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   cortezattic
   

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   Do you have a particular blend that you enjoy around the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays?
   I'd like to expand my holiday pipe celebrations by getting your recommendations. Here are some of mine:

   The first two have deertongue, which always reminds me of the holidays:
   H&H's Capitol Stairs
   4noggins' Mojo, by Matt Robillard

   Two Friends' Valle Crucis, by Tarler & Pease
   H&H's Grandma's Kitchen

   Also, has anyone tried Russ Ouellettes's Pumpkin Cheesecake?

   I find myself sitting idly on the line dividing past and future,
   as if I could kill time without injuring eternity. -- Thoreau

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   Try Egg Nog, it's a good holiday blend..I like it anytime..it is a tobacco with a good after taste.

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   At the top of the list:

   McClelland's Holiday Spirit
   H&H Egg Nog
   Buttered Rum

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   Peterson normally offers a Holiday aromatic. It's typically pricey -- I think around $22 this year, but very high quality.

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   The two aromatics I have been smoking lately that fit good with the holiday season are MacBarens 7 Seas Royal and Vanilla Custard by Altadis. I like Vanilla Custard so much I ordered 4 ounces of the stuff, and I never buy that much bulk tobacco at one time.

   

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   While I was at Georgetown Pipe and Tobacco I picked up some Christmas Morning and was impressed with it. Cool, spicy and a warm vanilla. You can get it online at GTPAT

   There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods.
   To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

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   Holiday Spirit is a really good blend. I don't like Aro's too much, Only a very few and Holiday is on my list of likes.

   My Pipes.

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   I also like H&H Eggnog, BUT I like a little Rum in my nog so I spiced mine up a little!
   I put a small glass of Bacardi 151 in the center of a Tupperware bowl, I then put about 8oz of H&H Eggnog into the bowl, covered and let sit for 7 days. When I opened the bowl I was greeted by the aroma of my favorite Holliday drink! When smoked you get the wonderful taste of the Rum and the eggnog!!

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   MacBaren Plumcake usually tops my holiday smoke list. C&D Crooner and some brandy in front of the fireplace works pretty good too.

   Phil
   Beguiled by the exquisite Arcadia, the days and the years passed from me in delicate rings of smoke,
   and I contentedly watched them sailing to the skies. - J.M. Barrie

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    This holiday season it will be a tin of McClelland Christmas Cheer 2007, I've been told by McClelland's in the past that 5 years of age on their flake tobaccos are at their optimum for smoking, so every holiday season I open a tin of 5 year aged Christmas Cheer and I have not been disappointed yet.

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    MC's x-mas cheer 2010, 2011...any year really
    Boswell's x-mas cookie

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    I know it doesn't sound especially holiday oriented, but I was planning on reliving Christmas Past so to speak, by picking up some Cherry Berry from Fader's here in Baltimore. I got some from my Dad for Christmas in '81, and it was my first non drugstore baccy experience, and I'd like to celebrate the 30th anniversary with it

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    Has any one tried this years Christmas blend from Peterson? I've enjoyed all the blends of theirs I have tried, but it seems this one is only available in 100g tins.

    Albert Einstein said "I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs"

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    I thought Peterson's Christmas Blend was always in 100g tins. Anyway, yes, I've ordered a tin. It smells great, but I haven't smoked any yet. I would say the tin description very accurately describes the tin note.

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    I must stand with those who vote for Holiday Spirit by McClelland. I just popped the lid on the tin I purchased earlier this year in anticipation of the upcoming holidays. It smells terrific and is a fine aromatic smoke...

    Live Aloha!

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    Hilo!??!?!? Where you been?

    I have a tin of Holiday Spirit that I was waiting to try until Black Friday. I think I can hold out for one more week.

    -Jason

    unclearthur on high nicotine blends:
    A few will leave you wandering around wondering who you are .

    Posted 6 months ago #

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