by darktater on Oct 21, 2021 19:46:50 GMT -5
A GBD seconds made for the long ago shuttered Grant's pipe shop in San Francisco, the aged Briar Fox smokes beautifully in it, much better than last night's smoke in the Dublin...the pipe quite often makes the difference! beautiful pipe |
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Post by Plainsman on Oct 21, 2021 19:49:48 GMT -5
2012 MM965 in my Scott Thile bent Egg. That is a bee-yoo-tee-ful pipe! |
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Post by trailboss on Oct 21, 2021 20:10:02 GMT -5
A GBD seconds made for the long ago shuttered Grant's pipe shop in San Francisco, the aged Briar Fox smokes beautifully in it, much better than last night's smoke in the Dublin...the pipe quite often makes the difference! beautiful pipe Thank you! Well I screwed up. This is a BBB pipe, not the Grants… they look similar. I have gotten used to taking the spectacles off at night.😉 |
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Post by Silver on Oct 21, 2021 20:11:09 GMT -5
Either way, a classy pipe.
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Post by darktater on Oct 21, 2021 20:34:09 GMT -5
Either way, a classy pipe. Amen brother |
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Post by darktater on Oct 21, 2021 20:35:09 GMT -5
Pegasus in the Thursday Grabow, and another splash of Rye. 4 grandkids (instead of the usual one), yeah
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Post by Yohanan on Oct 21, 2021 20:56:56 GMT -5
Balkan Sasieni from 2011 in a MM Charles Towne Cobbler.
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