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  1. zercules

    Visiting Peterson Shop in Dublin

    Yeah, I will drop an update here on my experience. I’ve found some older threads on other sites and it seems like the typical Irish tobaccos would be condor plug and yachtsman plug. The latter may be similar or the same as 3P’s, allegedly.
  2. zercules

    Visiting Peterson Shop in Dublin

    Hi all, I’m hoping some active members here will have some recent experience with shopping at the Peterson store in Dublin. I’ll be visiting Ireland for the first time in a couple weeks from now and am definitely going to the Peterson store to buy a pipe or two or three. I am also interested...
  3. zercules

    Peterson Vulcanite

    Actually, not all system spigots are vulcanite. Newgrange are, at least, acrylic. I am also confounded by the Peterson vulcanite. The only other pipe I have with a vulcanite stem is a Morgan Bones. It is significantly more rubbery and oxidizes incredibly fast. I have two Peterson pipes...
  4. zercules

    Morning Blend Anyone?

    HH Rustica with my second cup of coffee, prior to breakfast, is one hell if a way to start the day. I don’t regularly smoke in the mornings, but most typically reach for a burley base or Virginia base when I do. Most mornings I just drink my coffee in silence, trying my best to wake up lol
  5. zercules

    Mason Jars With a Latch

    FWIW I have been using the plastic leak-proof lids manufactured by Ball for blends in my rotation and they work well. Tobacco stays the same moistness with them and I’m going on month 2 trying it out. I think these are better thus far when compared to 2-piece lids since those will fail after so...
  6. zercules

    ***What Are You Smoking, May 2025?***

    Thank you! It’s my go-to pipe for just about anything and everything.
  7. zercules

    ***What Are You Smoking, May 2025?***

    Savoring my last bowl of Cinnamon Streusel from this past Christmas holiday. This stuff is absolutely fantastic, I can chug along like a freight train with zero bite. In a Newgrange Spigot 999.
  8. zercules

    Piss and Moan

    USPS is going through it right now because the current administration wants to privatize it. My order of the beast made it to my regional distribution center about 50 miles from my address but instead of reaching my local post office, it took a vacation in Hawaii for a week. It was ground...
  9. zercules

    ***What Are You Smoking, May 2025?***

    Sunday morning smoke with a coffee. Elizabethan mixture in a Pete junior bulldog.
  10. zercules

    ***What Are You Smoking, May 2025?***

    HH Rustica with a garage beer
  11. zercules

    Bad Good Advice

    I agree with you. I don’t dry tobacco, I smoke it as it is. Here is my short rant: It’s an overcomplication of a simple thing. The humidity of where you live factors in. The blend factors in (some stuff just does not dry out). Each blend would have a different dry time. You have to figure it...
  12. zercules

    Best No Nonsense Way to Pack and Break in a Pipe

    This right here! Don’t overthink it. If it’s too loose, it won’t be after tamping. You get a feel for it after so many smokes.
  13. zercules

    Bad Good Advice

    Yeah, I disagree with a lot of advice people usually tell beginners. Things didn’t click for me until I started doing more char lights and changed my cadence. It helped me to keep the pipe clenched in my mouth slightly ajar and draw a puff every few breaths. I think probably one of the most...
  14. zercules

    ***What Are You Smoking, March 2025?***

    Elizabethan Mixture in a Peterson Bulldog Junior, with a new ashtray I received as a gift this weekend.
  15. zercules

    ***What Are You Smoking, March 2025?***

    Enjoying some Orlik GS in my Sherlock Watson. I really should dump my ash tray…
  16. zercules

    ***What Are You Smoking, January 2025?***

    Sipping on Sankara Stone and Pabst after a long day
  17. zercules

    I Started With Matches

    Yeah this is why I really appreciate matches. They don’t burn as hot as lighters do. It’s actually quite convenient when the bowl is mostly turned to ash and you want to light whatever little is left of your tobacco- you can stick the match down the bowl 😂
  18. zercules

    I Started With Matches

    I started out with matches and they’re still my preferred way to light. Penny matches, specifically. Kitchen matches are too big, I feel like the flame gets large fast. It’s more controlled with the little ones. That said, I do like my zippo and my old boy. I have not been using them as much...
  19. zercules

    ***What Are You Smoking, January 2025?***

    Saturday morning meditation with the incredible, legendary capstan blue. In my favorite bulldog pipe.
  20. zercules

    ***What Are You Smoking, January 2025?***

    Sankara Stone, a wonderful codger-cut Balkan, in a 999 Newgrange. Hints of Latakia and vanilla cavendish supplement Virginia and oriental leaf, making this a personal favorite of mine.
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