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The Nicotine Experience?
I've experienced that as well, though it's been hard to pin down. It's so difficult to create "controlled" personal conditions. How much sleep I got, when I last ate, what kind of mood I'm in, what I'm drinking all greatly change the way I experience nicotine, to say nothing of how recently I...- hedonaut
- Post #4
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Backpack Survival List
They might be in some ways, but I don't think that's a bad thing. I adore burley blends. I've cellared up both Pegasus and Haunted Bookshop despite their similarities because I enjoy both. The more subtle differences between changing even a single component, or shifting a blend's proportions a...- hedonaut
- Post #2
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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True Independent Tobacco Blenders
Paul's Pipe Shop in Flint, MI does dozens of blends all their own. The Arrowhead blend is an aromatic I can actually get behind. Their in house pipes smoke like a dream, too. McCrannie's in Charlotte has blends unique to them tinned by McClelland for them. They also have several in house blends...- hedonaut
- Post #19
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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GL Pease Barbary Coast STINKS Literally
There's a certain smell to white burley that's started the fermentation process. I opened a tin of Burley Flake #2 a month or two back that smelled like a neglected dumpster at first. After a few days the smell had largely dissipated. It still has a strange, unruley funk to it, but it's...- hedonaut
- Post #18
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Reviews
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Recent Pease/C&D tins too dry?
I have to wonder about the tin dates, too. Things were changed around when C&D moved a few months back. Moisture content is being tracked more closely than it once was and the new facility provides more a more stable climate. It may be older tins still filtering through the retailers...- hedonaut
- Post #19
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Savinelli - Fuoco - Giuseppe Arcimboldo
THat is, in fact, a faux army mount. The metal dresses up the look while still offering the usual acrylic to briar fitting Savs sport typically. -
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I Won! I Won! The Cartoon Caption Contest
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The Sav 320 is real!
"And in fact, you've got 'Algerian Briar' stamped down the side of your pipes... And the fact that I've got 'Savinelli.. 3.. 2.. Oh... stamped down the side of mine." Seriously, though. Over time I've been trending to smaller and smaller pipes. A while back I was working the tables at the TAPS... -
Old Grove
I actually have that same problem occasionally with heavy Latakia blend when they're too dry. It's not bite, per se, just a sort of rough feeling in my mouth and throat. It's entirely possible it's just a matter of body chemistry. I smoke Old Grove when I'm in the mood for something sweet, but...- hedonaut
- Post #3
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Reviews
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Found a LA Savinella Giubeli D'Oro 510 KS
We still import the full line of Giubeleo d'Oros here, and they are still awesome, but fewer people are chasing the really high end production pipes these days, so it seems harder to find them in shops. I can't say definitively, of course, but I've never seen a fill on a Giub. I've never been... -
Brand Loyalty
I was a C&D, and by extension Pease, fanboy long before I ended up in my current role. It's less that I feel a certian allegiance or loyalty to this brand than it is my enjoyment of its style. THe C&D tobaccos and blending style has all the benchmarks for what, to my preferences anyway, tobacco...- hedonaut
- Post #20
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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*** What Are You Smoking?*** (May 2015)
Wessex Campaign Brigade in my Ropp Big Jean, later on some Joie de Vivre in a little OB2 104.- hedonaut
- Post #258
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Cellaring with Peck - A New Reality Show
Looking at the average age of the blends, what's most impressive to e is that this seems to have been done over the course of just two or three years. I'd wager that collection is a year or two's salary for most of the fellas in here. It's museum worthy to be sure.- hedonaut
- Post #66
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion