A Guide for Getting the Best from Your Pipe Smoking Experience
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If you could overcome your shyness just a wee bit, it would be greatly appreciated if you would share some of the pedestrian, arcane but useful information that you’ve accumulated over lo, these many years.
Must be…what? Fifty years? Just a guess.
Evidently, yes.So is this Cragmoor Special Grain a Barling second?
Trust me, nobody wants to hear that.
We have wonderful tobaccos today, just as we had 50 years ago. I fear that economies, like subbing out Perique with dark fired, are going to hurt that, or machine harvesting vs hand picking are going to affect this.
Dunhill blends that were made by Dunhill went through a considerable aging and fermenting process before being released and these days some blenders just want to push the stuff out as fast as possible.
I have very clear sensory memories of some of the blends that I smoked "back in the day" and some of them were amazing and some were pedestrian, same as today. But there are a few that stand out, like Ardath's State Express London Mixture with its outstanding richness and balance, the Sobranie blends, including fabulous cigarettes like Chaliapin, that aren't duplicated today. On the other hand there are blenders making wonderful blends, many not available here, that are created with as much care and passion as any made years ago.
Moving all production to Poland is an idea.
Damn right! Well known English smokers are well experienced in dipping their tobacco in tea before packing! Typically, breakfast tea.
You forgot that the first 15 years of pipe smoking sucks. It’s really impossible to actually enjoy any aspect of it till either you hit 55 years of age or 15 years of pipe experience. Even then you still have to tread the waters of mediocrity for another 10 years before you start hitting those “WOW” moments. 
I hit that at 32, does that count??
If you work hard at it.You forgot that the first 15 years of pipe smoking sucks. It’s really impossible to actually enjoy any aspect of it till either you hit 55 years of age or 15 years of pipe experience. Even then you still have to tread the waters of mediocrity for another 10 years before you start hitting those “WOW” moments.
It just is what it is. I’m not a judge, nor do I make the rules.
I’m moving my neighbor to Poland. He’s been dead for eight years now and he doesn’t seem to be improving. Maybe they can use him at the
Such undeniable wisdom, and written with the eloquence and grace that only a true pipe master of 50 years could possess.
Wait, am I required to send my dead neighbors to Poland? I’ve just been letting them pile up in the basement. I just don’t want to break any rules or anything.
Has it really only been 50 years?
Like those new-fangled stamps, it seems to have been…forever.
Is that at your 1408 Ted Bundy Lane address?Wait, am I required to send my dead neighbors to Poland? I’ve just been letting them pile up in the basement. I just don’t want to break any rules or anything.
No, you can burn them, bury them, or dump them. But keeping them in the basement draws vermin, if that’s your thing.Wait, am I required to send my dead neighbors to Poland? I’ve just been letting them pile up in the basement. I just don’t want to break any rules or anything.