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    Peterson's Wild Atlantic - Quickie review

    I picked up a pouch of Wild Atlantic at the local B&M yesterday, so this review is based on 10 or so bowls and a palate the some would call unrefined. WA is an English blend, VA/Oriental/Latakia and comes served as a ribbon cut in a pouch rather than a tin which actually is a nice change of...
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    MA Pipers...found some Penzance!

    I know some of you all live in MA, and if you are and if you're a fan of Penzance, get yourself to Watch City Cigar Co. They have a small supply in, I just grabbed 2 tins. There's one left on the shelf and they've got a few more in back. They won't last.
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    Vauen Trullerie - straight VA blend

    Just posted to Tobacco Reviews: Strength: mild to medium Flavoring: none Taste: medium Room Note: Pleasant Walked into the local tobacconist and asked them to recommend a good straight VA blend that I hadn't had before and WASN'T a flake. I'm a little tired of fussing around with flakes...
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    Brigadier Black - Antietam

    Just posted to TobaccoReviews.com: Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note Very Mild Very Mild Mild Pleasant The Brigadier Black series, exclusive to pipesandcigars.com, caught my eye because of the names...Gettysburg, Antietam, Waterloo etc. I'm a bit of a military history fan; as good...
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    Watch City Cigar Co. 497

    My local B&M has a large number of of 'store blends' available. I haven't tried any of them previously, but when I stopped in the other day to pick up some cleaners and other necessaries, I grabbed a pouch of 497 (which is their street address). Why? It's an aromatic flavored with grape and...
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    Blizzard is coming

    So that will make for a perfect day or two of sitting inside, sipping a beverage and some contemplative puffing. The only bad thing is I have an order from SPC on the way and it is currently in CT...and so is likely to stay there for some time. It was supposed to be here in MA tomorrow, but...
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    re-hydrating tobacco

    So I bought a tin of Dunhill Flake a while back, opened it, smoked some of it, then let it sit while I moved on to try some other blends. Now I've come back to it to find that I've let it completely dry out...when I rub out a flake I get twigs instead of ribbons. My thought was to place a...
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    We all know Santa is a pipe guy, but what do you think he smokes?

    A little pre-Christmas whimsy... The Jolly Old Elf is well known for his love of sweets, so there is an argument to be made that he's an aromatic smoker, something crazy sweet like Molto Dolce. But I don't think so. For my money, he likes a lat forward blend with a good nic level, something to...
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    Stoved Virginia

    So here's a dumb newbie question. When a tobacco is described as "stoved" Virginia, what does that mean exactly? When I hear stoved I tend to think of crushed (as in "stoved in" like a ship's hull...) but I didn't know if 'stoved' in this context meant fire cured or something like that.
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    A bit of luck at the local B&M

    Ran out to the local B&M at lunch to grab a handful of cleaners, flints for my Zippo and one of those odor eating enzyme candles as I'm told my new-old hobby is "stinking up the place". No worse than someone's cat's litter box, but there's no point in arguing. Anyway, the store wanted to clear...
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    Flake tobacco and me. Bout 2

    As a relative noob pipe smoker, I'd never tried flake before a couple of weeks ago. I bought a tin of SG Navy Flake at the local B&M. If we compare this to a boxing match, SG had me down and out about 37 seconds into the first round. Based on advice here, I decided to try a different brand of...
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    Tried flake tobacco for the first time. Epic Fail.

    I bought a tin of Samuel Gawith's Navy flake because, you know, Navy. Watched a video on some different ways to smoke flake and tried 3...folding method, rolling method and just rubbing it out. The stuff would. Not. Burn. When I rubbed a few flakes, that burned the best, but even that I had...