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  1. krizzose

    Need Some Recommendations for Quality Aromatics!

    FWIW, here a few of my favorite aromatics. A common element of all of them is a quality tobacco base that doesn’t get lost under the sauce. Mac Baren Vanilla Flake Mac Baren Vanilla Roll Cake C&D Golden Days of Yore Sillem’s Musketeer Sutliff Match Ready Rubbed Erik Stokkebye Resolution (this...
  2. krizzose

    How Biased Are Pipe Tobacco Reviews

    I like JimInks’ formulaic approach to his reviews, and one consistent element of that is a description of the relative proportions of component tobaccos. That’s far more valuable to me than any comparative flavor descriptions.
  3. krizzose

    Praise for Peretti

    I’m a big fan of 101, BPC, and 150th Anniversary Flake. I’ve had a few other of their burleys, and while good I just prefer BPC over the others. One exception was B-94, which tasted very soapy to me.
  4. krizzose

    Water Plus Pipes Equals?

    The ability to occasionally wash acrylic stems in warm soapy water is one of the reasons I prefer them over vulcanite. I consider myself lucky that I don’t find acrylic stems uncomfortable to clench, but I do understand that many do and so prefer vulcanite. For some reason, I find vulcanite...
  5. krizzose

    Water Plus Pipes Equals?

    👆has been my experience as well after several years of water rinsing and a quick scrub with a shank brush after every smoke. I still do a regular scrub with Everclear, but much less frequently than I did before I started water rinsing. That being said, I use warm water, never hot.
  6. krizzose

    Non-Lat/English Oriental Recommendations?

    Low Country Waccamaw may be an option. It’s a VaPerOr. I don’t know that I could call it stout, but it definitely isn’t mild. Being a Low Country blend, it’s readily availble at smokingpipes and not particularly expensive.
  7. krizzose

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2024?***

    Sutliff Crumble Cake Barrel Aged No. 1 in a Savinelli 707
  8. krizzose

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2024?***

    Erik Stokkebye Resolution in a Mark Tinsky acorn
  9. krizzose

    What's Similar to Newminster 400 SNF or HH Virginia Flake?

    PS LNF is certainly in the same ballpark as NM400
  10. krizzose

    Ken Byron Video Interview from August, 2023

    I’ve really enjoyed bouncing through some of the KBV offerings in the last few years. That conversation was certainly wide-ranging, and the more interesting for its breadth. Who knew the nexus of illegally scuba diving on desalinization plants and the Wind In The Willows was pipe tobacco?
  11. krizzose

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2024?***

    KBV Van Gogh (2023 version) in a Radice rind billiard
  12. krizzose

    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2024?***

    McClelland Navy Cavendish in a Savinelli 707
  13. krizzose

    Scandinavian Tobacco Group A/S to acquire Mac Baren Tobacco Company A/S

    I’ve been intending to get another pound of a particular Mac Baren blend for the cellar, so might as well do it now.
  14. krizzose

    ***What Are You Smoking, June 2024?***

    KBV Jupiter Slices in a Savinelli billiard
  15. krizzose

    Your Own "Worst" Tobacco

  16. krizzose

    Your Own "Worst" Tobacco

    For me it’s easy: 1792 Flake. I don’t doubt its quality, and I would never equate my subjective taste of something as anything approaching an objective truth, so more power to anyone who loves it. That being said, this is the reaction I had while smoking that unholy concotion: Honorable...
  17. krizzose

    Storing 8oz+?

    👆. If you have room for the jars, the smaller ones are best
  18. krizzose

    Ash Dumping Question

    about the only time I dump ash is if I’m smoking a folded and stuffed flake that I’ve packed a little too tightly, and the bottom third is getting a little fussy. I stir up the ash, dump it, scrape the sides, lightly retamp then relight. It takes all of 15 seconds.
  19. krizzose

    When to Use Humidifiers?

    Short answer: no, at least to the point where it’s actually too dry. I have 80+ “open” tins in jars. I’ve never to had to rehumidify anything except for a couple of occasions when I carelessly closed a jar lid down on a chunk of tobacco so it didn’t seal properly. For me, the last half of...
  20. krizzose

    ***What Are You Smoking, June 2024?***

    2014 McClelland Christmas Cheer in a Savinelli Zulu. It’s the last bowl of this tin. I’m lucky to have a modest stash of CC [that I bought at retail prices], but not a ton, so I think I’ll wait a while before opening the next one. #rationing
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