It happens after Thanksgiving every year. Mrs. Pappy Claus and I start our annual Christmas gift shopping and people stop and look twice or thrice at me. One time, we were eating lunch and a nice lady stopped by our table and said, “My grandson saw him and said, “Look! Santa’s eating lunch but that’s not Mrs. Claus!” She also …
Newminster No. 23 Blackberry Brandy It’s cooler in Southeast Louisiana with temperatures dropping into the 40s and 50s at night and the leaves on the red maple in my front yard turned red and dropped to the ground. Even the oak trees in the neighborhood are doing the same. I have smelled the smoke from fire places and fire pits. …
The Thanksgiving Smoke… Whilst sitting and contemplating what I will be smoking today, I have these thoughts… There are a lot of things I have to be thankful for. I am thankful that I survived a childhood before the advent of video games and electronic devices. I survived a childhood where we played outside – sometimes from daybreak to after …
Solani Blend 127 I opened the tin and knew immediately that I liked Solani Green Blend 127 – Green. Its an appetizing blend of black cavendish and light and dark brown tobaccos. It contains some finely chopped, some ribbon and some more like shredded leaf. Then I looked it up on tobaccoreviews.com and saw that it’s actually made by Kohlhase …
Living and fishing in SE Louisiana you learn one thing fast: It’s more fun and productive when it’s cooler. This was reinforced often during the 10 years I spent as editor of Louisiana Outdoors from 1995 to 2005. Just about every charter fishing captain I worked with or wrote about, had three or four months out of the year …
It is apparent that some people read too much into pipe tobacco names. In fact, they actually expect and demand to taste a specific flavor based on the name printed on the tin or bag. It is also apparent that sometimes people who name a pipe tobacco often sit down and start drinking until they either pass out or a …
I believe there are three different types of tobacco blenders in the world. First are the Professional Blenders. These are blenders who make their living by mixing different varieties of tobacco into the commercially available pipe tobacco we buy. They are blenders like Joe Lankford, Russ Oulette, Craig Tarler, Carl McAllister. The number is too long to list them all. …
Tin note: If you open this tin and expect the usual ketchup or grassy notes of Virginias, you will be disappointed. The Virginia is a yellow Canadian leaf that has been processed using the Perique method. This smells like sour cherry or homemade red wine just before it turns to vinegar. I really like this tin note and after one …
I purchased two tins of Russ Ouellette’s Series Acadian English in August 2016 and opened the first tin about a month later. I smoked it at least once a day after that, so I’ve probably had about 15 or 16 bowls before writing this review. The tin note is enticing. I get the sweet, smokiness I associated with Latakia mixed …
By Cornell & Diehl I smelled the hay. I smelled something reminiscent of a vinegary BBQ sauce. (This was the Perique component) I fell in love with the smell when I opened the half ounce sample pack and stuck my nose into it. I broke off one corner and rubbed it out, looked at what I had, and decided it …
