I mixed up everything with anything. Your format seems smarter in retaining some actual insight from the smoking. I just wanted to try everything out ?
Almost every time I smoke. Although I usually burn down one, then the other and don’t alternate. And aros only make it in the mix every so often, maybe 1/5 smokes.
Of at least a different ending!I thought this thread was going to have a different theme
Not really, just have a ton of new to me blends around, and I only get a chance to smoke about once a week so I usually do two or three blends each time to get through stuff faster, in case I need to find more of it before the tobaccopocalypse.Any particular purpose, as far as what you choose to pair, if not alternating aros in?
This is what you need, You can dial back and forth between 2 bowls or smoke both simultaneously
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My evening smoke is always 2 pipes. Sometimes packed with different blends, sometimes with the same.
I do something similar where I'll have three or four different pipes going with different blends. Typically a Balkan, a straight VA, a burley, and sometimes a perique. It's just something that developed overtime as a method to prevent palatte fatigue. Although I don't alternate puffs between pipes, I change pipes whenever my mouth feels the need for a contrast. It defines the flavors between blends very clearly and makes it easier to continue smoking through an entire day/evening without my tongue losing sensitivity. It also means there are a lot of half finished pipes laying on my desk and sometimes I forget what they're packed with. It becomes a game of "guess the mystery smoke"
I have toyed with smoking two pipes simultaneously just to see what happens, but found it too hard to draw consistently from both pipes at once.
He's posted in the last week, so I thing we still "have" him.We had a member, Hawky (I believe) that used to advocate for smoking two pipes to get the subtly differences between blends or between how blend tastes in different pipes. I've done it with aged and fresh of the same blend, many a time.