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Awesome! I've always wanted top try one. I assume you ordered them from Europe? Can anyone in the US do this, or did you get someone to send them to you?
I was about to ask the exact same thing. ?
Bouchons, they are cigar-like wrapped tobaccos that you shove into a pipe and smoke. I'm guessing that these are Semoise? But, you used to be able to get them in different cigar styles leaves.
Yes, I got them from Belgium. I live in the EU now, so this was available over the internet, DHL taxed us about EUR 12 for shipping.
Like cosmic said. The story of the tobacco overall is about a bit over a century old. Some school teacher in the Ardens started planting Burley tobacco at the end of the 19th century in the muddy soil by the Semois river. Everybody laughed at him, not thinking that the crop would yield any results. The region is very wet, foggy, rainy most year round, with an almost swampy/marshy like soil, so understandably the project wasn't given any credit from the get go. The result was quite unique in taste. The Semois tobacco, especially the cigars, are an European thing. In originality they are similar to your Italian toscanos. They reached their popularity peak during the inter war period, with another rise in sales after the second world war - 50s through 70s. They are somewhat of a curiosity nowadays, more of a regional thing if you like, similar to the Krume cigars in Germany. I never had them before myself, but I will definitely keep you posted once I give them a shot. They say it is a like it or hate it experience, a strong tobacco, very rich and earthy.
Yes I'm familiar with Semois. Pretty tasty stuff if you ask me
Looks quite precarious. How do you tamp?
Furthermore, are these made specifically to be smoked in pipes?Looks quite precarious. How do you tamp?
You don't. It's not necessary.
Yeh, or I suppose someone could smoke them through their clinched fist, but they'd burn them self.
I have no idea what's going on right now...
I got a bunch of those in the backyard come get all you want
Well, here is my two pennies on it. I am definitely on the love it camp, and will attempt to get more as the budget may allow. Keeping a box of these around, instead of my regular cigars (which for me means two three sticks a month) is an ideea.
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I think you stick the other end in another pipe turned upside down, and puff both pipes simultaneously. But first you have to drop acid. Well, I guess you don't technically have to, but it's just for improved visual enjoyment.Looks quite precarious. How do you tamp?
The first thing that comes to mind is that episode in that Borgias tv show with Jeremy Irons, when he gets cigars from the new world and asks "what are they, turds?". And two scenes later Lucretia pops in and asks what on earth is he doing, as the pope was puffing a stogie in his throne, and he answers "smoking turds".
