Chimney pipes best for..?
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I guess a chimney and a stack are the same shape. I quite like the look of this shape actually, but other than being able to hold 1.5 to 2 times more tobacco than a billiard, I can't see how it smokes any different. I smoke FM in my stack pipe, for I enjoy smoking FM really slowly, and one bowl can usually last me 2 to 3 hours.
A chimney / stack is good for "concentrating" the flavor as you go. I prefer them for straight Va's or Va/Pers mostly.
Due to the more narrow, yet deep, bowl they don't seem that great for more complex English / Latakia blends.
My favorite chimney, btw, is the MM Diplomat 5th Avenue with straight stem.
Due to the more narrow, yet deep, bowl they don't seem that great for more complex English / Latakia blends.
My favorite chimney, btw, is the MM Diplomat 5th Avenue with straight stem.
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I'd agree that chimneys are for one dimension blends. Not to mention the large bowl for long smokes.
In addition to flavor concentrating, you should get increasing amounts of nicotine as you approach the bottom.
Not sure about straight Burley but I've smoked Va/Bur's like Strang and Newminster #403 with success in these.
Burley doesn't usually need "concentrating" as it is fairly strong in flavor to begin with.
Virginia's are oftentimes much more subtle and benefit more from this aspect.
I've found a tall comparatively narrow chamber just right for smoking some of the more esoteric burley leaf like the Belgium variant Tobac-Manil Semois. This is one leaf, so you don't need a broader chamber to get components to mix, but the tall bowl reinforces the flavor from the one tobacco and increases its complexity. Maybe this is a grandiose description, but I have a Ferndown bent billiard, a La Rocca poker, and a MM freehand cob with taller chambers that really bring up all the chords and harmonies in Semois. I think this also works with Va and Va/Per blends.
Yep, I have a whole row on my rack of stacks and chimneys, and I use them for Virginias. I pack a tad looser, and the flavors just come alive. I have at least one in my rotation a day. They're great for just lighting while I work and forgetting about them as I clench it while I work.
Ok, virginias. It seems to me that the Chimney, being a taller billiard really, is an old English classic shape. From what I have seen in old photographs and movies, English smoked mostly billiards, cutties and chimneys, and yet today the most popular pipe for smoking English blends is the wide and shallow pot. Did the pot even exist in the old times in England when those tobaccos were smoked ? I am really curious about this.
I smoke English blends in billiards, dublins, and bulldogs also. I am sure that they were just a varied about what they smoked in which pipe as we are today.
They were as varied as we are. Heck, I'm sure someone smokes Englishes in chimneys, dublins, and whatever. There's no law to what is smoked in which pipe. Seeing as how we are a very small cross section of the whole pipe smoking community, with the majority smoking aromatics, I am sure that there are all sorts variations to what, why, and how what is smoked in which pipe.
Sorry, I sometimes type too fast and get confusing, ha ha.
Sorry, I sometimes type too fast and get confusing, ha ha.
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