My impression of Cornell & Diehl: Visions of Celephaïs

[Chasing Embers]

THE GRAPENING: GRAPECIDAL TENDENCIES

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Now I dare you to look up "The Grapist" on YouTube.?

 

[mtwaller]

@chasingembers why do I get the distinct feeling that’s a rabbit hole I’ll regret going down?

 

[Chasing Embers]

@chasingembers why do I get the distinct feeling that’s a rabbit hole I’ll regret going down?

Depends on your sense of humor. Mine's bent and I found it hilarious.

 

[mtwaller]

@chasingembers it is actually pretty damn funny. “I’m gonna tie you to the radiator!” ?

Boring actual pipe related side note: not sure what to think of the Cap’n. Don’t hate it, don’t love it. Will have to get graped a few more times to know for sure.

I do know that I don’t feel quite satiated this evening, so I’m going to crack a fresh tin of Visions and throw caution to the wind and smoke a bowl in one of my Dark Fired pipes. Here goes nothing.

 

[Spinkle]

THE GRAPENING: GRAPECIDAL TENDENCIES

Forget the haters!

 

[mtwaller]

I can now assert with some clarity that smoking a bowl of Visions 15 minutes after my first bowl of Captain Black Grape was a colossal mistake. CBG is such a strange, powdery drug store candy grape bomb that my taste buds are completely eviscerated. What nuance there exists in Visions is, as of yet, completely unknown to me. Better luck tomorrow, perhaps.

 

[Chasing Embers]

@chasingembers it is actually pretty damn funny. “I’m gonna tie you to the radiator!”

You're welcome.

 

[Chasing Embers]

CBG is such a strange, powdery drug store candy grape

My take was grape Nehi.

 

[mtwaller]

@chasingembers I’ve never had it, but many others have said the same. Must be an apt comparison. I told myself an hour ago that I was swearing off the purple stuff. Now I’m sitting here, at midnight, lighting up another cob full of grape candy. Dear god.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Now I’m sitting here, at midnight, lighting up another cob full of grape candy. Dear god.

Could be worse. You could be trying to get Kane's Lamb Cake Slices lit.

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[mtwaller]

 

[Chasing Embers]

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Look at the month and day of pipestud's review.?

 

[mtwaller]

Brilliant. That’s why I love this forum. You guys make pipe smoking fun. Well, pipe smoking is already fun. But fine folks like @chasingembers make discussing it fun.

 

[rdoss16]

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Showing 95 in stock at SPC.

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believe they restocked on the 4th. they were out when i checked. but went on and picked myself up a tin today!

 

[Stickmaker1958]

need to get my hands on some of this but its sold out everywhere!

Try smoking pipes.com I just received 2 tins Tuesday ordered the week before. Good luck
First thing I said when I opened the tin was smelled like grape bubble gum from when I was a kid. I’ll have to try CB grape.

 

[kingjon]

Just received a tin, cracked it open and tried a bowl in a MM country gent. Capt. Bob’s blend it’s not. Very flavorful.
Jon

 

[rdoss16]

smoke my first bowl last night. the initial hit of grape was pretty strong and turned me off for a while. However once i got deeper in the bowl and the grape mellows and you understand what this blend is meant to be, it turned out to be decent. def not an everyday smoker and wont be buying another tin, but a decent dessert/sweet treat blend.

 

[Casual]

Well, they got me. I liked Dreams Of Kadath, so why not take a chance? Here’s my JimInks style review:

The grapey, grapity, grapeness of the grape topping takes the lead. The other components are tamed either by the topping, or by my rage at the tin describing the Koolaid flavouring as “tawny.”

In the second half of the bowl, the cigar leaf becomes more prominent, creating an impression similar to a half drank cup of purple Jesus with a cigar butt in it, left on the coffee table at a frat party.

Takes an average number of relights and leaves little moisture in the bowl. Not quite an all day smoke.

I‘m new to this, so my snark is probably premature. But I’ve tried almost 40 blends and this is the first one to get such a visceral reaction.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

I smelled some over the weekend.
Dimetapp.
It smells 100% like Dimetapp.

My favorite cold remedy as a child.

 

[Stickmaker1958]

Well, they got me. I liked Dreams Of Kadath, so why not take a chance? Here’s my JimInks style review:



I‘m new to this, so my snark is probably premature. But I’ve tried almost 40 blends and this is the first one to get such a visceral reaction.

Should have known better when the description included red wine in the flavor profile.....
pipe tobacco is like a crap shoot.....it may smell good in jar but I the pipe not so much.
happy smokies