How many times have you tried a blend that didn’t deliver on the promise of the name? With that in mind, I was not expecting much from BriarWorks Peach Cobbler. I was wrong on this one, and surprised. While not exactly a baking peach cobbler aroma, I smelled peaches. I also get a little vanilla and some light whiskey/rum flavor …
In my younger years, I wouldn’t smoke anything considered a Lakeland Blend. I hate the soapy floral aftertaste and the “Old Lady Perfume” smell I get from those tobaccos. If I would have tried Rum Flake back then, it would have been tossed over the side and float tested (militarize version of thrown in the trash). Ah…but time changes all …
My first memory of someone smoking a pipe is of my grandfather. Paw Paw, as we called him, was a pipe smoker and, since this was about 55 years ago, I will say he favored the tobaccos that he could get at the local drugstores. The ones I remember him smoking the most were probably Prince Albert and Mixture #79. There …
I went “old school” this morning with my tobacco choice. How Old? The tobacco in my pipe came from a 14-oz. tin with a price stamp of $1.19. The tobacco in my pipe is so old that it went out of production before I met my wife. The tobacco in my pipe is older than our oldest son. The tobacco …
Here are some easy tips to make pipe smoker more socially acceptable. Disclaimer: The following is Satire. The definition of satire is “the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc.” Dress as a gentleman when in public. Don’t look like a ruffian. Wear a suit, semi-dress clothes or something dressy, casual …
I like Perique. I have smoked pure, unadulterated Perique. I have smoked St. James Perique and I have smoked Acadian Perique. I have smoked it in a wide variety of blends which container Perique. What gets me are all the myths, mysteries and misinformation surrounding Perique tobacco which persists to this day even though numerous articles have been written explaining …
Pike Place has gone away and I hardly knew it… (or, Why did I take so long to discover Balkan Blends?) Though I smoked my first pipe in 1972, I will readily admit that my tobacco choices were rather plebian for my first 16 years of smoking. I started with Capt. Black and Borkum Riff, smoked some Carter Hall and …
Sometimes I think pipe smokers before the 1970s were less stressed about pipe smoking than us pipe smokers of today. (And, I’ll readily admit that that time frame is arbitrary, based on nothing more than I started smoking a pipe in 1972.) Why? When sitting back and recalling conversations with older pipe smokers, they all had maybe 3 or 4 …
Enough! Stop making changes for change or PC sake! I’ve had it! I am tired of the comic book and movie companies who currently own the “rights” to old and well known movie characters arbitrarily making changes that are unnecessary, unwanted and ridiculous. Marvel recently announced that its next Thor movie would feature a female Thor. Why? Because in this …
A few days ago I walked into one of my favorite cigar shops that had very recently moved into a new location. While I usually go there to sit and enjoy a good cigar in their lounge, this time I was specifically looking to see what tinned pipe tobacco they had available. I wasn’t surprised by the variety of …
