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    Having a drink with your smoke?

    Tea is a good one. Especially if you're having a lunch smoke. Mint, or some other variety.
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    Cigar Shops and Pipe Smokers

    I'll usually buy a tin of tobacco at Iwan Ries if I'm going to smoke in their lounge. Never felt right to me to walk in with my own stash and use their space to have a bowl.
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    Just ordered this beauty!

    I'd never heard of him but glad to hear. I'd been hunting for this genre in Jake Hackert, but I don't see him making many new ones.
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    Just ordered this beauty!

    Thank you - its probably my favorite type of pipe. Short nose warmer poker/billiard with deep bowl. Much easier to manage and no jaw fatigue. Can keep your hands in your pockets a lot more for a winter smoke.
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    Just ordered this beauty!

    Photos and blurb below. Always wanted one of these large bowl briar nose warmers. Love that the smoke stays so close to your nose, and just adore the look. Haven't heard of the maker before, but the briar looks high quality. David Huber: Sandblasted Nosewarmer Billiard David Huber...
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    I've been away a while - help me catch up!

    My take is in the early mid 2010's they had lots of blends but the tobacco itself seem unaged and lacked complexity. Lots of their stuff seemed to be packed with the same tasteless low grade stuff, usually heavy burley that had a huge nic hit but nothing else. Kinda like packing your pipe with...
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    I've been away a while - help me catch up!

    I learned that too. I finally did secure two full bowls of well preserved 759, as well as some other grail blends. All in all, they didn't live up to the hype.
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    I've been away a while - help me catch up!

    THANK YOU! This is mostly bad news, though. Sad to hear most of these update. C&D were a joke when I tapped out which must have been around 2015-2016. They made loads of similar blends which mostly had unaged tobacco within, and were harsh and stingy to most palates. Thought of as a budget...
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    I've been away a while - help me catch up!

    Great to hear on university flake. I remember it getting panned back in the day for tasting artificial. I enjoyed it. Reminds me of a more refined Canadian Plug from IR.
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    I've been away a while - help me catch up!

    2 sealed 8oz bags of penzance and stonehaven too, and a ton of various others in the stash. Have about 50lbs of jarred ones to get through first. Most of them I got about 10 years ago and forgot about until recently.
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    I've been away a while - help me catch up!

    HAHA. Awesome. Seems I should offload my stash. I have multiple unopened tins of McClelland Navy Cavendish, Dark Star, British Woods and Frogmorton. Most from the 2010 to 2014 era. Seems these need to be swapped for Granger, Borkum Riff and Prince Albert.
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    I've been away a while - help me catch up!

    Thanks. Bizarre!
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    I've been away a while - help me catch up!

    talk me through that if you have a minute, would you? It got mentioned earlier. I tried to buy some scotty's butternut and they ship you the ingredients to self mix. What the......... I'd no idea there were new regs
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    Hello from Chicago!

    My alma mater!
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    I've been away a while - help me catch up!

    They were king of the hill not long ago. I am still a huge fan of BlackHouse, Magnum Opus, Old Tartan and a coupla others. Russ was reaching celebrity status at the time. Sad to hear they've dropped off.
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    I've been away a while - help me catch up!

    Good to know - yeah I tried 3P at the time and it was plug only. I enjoy the hobby but the process of getting a knife out and hacking it wasn't that appealing. Think I had an unopened tin of it in my stash. Irish Flake for me is a perfect smoke for when you've just demolished a huge steak with...
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    I've been away a while - help me catch up!

    I was never blown away by their blends anyway - their pipes are magnificent if pricey but most of their blends were just OK in my view.
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    I've been away a while - help me catch up!

    How I've missed pipe talk! B&M, lat bomb, PG fest. etc. Bliss.
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    Hello from Rain-Soaked South Florida

    Same - most are into Davidoff cigars and my sermon on what $35 of tobacco would get you instead has never picked up.
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    I've been away a while - help me catch up!

    Also yeah, count me out of chasing the rare soaking wet British manufacturers. Germain, Gawith, Eso etc. Nice stuff but not worth hunting.
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