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The Chicagoland International Pipe & Tobacciana Show 2017
Man, those are some pretty pictures of some pretty pipes. There are quite a few there that I'd be happy to add to the aggregation I loosely think of as my "collection." *sigh* Sometimes I wish I didn't like pipes so much...- glpease
- Post #53
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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The Chicagoland International Pipe & Tobacciana Show 2017
Thank you, Dave. It's quite an honor. I really wish I could have been there in person. Family things. Hopefully next year...- glpease
- Post #52
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Drying vs not drying
Nothing is added prior to sealing. My guess is that something was carried over on the lid of the tin prior to being affixed. Maybe. Or something else. The tin note should be fairly typical of a natural VA/perique mixture. After a few years of age, you should be getting plummy, slightly sweet...- glpease
- Post #62
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Drying vs not drying
First, Stratford should certainly not have arrived "drowned rat wet." Rest assured that we, the factory and I, have had many conversations, and are always moving in the direction of ever improved quality control, which includes setting the moisture I have specified prior to packaging. But, I'm...- glpease
- Post #60
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Drucquer and Sons and GL Pease
My Temple Bar is unrelated to the Drucquer blend. I chose the name for other reasons, and in retrospect, it might have been a poor choice. Alas. The Temple Bar was one of the ceremonial gates of London. In the middle ages, the Corporation of London erected barriers at several gates to regulate...- glpease
- Post #19
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Greg Pease and Drucquer & Sons
From 1929 to 1930, the address was 2140 Center Street, after which the shop moved to several different locations on Shattuck Avenue over the years, finally settling in at 2059 University Avenue sometime near 1946. I don't recall the date the store moved to Solano Avenue, across the street from a...- glpease
- Post #34
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Greg Pease and Drucquer & Sons
Might as well chime in... Cairo was my original blend. Nothing to do with Drucquer's. In fact, the only reprise of old Drucquer blends is Samarra, which is a recreation of a blend I did for D&S back in the 1980s called Sublime Porte. The seven I've recreated are Prince's Blend, Inns of Court...- glpease
- Post #13
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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GL Pease Temple Bar
Yes. That's close. Pepper it with the words "bureaucratic, pencil pushing, nanny-bastards," and it would come a tiny bit closer.- glpease
- Post #56
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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GL Pease Temple Bar
We're looking into it. Since they were not on the market on 8th August, and the Eff Dee A, in a blaze of brilliance, consider a change in package size to be a "new product," we may not be able to do them. You can easily read between the lines to suss out what I think about this...- glpease
- Post #53
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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GL Pease Temple Bar
No fighting, gentlemen, please. There's plenty to go around. "A can a week. That's all we ask." Oh, wait. That's the almond guys...- glpease
- Post #49
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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GL Pease Temple Bar
My open tin of Regents Flake just told me it was feeling left out. "How come that brownie looking thing gets all the love?" Dunno. Maybe people just like brownies...- glpease
- Post #37
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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GL Pease Temple Bar
Wow. High praise! I'm so glad you like it. Was yours one of the rare puffy ones? ;) I guess I need to open another one, myself...- glpease
- Post #35
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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About to try G.L. Pease's The Virginia Cream...
What a happy-making thing to read, r. Thanks for the thoughtful post. You raise a couple of questions, and here are the answers. Yes, the cavendish is burley based. I chose it to provide some roundness to the overall profile, and to give a little more body and "tobacco taste" to the smoke. As to...- glpease
- Post #41
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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GL Pease Temple Bar
Well, it looks like my "more complete statement" beat me to the punch. I was in the middle of editing it, and it ended up getting posted... Disregard the last two fragments. They were meant for something completely different...- glpease
- Post #29
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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GL Pease Temple Bar
Nothing to worry about, fmgee. I'll make a more complete statement later, but these two have been through pretty intense quality control, which is part of why it takes so long for me to introduce new things, and there have been zero reports of mold. The occasional slightly puffy tins result from...- glpease
- Post #28
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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GL Pease Temple Bar
I need to address a couple of things. First, the bulging tins are not an issue, other than an aesthetic one. There have been no reports of mold in any of my products, and we are watching the new ones especially closely. Some tins are going through some, shall we say, enthusiastic fermentation...- glpease
- Post #27
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Two of My Favorites Moldy
There's some correlation between moisture content by weight and RH, but it is dependent on leaf type, so it's not especially accurate or entirely reliable. However, RH in the 65-70% range will generally correspond to MBW in the range we're interested in. As to mold germination as a function of...- glpease
- Post #30
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Two of My Favorites Moldy
Overall, mold issues with my products have occurred at a very low rate, and I haven't seen any with the new blends, and I just checked by control samples. Tin bulging is usually a byproduct of fermentation, which is actually a good thing. If you open the tins and find mold, they will be...- glpease
- Post #25
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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KC Pipe Show Pictures
Fun slide show. Brings back some great memories. KC is always a great time. That is, when I don't eat FAR too much...- glpease
- Post #5
- Forum: Pipe Events
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GL Pease - Regents Flake and Temple Bar
These will be in regular production, not limited editions. Hopefully, we've planned well for the initial demand.- glpease
- Post #7
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion