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Mac Baren Changing Design & Recipes Recently?
UPDATE So! Today I managed to snatch an old pouch on my way home - at the same tiny-tiny gas-station-style shop where I bought my first pipe since arriving in Germany. The pouch is the last of the series, the others were all new. Just like the empty pouch I compared the new one with, this one...- demian_dec
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Mac Baren Changing Design & Recipes Recently?
A long story put short. Today I went to my local tobacconist to get a pouch of Amphora Full, and upon opening and closer inspection at home I can tell - not to be a conspiracy theorist! - this isn't really the tobacco I remember. The old pouches (pre-2019/2020 when I first tried it, and 2023...- demian_dec
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Did You Lose Your Taste for Aromatics Over Time?
I was quite curious about aromatics at the time I began smoking pipe seriously, as they are what I associated pipe tobacco with in my late childhood. So I tried a few (five, to be precise), but they all turned out not to be something I prefer - they were light and lacked flavour, being somewhat...- demian_dec
- Post #63
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Rooting to the Past
Just received a new pipe made by the same man who made the one I received as a gift years ago, and which I, to my greatest regret, forgot at home. A somewhat longer, straight, slightly sandblasted Dublin with a rounded rim and a notably slimmer shank with a nice band to protect the wood. Acrylic...- demian_dec
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Vauen Pipe date
Good day, as far as I know, the numbers stamped on Vauen pipes - in this case, 8234 - refer directly to the pipe itself. Meaning, it's just the numbered configuration (model) of the pipe, that is not unique to this specific product, rather stamped on each of the identical produced pipes, one of...- demian_dec
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- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Nicotine or Relaxation?
I agree with many previous comments. Although I smoked cigarettes for almost a year in the past, I do not feel the nicotine craving, and, as a result, am not looking for it in pipe smoking. Nevertheless, it would be a gross understatement to exclude it. In my free time, I like fiddling with...- demian_dec
- Post #27
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Nuking a Cold
Got it included in each meal in substantial amounts, along with raw garlic and hot pepper :)- demian_dec
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- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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Nuking a Cold
Good evening fellow pipe smokers! As I mentioned in my previous thread about flake tobacco clogging problem, I got quite sick - that being, an annoying cold. I'm armed with all kinds of pills, powders and sprays against it, and downing boiling hot ginger-lemon tea with honey. Couldn't help but...- demian_dec
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An Annoying Occurance: Flake Tobacco Clogging a Fully Bent Pipe
Thanks for the tips! I woke up with a terribly sore throat today, and still decided to pick my pipe up, after getting a steaming cup of tea ready. I stuffed a more square than rectangular piece of that pure Virginia flake with its fold facing the bottom, this time a just smudge deeper than the...- demian_dec
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- Forum: Pipe Smoking Basics & Beginner Questions
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An Annoying Occurance: Flake Tobacco Clogging a Fully Bent Pipe
Good evening fellow pipe smokers! I find myself needing a tip regarding flakes & shapes. I own a pretty, fully bent Savinelli Regimental 614, which I smoke most of the time. It just so happens that since my discovery of flake tobacco I've been smoking it (folded & stuffed) almost...- demian_dec
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Coming Back to an Old Hobby: My Story
Luckily I do! My father did a couple, as he is preparing to send me a package containing some goods from him - and the pipe. I can't wait to get my hands on it again :)- demian_dec
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Coming Back to an Old Hobby: My Story
I turn nineteen in June.- demian_dec
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Coming Back to an Old Hobby: My Story
Thanks! It's not every day I get a compliment like that - also not every day I get to write that much :) I had a wonderful English teacher from fourth to eighths grade - she plaited love for the language deep into me, and from there it was just consuming overwhelmingly English content.- demian_dec
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Coming Back to an Old Hobby: My Story
Good day fellow pipe smokers, my name is Demian. Greetings from Germany! My story of pipe smoking is a lovely one - with a few darker spots. On my fifteenth birthday, my best friend - our fathers are also best friends since school, so we got to continue the lore - gifted me his father's old...- demian_dec
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