This is my everyday drink - smooth enough to drink neat, complex enough to make a good Manhattan, cheap enough to always have on hand. It's the best bargain in bourbon, IMO.
It's in most of our Virginia ABC stores, even here outside D.C.
I dislike the feel of acrylic stems and think they're too wide and thick at the button. The one pipe I still have with an acrylic stem is never smoked.
All plastics turn me off - probably because every time I'm in a theater or a concert hall somebody's always rustling and rattling some plastic...
Royal Copenhagen made some porcelain pipes:
There are a couple listed on Bisgaard if you're interested. It's from RC's standard, classic, blue-and-white pattern:
Not sure how the pipe would smoke, but I'd like to have it.
Hear, hear! Excellent idea.
I would also like to hear an in-depth interview with Pease. I like his blends but have never met him, and the way folks go on about him here, it should be a hoot.
She looks like death warmed over. (Mother about someone who looked peaked.)
That's slicker 'n snot on a doorknob! (Father about anything that worked well.)
That lasted about as long as Pat stayed in the army. (Father about something not enduring.)
I have the opposite happen. One of my cobs is a straight pointed-end egg and I have yet to get through a bowl without having to run a pipe cleaner through it. It also happens to be entirely too open for my liking, which undoubtedly has something to do with it.
Then, please, don't try Jack Knife Plug. I need that to stay around!
Isn't it funny how something I had never heard of at this point last year is now something I don't want to have to do without?
You can try the Jack Knife. It's really something. The DH and Uni flakes aren't as strong in the...