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  1. stogie37

    Is GLP Fillmore A Gateway To Va/Pers?

    Smoking a bowl of Fillmore right now from a 2012 tin. Def has a hint of Latakia, but more in the sense that you’d miss it if it was gone - rather than noticing that it’s there. While not even in my personal top 10 VA based blends, it’s very, very good and certainly has the potential to provide...
  2. stogie37

    Does Key Largo Taste Like An English Blend?

    If the Latakia was missing, it would leave a noticeable hole in the blend. That said, it is immediately different than a typical English profile upon light-up. My notes on a recently opened 2020 tin: “Possibly the best first bowl of tobacco I’ve ever smoked”. This after 30 years of smoking and...
  3. stogie37

    Who is DK on Tobaccoreviews.com Because He is a Genius.

    I love consistency in a reviewer’s report. Like mentioned above, I don’t always agree with an overall blend rating, but if that reviewer maintains consistency in how they review, I can apply it to my personal taste preferences. This, IMO, is what makes @jiminks so valuable. The truth is, my...
  4. stogie37

    Creamy Mouthfeel Blends

    Second @jttnk ’s recommendation of Pease Key Largo. That’s probably the single most pronounced example of creamy I can recall recently.
  5. stogie37

    Smoking a Tin Until Done or Whatever Strikes Your Fancy?

    I keep a pretty firm rotation of 12 smoking blends. Once one is finished I select something new from the cellar to replace it. Rarely does anything recently purchase enter the roatation unless I’m dying to try it, or think it might be a cellaring deep candidate. At 2-3 bowls a day, this dozen...
  6. stogie37

    Save Boxes?

    I seem to get a slight premium when selling mid-range pipes, particularly Peterson’s, when I have the sleeve/box. Most of my higher end pipes don’t come with boxes, but they have some sweet sleeves! Northern Briars leather sleeves are gorgeous.
  7. stogie37

    What’s Your Favorite “Stress Relief” Smoke?

    Just knowing I have 45mins+ with my pipe, rocking quietly on my porch is the real stress medication. That said, some Pease Ashbury, War Horse Bar or Black Frigate are particularly good wind down smokes.
  8. stogie37

    I Hate Breaking in a New Pipe

    Like @Country Bladesmith , I must be in the minority. I really like breaking in new pipes, (well, except for most Peterson’s - they are great, but break in is usually lengthy and not so enjoyable). I recently sold of a number of pipes in my collection and dove into Ian Walker’s Northern Briars...
  9. stogie37

    Go-to Blend For Curing Tongue Bite?

    After 30yrs of pipe smoking, I seldom torch my tongue anymore - but I do fatigue my palate after thinking (hoping) that my growing intolerance for red VA has waned and firing up a bowl, or after smoking almost anything made by MacBaren or that is treated with anything above a mild dose of PG...
  10. stogie37

    Oriental Pease

    Ashbury is an absolute masterpiece of oriental flavor. Can’t recommend highly enough!
  11. stogie37

    Tobacco Question: Peterson's Dunhill English Blends Seem Sweet; Hal O The Wynd Seems "English"

    Our individual palates are so unique that certain nuances play out differently from person to person. I consistently find Rattray blends to be a bit sweeter than Dunhill/Peterson. I’m working through recent tins of both EMP and Accountant’s Mixture now, and just finished working through tins of...
  12. stogie37

    Highest Recommended McClelland Virginia

    Tough to narrow it even to three, but based on my cellar, my picks are: 1.) Ashton Pebblecut 2.) Va No.24 3.) St. James Woods So many stellar blends!
  13. stogie37

    Between First and Second Pipes

    Like @BROBS I order my smoking day by strength of flavor - or at least genre and rarely experience carryover unless I’ve fatigued my palate by smoking too fast or starting with a really strong blend.
  14. stogie37

    Dirt Cheap

    Back when I lived in Ohio, I walked into the Briar Patch, a fantastic B&M in Canton, and saw a pile of Rattray 100gr tins - Accountants, RR, Jocks, Highland Targe etc. for $4.95 tin. The distributor, J.B. Russell had just gone out of business. I bought the lot! This was probably around 2001? I’m...
  15. stogie37

    Opening a 2007 Tin of GL Pease Fillmore

    Working through a 2012 tin of Fillmore now - delectable. I imagine the additional years on yours on make it more incredible. Fillmore’s got legs!
  16. stogie37

    *Time To Practice*

    Playing around with some “cleaner” set-ups during COVID. 30+ years of dragging kits around and I still hate load-in / load-out. Fortunately, during the days of kits the size of jungle gyms, the help was under contract ;) But those days were a long, long time ago...
  17. stogie37

    Peterson/Dunhill Standard Mixture, Short Review

    Not sure that I have 4 Dunhill blends I love... MM965 is on my short list of all time favorites and I’m cellared pretty deeply. London Mixture and Durbar are two others I like quite a bit. I blend the Aperitif with Pease Samarra and C&D Yale mixture which turns out delicious! However the...
  18. stogie37

    Peterson/Dunhill Standard Mixture, Short Review

    Never a bell-ringer for me, - only 4 Dunhill tins in the cellar. Hadn’t smoked it in a long while, so ordered a tin of the Peterson a month or so ago and slid it into the rotation. Just 2 bowls left at this point. As usual, superb burn, trademark toastiness (my favorite aspect of this blend) and...
  19. stogie37

    The Strong Tobacco Expedition

    Ha! Well based on my current listing under the “Tobacco sell/trade” heading - I’m clearly not super fond of the top tier strength tobaccos. My list reads like a condensation of this post. I do like the flavor, but since moving to the steamy south, my tolerance seems to have dropped. I tend to...
  20. stogie37

    GLP Recommendations?

    Kensington is an absolutely superb middleweight Balkan that’s been shuffled to the back page over the years. Piccadilly is an excellent light English and Ashbury “buries” the Latakia, but there’s just enough to make it my favorite oriental forward blend. Could live happily off those three blends...