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 …
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 …
I write this with knowledge beforehand that I may hereby insult or ridicule some new “friends” I recently made. Therefore I plead for forgiveness of those kind souls who obviously have a firmer grasp on what is truly important in life than I. It is not my intent to remain firmly on the wrong side of the tracks and ignorant …
