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    Home blending

    The B&M I frequented in college had blending tobaccos and I gave it a go a few times. My results were not outstanding (like most things, experience or lack thereof is a factor). I had better luck adding straight components to existing blends, such as a bit of Latakia or some straight, strong...
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    Sutliff Ready Rubbed Match

    Sutliff's ERR match is the only nic-less blend I smoke. I very much enjoy the taste and burning qualities, and others seem to tolerate the room note better than most other blends, in fact, more so than fruit or liquor-flavored aros. People say it has that "old time pipey" aroma. I did try...
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    Help Please: First Pipe, Tounge Bite :(

    LMAO!! Smoking to the bottom of the bowl with the least amount of relights is frequently cited as something to which all pipesmokers ought aspire, and expressed with the tacit implication that failure to do so is a sign of poor technique. Drying tobacco is a frequent admonition expressed with...
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    Jim's C&D Vieux Carre Review.

    Very clever of them naming a blend after the most famous landmark in Lousiana yet it contains no Perique. Kinda like Dunhill calling a blend Baby's Bottom even though it's not a Lakeland and doesn't taste like baby powder and diaper cream.
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    Jim's C&D Vieux Carre Review.

    Very clever of them naming a blend after the most famous landmark in Lousiana yet it contains no Perique.
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    How to kill a ghost

    Ream it and leave it set a month.
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    Important fact about cigars

    This would be the one time I would recommend drying the tobacco.
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    Help Please: First Pipe, Tounge Bite :(

    If you pack crunchy-dry tobacco tightly and puff it too hard it will bite just as much as if you do the same with tobacco at the ideal moisture. OTOH, packing slightly-moist tobacco more loosely and puffing slowly will tame the bite, but the topping flavor will not have evaporated as much...
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    One Blend You'd Recommend To Cigar Smokers

    I was a cigar smoker before I took up smoking a pipe. Initially it was to placate the girls in my college classes who complained about the stench of a cigar. Later I went back to cigars, and then back to the pipe in the 90s when yuppies or hipsters or whatever the hell they were decided to...
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    Rambling Intro and Odd Metallic Taste with Carter Hall!

    No but if you take your socks off and smoke them, the taste would be reminiscent of CH.
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    Great Chicago Fire - Cause - Pipe Smoking

    He probably dried his tobacco and breath-smoked, that would account for the flying embers.
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    So Who Is Flushing Money Down The Toilet?

    The only thing of monetary worth I've flushed down the toilet in recent memory was the contents of a tin of Peterson's Hyde Park, and I don't regret it one bit.
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    Still experiencing that weird feeling

    Idk, but it just sounds assinine calling smoking or drinking "a hobby", regardless of what kind or how much. To me it sounds like marketing spin. Part of what makes me feel that way, I think, is that things like photography, stamp and coin collecting, building ships in bottles etc etc were...
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    Still experiencing that weird feeling

    Perhaps you have a reading comprehension disability, in which case I definitely don't intend to ridicule you. I don't smoke wet tobacco, I smoke tobacco in a moisture range where it stays lit and tastes best to me. If a blend profits from being drier than shipped, and the taste merits the...
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    Parks' Brandy and Bamboo Apple

    Exceptional grain on the brandy. Bamboo shanks aren't my thing.
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    Still experiencing that weird feeling

    I agree and have been known to let dry a blend or two if it's too wet, although I do consider that a sign of poor manufacturing if the stuff is shipped too wet to stay lit. That said I like a couple SG blends and am willing to accept the inconvenience. Frankly I don't care if someone...
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    Still experiencing that weird feeling

    It's funny how internet forum pipe "hobbyists" blindly repeat the mantra that all tobacco needs to be almost dry, at the same time elevating garbage codger blends to cult status. Because all those blends are sprayed with PG to keep them moist and smokable, and all those codgers used to put...
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    Eyes Wide Open...as beginners discover things

    Using Granger as a blending base is like using piss as a soup stock. Get you some straight VA and/or burley blending tobacco that wasn't swept off the floor after the tobacco auction, isn't topped, and hasn't been sprayed with PG.
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    Cotton Mouth

    That's not cotton mouth, that's a burnt tongue from smoking too hot. Cotton mouth=dry mouth, the feeling like you have a wad of cotton wool in your mouth absorbing all your saliva. Typically happens to dope smokers. It's the effect of an anticholinergic agent on your salivary glands, similar...
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    Hi, what would be a good pipe to get me started? and which tobacco?

    They have probably been smoked by Americans while committed to institutions, if that's what you mean. But seriously, in the 20th century, figures like Popeye, Tugboat Annie, Pa Kettle, and Mammy Yokum effectively created a pervasive association between corncob pipes and a caricature of...
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