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    Immediate Favorites That Later ... Aren't.

    I was thinking the same thing until I went back to a few favorites I had been carefully rationing out and found their magic was gone. It gutted me knowing that I could have been smoking it all along and wouldn't have been any worse for the gluttony. Hell, probably would have had more great...
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    Immediate Favorites That Later ... Aren't.

    Oh yeah, this happens all the time in various ways. Something tastes amazing and three months later it's dead, or it sucks now and later it's fantastic. It can change with the moisture level, the bowl I smoke it in, the amount of time I've been away from it, etc. I think it's just a part of pipe...
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    Latest Estate Pipes Batch - Restored

    Nice work! How are you getting that luster with the polish? I have been using a mixture of carnauba wax and mineral oil that's intended for treating wooden cutting blocks. I've tried hand buffing with a polishing cloth and using a 1" loose-fiber buffing wheel on a dremel. Neither one gets that...
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    TAD Acquisitions 2025

    Finally got the chance to visit Kremer's in Louisville, a 110-year-old pipe shop that's been on my list for a while. It didn't disappoint! Grabbed some goods. Evening Rise was recommended by a friend with broad tastes who said he can't quite describe it. That has my interest piqued. Hal O'...
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    I Made It To L.J. Peretti

    A visit to Peretti's is on my piping bucket list. Sounds awesome! I love how they have the Peretti stamp on the shank ring...makes for a perfect souvenir. I've only had Tashkent, but it was a very solid blend. Looking forward to trying more from them in the future. How is the Thanksgiving blend?
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    That Lovin' Feeling...for Manure!

    Thanks to all for the replies. The post was meant to be funny but I do actually like that funkiness BN had. I thought I'd heard somewhere that perique interactions can create some funk, so it's interesting that some have mentioned it here. I don't get any flavor at all when smoking perique...
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    That Lovin' Feeling...for Manure!

    Do you have any you want to get rid of?
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    That Lovin' Feeling...for Manure!

    Thank you kindly. I'm compiling a list from the responses here.
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    That Lovin' Feeling...for Manure!

    Okay, this is going to sound crazy but here goes: Last year I tried C&D's Bayou Night and loved the stuff. In particular, it had a funky, distinctly manure-like tone to it that reminded me of driving through country backroads as a teenager. Delicious. A strange thing to enjoy, admittedly...
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    Enlighten me on C&D and GLP

    In my experience, they are truly good products. A lot of it boils down to personal taste, but even the blends I haven't liked are clearly made with quality tobacco. Over time this distinction has become clearer for me...it's possible to have a "quality-tasting" tobacco that isn't mixed well...
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    Enlighten me on C&D and GLP

    Well, I for one don't have any trouble understanding OP's question at all. C&D are super popular and much discussed, but you don't see many of their standard blends holding the same rabid, lustful fan base that you see for something like Esoterica or 1792 Flake, for example. (Haunted Bookshop...
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    TAD Acquisitions 2025

    I would agree with this. It's very smooth and "creamy." A little cocoa, a little sweet in a natural way, the same way Virginia is naturally sweet. It's rich in burley flavor but in more of a grassy plant-like way than an earthy way. When I'm looking for straight burley that smokes and feels like...
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    Any Recommendations on DFK?

    Your older posts suggest you're in my neck of the woods (I'm in Daviess County). I almost drove to Hopkinsville last year to hunt down a dark-fired farmer...it's a worthy venture, huh?
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    Any Recommendations on DFK?

    Thank you all for your prompt responses. A while back someone gave me several samples of Sam Gawith and Gawith/Hogarth blends. Every one of them seems absolutely coated in this waxy stuff that I just don't understand. Impossible to light or keep lit unless you break it down to shake and dry...
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    Any Recommendations on DFK?

    I spent all of last year carefully choosing blends for a deep cellar to be built this year. Now with the STG news, some of those top candidates are --POOF!-- gone. I've got replacements figured out for every "itch" to scratch, except one: Dark Fired Kentucky. This one was a wild one for me...
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    Pipe Clubs in the N.KY/Cincinnati Area?

    I'm in Western Kentucky, nearly two hours away from you. Unfortunately no clubs anywhere near here. The two closest B&M's are each an hour away and they seem to have some regular pipe customers but I don't know of any around me. It's strange, considering 80% or so of the DFK in the world is...
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    Are we Really Losing That Much With the Closures of Mac Baren and Sutliff?

    You are the most honorable man here. May you never be affected by the Tobaccopocalypse.
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    Coloring Progress Over Time/No of Bowls in one Meerschaum Pipe

    That pipe is beautiful, sir.
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    Meerschaum Dilutes Flavor?

    Thanks for the help, guys. Good to hear some experienced opinions. My working theory here is that the chamber walls continue to absorb flavor-holding oils until the oils have created a seal of sorts in the chamber. From then on, new oils are stopped by the established seal and get carried down...
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    Meerschaum Dilutes Flavor?

    Got a question for you guys about meerschaum's effect on the taste of tobacco. It's often said that a meer allows for a much cleaner or "pure" tasting smoke than briar. But do any of you find that it makes the baccy taste diluted, or weaker than a briar pipe does? I'm breaking in my first...
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