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Reamed By UPS…
Looks like oil cured Algerian too, lucky guy.- sasquatch
- Post #18
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Dan Tobacco Salty Dogs No Taste?
It's not rocket science but it is science - if you burn with any intensity the flavor molecules literally are destroyed (unlike if you eat your burger too fast). And who is most prone to puffing a little extra hard but someone trying to get "more" flavor out of a blend? Judging from what...- sasquatch
- Post #29
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Dan Tobacco Salty Dogs No Taste?
Not at all. If someone says "Man I can't stand oysters, they are so slimy and weird." that's one thing. If someone says "Oysters have no detectable flavor." that's an entirely different claim. The claims made by some in this thread are more reminiscent of the second one. It took me...- sasquatch
- Post #27
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Dan Tobacco Salty Dogs No Taste?
Salty Dogs is awesome, it's every bit as good as Mac Baren's classic Navy Flake. I hate to be that guy but if you are getting no flavor from Salty Dogs you gotta learn to smoke a pipe. Prep it different, smoke it slower, something, cuz it's sweet and delicious if you get it right. It's not...- sasquatch
- Post #23
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Presbyterian
Pelican was great, yeah. I have nothing positive to say about Gawith right now, they are clearly using a latakia that bears little resemblance to the past versions, and it's watered down their English blends terribly. Happily I have lots of Skiff and Commonwealth from "the good old days".- sasquatch
- Post #24
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Presbyterian
RRR is delicious. Of the oriental-forward blends I've had, it's one of my favorites. King Charles from Germain was always super tasty, just a perfect mix of sweet, sour, spice, and smoke, but of course it's been super hard to get for a very long time. I smoke lots of Durbar but I think...- sasquatch
- Post #19
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Presbyterian
I suspect what I'm smoking is that sort of era, 2018ish. The tin says "made in eu" and the distributor is James Norman. I go back to the William Solomon and Sons tins, with paper in them, and I remember the blend smelling a great deal like an old sock - much more like Early Morning Pipe...- sasquatch
- Post #17
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Presbyterian
There was a short-lived Presbyterian "burley" mixture called Reformation or some such thing. But it's all for naught, Presby hasn't been right for a long time (I just opened my second last tin). It used to have a good latakia flavor, not a heavy English but the real deal. This last...- sasquatch
- Post #15
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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More about Latakia...
That's putting it very mildly.- sasquatch
- Post #50
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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More about Latakia...
Syrian and Cyprian were always different, and often combined, though, no? I mean, Syrian is this thick, woody sort of "body enhancing" stuff where the Cypriot was much sharper, brought the incense and campfire notes. Now it's looking like we're down to this Turkish stuff which is maybe kinda...- sasquatch
- Post #49
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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More about Latakia...
I dunno. I just cracked a Wessex "Gold Standard" and it tastes like proper cyprian (and I had a little Commonwealth today, from 2018, to tune my palate, make sure I'm remembering things). But the Squadron Leader sucked and the 4th Gen Batch 4 boasting "turkish latakia" was pretty ...- sasquatch
- Post #44
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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More about Latakia...
A recent bag of bulk Squadron Leader, and it just doesn't taste anything like Squadron Leader, none of the deep latakia notes from the past. It DOES taste suspiciously similar to the Fathers Friends and Fire English mix, which states "Turkish Latakia". So I'm beginning to believe we are...- sasquatch
- Post #41
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Chasing Grain
So if you go back through this thread, there's pipes that have crazy good briar used with crazy good skill, there's pipes with crazy good briar used with much less skill, and there's pipes with reasonably good briar used with crazy good skill, and pipes with reasonably good briar used with much...- sasquatch
- Post #55
- Forum: Pipes: Show Us Your (fill in the blank) Pipes
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Chasing Grain
So a "plain jane" briar block is boring, you can't pull a masterpiece of grain out of this, because it isn't "grainful". That looks like it'll make a decent pipe, it's not showing cracks or pepperspots, it's nice clean wood, but not exciting, not "high grade" wood really, save that it...- sasquatch
- Post #54
- Forum: Pipes: Show Us Your (fill in the blank) Pipes
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Chasing Grain
I might have, I'll have a look. I can find an example anyhow, there's more than a few blocks here.- sasquatch
- Post #53
- Forum: Pipes: Show Us Your (fill in the blank) Pipes
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Chasing Grain
you want to see the good side TOO? Jeez your fussy George. For reference, this is a block I've held for ten years or so, one picked out of a bag of 100 XX quality plateau. If there's a XXX it looks like this. And this one had the unusual non-volcano shaped grain, more of a fist, so a...- sasquatch
- Post #50
- Forum: Pipes: Show Us Your (fill in the blank) Pipes
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Chasing Grain
Great blocks make great pipes, you just gotta have some idea what you're doing.- sasquatch
- Post #48
- Forum: Pipes: Show Us Your (fill in the blank) Pipes
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What's The Cure for Briar -and does it Make A Difference?
Raise your hand if you've ever talked to a briar cutter or actually made a pipe with a piece of briar. Man there's a lotta weird stuff in this thread.- sasquatch
- Post #68
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Show Off Your Foursquare / Panel Billiard Pipes!
A very good question indeed. I've panelled round pipes, and I've started square and done the "rounding" at a later stage, and ... probably... probably that's a little bit easier. It's very weird though to take a block of briar, run it this way and that way, and another, and like this and NOW... -
Show Off Your Foursquare / Panel Billiard Pipes!
Yeah, and I can see if you made these with a sort of "eh that's good enough" approach, you could develop a method to make them reasonably fast (obviously certain pipe companies can do), but if you want to make them genuinely good, it's... a very expensive proposition. And maybe I'm just dumb...