(Towson, MD) I was wondering how you thought of this store, they have a huge selection of cigars, pipes, and pipe tobacco. They have 90 in house blends!
I was wondering if their pipe tobacco was high quality or just a lot of cheap stuff put in a lot of jars. So far I tried Unique which was suppposed to be one of their best blends (aromatic), it had almost no taste to it at all and it was kind of wet and it was shreded altra thin. They do offer taste testing so I will be back doing that and they have a sit down smoking bar which is quite nice.
I'm going to guess that they are a great shop, that has just gone a little blend crazy and they probabley have some really killer ones mixed in with the rest. 90 just seems a bit much for a single shop to in-house to me and to keep the quality high for all of them. The people in the shop were very nice and I did buy my first pipe two years ago there. My only real gripe was that at the time, there was no one there who had ever smoked a pipe before; so it was a little hard to get suggestions on tobaccos to try, quite daunting when they have 90 jars on the wall.
I was wondering if their pipe tobacco was high quality or just a lot of cheap stuff put in a lot of jars. So far I tried Unique which was suppposed to be one of their best blends (aromatic), it had almost no taste to it at all and it was kind of wet and it was shreded altra thin. They do offer taste testing so I will be back doing that and they have a sit down smoking bar which is quite nice.
I'm going to guess that they are a great shop, that has just gone a little blend crazy and they probabley have some really killer ones mixed in with the rest. 90 just seems a bit much for a single shop to in-house to me and to keep the quality high for all of them. The people in the shop were very nice and I did buy my first pipe two years ago there. My only real gripe was that at the time, there was no one there who had ever smoked a pipe before; so it was a little hard to get suggestions on tobaccos to try, quite daunting when they have 90 jars on the wall.