Very nice! Beautiful work.
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In my eagerness to smoke the Mapacho last night, I was a bit hasty and only gave the tobacco ten minutes of drying time, which is about what I usually give commercial blends. I knew it was really too damp and the moist tobacco created more steam than I would’ve liked. I thought the Mapacho cut from the log might need days of drying because it was so damp.
After I smoked the “cautious” half bowl (fearing a severe nicotine hit), when I checked the leftover tobacco I had cut from the log that was in my tobacco tray, I discovered that an hour or two of drying would be about right and match the feel tobacco usually gets with my shorter drying time for commercial blends. I just need to plan ahead with this tobacco. The small amount I smoked didn’t affect me differently in any appreciable way, so today I’m going to do a full chamber.
Anyway, I’m going to have the Ecuadorian Mapacho (Nicotiana Rustica) in a Peruvian ceremonial pipe typically used for smoking Mapacho or Ayahuasca, made from Chonta (Bactris Gasipaes—also known as Peach Palm, a hard Amazonian wood often used to make weapons), decorated with cross sections of Ayahuasca vines.
After I smoked the “cautious” half bowl (fearing a severe nicotine hit), when I checked the leftover tobacco I had cut from the log that was in my tobacco tray, I discovered that an hour or two of drying would be about right and match the feel tobacco usually gets with my shorter drying time for commercial blends. I just need to plan ahead with this tobacco. The small amount I smoked didn’t affect me differently in any appreciable way, so today I’m going to do a full chamber.
Anyway, I’m going to have the Ecuadorian Mapacho (Nicotiana Rustica) in a Peruvian ceremonial pipe typically used for smoking Mapacho or Ayahuasca, made from Chonta (Bactris Gasipaes—also known as Peach Palm, a hard Amazonian wood often used to make weapons), decorated with cross sections of Ayahuasca vines.
That’s a really cool pipe.
yOS in my '66 Shell. This pipe has a wonderfully thin and comfortable bit
Lost recipe? How is this possible!??
What does Mapacho taste like?
Sweet! What year, do you know? Man, any idea if they did this color, blast and stem in a Zulu?
It’s a bit earthy and smokey with vegetal notes. There’s some sweetness with a sensation on the tongue that is similar to anise, but not quite. It doesn’t taste like any commercial blend of tobacco I’ve ever had. Shoot me a PM and I’ll send you some to try—I have a log.
I’ve been looking at getting me a claw pipe, what carver is that one? It’s very nice.
Y’all may be seeing more of this. After being unable to find any locally, I tossed a a pouch in my last order. There will be a cob and a pouch in my lunchbox this week!
Half and Half in a Kaywoodie Campus White Briar Belgique, while I’m preparing gourmet buckets for the hayburners.
Half and Half in a Kaywoodie Campus White Briar Belgique, while I’m preparing gourmet buckets for the hayburners.
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That’s seriously cool! I was looking at Mapacho, but have been leery as the few places I saw it on line listed it as more of an herbal amalgam than solid Brazilian NicRust.
Smoking Peterson Irish Cask in the Castello Sea Rock Billiard 
Thanks man,
It’s a 2022 I haven’t seen one in a Zulu but I sure would like too regardless of the size.
C&D Haunted Bookshop Cake in an unfinished Sav 320.
Elizabethan Mixture in an Oliphant poker
Royal Twist in a Peterson Dracula bent bulldog.
I haven’t opened mine up yet, it’s still in rope-wrapped log form. I’ll butcher it and fire some up soon though.
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