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October Tobacco Crawl with Greg L. Pease
Why JKP for the crawl, and why did I choose it to be the second blend in the series? After Sixpence, I wanted to choose something that was very different, but had some similar constituent tobaccos. These two share the virginias and the dark-fired leaf, but approach them from almost opposite...- glpease
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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October Tobacco Crawl with Greg L. Pease
Wow. I'm truly touched by that. It's one of the nicest things anyone could say. Thank you. You made an already great day even better.- glpease
- Post #154
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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October Tobacco Crawl with Greg L. Pease
It's JackKnife Friday already? I'll start with responses the questions that have been put out so far. Really, I just wanted to make a plug, to explore a style of tobacco that I'd never done, and had always been curious about. I guess it was inspired by a few people asking if I was ever going to...- glpease
- Post #150
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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October Tobacco Crawl with Greg L. Pease
It's a very strange and twisty tale, actually. I kind of touched on it ^ up there, though I didn't mention the inspiration, and I'm still not gonna, onaccounta things went so pear shaped along the way, and I'm still intending to get closer to the original intent at some point. ;) Since I spend...- glpease
- Post #137
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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What defines the "Navy Flake"?
This question also came up in the October crawl thread. Here's my take on the story.- glpease
- Post #16
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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October Tobacco Crawl with Greg L. Pease
Great question! The blend would be very different without the addition of the topping. The aroma wouldn't be the same, and even more importantly, the taste wouldn't be the same. Even at a very light application rate, there's a synergistic thing going on between the natural tobacco flavors and...- glpease
- Post #131
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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October Tobacco Crawl with Greg L. Pease
Yeah, um, well… Ask a simple question and… {soapbox} For every rule that some will subscribe to, there's another opposite rule that attracts its own following. Briar is such a mysterious thing, in my experience; two nearly identical pipes can have such remarkably different characteristics that...- glpease
- Post #127
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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The Satanic Pipe Smoker
I can assure that C&D certainly do buy from him. As for I read about this stuff often, yet have been unable to actually find any to purchase… I've had the privilege and pleasure of tasting examples of estate produced perique from different farms. Just as with wine grapes, the terroir, that...- glpease
- Post #14
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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The Satanic Pipe Smoker
There's much more to the backstory. The notion of perique soaked in rum intrigued me sufficiently when I'd read about it that I had to give it a go. Dreadful is the best word to describe the experience. Frightening is another. It was powerful and sinister in its effects on my well being… Perhaps...- glpease
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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October Tobacco Crawl with Greg L. Pease
After I'd finished the label design, and as I was getting set to write the copy, I filled a bowl and let it speak to me. Those were the images that came into my head as I was contemplating the smoke. The silver coin, of course, is a sixpence, minted in silver through 1947, and in olden days...- glpease
- Post #116
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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October Tobacco Crawl with Greg L. Pease
Actually, it's anise - a very traditional tobacco addition that was used in many of the old English VAs for added sweetness and aroma. The fruit/berry aromas come from the tobaccos themselves.- glpease
- Post #86
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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October Tobacco Crawl with Greg L. Pease
So, to get things rolling, I just lit a bowl of Sixpence in a lovely old GBD Sablée lovat, and figured I'd say a few words about the first blend I chose for this crawl sequence. (And, yes, there is something of a method to the madness behind the choices and the order, but more on that as we get...- glpease
- Post #83
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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October Tobacco Crawl with Greg L. Pease
The term seems to have morphed somewhat over the years, and there's no way of pinning down its original etymology. The tale that seems to best indicate the its genesis is that mariners would make twists of tobacco leaves, storing them in emptied rum casks in order to evade usurious tobacco...- glpease
- Post #75
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Hope for Future Syrian Latakia?
Precisely so, not to mention the microflora involved in the fermentation. Even if nearly identical terroir could be cultivated, the woods and shrubs necessary for the fumigation would be problematic, not to mention whatever regulations are in place elsewhere that might present difficulties in...- glpease
- Post #11
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Gaslight - and a question about letting it breathe
I'm 100% in agreement with this, and it makes sense. Gaslight was designed as a cool weather smoke. It's been so damn hot lately that the very IDEA of it sends me running. ;) As for airing, drying, and so on, it's largely going to be a personal thing. Just as with a fine wine, giving it some...- glpease
- Post #16
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Best Ways To Rehydrate Tobacco?
Keep in mind that tobacco takes several hours to a day or two to fully reach equilibrium with any added moisture, and there's very little difference in water content between dry and too wet, so the best methods are those that allow a slow, relatively controlled hydration to occur. My method of...- glpease
- Post #19
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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New GL Pease tobacco forthcoming: Virginia Cream
So, the labels are at the printer's, and production is being scheduled. I'm pretty excited about this one. It's so different for me, but I've been loving every bowl of the prototype… Film at eleven.- glpease
- Post #39
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Tobacco Aging Acceleration Devices
First: Wine is an even more complicated mess-o-chemicals and long- and short-term reactions than tobacco is. Bottle aging of wine is a many-faceted process that cannot be accelerated by sticking a bottle in some sort of ultrasonic generator, surrounding it by rare earth magnets, or sticking it...- glpease
- Post #36
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October Tobacco Crawl with Greg L. Pease
So, finally, I've made it through security and am checking in at the gate. I just received my four tins for this adventure so I'll be smoking right along with you guys. I anticipate this will be a lot fun for me, and I hope it is for everyone else participating. I'm looking forward to reading...- glpease
- Post #43
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Best Syria Latakia Options
[Paraphrased somewhat from something I posted elsewhere.] As I've said before, the stores of Syrian, when used up, are probably gone forever. The Syrians have not produced any in well over a decade, going on two. A lot of blends claiming to contain it do so suspiciously, at least to my nose. The...- glpease
- Post #41
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion