Cigar Tobacco in Pipes?

[tolstoyevsky]

I'm a newbie with a great deal to learn.
I just tried Old Dark Fired, and it knocked me into another dimension. Then I read that burley is primarily known as a cigarette tobacco. Perhaps that's why I have an affinity for burley? Next step...
I once enjoyed cigars. Are there pipe blends featuring those lovely leaves?

 

[cachimbosergipano]

There's a brazilian producer that makes an awesome burley (as you can see here). No chemicals, just the pure leave of burley. For sure the americans from this forum can recommend you something like this.

 

[ziv]

Have you tried C&D Billy Budd? I love it.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Then I read that burley is primarily known as a cigarette tobacco.

Burley, Virginias, Orientals, and Perique are primarily grown for cigarettes while Dark Fired Kentucky is primarily grown for chewing tobacco. The pipe industry just benefits from the crops. The Warped line of pipe tobacco has a few that may interest you.

 

[NookersTheCat]

There are a few blends that use maduro cigar leaf including Purple Cow from C&D.. I believe they carry a few others as well not to mention carry chopped cigar leaf as a bulk blending tobacco.
They've also recently come out with a Toscano line that uses the same tobaccos as those cheroots... again, featuring mostly dark fired Kentucky which is gonna come closest to that strength/fermented taste you're looking for.
You can also try chopping up cigars yourself or smoking stubs/roaches in the pipe as some others do.

 

[dottlejockey]

Several cigar leaf blends out there. Check tobaccoreviews.com and search the word "cigar." In addition, C&D sells chopped cigar leaf as a blending ingredient. I have been known to keep cigar leaf from my trips to Tampa (the local cigar shops use excess leaf and scraps as a humidification device when you purchase a zip full), and from other cigar marketers who pack their products in loose leaf. I typically store it and use it later as a blending agent in home concoctions.

 

[K.E. Powell]

There are several pipe blends that use cigar leaf, and many are quite tasty! There are two I particularly enjoy.

First, is Warped King's Stride. They took cigar leaf and made it into a cavendish. The result is a very creamy smoke. Warped makes some pretty good cigars for the price, and their line of pipe tobaccos are also good.

Second, is Briar Works Country Lawyer. Such an underrated blend. It's the pipe cigar blend that tastes most like a cigar, in my opinion. Bold and heavy but with a hint of sweetness. It's good stuff.

 

[elvishrunes]

Gawith ropes might scratch the itch.

 

[Brendan]

GL Pease 'Robusto' was mentioned in another thread, I haven't tried it myself but you can't go wrong with GLP

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Samuel Gawith Brown No.4

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

I enjoy Cigars, smoke 6 to 8 per week depending upon how much golf I play. The only blend with cigar leaf added I've ever smoked, that didn't totally stuck, is C&D Seersucker. It's quite good.

 

[FLDRD]

Robert Lewis 123 mixture is cigar leaf based. I just saw that brand on sale yesterday or today at one of the typical online vendors.

 

[Pooh-Bah]

In addition to blends like Seersucker which include cigar leaf, you might also satisfy your cigar flavor-hunger with semois - which I'm pretty sure is technically Burley, but there's something in the production process or the Belgian soil that puts more cigar flavor into it.

Nowhere near a cigar expert myself, but I did once have a tobacconist smell some and he remarked on its similarity on the nose to Nicaraguan cigar leaf.