Greetings & Salutations My Fellow Friars of the Briar,
I have a dilemma that I am hoping some of you might be
willing to help me resolve. Let’s call it the "The Dilemma
of the Frankenstein Pipe Tobacco Mixture ".
A couple of months ago, one cold winter’s day I was
bored. The driveway was shoveled out, sidewalks
salted, cat litter boxes were cleaned and The Warden
had given me a kitchen pass for the remainder of the
afternoon, she’s nice like that! So I was thinking of what I
could do to kill some time and make myself useful. Ah, I
know…I’ll take all that wonderful pipe tobacco that is
accumulating in those plastic storage bins in my closet
and take them to the “Man Cave” and mix it all together
and see what happens! Well, the plan looked good on
paper.
So with two large plastic airtight pails of stored pipe
tobacco to the “Man Cave” I went. I guess it was out of
boredom and frustration, and a brief moment of
temporary insanity that I decided to just mix them all
together for fun to see what I would wind up with!
Well this “Frankenstein Mixture” of pipe tobaccos
contains perhaps 10-12 tobacco blends and about 75-
80% aromatic blends of many various brands as well as
some non-aromatic English blends just to make it
interesting. Everything from Lane BCA, Cornell & Diehl
Epiphany, various Sutliff aromatic blends, Hearth &
Home Eggnog and Grandma's Kitchen, J.M. Boswell
Christmas Cookie, Prince Albert and Captain Black. You
name it and it's problebly in there in some proportion be
it an ounce or several ounces!
To say that the experiment turned out great and that the
mixture turned out to be an interesting and palate
pleasing mixture would be an understatement. It's more
like "what in the wide, wide world of sports" was I
thinking? Well here I sit with all this lovely aromatic and
non-aromatic pipe tobacco mixed together. Oh, its
moisture content is just fine. And there really are some
very nice expensive pipe tobaccos in there. Let’s just
say they don't seem to blend together well and the result
it does not please my palate well. I'm confident that none
of you have ever committed such an atrocity! Of course
not...you all have your sanity!
Does anyone have a suggestion how I can mellow out
(dilute) this "pipe tobacco nightmare" out using perhaps
a base tobacco like unflavored Burley or straight
Virginia? There has to be a way to salvage this mixture
and not just dump it out, especially at today’s tobacco
prices!
PLEASE, PLEASE someone take pity on this silly minded
old man and help me bring this Frankenstein Mixture
back from the tobacco grave yard to a level of
smokeability! Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You-
dukeofwestwood63
I have a dilemma that I am hoping some of you might be
willing to help me resolve. Let’s call it the "The Dilemma
of the Frankenstein Pipe Tobacco Mixture ".
A couple of months ago, one cold winter’s day I was
bored. The driveway was shoveled out, sidewalks
salted, cat litter boxes were cleaned and The Warden
had given me a kitchen pass for the remainder of the
afternoon, she’s nice like that! So I was thinking of what I
could do to kill some time and make myself useful. Ah, I
know…I’ll take all that wonderful pipe tobacco that is
accumulating in those plastic storage bins in my closet
and take them to the “Man Cave” and mix it all together
and see what happens! Well, the plan looked good on
paper.
So with two large plastic airtight pails of stored pipe
tobacco to the “Man Cave” I went. I guess it was out of
boredom and frustration, and a brief moment of
temporary insanity that I decided to just mix them all
together for fun to see what I would wind up with!
Well this “Frankenstein Mixture” of pipe tobaccos
contains perhaps 10-12 tobacco blends and about 75-
80% aromatic blends of many various brands as well as
some non-aromatic English blends just to make it
interesting. Everything from Lane BCA, Cornell & Diehl
Epiphany, various Sutliff aromatic blends, Hearth &
Home Eggnog and Grandma's Kitchen, J.M. Boswell
Christmas Cookie, Prince Albert and Captain Black. You
name it and it's problebly in there in some proportion be
it an ounce or several ounces!
To say that the experiment turned out great and that the
mixture turned out to be an interesting and palate
pleasing mixture would be an understatement. It's more
like "what in the wide, wide world of sports" was I
thinking? Well here I sit with all this lovely aromatic and
non-aromatic pipe tobacco mixed together. Oh, its
moisture content is just fine. And there really are some
very nice expensive pipe tobaccos in there. Let’s just
say they don't seem to blend together well and the result
it does not please my palate well. I'm confident that none
of you have ever committed such an atrocity! Of course
not...you all have your sanity!
Does anyone have a suggestion how I can mellow out
(dilute) this "pipe tobacco nightmare" out using perhaps
a base tobacco like unflavored Burley or straight
Virginia? There has to be a way to salvage this mixture
and not just dump it out, especially at today’s tobacco
prices!
PLEASE, PLEASE someone take pity on this silly minded
old man and help me bring this Frankenstein Mixture
back from the tobacco grave yard to a level of
smokeability! Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You-
dukeofwestwood63