The Right Pipe for the Right Tobacco

[Bwana Kiko]

Sometimes I have a tobacco I love in a pipe that doesn’t love that tobacco. Now some tobaccos seem to be “all purpose” and so do some pipes. But I’ve realized that sometimes it requires pairing the right pipe to really get the full enjoyment from a tobacco.

That may explain some tobacco reviews of great tobaccos that someone couldn’t get into…

So here’s my submission:

Gawith Hoggarth, Kendal Flake is best enjoyed in corncob. Hands down.

Anyone else for a perfect pairing?

 

[HRPufnstuf]

Off topic here, but handsome cob. Can a guy say that?

 

[Bwana Kiko]

Thanks, it's the MM "Let Freedom Ring Rob Roy" and I find that the unfinished/untrimmed exterior really allow moisture to move. Definitely my favorite cob.

 

[Chasing Embers]

That may explain some tobacco reviews of great tobaccos that someone couldn’t get into…

Or it could just be individual difference of taste. Blends taste the same to me in whichever pipes I choose to smoke them in unless I'm smoking them in a pipe ghosted by another blend.

 

[vosBghos]

For some reason Old Dark Fired really sings in a cob for me unlike Briar and I prefer Presbyterian and straight oriental in a small-diameter bowl rather than a large one. While Lat Bombs and complex VaBurPer, I like a large-diameter Bowl. I don't think it's all in my head but could easily be. I've been dedicating pipes to their genre and lately individual blends and there is definitely something to be said for that. As always YMMV.

 

[proteus]

I've found cobs do a great job with aro and burleys and some straight VA. Meers and briars anything goes. Though I have smoked just about everything in everything with good results. I find each to give unique taste experiences and if I let the tobacco tell me what it wants without expectations I get better enjoyment. If you've ever eaten something expecting it to taste a certain way and it does not...you'll get what I mean - like a yellow cake you swear has lemon in it and it does not. Expectations about flavor tend to change flavors.

 

[jpmcwjr]

All personal preferences.

No tobacco sings in a cob in my little world.

 

[Searock Fan]

Personal experience.

1. Anything seems to smoke good in a meerschaum

2. Latakia blends smoke great in the high grade Italians such as Castello, Ser Jacopo, Mastro, Caminetto, etc.

3. Aromatics smoke best with a balsa filter like a Savinelli.

 

[bullet08]

OTC in cob. Might be the hillbilly side of me.

 

[Sigmund]

Nice topic. I have a really old gbd shortly. Are there blends people find work better in short pipes? So far I have not hit on a good match.

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

I find that I tend to smoke faster burning tobaccos in smaller pipes. For instance Carter Hall burns pretty fast, I smoke it small to medium pipes because it has tendency to get hot when smoked in larger pipes.

 

[Sinzalot]

Peterson's Signature Flake & Savinelli 105 = Heaven

 

[HRPufnstuf]

All personal preferences.

No tobacco sings in a cob in my little world.

Not even "Smoke gets in your eyes" ?

 

[dublinpiper90]

Aromatics only in my Savinelli 637 they seem to burn the best in it, very few relights and very little tamping and always the notes of the tobacco that’s being burned

 

[mso489]

It's not an original idea with me, but I have found that blends with more different tobaccos play best in broad chambered pipes, maybe because a greater variety of tobacco is in the ember at once making for a better melding of flavors. I'd say this is true once you get to four tobaccos in a blend, including two or more Virginias or burleys.

 

[anotherbob]

Off topic here, but handsome cob. Can a guy say that?

yes but not in a PM well not without trying to read the situation first.

 

[dublinpiper90]

I find that I tend to smoke faster burning tobaccos in smaller pipes. For instance Carter Hall burns pretty fast, I smoke it small to medium pipes because it has tendency to get hot when smoked in larger pipes.

I learned this the hard way when I packed my 1st nose warmer full of Half and Half (which I use for my 1st bowl in all my pipes) it burns hot as well and that time a little to hot

 

[tobakenist]

If you have a good smoker pipe and a good tobacco you will have a good smoke, mix it up and you might have a bad smoke, simple as that.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

All personal preferences.

No tobacco sings in a cob in my little world.

A bowl of Peterson Dennis Morgan Luck of the Irish would sing high and pretty! They should make that.

 

[anotherbob]

I do find all of my pipes do seem to smoke differently enough to be noticeable but also close enough to not care. And yes some of them handle certain things much better then other things. My Churchwarden against common wisdom loves burly. It's a Dublin with a conical chamber. But seriously burly based anything just tastes a step up. But generally the biggest difference in most of my pipes is knowing the best way to get the most out of them. My Lumberman works best if I break the pipe packing rules and pack it more like a newbie. Also works better if I puff lightly on it over sipping. Weirdly it's dull tasting when I sip. My Cutty is great but really have to pack it right gravity gravity gravity!!! and gets more flavor and nuance but it has to be sipped or it loses flavor doesn't bite. Basically all I can do is scratch my head and figure that there are many little factors that add up to how a pipe smokes and they can be hard to accurately divine aside from the times when the opposite is true.
And my Meer is like that one girl I knew who I didn't want to spend much time with but always really enjoyed the rare times I was in the mood to hang out with her.