I believe that whatever you believe makes a difference to your pipe smoking pleasure.
Tame the briar
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I most definitely have a few pipes that smoke certain blends better than any other pipe I own. I also have pipes that smoke most blends as good as any other pipe. I'd say it depends on the pipe, the tobacco, and most importantly the pipe smoker. You won't know the answer till you experiment with a lot of pipes and blends.
Some pipes smoke Virginia's just fine while others smoke latakia just fine. Due to the ghosting effect of latakia it is best to keep them segregated.
And if you're also into aromatics you will definitely want to keep them away from your Virginia and latakia pipes
And if you're also into aromatics you will definitely want to keep them away from your Virginia and latakia pipes
Maybe it is like Harry Potter, the pipe chooses the smoker and the blend!?
For almost childish reasons I smoke Latakia blends in sandblasted pipes stained black or very dark brown. For one thing, I only have a few pipes with that finish and, for another, it's easy to remember which are Lat pipes.
It never ceases to amaze me how people can spend years on this forum, and yet flippantly disregard such a complex question. There is the taste that the briar brings, the bowl size and shape and proportions, length of the stem, bowl coatings or lack of, stem material, draft size and proportions, and color. So many damned variables.
Of course some blends taste better in some pipes than others. But, we are also dealing with a forum where one day, Eight State Burley is so unique, nothing else like it, and the next day, what does it matter because it is silly to taste things in the smoke. Reviewers are full of shit. One day, the pipe is essential, and the next day, the same people say that the pipe doesn't matter. We are a forum full of schizophrenics that can't stick to a mantra for more than a few minutes.
Now, the pipe dynamics and qualities that you decide makes a specific pipe more of a Virginia pipe, may not be the same as how another choses to use the pipe. This subjectivism makes the concept more complex and hard to discuss. Quality itself is a construct of man, a means of adding value and structure to a chaotic universe, it serves no real purpose, it's endless and infinite, unfathomable and subjective. And, in this search for quality, the only dogmatic destination is madness. However, it is fun and adds value by mulling over the qualities, but when we start pinning down "quality" and sharing your discovery with others, we realize that the world doesn't fit our own way of thinking... then we start wondering whether we are mad, or is the world insane. I vote for both. We are all mad here. We taste the indescribable, and describe the unfathomable. And, we have members here that actually think that a cover band should be judged by how close they sound to the original bands that they cover. Fuckin' nutters here.
Of course some blends taste better in some pipes than others. But, we are also dealing with a forum where one day, Eight State Burley is so unique, nothing else like it, and the next day, what does it matter because it is silly to taste things in the smoke. Reviewers are full of shit. One day, the pipe is essential, and the next day, the same people say that the pipe doesn't matter. We are a forum full of schizophrenics that can't stick to a mantra for more than a few minutes.
Now, the pipe dynamics and qualities that you decide makes a specific pipe more of a Virginia pipe, may not be the same as how another choses to use the pipe. This subjectivism makes the concept more complex and hard to discuss. Quality itself is a construct of man, a means of adding value and structure to a chaotic universe, it serves no real purpose, it's endless and infinite, unfathomable and subjective. And, in this search for quality, the only dogmatic destination is madness. However, it is fun and adds value by mulling over the qualities, but when we start pinning down "quality" and sharing your discovery with others, we realize that the world doesn't fit our own way of thinking... then we start wondering whether we are mad, or is the world insane. I vote for both. We are all mad here. We taste the indescribable, and describe the unfathomable. And, we have members here that actually think that a cover band should be judged by how close they sound to the original bands that they cover. Fuckin' nutters here.
They are ALL Burley pipes but you can smoke other genres in them ?
I'd engage in this rumination, but it makes my head hurt.
HAHAHAHAHA. I think I almost choked on my coffee