Wow! How the heck do folks in Canada afford stocking up on several pounds!! I'm amazed!!!
thnx
mike
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thnx
mike
I smoke OHM Bold regularly. Its a good tobacco for the price. A sweet tasting virginia for 12 bucks a pound... don't get hung up on packaging.. accept a good deal when you get one!
Any tobacco rolled in a cigarette is cigarette tobacco. Until that happens it's just tobacco..
Thanks very much! I appreciate your personal experience and jsut as much, for letting me/us know!!
kindly
mike
Or we grow it at home, or buy whole leaf, but mostly buy it online at Smokingpipes and hope that whoever is working at the CBSA the day it goes through customs is lazy.
Or bring some with you when you travel internationally. Up to 5 units are duty-free, and one unit is up to 200 g.
Back when you could travel, though. Right now tobacco is the least of a traveler's worries.
Back when you could travel, though. Right now tobacco is the least of a traveler's worries.
Have you tried any of the other blends from OHM?
I have never smoked this, and don't intend to. It's RYO tobacco relabeled as pipe tobacco to dodge the restrictions on the former.
I'm putting this one in the "just because you can doesn't mean you should" catagory.
That's the only one I've tried so far. I need to grab a couple of bags of OHM Turkish red. @mso489 reviewed it a while back.. I think I remember him saying it was a good smoke.
The Bold isn't the best tobacco out there by any means.. I suspect it might age well, being what it's made of.
I bought a few pounds looking to mix it with perique and some dark fired to make something like D&R Picayune... But the perique I bought (from P&C) is no good, I'm still trying to find something worth using.. before I mix up a bunch of it.
Definitely looks like RYO tobacco. Never tried it myself, so who knows, maybe it's not as bad as I'm picturing it lol.
Not all of it. Some do double duty, but some like the Rimboches were meant for pipe tobacco only.
What could they have possibly done to it that would have made it not usable as a pipe tobacco?
Most of these are pipe tobaccos that RYO folks grind down further to be able use adequately as a cigarette tobacco. For the pipe, they are ready to go. I occasionally smoke these bagged tobacco in my pipe. They aren't as unique as some of the better blenders, but they make for a good smoke.
We also have several other members who smoke this as their all day blends.
Yup, as Funk' mentioned, I like OHM Red/Turkish, a straightforward mild blend. At the price for one bag, you may be smoking in rotation for years, and if you don't like it, you can give it away. If it were sold in a tin with a more romantic name, it likely could sell for much more.
Even the most backwater gas stations here seem to have half a ton of OHM stuff on the wall. I always just kind of assumed that it was the RYO equivalent of those cheap cigarettes made from 3% real tobacco, 57% tobacco-flavored confetti, and 40% Tobacco Krispies, and that it'd probably be a bit less than optimal in a pipe because it's RYO tobacco with aspirations above its station.
That was just my first impression, though. I have no idea if it's any good or not, but it apparently seems to sell pretty well. Plus if some of the people here say it's pretty good for what it is, I'm inclined to believe them.
That was just my first impression, though. I have no idea if it's any good or not, but it apparently seems to sell pretty well. Plus if some of the people here say it's pretty good for what it is, I'm inclined to believe them.
I'll smoke OHM Red Turkish next time with a critical eye, but I don't think it is anything other than tobacco. I might be more skeptical of the menthol blends, but I wouldn't buy those anyway.