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  1. filmguerilla

    Your Blend Of The Year 2022

    Best three NEW tobaccos for me this year: Balkan Palmetto, 2022 SPC Christmas Spirit, and G.L. Pease Bankside.
  2. filmguerilla

    Quality Changes With J.F. Germain & Son?

    Nah. They are ALWAYS fantastic. Never had a bad one. Just sometimes the sauce is bit more than others. That's it. The good folks at Gawith and Germain's work in relatively small shops compared to, say, C&D, and I don't mind the variance one bit. Cheap codger blends are ALWAYS the same and...
  3. filmguerilla

    Quality Changes With J.F. Germain & Son?

    Variation in flavor? Yes. Decline in quality? No.
  4. filmguerilla

    Potential McClelland Christmas Cheer Rival? Perhaps!

    Considering it has gone the way of the dinosaur and most new pipe smokers have never smoked it--and never will--I wouldn't say it has much of a stature left at all. I'd call Christmas Cheer overrated, and certainly not worth the resale price (and I did, indeed, smoke it). I'd also throw in...
  5. filmguerilla

    Grousemoor by Samuel Gawith

    Grousemoor is a regular for me--and I'm happy that we finally got a drop of the plug version recently. If you want something similar, but a bit stronger for winter, I'd suggest trying Conniston cut plug and/or Kendal flake (scented, of course). The Conniston has a great sweet/rum/etc. sauce...
  6. filmguerilla

    Country Squire Canvas Pipe Bag

    I have a canvas pipe roll, but don't remember the brand (got it on Amazon). It's great, but bulky. For travel to the pub, etc. I actually prefer the small Jobey style single pipe pouches. It carries a pipe and some cleaners in the pipe side, plenty of room in the tobacco side for a few...
  7. filmguerilla

    What Do You Get in an SG Box?

    The Gawith tobaccos definitely seem pre-aged with the sauce to an extent. I get the same deep, strong flavors from their tobaccos that I get from Germain's.
  8. filmguerilla

    Velvet tobacco

    My grandfather was a staunch Velvet smoker. There was always a full metal container (old style Velvet tin) sitting on his end table with a couple drugstore pipes. I grew up with the smell. When he passed away I got his old, rusty tin, his pipes (Grabow, Kaywoodie), and immediately purchased a...
  9. filmguerilla

    School me on Lakeland Tobacco

    Another thing worth noting here is that there isn't just ONE flavoring used in Lakeland tobacco. Unless specified as "unscented" or the description says no "Lakeland essence" is added, they will all have some type of sauce on it. There is a rum/fruit type topping used on a few like Grousemoor...
  10. filmguerilla

    Esoterica Blackpool Did I Pack It Right?

    That's probably how I'd pack it...LOL. I scored HUGE on Esoterica this year, but still haven't ran across Blackpool, Woodbridge, or Ramsgate (the three I want to try most). I am, however, stocked to the gills on Dorchester, Durbar, And So To Bed, and Tilbury. Not to bad, really.
  11. filmguerilla

    Your Cellar Size

    I probably have about fifteen pounds in jars, a hundred or so unopened tins, and twenty or so bigger bags (Esoterica), tins, and boxes (Gawith). No idea what that amounts to. I usually smoke ten or so pipes a week. Some days I smoke twice, some none, maybe one or two where I do three...no...
  12. filmguerilla

    SPC Christmas Spirit

    Hey, I was quoting you...
  13. filmguerilla

    SPC Christmas Spirit

    Yeah, we are complete opposites. I'd rather support my local B&M than an online site. And it's worth a couple bucks to me to keep them around. Just this week I got four bags of Esoterica, two tins of Germain's, and even some Balkan Sobranie at my local B&M. Wouldn't have happened online. Of...
  14. filmguerilla

    SPC Christmas Spirit

    Where I live (Tennessee) most tins are $16-20. And those are 2oz tins. So $8-10 per ounce is kind of the norm. Just seems bizarre to me with "limited" and "special" releases dropping from C&D regularly that a lot of people picked THIS tobacco to start declaring that $8-10 an ounce is...
  15. filmguerilla

    SPC Christmas Spirit

    Weird to read these comments. It's a 4oz tin. All the SPC Plum Pudding 4oz tins run in the mid $30's. It was like two dollars more for this one--and it's an extremely small release with cognac. I sure purchased one--and now they're all sold out.
  16. filmguerilla

    Desert Island Tobacco

    Ennerdale Flake
  17. filmguerilla

    Moore County Substation Attack

    Looking like this is the case here. A lot of chatter from far right groups on social media about hitting that specific substation to prevent a drag show from taking place right before it happened. You just have to shake your head at these types at this point.
  18. filmguerilla

    Esotericapers

    As an avid fan of Lakeland blends, I LOVE everything I have smoked by Germain/Esoterica. It's frustrating that it's difficult to obtain, but I think most genuinely want to smoke it vs. simply collecting/flipping it. And I wouldn't call ANY tobacco junk simply because I personally don't like it.
  19. filmguerilla

    Hello from Germany

    Hello from Memphis, Tennessee! I lived in your lovely country for four years while in the Army. Was stationed in Vilseck, which is a perfect spot for touring the country since it is situated between Nurnberg and Munchen. Cheers!
  20. filmguerilla

    New Presbyterian Danish Flake coming soon?

    I'd recommend L.J. Peretti's Oriental blend. Very nice, but definitely in the Balkan arena.
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