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A Sherry Evening
@Sigmund: the closest thing you will find in France are Jura vins jaunes, as both finos and manzanillas are aged under a layer of veil/voil/flor. They have notes of almonds, soft nougat, olives, sometimes herbs, sometimes orange blossom, fermenting dough... They are bone-dry and often...- Grovius
- Post #17
- Forum: Food & Drink
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Buy a 6mm or a 9mm pipe?
Hi Sigmund, Yes, I use plain recycled paper. I use a rectangle of about 6x5.5 cm, so it is quite thick. When I take it out, it usually comes out quite soggy but in one piece. Here's a picture:- Grovius
- Post #16
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Buy a 6mm or a 9mm pipe?
If the draw of the 9mm without the filter is too open for you, you can make a DIY medico filter by rolling up a small piece of paper. For some of my cobs, I fold an A4 sheet in 4 by 4 and this gives you 16 rectangles which you can roll up and insert where the filter would go. It also absorbs...- Grovius
- Post #14
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Teapots
Bore da! Regarding teapots, I haven't used any since I tried the gong-fu method. I don't even use a gaiwan: I simply put a colander like the one pictured below in a cup which is slightly larger, put 5 grams of tea leaf in, then 100 to 150 ml of water, wait the time needed for that particular...- Grovius
- Post #19
- Forum: Food & Drink
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European Pipe Tobacco: Additives or No?
Yep, as Karam says most pt will include additives. You have some brands with minimal stuff added, though: C&D's do not add casing or topping to Opening Night, Bayou Morning, Red Carpet, Sunday Picnic, Burley Flake #1-4, Haunted Bookshop, Pegasus, Oak Alley, Star of the East, Joie de Vivre...- Grovius
- Post #3
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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No Licorice or Anise Flavour
Indeed! I find anise/fennel/liquorice notes even in Cuban and Dominican cigars. In pipe tobacco, I find them in blends such as SG FVF (bright, sweet fennel), Telegraph Hill (darker) or Solani Silver Flake (funnily enough, more so than in their Aged Burley Flake, which is cased with liquorice).- Grovius
- Post #22
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Good Coffee & Good Inexpensive Machines?
My 2 eurocents: -Grinder: yep, one more vote for the Baratza Encore. You made a good choice. -Brewer: I am not too much of a fan of bialettis. My favourite non-espresso brewer is the humble aeropress. My morning cup is 13 grams coffee, 180 water and 9 minutes brewing (I follow Jonathan Gagné's...- Grovius
- Post #55
- Forum: General Discussion
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Any Electric Violinists on Here?
Does a fiddler who uses a pickup count?- Grovius
- Post #2
- Forum: General Discussion
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Filters and/or Adapters...or Not?
I use DIY paper filters in my cobs and I do notice a difference in straight Vas, VaKys and VaPers (more defined flavours), not so much in English blends. Basically, I fold a sheet of paper in 4 lengthwise and also in 4 across. This gives me 16 small rectangles which I roll and insert into the...- Grovius
- Post #58
- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Kopp to Handle "Worldwide Distribution" of HU Tobaccos
“Only s/he who changes stays true to theirself In order to make what we keep even better, the whole organization of HU Tobacco will change on 1/1/2024. I will focus on the development of tobacco mixtures and I gain KOPP Tobaccos as a strong partner for the worldwide distribution. This...- Grovius
- Post #16
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Cob cleansing?
I tried the hot water rinse and it is not a good idea: it makes some of the plaster on the outside of the cob erode off. Just a pinch of sand-like grains, but I think if you do it repeatedly the damage will start to become noticeable.- Grovius
- Post #8
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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Hal o'the Wynd casing
Yep, apparently they add 41 grams of sugar per kilo, and 6.57 grams of "flavour": Navigationspunkt Tabakzusatzstoffe-Datenbank - https://service.bmel.de/tabakerzeugnisse/index2.php?detail_id=104650&ssk=dd246d17bb&site_key=153&stichw_suche=wynd&zeilenzahl_zaehler=1 It is a great blend, but I wish...- Grovius
- Post #14
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Hal o'the Wynd casing
I still think it is a smashing tobacco and you will not regret buying it, but, as always, it would be nice to know.- Grovius
- Post #3
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Hal o'the Wynd casing
Hi all! Last month I opened my first tin of HOTW and this goes straight into my rotation (even though it is a very fresh tin, with a whiff of ammonia when I changed it into a jar and every now and then during the smoke). Anyway, my question has to do with the casing it may have. Both in the...- Grovius
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Evening Pipes and Sleep
Know thyself! Personally, it has no effect in my sleep, although I have rarely smoked right before going to bed. But it is the same with nic-hits: pipe blends which according to some smokers here pack a wallop do not hit me so much, whereas many (even mid-strength) cigars will have me in cold...- Grovius
- Post #26
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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They Missed Out Bananas, Mushrooms & Baked Beans.
I remember an infomercial on Talisker and, due to a poor translation, the tasting notes included "oyster liqueur". Now, if there's any entrepreneur looking for ideas in the room...- Grovius
- Post #10
- Forum: General Discussion
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Beginner Perspective of Peterson's Nightcap
I keep two English blends open at any given time, and one of them is always Nightcap. Right now, the other is Pease's Quiet Nights, and they have lots in common but also different nuances (to me QN has more cardamom/lime peel and more creaminess, while the herbiness of NC is more sort of...- Grovius
- Post #36
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Reviews
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Mason Jars, End All Be All?
I use jars, both for my pipe tobacco and for my cigars. To be honest, over half of the year my humidity sits at about 70%, so I guess I can afford not to be too picky on the storage methods.- Grovius
- Post #25
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Why Didn't You Smoke Pipes Earlier?
I started last year. I have been enjoying cigars for years, but i used to think that pipes were too expensive and fussy to clean and maintain. Then I heared about Missouri Meerschaum, decided to give it a go and found out that Nightcap is difficult to beat. -
Ghosting, Again...
I would definitely keep a separate pipe for anything with latakia in it. I also keep one exclusively for burley (I find it tends to take on quite a bit of the flavour of the previous incumbent for at least 4 bowls or so).- Grovius
- Post #10
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion