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  1. badbriar

    Favorite Navy Flake?

    What is your favorite Navy Flake or Coin blend? Tell us why. I'm losing interest in the current version of Escudo and am looking for something more exciting and stronger in strength and taste in that style.
  2. badbriar

    Re-Cut Your Cigar...

    If your cigar loads up, or you get a bit of tar at the head, try re-cutting. It's like a new cigar!
  3. badbriar

    Cut Cigar Caps with No Cracks in the Wrapper!

    Thought I'd pass along a great tip a friend taught me about 10 or 12 years back on cutting a cigar cap. This will prevent the wrapper from cracking or worse when you do the cut. This is for straight cutters and works on most tips. My buddy told me to 'circumcise' the cigar cap. My reaction...
  4. badbriar

    Creating your own Cigar Leaf blends?

    I'm experimenting with using a bit of my preferred premium cigars to add real quality cigar leaf to various pipe blends and have had good success thus far. I find that it only takes a small amount to add that unique taste. Using various brands and styles give noticeably different results. My...
  5. badbriar

    What's your Ideal Grinder?

    You know - those tough flakes or plugs. What do you use for grinding them for best results? A plastic herb / weed hand grinder? A coffee grinder? Or, is there a small electric herb grinder you care to recommend? I have a medium-large hand herb grinder that works, but needs some careful...
  6. badbriar

    Which Oxiclean To Use?

    I'm working on a few vulcanite pipe stems that have oxidized significantly and plan to use Oxiclean to help bring them back to black. Which oxiclean product is best to use for that? Thanks, RR
  7. badbriar

    GLP Must Have Blends

    What do you deem 'Must Have' GLP blends? I have a good stock in the cellar and am looking scratch the TAD itch and add a few more. We know about the usual suspects, like Quiet Nights, Abingdon, Odyssey, etc. How about others?
  8. badbriar

    Preferred Bowl Size For Burley Blends

    I'm thoroughly enjoying my adventure with Burley blends and am looking to see if there may be better ways to smoke them. So, do any of you all have preferences in bowl size for your favorite Burleys? And as an interesting side note, do you dedicate a pipe to Burleys?
  9. badbriar

    I Finally Get Burleys!

    Title edited for caps and brevity. Please read rule 9! While I've tried a few various Burley blends and find most to be nice, they haven't really wowed me enough to replace a nice Lat blend for the most part. Until now. I'm thoroughly enjoying a bowl of Pegasus and trying different paces...
  10. badbriar

    Memorial Day Remembrance

    “…this is the day we pay homage to all those who didn’t come home. This is not Veteran’s Day, it’s not a celebration, it’s a day of solemn contemplation over the cost of freedom.” (a quote from the 449th Bomb Group, 71 6, 717, 718, 719 Squadrons, 15th Air Force. WWII B-24 Heavy...
  11. badbriar

    Burley Tasting Notes

    I'm moving into Burley territory as of late and am finding some really good blends with amazing flavors. To my palate, Burleys seem to be somewhat nutty, like walnuts and occasionally have a very slight hint of something sweet like molasses - ? I also detect something akin to breadiness or...
  12. badbriar

    Tastes Just Like a Nice Latakia Forward English Blend.

    I was not sure which category this should be under, so I took a shot since in includes smoking a good English blend. I am one who enjoys spicy foods, including southwest and well smoked offerings. I ran across something that tastes just like smoking a nice, tasty Latakia blend! It is a spicy...
  13. badbriar

    Boswell Premium & Old School

    Upon opening a sample package kindly sent to me by jb, I jumped at the chance to try a new to me Burley. Started with Boswell's Premium Burley. The tobacco looks to be a shag cut and packs & takes a light quite easily. With a quick false light, soft tamp and light, the tobacco gave off volumes...
  14. badbriar

    OOOH-NOOO! Another Mail Call!

    I received this most kind sample box from a most outstanding BOTL, jbrewer2002. It started when I inquired about thoughts on Redburn. I am on the hunt to explore Burleys after purchasing an American blend with a generous portion of burley that I found to be very good. Jb blew up my mailbox...
  15. badbriar

    Favorite Morning Blend

    What's your favorite morning pipe blend to go with coffee?
  16. badbriar

    Zippo Fuel Lighter - Taste?

    This one seems t one polarizing. So, if you are using a regular lighter fluid Zippo to light your pipes, do you actually find that it imparts a taste into your pipe tobacco? Not talking about the obvious smell of the fluid - I mean an actual taste in the bowl. Personally, I find that it is...
  17. badbriar

    Small, Medium, Large Tins Or Bulk Preference

    So, which size pipe tobacco tins do you like, or do you prefer to buy & cellar bulk? Don't forget to include why for your preferences. Personally, I prefer small-medium size tins (2 - 3.5 oz) and the occasional bulk 2-4 oz. I do not care to have larger quantities jarred. What say ye all?
  18. badbriar

    Any Thoughts On C&D Redburn?

    Would anyone here mind offering their opinion on this bend? I'm picking up several Burley blends, thanks to the advice given on the forum. One I'm including at is Redburn - looking to decide whether to just get a couple of trial 2oz tins or just go with an 8oz. If it's a truly tasty blend, it...
  19. badbriar

    Most Unique Blends

    What are some of the more unique pipe blends everyone here has encountered in the past few years? With Stoved Rustica and Orientals, Turkish Latakia and other 'new' components, there have to be some interesting ones that stand out as of late. Do Tell.
  20. badbriar

    C & D Burley Blends

    As a usual English / Scottish style guy, I've been looking into burley blends as of late and at the recommendation of friends here, picked up a bit of C&D Big-n-Burley to try. In a word - Amazing! Very stout, full flavored smoke that shot into my regular rotation. After some 15 plus years of...
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