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  1. AKinser79

    Who Smokes With Their Eyes Closed?

    I have to admit I've smoked with my eyes open, my eyes closed and have fallen asleep with my pipe clenched in my mouth too. The first one is obvious. The second I often listen to music while smoking. So if I'm in my "good chair" playing whatever (My tastes range from 1920s jazz to modern...
  2. AKinser79

    How do Others View your Pipe Smoking?

    I'm actually surprised I've not responded to this thread. I've considered how my pipe smoking is viewed by others. Strangers, they are strangers, I really don't care what they think. Though I've run into a few pipe smokers in the wild recently--while taking out the trash and puffing my cob...
  3. AKinser79

    Latakia Reversal?

    Would you be saying that even though many (myself included) would consider McDonald's essentially inedible they have managed to arrange the sugar, salt and fat content of their products to specifically trigger endorphin release? If so I could believe that. For the record McDonald's only has...
  4. AKinser79

    Latakia Reversal?

    I would agree with this mostly. I like myself some VA and VA/Per blends, I like myself some burley blends too (most American Codgers seem to be burley forward). Both require good smoking technique. Burley being less cadence dependent than VAs in my experience. But as I was pointing out...
  5. AKinser79

    Latakia Reversal?

    It is interesting you bring this up. I happen to enjoy Balkan blends best with a cup of Lapsang Sauchong. Teh Wikis
  6. AKinser79

    Latakia Reversal?

    A less wordy way of where I was going my last post.
  7. AKinser79

    Latakia Reversal?

    I would say that subjective taste is paramount when it comes to pipe smoking in particular, and most things in general. While reality is objective it is experienced subjectively. I cannot speak for art, however, I did take a few courses in art history. One demonstration that stuck with me to...
  8. AKinser79

    Pipe Tobacco Genres and Phases

    I too am a bit of a pinball pipe smoker. While @mso489 may have a home base in burley's mine seems more English/Balkan oriented. While I usually don't start my day with latakia, I almost always have at least one bowl of a latakia forward blend a day. I find I like them most at night...
  9. AKinser79

    Latakia Reversal?

    I'm unsure if that is the implication of the thread or not. If it is, I would argue that those who claim this to be the case are absolutely, 110% wrong. The pinnacle of pipe smoking is smoking a loved blend, in a loved pipe, with a suited technique. Since blend, pipe and technique are all...
  10. AKinser79

    Latakia Reversal?

    Way back in the 1990s when I started smoking I smoked only aromatics. From PA Cherry Vanilla to LQ1 to you name it. Basically if it smelled like fruit, dessert or booze I wanted it. Then I was introduced to Balkan Solbranie and I fell in love with latakia. Over the years I've dialed the...
  11. AKinser79

    Slimming Down -- Culling the Collection

    Oh I have briars, quite a few of them actually. I just find myself smoking cobs more, both because I like them and because I'm not taking my "good pipes" to work. A lot of the blends I like, I also like smoking out of a cob the most too. That being said there are some blends that I think...
  12. AKinser79

    Amphora Virginia Blend

    For 8USD it isn't badly priced and the tobacco is quality. I'm going to jar what I have now (the open pouch and the one that came with the sampler today) for a few months. When I review I tend to review fresh rather than cellared tobaccos as I feel that the aging process does change them...
  13. AKinser79

    Amphora Virginia Blend

    Thank you. I plan on reviewing all of them eventually.
  14. AKinser79

    Amphora Burley Blend

    Since I've reviewed their English Blend and their Virginia Blend, it is now time to turn our attention to Amphora Burley Blend. Like the English and the Virginia blends I picked these up at my local tobacconist though I have since found much more reasonably priced online options. According to...
  15. AKinser79

    Amphora Virginia Blend

    I'll definitely have to jar it now.
  16. AKinser79

    Amphora Virginia Blend

    I've smoked blends before that were just Virginia and gotten plenty of complex flavors out of them ranging from nutty to grassy and almost all of them have an underlying sweetness (VAs have a lot of sugar in the leaf in comparison to other tobaccos though I'm unsure if this is cultivar related...
  17. AKinser79

    Amphora English Blend

    Update: I have smoked this around a human in an enclosed space (my own living room) and asked them about the room note. They found it tolerable, and I know she (my mother) doesn't care much for latakia. It should be noted that my mother is a never smoker, and if I were to go to her house I...
  18. AKinser79

    Amphora Virginia Blend

    Don't get me wrong. It is a very fine tobacco and the price can't be beat (almost 8 USD for 50g is down right cheap for a good pipe tobacco). Maybe plain is the wrong word. I can't think of a good one really to describe how I feel about this tobacco. I get a cool smoking, nutty-sweetness...
  19. AKinser79

    Amphora Virginia Blend

    Well I'm back at it again. Having reviewed Amphora English Blend, which after some drying has become a pretty common smoke for me, I'm going back to the Amphora well. Like the English Blend I picked it up on an impulse at my local B&M though I can get a better price online. Cut is supposedly...
  20. AKinser79

    Coming Out of the Piper Closet!

    I don't understand the need here to "come out of the closet" on the matter of pipe smoking in particular or smoking in general. It seems to me to be a personal matter. That said, I live in the US and in the US South where smoking in particular isn't considered to be quite taboo. In the state...
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