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  1. SBC

    A Port and Cheese Evening

    I found and picked up a bottle of this: Silly as this will seem to you, this is easily the most that I've ever spent on a bottle of wine. I stood deliberating over the $59.99 (USD) price tag (which on my moderate income and with seven children represents a careful budget decision) for some...
  2. SBC

    Dad Died Last Weekend And I Inherited His Pipes etc.

    Christ have mercy. May he rest in peace and rise in glory, and may his memory be eternal. Lovely pipes. May they always bring to your mind the things about your father most worth imitating.
  3. SBC

    A Port and Cheese Evening

    I've just decided in response to the temptation placed at my feet by this thread to hunt down a 20 year Tawny for Easter. If that isn't a good enough reason then I don't know what is. I'll report back on what I can find in these boondocks. (Actually I do have a chance of finding something...
  4. SBC

    Revisiting ‘Royal Yacht’

    After 17 years of pipe smoking, I finally tried RY for the first time the other week. I liked it. It's not the sort of thing I usually smoke, but I'm glad to have it around and will certainly smoke a bowl every now and then to mix things up. To me it was reminiscient of some berry infused teas.
  5. SBC

    Ennerdale Mixture

    If you like Ennerdale you'll probably like #7 Broken Flake. My primary complaint is that it's not more strongly scented. But what's there is very nice. As Brad said, to some extent there are diminishing returns on Lakeland sauce; so, pick one whose base you love, and you'll always enjoy at...
  6. SBC

    Cabbie's Batches

    I really enjoy Cabbie's myself. Tough to get here. I have one tin unopened left, and a little jarred. Haven't touched it in a while -- now I might.
  7. SBC

    A Port and Cheese Evening

    I've mentioned before that although I know some parts of the pipe tobacco, big beer, and whisk(e)y worlds reasonably well, I know almost nothing of wine and don't anticipate that changing; however, if there were one swath of the vino world that I wish that I could dive into, it would be port...
  8. SBC

    Let’s Get Dirty…Again

    I enjoy learning how to do things rather than use services, in many areas of my life. Although as I've gotten older, I've gotten better at knowing when other demands on my life should take priority, and I should just hire someone instead of getting frustrated for days trying to learn a skill...
  9. SBC

    What Kind Of Pipe Smoker Are You?

    Years smoking, a pipe: About 17. Do you combine your pipe smoking with other forms of tobacco consumption? No. (Well, almost never. If a friend offers me a cigar or cigarette once in a blue moon, I might rarely accept.) What kind of pipe (artisan, factory, or combination): I happen to have...
  10. SBC

    An Omakase Dinner with Rieslings

    Although that's not my kind of food -- and although I rarely drink wine and couldn't begin to evaluate one (and have probably never had one worth more than $20) -- I will say that, to my uneducated palate, riesling and gewurztraminer have long been the favorite whites.
  11. SBC

    What’s Happening To Me?

    The poker is certainly a specimen of form following function, Your Holiness. It's utilitarian in origin as it's simply what cherrywoods and cobs look like when you do as little work as possible (and, I expect that it's simpler to turn out in briar, as well). If you just want a chamber to smoke...
  12. SBC

    Louisville, KY Legalizes Smoking in Cigar Bars

    I was completely unaware that there were states that didn't allow cigar lounges. During my adult life I've lived in both PA and WI, and in both states there have always been plenty of cigar lounges where I was welcome to smoke a pipe. I thought that the law in all states was that a proprietor...
  13. SBC

    Recommend To Me A Blend

    Same! It's been on my list to try for years, and finally tried it for the first time last week, thanks to @Commander McBragg. It's right up my alley. Flavor strikes me as similar to some berry infused teas.
  14. SBC

    Favorite Balkan/English And Why?

    Ah, I'd forgotten about Pembroke. That sure is a good one, too.
  15. SBC

    Favorite Balkan/English And Why?

    The two best that I ever had were some 1996 (Old Bond St. location) Balkan Sobranie 759, and some 2017 Smokers’ Haven Our Best Blend. RIP. My favorite still produced might be Penzance; but, we may as well treat it as though it were discontinued. Some of the more highly rated balkans, I do not...
  16. SBC

    Green Bay, Wisconsin, Meetup?

    Sure was. It went on my list to keep an eye out for in future orders.
  17. SBC

    Green Bay, Wisconsin, Meetup?

    Really glad that @Singularis brought you, @oatsmiller, and really glad that you joined the forum! I celebrated Annunciation in part with a bowl of HU Louisiana Broken -- Thank you! Looking forward to seeing you again before long!
  18. SBC

    Green Bay, Wisconsin, Meetup?

    @Commander McBragg, you ought to be pleased with "Northern Badger Pipe Clan," as it fits your preferred aesthetic nicely: I just looked for a reference to Mr. Badger smoking in WITW, but there doesn't seem to be one. I thought that I remembered one when Ratty and Mole stumble across his house...
  19. SBC

    Green Bay, Wisconsin, Meetup?

    I'm happy to second this motion. (If a NW contingent ever feels that this is in tension with them, we could always specify further at that time?)
  20. SBC

    Samuel Gawith - Cannon Plug Review

    Haha, if I may add to the praises: Last night I finally tried Bob's Chocolate Flake (it had been on my radar for a long time -- I just hadn't gotten to it), thanks to @Home Brewing Piper. It was fantastic -- not what I expected, really -- and now I'm jonesing to get some of my own.
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