I would say 90% of my pipes are dedicated to English/Balkan blends. I rarely smoke Aros, but when I do, it is in a Cob.
They're quite similar to my palate and wouldn't effect each other in the same pipe.A follow up question:
Would you dedicate the same pipe to English and Balkans that contain Latakia, or would you use two separate pipes for them?
It really depends on how sensitive your senses of smell and taste are.I see that some of you here restrict your pipes to smoking similar blends in each - a pipe for Virginias, or English, or Aromatics, without mixing them. I also read here that some blends can “ghost” a pipe, which I presume means that blend’s taste will haunt the pipe on later smokes.
So, is it possible to take a pipe you’ve dedicated to VA for example and repurpose it for English? Does a thorough cleaning do the trick, or is there just something about the blends that stay with the pipe?
Same pipe.A follow up question:
Would you dedicate the same pipe to English and Balkans that contain Latakia, or would you use two separate pipes for them?
Right at around two years here as well and this thread had me thinking again about whether I need to be more intentional about blends and particular pipes. I have two that are very specific as to what they get (Wilke No. 515, for obvious reasons given the pipes), one that is now specific to two similar Christmas aros, two or three that get the occasional Latakia influenced or Lakeland (I have a thing for Grousemoor, lol) and I do keep those types to certain pipes. I've been somewhat interchangeable with straight Va and Va based aros in general and I don't smoke one tobacco in one pipe several times a day or for several days straight and I clean them up after every use so I don't think I'm susceptible to much ghosting, but that's why I'm reading up.I think its up to personal preference.
I have a few "tasting" pipes which are blendtype (Latakia heavy English, more Oriental forward English, VA, VaPer, Burley, blends containing DFK and aromatics) specific. After almost 2 years of pipe smoking i'm still exploring so my tasting pipes gets used the most, The VA pipe I use for tasting will be a dedicated VA pipe, I have smoked several different VA's in it and I don't sense anything from the previous VA if they are even different.
In the end it works for me the best to have a bunch (10ish) of blends I like and a commissioned pipe for each of them. I could get away with just having 1 or 2 blend type pipes per blend type I smoke, but I also like the process of commissioning a pipe, so that's more of a "want" than a "need".