Just finished a nice small bowl of Amphora Absolute (Rich) in my McQueen Miniature Fable, and am currently chomping on a Kwiki Chocolate, about the best chocolate flavoured cigar I've yet experienced. However, I wish to keep y'all informed about my developments on a grape flavoured pipe tobacco, cuz it seems that the Capt Black version is now defunct (??) or at least in incredible short supply everywhere. Hang on to what you have if you like the stuff!
I may have an answer to this in my recent postings on the subject, illustrated below. Interesting (?) Skippable Drivel below the pics.
First, the previously posted photo of smoking a Phillies Blunt Grape in a pipe, "Uncle Henry." Followed by a picture of the tobacco from this cigar in baggies with a possible mixer/stretcher.
Interesting (?) Skippable Drivel:
I chose four potential candidates for a grape flavoured custom mix. Seems grape has found favour in my beloved cheap cigar world, but the only example of the possibly defunct breed in the Pipe Tobacco world that I know of is the beloved amongst a few cognoscenti, Captain Black Grape Tobacco.
Here's what I did in the picture above, and the process is undergoing further tweeking. They are all currently mixed with (from top to bottom) Smoker's Pride Classic, Captain Black Dark, Borkum Riff Dark, and Sir Walter Raleigh.
They were all mixed in a 2:1 pipe tobacco to cigar tobacco ratio.
So far, my stalwart pipe smoking buddy Mike and I have tested the mix of SWR and Capt. Black. We both preferred the Capt Black, SWR being quite a bit more strident. I've currently taken these two baggies and added twice as much mixing tobacco, ie 4:1 because a 2:1 was decidedly edgy. CB was quite nice, though, and very smokeable, but still needed more dilution, and still burned quite quickly.
The pipe tobacco by itself tasted very grapey, but harsh and burned like a race horse, giving about 6-7 minutes only in a McQueen miniature. Thus the adding of a mixing tobacco containing mostly Cavendish (which SWR does not, perhaps accounting for it's harshness). Cavendish solves the problem, as I figured it would. but it needs more. Hence the addition to the mix.
We're going to smoke the "diluted" mix tonight, and will report on the results as soon as we tabulate them. We'll also try out the Classic and Borkum Riff Dark as well, but in a day or two. Two pipes for testing, even miniatures, is enough for a session. To be continued . . . . .
I may have an answer to this in my recent postings on the subject, illustrated below. Interesting (?) Skippable Drivel below the pics.
First, the previously posted photo of smoking a Phillies Blunt Grape in a pipe, "Uncle Henry." Followed by a picture of the tobacco from this cigar in baggies with a possible mixer/stretcher.
Interesting (?) Skippable Drivel:
I chose four potential candidates for a grape flavoured custom mix. Seems grape has found favour in my beloved cheap cigar world, but the only example of the possibly defunct breed in the Pipe Tobacco world that I know of is the beloved amongst a few cognoscenti, Captain Black Grape Tobacco.
Here's what I did in the picture above, and the process is undergoing further tweeking. They are all currently mixed with (from top to bottom) Smoker's Pride Classic, Captain Black Dark, Borkum Riff Dark, and Sir Walter Raleigh.
They were all mixed in a 2:1 pipe tobacco to cigar tobacco ratio.
So far, my stalwart pipe smoking buddy Mike and I have tested the mix of SWR and Capt. Black. We both preferred the Capt Black, SWR being quite a bit more strident. I've currently taken these two baggies and added twice as much mixing tobacco, ie 4:1 because a 2:1 was decidedly edgy. CB was quite nice, though, and very smokeable, but still needed more dilution, and still burned quite quickly.
The pipe tobacco by itself tasted very grapey, but harsh and burned like a race horse, giving about 6-7 minutes only in a McQueen miniature. Thus the adding of a mixing tobacco containing mostly Cavendish (which SWR does not, perhaps accounting for it's harshness). Cavendish solves the problem, as I figured it would. but it needs more. Hence the addition to the mix.
We're going to smoke the "diluted" mix tonight, and will report on the results as soon as we tabulate them. We'll also try out the Classic and Borkum Riff Dark as well, but in a day or two. Two pipes for testing, even miniatures, is enough for a session. To be continued . . . . .
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