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Kevin,
Well when you think of it you live in USA, which comprises of mainland, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, US Virgin Islands, Guam, and probably a host of other places I am not even aware of.
So while my SPLIT PERSONALITY is just two, You must really be confused………………..LOL
And remember
1) Tobacco is derived from the name Tobago, the name that the Amerindians gave the twisted tobacco leafs that they smoked
2) Apparently the seeds that were used to start the tobacco industry in Vagina originated in Trinidad
SO BE RESPECTFUL NOW
Thanks for all the help John
You wont like Tobago, there is nothing to do there but walk on unspoiled beaches, read, eat fresh fish and fruit, Bird Watch, ScubaDive, Snorkel or look at scantily clad women.
Who in their right mind would want to spend time in a place like that?
Re S&G Balkan Flake
I love the stuff.
It gets quite hard in the pipe, I think it woud be great for creating a wall in new pipes.
As to a review, as I am relatively new to REAL TOBACCO (NON AROMATIC), I don’t feel that I am qualified to make an educated assessment.
Re S&G Balkan Flake
I love the stuff.
It gets quite hard in the pipe, I think it woud be great for creating a wall in new pipes.
As to a review, as I am relatively new to REAL TOBACCO (NON AROMATIC), I don’t feel that I am qualified to make an educated assessment.
RE English Baccy and change of taste, I always liked the smell and the taste.
The problem was two puff in a pipe and I would have horrible hiccups for hours.
Thankfully that has disappeared.
Cant tell you how many tins of english baccy I gave away over the yeare while I suffered through MacSugar
RE English Baccy and change of taste, I always liked the smell and the taste.
The problem was two puff in a pipe and I would have horrible hiccups for hours.
Thankfully that has disappeared.
Cant tell you how many tins of english baccy I gave away over the yeare while I suffered through MacSugar
I opened a tin of this last week
Found I had to re-humidify it (Strange for a MacBaren
Taste was slightly better after re-humidifying, but I still find it bland and unimpressive
Nothing bad about it, but nothing good about it either.
will try adding some McLelland Latakia and maybe Oriental, to see if I can get some umph
Well Cathy never took me up on the offer, and as of midnight she reached my cut off “Use By Date”
But any way, I’ll be going to her house shortly to deliver her Birthday Present
1 Mac Barens Navy Mixture
1 Mac Barens Roll Cake
Imagine if we could give all the women in our lives Tobacco for birthdays, christmas, anniversary etc., instead of useless things like flowers, jewelry, shoes, handbags and stinky perfume.
I have to get into that Rum & Roti thing with you.
Re visit, that sounds good.
Its a reciprocal invitation, I always have room here for a fellow Pipe Smoker and Photographer
I live with wife and two very spoilt daughters (4 legged kind)
Did you ever have a look at this link
http://www.jpgmag.com/people/johngioannetti
Good thing I have a Mc and the Excellent Dictionary works anywhere (Unlike a PeeSee and WINDOZE)
And for those of you who are like me and slept through Latin Class
caveat emptor =
caveat emptor |ˈempˌtôr|
noun
the principle that the buyer alone is responsible for checking the quality and suitability of goods before a purchase is made.
ORIGIN early 16th cent.: Latin, literally ‘let the buyer beware.’
Pipe smoking without a shirt is hazardous, especially when you have a chest thats amply follicle endowed.
You save on burning holes in your shirts, but burning chest hairs from falling embers is:
a) painful
b) omits scents that do not compliment the tobacco
Hopefully none of the Pipe Babes have this dilemma.
Wrong Person to do this. I am dyslexic, I never passed an english exam in my life. I can barely write a coherent sentence.
And I get funny looks, when I mix up my words eg:
Going to the optician and asking them if my new testicles are ready
Meeting someone that is full of themselves and likes to flash their money, and saying “Its nice to meet you I hear you are a very impotent and effluent-al person”
Or forgot this one
Trinidadians like to walk with two cell phones and a pager.
They stupid things go off in, meetings, funerals people giving lectures etc.
The worst I ever saw was an Actuary in Mass on a Sat. afternoon with the two Phones and the Pager, all on.
Now an Actuary is not like a Doctor or Some Emergency Worker, all he does is count dead people, why dose he need all that communications in Church, Are you saying God only started listening to people since Alexander Graham Bell.
So for those type of impotent and effluent-al people, I like to comment to them. “I see you have an abundance of cellulite technology”
Vanilla, is probably my favorite ice cream, yet somehow in a tobacco it just don’t like it.
Like to smell others smoking it though
Dear Mr. Admin / Kevin
1) Tell us how you do your pipe pics
a) Strip out backgrounds
b) Lighting
c) How you prop pipes in upright position
2) Do you personally Shoot the Pipe Model Pics?
I actually had one of the mini tins, I think it was an empty 956 that someone gave me
Unfortunately, wives seem to think empty tobacco tins are useless, and it got thrown out.
Come to think of it when she threw it out, she did not even have wife status, just weekend g/f visitor.
I should have see the signs, but we men are dumb
I have tried 2 SG Flakes (Balkan Flak & Navy Flake)
I notice that no matter how much you rub them out they pack tight.
They seem very dense.
I find they work better in larger pipes with a lot of room.
Don’t get me wrong they are both delicious, and i will be buying lots more of these.
I imagine they would be great smokes in a windy environment
I thought Python might ban me for life for this one
As you are getting all these samples.
Remember Barrack is trying to mend all the burnt bridges (Real or Perceived) that every one wants to blame the USA for.
With this in mind, you can create some International Good Will, by mail some of these tobacco samples to a 3rd World Country (sorry forgot the PC term Developing Country) like Trinidad.
To show my support for the troops, I’ll even post my Anti Taliban pics on the Blog.
Me eating Jerk Pork sandwich and washing it down with rum, while listening to my Cat Stephens Complete CD Collection.
One day I’ll supprise you and actually put a serious post of SOME VALUE
I will as soon as you send the baby gifts, as you missed this part I’ll repost
“ps. Its customary to give newborns gifts so I’ll make it easy for you guys, you don’t even have to leave your house and go to the Mall, full of obnoxious Anti-Smoking Nazis with their badly behaved ankle biters running around. You can purchase the necessary items over the internet, from the comfort of your own home from any good Tobacconist
100 gms. Each of McLellands Bombay Extra and Frog Morton on the Bayou”
cant blame a feller for trying
Sure is but with 2 added problems for me:
1) After they get to Miami, I have to wait a week or more for them to get to Trinidad
2) Then I have to pay Customs Duties and Vat, on top of what I paid in USA. So I am not just supporting US corrupt, self serving Politicians and Government Officials who are usually Anti-Smoking Nazis, but the ones here too.
I would have asked Fellow Member dunendain to send me some coyotes from Southern California, to get rid of them. but he says Quote “Yeah Coyotes are picky eaters. Rabbits, birds, cats , small dogs, but no PIGS.”
Bob is Spot on as usual
I was recently at a political meeting where this same quotation was used
I am going to close now by quoting two people. The first is Pastor Martin Niemöller and the second is Dylan Thomas.
First they came for the Communists,
But I was not a Communist,
So I said nothing.
Then they came for the Social Democrats,
But I was not a Social Democrat,
So I did nothing.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
But I was not a trade unionist,
So I did not speak out.
And then they came for the Jews,
But I was not a Jew,
So I did little.
Then when they came for me,
There was no one left who could stand up for me. ~ Pastor Martin Niemöller
I have to come clean on this one:
Catholics have this thing about confession:
Im 54, started smoking cigarettes at 13. Was recently at 3 packs a day.
I was laid off last October, and I decided that because I was working at home, I could smoke a pipe more.
Some days are better than others, but I now range between 10 - 20 a day instead of the 60
Both my parents smoked cigarettes and my father also smoked pipes, at boarding school in Trinidad and later England we were allowed to smoke cigarettes once we were over 15.
What I have noticed is that when I am on computer, doing something like processing a lot of pic, I just reach for a cigarette. Very often I don’t smoke it all, it just burns out in the ashtray.
The other thing I have noticed is that when I smoke less cigarettes, I can enjoy the taste of the pipe more.
What I try to do now, is take out cigarettes for a days ration. These go into a 50gm MacBaren Navy Flake, this way I can keep track of what I smoke.
As a byline, as a boy I was friendly with a family whose father had flown for RAF Bomber Command in WWII. He was shot down and spent quite a few years in POW Camp. He said the people who had it hardest there were the cigarette smokers. Apparently the addiction is harder to kick than Alcohol or Hard Drugs.
If any of the other members are having the same problems, would love to hear your thoughts and comments
Kevin,
Super Info
Obviously the Video and Sound are a bit hard to decipher in parts, may I suggest posting the following:
1) The attached handout in “pdf” format that we can download
2) Text list of materials and possible suppliers
For us overseas members, this would be invaluable as we have no easy access to Pipe Repair shops, and shipping the pipes to USA or UK is very expensive, as well as the constant fear of them being lost in Mail or Fedex/DHL/UPS Courier service
I just like to give you extra work. John
“The amount of intelligence in the universe is a constant and the population is growing”
As one Radio Announcer in Trinidad said
If you send a donkey to University, don’y expect to get back a race horse, you’ll just get an educated Jack Ass”
I should have looked at this First
GREAT STUFF
How do you go to something like this and not make your Credit Card SMOKE?
This was my first taste of McLelland Tobacco, all I can say is i liked it very much. But I think I prefer Bombay Extra
Can an expert tell me the difference between the makeup of the two?
Try one of them, I think they are really worth the Money
BTW all stories posted are TRUE, ODD but TRUE
Notice all have the laid back, nonchalant, could not care if Easter Falls on Christmas look………
Definitely a Family Trait
Tanya is like Latakia,
I CAN’T GET ENOUGH OF HER
If that is so, what do you want………name your price
Dunhill or S. Bang 7 Day Set, All Vintage Tins of Dunhill, you name it
OK lets use the same logic
Here is an example
Looking at undies turns some people on, so let’s get a group together to attack Victoria Secret, Fruit of Loom etc.
They must not publish any online catalogues, Printed material, Advertise in magazines, TV etc
We can call ourselves TUAP, Tobacco Users Against Porn
Thats only 1 area, we start to do as they do,
If you can’t dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bs
Keep them so tied up fighting petty battles, that they can’t organize against us.
Isn’t it the Father of your Nation George Washington, who said send me money and if you can’t send money send tobacco.
I don’t drink much, so I wont miss alcohol
Lets go behind bars, Liquor Stores, Breweries and Distilleries
Actually there is a certain element thats already taken over Europe that doing that USA will be next…..
9/11
If you air TV Programs with Tobacco Usage it supposedly encourages it.
So how come you can air “The L word”, “Gay as Folk” etc.
Does this not promote that life style, to the same youngsters that would be impressionable to tobacco
God Save me from the freaking Liberals, and Religious Zealots
Only been to Canada once, about 20 yrs. ago
Odd thing is the hookers openly display their goods for rent in Young St. Toronto
Thing was it was the ugliest hookers I ever saw, they should have been arrested for littering the sidewalk. They mostly looked like junkie / AIDS bags
Yet a man cant make an honest living selling tobacco
RE:I use a specific packing technique to help out with pipes that have this problem.
Which is?
One would hope that, anyone reading a Tobacco Review would understand that it is a very subjective opinion, based on the reviewers person taste and likes. Same as movies, novels, food, wine WHAT EVER
You wont learn with out experimenting yourself
In the field of Photography, I hear photographers put down another work, when I think its Great, or praise work that I would not give a 2nd look at. Its Personal Taste
If we all liked the same things, it would be a very boring world.
We would all wear the same clothes, drive the same care and want the same woman.
As to unknowledgeable sales staff, Like Bob I try to find out as much about a topic that I’m interested in, but there are many self proclaimed experts, that are either too lazy to learn or just to dumb.
I have seen much of that in Computers, Motorcycles, once again every thing.
There was one old cranky tobacconist that I used to love to go to in California. His favorite saying was
“Opinions are like but holes, every body has one, that does not mean they are all pretty to look at”
I bought two great Baris’ from him, I just wished I had heeded his opinion and bought more
And in My Non Humble Opinion
Very salient points Bob
I think I’ll give this one a pass………
Not because of the review.
Its the name that frightens me “Three Friars”
Just a personal hang-up as I spent 5 years in a Maximum Security Institution (Catholic Boarding School / Monastery)
I almost stopped drinking Cappuccino when I discovered the origins of its name
“The name Cappuccino comes from the Capuchin friars, who traditionally wore habits of similar colours.”
I would say that its my favorite of the MacBarens currently, but I have also gone off MacBarens
I would give MacBarens this, compared to the following flakes I have recently tried
Samuel Gawith Navy Flake
Samuel Gawith balkan Flake
Orlic Golden Slices
The MacBaren is the easiest to rub out and to keep burning.
As much as I like the taste of SG Flake, I feel like I need a blowtorch to keep them going, and they get very tight and hard towards the middle of the bowl
In My Humble Opinion
SG, Balkan Flake is a nicer fuller baccy
Lets get a review on this from Taste Masters Admin and Python
If you liked Commonwealth, I think you will like SG Balkan Flake
I rather too wet than dust
I recently tried this a few times with great results
Pack a bowl of wet tobacco, emptied the packed bowl into small bowl (non plastic, some type of glazed clay)
microwaved for 10 - 15 sec
Was fantastic, didn’t seem to affect flavor
On another note, one of the few pipe smokers in T&T, keeps his baccy in ziplock bags in fridge.
Now that ghastly. Almost as bad as waking up after a night out and seeing Hillary next to you………
Its Independence Day here and a Public Holiday
Unfortunately the wife is preparing for 1st day of School Year tomorrow (she teaches Maths and Computer Science) so she wont go out
So Im stuck at home, enjoying pipes on u-Tube, getting stoned on Dunhill 956 Match with added Latakia, I got so Boredddddd, I just had to order 3 Neerup Pipes at The Briary
But some of you lucky people are having fun at work, want to swap
Michael, hummmmmm, looks like my problem too
Python put this as priority Please
Oh maybe Python hopes that if he delays we will just send him all our flakes
While we eagerly wait on Sensei Python, How To Flakes
I have found this works for me, I have taken to putting the flake in a bowl (SG Balkan Flake) and cutting it with a scissors into small about 1/8″ then rubbing out more.
Seems to be better so far, but I suspect Sensei Python will come up with a better method.
So now if I want to smoke a flake outside the house, I have to walk with a scissors in my pipe pouch. The people in those security gismos already have a dump on them selves when they see the pipe knife, now the scissors will really get them going
Yes I agree with The Ankle Biter at Christmas
But walking with the scissors also severs a more important purpose.
I might need to perform emergency Lobotomy on some Anti-Smoking Nazi
looks like this is on my wish list too
Spot On
Somewhere along the way Governments and Elected Representatives have forgot that their are our servants, instead of thinking that we are their serfs.
WE PAY THIER FAT SALARIES
Sounds like my cup of tea, or is that bottle of rum
Only two i have experience with is, Copes Escudo and MacBaren roll Cake
Way my Dad showed me is basically rub lightly 1 disc at a time to loosen and then stuff.
I think that 3 Nuns, had smaller disc and those were just stuffed into pipe.
The thing with these flake and coins, was that they were used by sailors that needed to store baccy under not ideal conditions, but more important would be that they would burn well in windy conditions (as you mentioned earlier). As a sailor, I can tell you that regular tobacco cuts would burn very fast and hot, probably causing burnout’s in your pipes
I think that for armchair use they need a lot of working, to enjoy an effortless smoke
ps I recently wanted to add a little spice to one of the flakes I had chopped up SG Navy Flake, so I cut up some Escudo, and I really like the way the two combined sets of granules smoked. Escudo like the SG Flake Blends can be really hard to keep lit
As a segway, someone once told me Escudo is great way to colour a meerschaum quickly
See Michael is a Polite Patient Member, unlike that pushy Mate guy
A suggested Name for the #4 Method could be the “Charles Manson” or “Jack the Ripper”
Michael, the dot in the middle would usually be Perique in Escudo, and MacBarens Roll Cake
I may be wrong, but I understand Roll Cake no longer uses Perique, expensive and dwindling supply
Try this, I find it working great.. I was trying to get the results of Broken Flake
I used SG Balkan Flake (bulk), the slices are at least twice as long as the SG Tins
Cut the flake into 1\ to 1.25\, into a bowl. Knead using very little pressure. You don’t want to create clumps.
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I intend to try this instead of kneading as a labour saving device and to get what I think will be more realistic broken flakes, consistency.
After cutting, but before kneading. Put some in plastic bag or container in Carolyn’s car for 1 - 3 days.
She knows every pot hole by heart and hardly ever misses one.
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This we will call the Jeffrey Dahmer Method
Kevin,
you do a fantastic job reporting on these shows.
But I think you would enjoy them more, and be able to cover more and concentrate on interviews with the pipe and tobacco manufacturers, if you took along a professional photographer.
Oddly enough, I happen to know of one that is interested in Pipes, who will work very cheap….
Travel, Food and Accommodation, and if you really insist he would probably be satisfied wit just Travel and Accommodation
Kevin WHAT IS A Tommy Bahama wardrobe allocation
You forget I am a simple Island Boy
You all keep using these terms
TAD, I thought it was short for Tadpole, or Unaged Frog Morton
B&M I thought Python was into Bondage and Masochism, Thought he liked to dress up in leathers and be tied up to smoke a pipe
I have 25 tins and I am waiting for Bulk to become available, so I can buy 2lbs for now use
If thy said there could only be one tobacco available, I would go for this baby.
As I said in another post, find someone who has similar taste and use them as a sounding board. The Reviews are good info, but you really have no idea of the reviewers personal taste. If someone likes a few tobaccos that you like, its a good bet that you will like new ones that they like too
Because of the high Latakia content, I wonder how this will age?
Does anyone have any first hand knowledge on this blend, or would like to make an educated guess
No only Islands like Bahamas that cater for American Tourist
Personally I am too poor to afford clothes, so I don’t usually wear any thing.
The little $ I have is better spent on P&T
I did not realize Obamha still smoked???????????
Kevin, you should have bought 1000’s and sold contraband
If Joe Kennedy got rich pushing liquor during prohibition, why not you????
Rember they had Cruises just outside US Waters to drink, Lets invest in a boat
RE: Pipe cleaners can also be used to keep small children amused and they can be twisted into all sorts of interesting shapes.
I am all for Twisting Small Children into all sorts of Interesting Shapes. Wait I better retract that I sound like Jacko the Wacko…….
Pipe Tampers and Pipe Nails or Picks
One more thing for the Airline Checkin Security to Spit a Dummy about.
phage74 said:
Just don’t get too excited about Tanya, she’s already spoken for
BY ME
OK so I’m a Dirty Old Pipe Smoker
TAX ME
Wait that was already done, many times
I received Communications from both Kevin & Bob (Admin & Python)
About how busy they were and the hard work they put into covering the last two Shows
Now the coverage was excellent.
Thankfully there was an absence of Crypts, Tombs, and Cemeteries, in what I can only think was Kevin searching for Estate Pipes when he was in New Orleans.
But I am stuck here in the hot humid Caribbean, and when I mean hot and humid, well ask any Vietnam Vets about Jungle Crotch Rot.
The mould here grows so fast on my camera lenses, tobacco and even inside pipes, thats its more exciting to watch on a weekend than Tiger Woods play at the PGA.
So I appreciate what a hard a time these two had, it being subjected to:
Seeing 1,000’s of Pipes. With discounted prices or at least sans the retailer markup
Talking to Tobacco Blenders and probably getting samples
Nice A/C Exhibits, probably with the normal CB (Corporate Bimbo) babes that are the usual decorations at a trade show
Good Food and Drink
Comrades that share the same passion, and are all to willing to swap stories, or insist that you try their favorite blend
Kevin and Bob, my heart bleeds for you.
In fact the only thing worse that I think you two could be made to endure on our behalf is;
For Hugh Hefner invite you to an all expenses paid, fully inclusive, week at the Play Boy mansion, to photograph his pipes, interview him, mingle with his staff and other current residents and other such distasteful activities.
And if they did coverage of the Play Boy mansion, I bet they would not share the videos with us.
Thankfully, they don’t feature much pipes at the Bunny ranch in Las Vegas. This would be cruel and unusual punishment for poor old Bob & Kevin
And No I don’t suffer from Jealousy or Pipe Envy Complex
Mate / John
If I were stranded on an Island off Tahiti, with 10 good pipes and unlimited Commonwealth Mix, and the island was only inhabited by those women from the South Seas who were all between 17 -35, and I was the only man for thousands of miles around.
I would be tired too.
BUT I WOULD NOT CALL IT A TOUGH JOB
Regarding not just baccy, but everything else
I wonder how many people like something just because every one else likes it.
For example, when I see or hear what passes at top entertainment these day, I think something must be wrong with me. BESCAUES I JUST DON’T SEE A REASON FOR ITS EXISTENCE
I never smoked the Original 956, but I have a copy from PaylessPypes.com that I like, and I like it more when I add some Oriental and a heaping dollop of Latakia
Kevin
There is a Tonka Bean Tree in the cemetery at my old boarding school, a Monastery Mount Saint Benedict, in the Northern Range of Trinidad
If you ever get to Trinidad, its a great place to visit so we can get some of these Tonka Beans for your home blending.
Only hope it does not taste like old priest and nuns
The priest were not known for their frequent baths, and used to camouflage the smell with Bay Rum. this was mixed with the Aromas of Stale Coffee, Whiskey and those that smoked pipes used to smoke Amphora
Should make for a very Aromatic Home Blend……. Thankfully I don’t do Aromatics anymore
RE:
Bob: Absolutely, absolutely, and that’s very encouraging and exciting because there are a lot of younger guys and I really like seeing that. It’s a good thing; including you guys.
[Editor's note: Being that I am 45, and my colleague is 35, it's flattering to be referred to as one of the younger guys at the show, but it also says we need to get more of you younger guys to come out here.]
See if you had take me along as the Photographer, you would have also had someone in the 25 Range………..
Mate / John
RE: Ha ha ha! I think you reversed the numbers. Or were you referring to mental maturity?
Now now, I don’t have to sign on to PipesMagazine.com for that. I can listen to the wife for those comments, and that what I call real BROADBAND communications.
I always thought too moist would not be a problem
Opssssss sorry wrong forum
Seriously,
any method that gets the water in direct contact with the baccy, seems to encourage mould.
I find the wet Paper Towel, with no direct contact best