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  1. rmcnabb

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

    That settles it - that's my next Peterson! What a great pipe.
  2. rmcnabb

    Cellaring- How Long is too Long?

    Most tobacco will benefit from a year on the shelf. I don't think this is news. Some blends are ready to go, but many times blends are made with new tobacco and can reflect the harshness sometimes associated with "green" tobacco leaf. Sometimes the big websites will hold a sale on a tobacco...
  3. rmcnabb

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

    Broke open a rarity, a 24 year old tin of Old Gowrie. Seal held perfectly and the contents are perfectly dry/moist. It smells like citrus and maybe plums and maybe some BBQ sauce and maybe cedar and leaf litter from the forest floor. The taste is not sweet - the sugars have departed leaving...
  4. rmcnabb

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

    I really like Mad Fiddler, but it took a couple of bowls for it to hit home. It's a delight. In that series I also really, really like Awakened Elder - a super English - and am stocking it deep in my cellar. The rest I'm not too torqued about but I've only got so much mental and physical...
  5. rmcnabb

    Royal Yacht Buzz

    Royal Yacht was one of my first loves but it does pack a punch. Like Mark Twain said about riding a bicycle, "Try it - you won't regret it if you live."
  6. rmcnabb

    Palate Refinement

    Pick a blend that is well reviewed on Tobacco Reviews. Especially JimInks reviews. Pack and slowly slowly sip/savor the smoke and work hard trying to pick up what the reviewers got. If they talk about things you don't know the flavor of (I've never had rose hip tea or anise seed for instance)...
  7. rmcnabb

    Long Term Aging/Storage

    The easy answer is mason jars. But they're bulky. I'm a big believer in vacuum sealed food bags - I got a vacuum sealer off ebay and I can easily store tins, boxes, loose bulk, anything. It's nice when you get a pound of flake in a cheap zip lock bag and you can just stick it in a vacuum bag...
  8. rmcnabb

    Medical Doctors who Smoke a Pipe?

    I'm a PA in family practice - not a doctor but something like. After 20 years and thousands of patients, I have referred one - precisely one - pt to oral surgery for a consult on a suspicious oral lesion that did wind up being cancer and did wind up getting removed. He was a heavy Copenhagen...
  9. rmcnabb

    Question on 4 Noggins 5/23/24

    They don't say. Probably an old family joke - it's an old family company.
  10. rmcnabb

    Alerts

    THAT was it! Thanks very much. I don't know what happened but it was all unchecked. Your username makes me chuckle every time I see it. And I recognize those BDU's - I used to have the same tailor! (1983 - 87.)
  11. rmcnabb

    Alerts

    For some reason I no longer get a numeric alerts counter over the little "bell" icon in the upper right hand corner of the Forums page. I also only get 1 email at most every day with updates/alerts, I used to get several a day. Did I accidentally change a setting somewhere? I just rolled over...
  12. rmcnabb

    Smashing Success with Salt Cleaning

    So the salt doesn't really do anything, huh? It's all the alcohol?
  13. rmcnabb

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

    I like clays. Archaeological proof off the good life, littered at every dig in the western world. I've done a fair bit of historical reenactment in the US and the dedication that the ECW people bring to bear is really impressive.
  14. rmcnabb

    Smashing Success with Salt Cleaning

    I hate to think it was but after my years following the Grateful Dead that's an essence I am EXTREMELY familiar with.
  15. rmcnabb

    Smashing Success with Salt Cleaning

    I bought a lovely Bjarne Brebbia 925 off of ebay but it stunk to high heaven with some kind of incense essense. It wasn't Lakeland, I don't know what it was, but it was intolerable. So I tenatively decided to clean it with the salt and alcohol treatment you see advised. It worked perfectly...
  16. rmcnabb

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

    That's a lovely pipe, Appalach. I love the color and blast.
  17. rmcnabb

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

    A big bowlful of "Dreadnought" - that's the house blend here at Castle McNabb. 1/2 C&D Exclusive, 1/2 Sutliff Stoved Virginia. Really nice, you should try it. And in my newest acquisition, and maybe my favorite pipe, a Brebbia Bjarne 925 that I got for a song on ebay. It came stinking of...
  18. rmcnabb

    My First Taste of Orientals

    Good for you for supporting your local tobacconist. Amphora has several blends that even the choosiest hoarders approve of.
  19. rmcnabb

    Smoking to the Bottom of the Bowl.

    This isn't American tobacco smoke...these are Freedom Fumes! Enthusiasts will always take something fun and turn it into a chore. There are fly fishermen who always go out with 3 rods and 5 bulging books of flies. And there are guys who use the same 10 flies year in year out with the rod they...
  20. rmcnabb

    Tobacco Quality

    It's not too surprising to find sticks and stems in many bulk blends from bulk producers. Does this mean the tobacco is "poor quality"? I'm not sure. I don't know what poor quality tobacco is - I don't care what the leaf looked like. I care about how the blend tastes. Don't be concerned with...
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