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  1. hilbertastronaut

    Las Vegas Intl Pipe Show 2024!

    Thanks all for an amazing show! We had a great time and met some excellent human beings!
  2. hilbertastronaut

    Las Vegas Intl Pipe Show 2024!

    Hope you feel better soon!
  3. hilbertastronaut

    Las Vegas Intl Pipe Show 2024!

    Very much looking forward to the show! We plan to arrive Thursday night.
  4. hilbertastronaut

    What Are You Listening To? - October, 2024

    I've been super anxious lately, so I have Cristobal de Morales' Officium Defunctorum and Missa Pro Defunctis on repeat. The music washes over me.
  5. hilbertastronaut

    Old Joe Krantz first impressions

    I had a good experience cellaring OJK for just a year. I humidified it just a bit and pressed it tightly into 2-ounce jars. After aging, the inside of the jar had a most curious aroma of stinky cheese and dried rose petals. (I had thought I had gone completely mad, but others have confirmed...
  6. hilbertastronaut

    Hey, Anyone Heard of C&Ds "Mad Fiddler"

    That's an excellent picture! I dig how the pipe stain matches the violin's.
  7. hilbertastronaut

    Alternatives to Whiskey & Pipe

    Madeira goes fantastically with a pipe. A (dry) oloroso sherry gives a similar experience but is less sweet. Both beverages have a similar concentration of flavor as whiskey or bourbon, but with 20% or less alcohol instead of 40% or more.
  8. hilbertastronaut

    Hey, Anyone Heard of C&Ds "Mad Fiddler"

    Glad you like it! : - ) I'll also add a postscript that after a couple years sealed in jar with lots of air space, Mad Fiddler Flake has lost some of the cherry spice cake note and has become a bit more "generic C&D smoothed-out perique-heavy blend," comparable to a less-topped Haddo's Delight...
  9. hilbertastronaut

    Why?

    Some pipes are just beautiful. You pick them up and hold them and they speak to you. It's buying art. Part of the fun is finding out which makers can make works of art that are good smokers too. Cobs still smoke great, though!
  10. hilbertastronaut

    Mailed my IM Corona Old Boy out for Repair

    Mr. Ethan at Arango fixed my Old Boy just fine. I wasn't planning on getting a fancy lighter, but happened across a deal on one with the sandblasted briar wrapper and loved the texture. It's like I get to hold a pipe while I light another pipe. Something was wrong with the gas outlet, though...
  11. hilbertastronaut

    Jim's C&D Eight State Burley Small Batch 2024 Review.

    I opened a tin this weekend. Tin note is cocoa powder and baked desserts. Leaves are a bit sticky, as if from a topping (which I don't mind -- it smells great, without the "oh no I can't get the stinky cheese smell off my fingers" experience of some C&D blends). Smoking is easy and strength...
  12. hilbertastronaut

    What Are You Listening To - July, 2024

    William Byrd's keyboard music is up for today:
  13. hilbertastronaut

    Need Mild Tobacco without Burley

    Best wishes for a safe and quick recovery!
  14. hilbertastronaut

    Review of Garvey’s Balkan, and Query

    An excellent shop -- they have drawers full of refurbished pipes, and some nice new ones. I picked up one of Former's horns there (where he reportedly stops on his way to the Chicago Pipe Show).
  15. hilbertastronaut

    Hey, Anyone Heard of C&Ds "Mad Fiddler"

    Paganini knew his way around a guitar too! I dig his violin + guitar duets. Mad Fiddler Flake smells like a cherry spice cake. It's a bit stronger than the aroma might suggest. I like it in a small cob, since C&D perique ghosts pipes for me (and fingers! they end up smelling like parmesan)...
  16. hilbertastronaut

    Need Mild Tobacco without Burley

    Respect for someone who did the experiment and reported the results -- may they always find great blends to smoke!
  17. hilbertastronaut

    Bamboo Pipes Seem To Be All the Rage

    Bamboo colors nicely with use. I also like the variety of textures. Thanks to all the people above for posting great examples!
  18. hilbertastronaut

    Tobacco for Breaking in a New Pipe- Suggestions!

    I'm reminded of the "pipe smoking machine" once used to break in Dr. Grabow pipes with Edgeworth. (Please see linked article below.) One might suggest using a similar burley blend -- something easy to keep lit and unlikely to ghost. I am partial to Mac Baren's HH Burley Flake or one of C&D's...
  19. hilbertastronaut

    Effects of Altitude on Smoking Certain Blends?

    Mac Baren's iteration of St. Bruno looks superficially like Peterson's Irish Flake or even HH ODF, but has a mild flowery top note and smokes completely differently (for me, at least). I've heard that Mac Baren changed the formula for St. Bruno quite a bit. I get "Vicks" cherry cough drop...
  20. hilbertastronaut

    Effects of Altitude on Smoking Certain Blends?

    I wonder sometimes if some blends were optimized for the technique of putting a small glowing coal in one's pipe. I work from home and I tend to smoke in the afternoon while reading or editing. Work has been frustrating me quite a bit over the past couple years, so perhaps it's unsurprising...
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