Over the months since my last post, I have been enjoying a number of new (to me) blends I have found. Meistermischung blends are produced by Kohlhase & Kopp and I suspect that at one time they had fancier names. Meistermischung translate to English as “Master Mix” and there are at least 10 different blends ranging from Nr. 11 to …
Why the name The Untouchables Special Mixture was chosen for this blend is unknown to me but maybe they should have named it “Unfindable.” I only found it by painstakingly going through every blend available on the Estervals Pipe House website (http://www.tecon-gmbh.de/index.php?language=en) in May 2021. While it is widely available in Europe. Don’t bother searching U.S. retailers for The Untouchables …
One of the things I’ve “enjoyed” doing during the past year is exploring new tobacco blends. Define “new tobacco blends” as blends I haven’t smoked before. Since July 2020, I have become an even bigger fan of Rattray’s, HU Tobacco, Kohlhase & Kopp, and Dan’s Tobacco. The problem is that many of the blends I enjoy are hard to find …
Let me blunt. In my opinion, Rattray’s makes some of the finest tobacco blends available. A large percentage of their blends have earned three- or four-star ratings on tobaccoreviews.com. I have enjoyed many a bowl of Red Rapparee, Hal O’ the Wynd, Bagpiper’s Dream, Exotic Orange and the Rattray’s Winter Editions. Now comes a blend I’ve never knew existed – …
As a fan of the tobacco formerly known as Rattray’s Exotic Orange, I often hear pipe smokers express their love for Holger Danske Original Orange Mellow. I’ve withheld my opinion because I hadn’t smoke it. Now I wonder if they are buying a different blend than I did. The tin I bought at Mayan Imports Metairie location last months does …
I keep telling myself that the rectangular shaped 100-gram tins should come with a “Best By” date stamp. I keep telling myself not to buy said tins because I know what I’m going to find. A nice, tightly packed, cellophane wrapped bundle of dried out tobacco. For some reason, I am still buy tins like this. To be honest, when …
This is my opinion based on the 10 bowls of London Dock I’ve smoked so far. For my other pipe tobacco reviews, click here. The descriptions… First off, the label reads: “An aromatic blend with sensuous flavor notes of rum, cherry and vanilla. Premium Double Toasted Barley, Flue Cured Virginias, and naturally sweet Orientals marry exquisitely with a touch of …
To Dunhill or not to Dunhill? That is the question. Whether it is better to have smoked Dunhill and suffer its demise or to have never smoked Dunhill and to not mourn it? I have smoked Dunhill pipe tobacco in the past and have even enjoyed a Dunhill cigar or two. I remember them as being good. Very good. Above …
Welcome to Pappy’s Porch! You’re a pipe smoker? Pour yourself a drink or a cup of coffee, pull up a chair and light your pipe. Sure, go ahead and ask me some pipe questions. I’ll answer them the best I can but remember, these are my answers and opinions. Other pipe smokers may have different answers and opinions. Hey, Pappy! …
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. …
