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  1. SBC

    Immediate Favorites That Later ... Aren't.

    Embers mentioned Pease Stonehenge ( / GH Louisiana Flake) in another thread, and it got me thinking back to tobaccos that struck me as my new all-time favorites upon first smoking ... that later just never quite matched that first experience, or even fell off my list of go-tos altogether. This...
  2. SBC

    First Morels of the Season

    The kids found these in our yard, yesterday. We always get a few in our front rock bed. This wasn't much, but fried in butter -- oh my -- is motivation enough to start foraging the surrounding area.
  3. SBC

    For How Long Will a Scented Gawith Be Good in Its Box?

    I want to order an 8 oz. box of Cannon Plug... (iykyk) ...but, living under The Badger State's new 71% excise tax, I'd like to order it to a friend's address in another state -- a friend whom I hope to see in about 6 weeks. I assume that the boxed Gawiths must sit in that condition for...
  4. SBC

    Is Jolly Old Saint Nicholas still in production?

    I got a tin in 2022 on a lark -- knowing I don't typically love aromatics -- and wound up really liking it. I don't smoke it often so I've still got some left, but I was just thinking that I should keep an eye out for more to put away. When I checked onlin, lo and behold, nobody has it. Is this...
  5. SBC

    An Underappreciated Passage in LOTR

  6. SBC

    Just Learned that my Great-Grandfather Smoked a Pipe!

    I am 38 years old and have smoked pipes these past 16 years. I've long envied those who inherited the pastime from a father or grandfather or uncle. With all due respect to those of you for whom a pipe is just a pipe, I myself am nostalgic enough to associate the pipe with times and places and...
  7. SBC

    Green Bay Pipe Club March Meeting

    Consider yourself invited to the first (monthly?) meeting of a new Green Bay pipe club: Date: Saturday, March 23, 2024 Time: 6:00 PM Place: Prohibition Spirits and Cigar Lounge, 159 N. Broadway St., Green Bay, WI Since we will be using their lounge, please plan to patronize them in some way...
  8. SBC

    Green Bay, Wisconsin, Meetup?

    @Home Brewing Piper is in Green Bay and @mikefu is in Appleton -- that area is in striking distance for @alan73 in Stevens Point, @Singularis in Wausau, and myself in Niagara. Is there anybody else whom I'm missing? Let me know if there's any interest in a meetup there. Scott
  9. SBC

    Which Tobacco Leaves Your Favorite Mustache Note?

    I can't be certain what others mean by "mustache note" (nor whether it really depends upon a mustache), but what I mean is that, for an hour or more after smoking, I can exhale from my mouth up through my mustache (by protruding my lower lip until it meets the bottom of my mustache, forcing the...
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    SPC Price Points

    To regurgitate the well known, in many sectors some producers position themselves at higher price points in order to market to those who find a certain satisfaction in acquiring the higher ticket version of a thing (whether or not the objective value of the thing is proportionally greater, or...
  11. SBC

    Do You have Similar Pipe Aesthetics?

    Title edited for caps and reformulated. Original: What forum member's taste in pipe aesthetics do you share? Do you ever scroll through WAYS and think, "Dang, so-and-so consistently has pipes that I might buy if I could. He has the same taste in pipe aesthetics that I do"? Two for me are...
  12. SBC

    School Me on the Science of Lingering Aftertaste

    What makes the taste of tobacco stick in the palate so much more persistently than anything else sticks? I can eat any food in the evening, brush my teeth, and wake up in the morning with no aftertaste of that food. But if I smoke in the evening and brush my teeth, I wake up tasting tobacco...
  13. SBC

    What I Like Upon my Return to Latakia.

    A couple of years ago I began to experience that much-discussed phenomenon by which long-time latakia smokers suddently grow a distaste for the stuff. As is the case for many, I began to enjoy Virginias at that time. Happily, a couple of months ago I realized that my taste for latakia had...
  14. SBC

    Ennerdale Ready Rubbed

    I just saw that GHC released a ready rubbed version of Ennerdale. It occurs to me that this might be a response to recent complaints about lower saucing. If they top a ready rubbed version, presumably the sauce would find more purchase -- more surface area to cover. Right? I bought a pound...
  15. SBC

    Family/Friends/Public's Favorite Room Notes

    @bullet08, in another thread, advised us to smoke those tobaccos which tempt the ladies to sit on our laps. When this happens to me (which is becoming so frequent as to be obnoxious), I must drive them away I'm afraid, being a married and chaste man. Still, Bullet's words got me wondering which...
  16. SBC

    Formula for Number of Pipes Needed.

    @greysmoke's interesting thread on "hitting bottom" got me thinking about how you'd determine the number of pipes you "need." I guess the formula would be something like: (number of genres you want to dedicate pipes to) x ([maximum number of bowls you might ever smoke in a day] x 2) = maximum...
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    Two Questions About the Manufacturing of Meer-Lined Briars.

    Unlike some guys, I don't think that meer-lined briars are a gimmick. I have two (a GBD and a Chacom) and think that their advantages are real. But there are two questions about their manufacturing which I've never found answers to: 1. What resin or adhesive is used in making pressed/composite...
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    "Bruyere Garantie" not necessarily of Saint-Claude origin?

    I was under the impression, for awhile, that "Bruyere Garantie" meant that a pipe was of Saint-Claude origin, but not otherwise stamped for one of two possible reasons: (a) It was a seconds OR, (b) It was meant to be stamped by a shop as a house pipe However, I've since come across a few...
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    Cancer Shrinking

    Did you ever use "Can you spot the difference?" pictures with your kids? Well, here's one for you: I still have months of chemo remaining, but it's pretty great not having tumors surrounding my heart anymore (!). Thank you all for your prayers!
  20. SBC

    How often does P&C's bulk C&D sale roll around?

    I see that P&C is currently running a sale on bulk C&D. In trying to decide how to budget, it would be helpful to know when I might expect this again. Is this an annual thing? Should I expect the same prices next time? If not, I may move money now that I otherwise wouldn't. Thanks in...
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