***What Are You Smoking, May 2023?***
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Every blend they make or some?
Also, not sure your smoking style, but dry out your blends, just as they start getting crispy, and see what you think.
With some VAs, I’ll also squeeze a pinch, and if I can still feel even the slightest moisture, I’ll dry a little more till gone.
Blends with some moisture, sometimes tend to not be as smooth, or flavorful, and more irritating on the mouth.
I’m doing most blends now, just as they start getting crispy, and the differences are amazing.
Smoking some Amphora Original in Paul's Cayuga smooth apple.
Capstan blue flake in this 1975 Dunhill it will be my first bowl in it and first time smoking a Dunhill.
Loaded two MM Mark Twains with Deception Pass. Watering the garden.
I’ve only had a handful of C&D blends and I didn’t love em. I have some Bijou and Sun Bear stashed that I’ve not tried yet.Every blend they make or some?
Also, not sure your smoking style, but dry out your blends, just as they start getting crispy, and see what you think.
With some VAs, I’ll also squeeze a pinch, and if I can still feel even the slightest moisture, I’ll dry a little more till gone.
Blends with some moisture, sometimes tend to not be as smooth, or flavorful, and more irritating on the mouth.
I’m doing most blends now, just as they start getting crispy, and the differences are amazing.
Just passing the half way mark on this bowl of Sutliff Paradoxical (Signature Series) in a 1960s Austrian meerschaum bent apple with a tapered yellow stem. Just have to edit the review now. Cleaned some pipes, too. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
Ice water and bergs is my drink.
Unbranded Algerian Briar billiard, and still outside
Well, the thunderstorms are here and the weather radar indicates I have time for another smoke. A repeat of my earlier C&D Mixture in the KW.
Germain’s Uncle Tom’s in a Radice Rind Straight.
This one goes out to all the VA sufferers, especially those struggling, or just don’t get VA blends, and to @BriarLinedMeer
I think there are 5 things that are the major contributors to a better experience.
1. Dry fairly crisp, or quite crispy, not bone dry dust.
2. Pack lightly
3. Barely light the pipe, only to take a few sips and let it go out and cool down and repeat.
4. Use only the weight of the tamper, to gently pack down once a charred light has been achieved, and then the weight of the tamper again, when later needed at any time.
5. When it becomes hard to light, gently scrape the ash with the tamper, but not down to seeing visible black charred tobacco, only to where it’s now gray colored ash, only take away the white ash.
Don’t worry about keeping your pipe lit, constant fire and heat destroy the complexity, light little and go slow, and you will experience more!
Here’s a good post with good advice on the subject of VAs, and I also put some good info.
Be well everyone!
P.S. I dried this one pretty crisp, at 40 minutes dry time.
This one goes out to all the VA sufferers, especially those struggling, or just don’t get VA blends, and to @BriarLinedMeer
I think there are 5 things that are the major contributors to a better experience.
1. Dry fairly crisp, or quite crispy, not bone dry dust.
2. Pack lightly
3. Barely light the pipe, only to take a few sips and let it go out and cool down and repeat.
4. Use only the weight of the tamper, to gently pack down once a charred light has been achieved, and then the weight of the tamper again, when later needed at any time.
5. When it becomes hard to light, gently scrape the ash with the tamper, but not down to seeing visible black charred tobacco, only to where it’s now gray colored ash, only take away the white ash.
Don’t worry about keeping your pipe lit, constant fire and heat destroy the complexity, light little and go slow, and you will experience more!
Here’s a good post with good advice on the subject of VAs, and I also put some good info.
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Does anyone else here, dislike straight Virginia's? I've been fortunate enough to try many aged straight Virginia's and I just don't like em. I get the impression this is something you may 'grow' into, but I'm not seeing it, pretty subjective but interested to hear if any veterans dislike them...
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Be well everyone!
P.S. I dried this one pretty crisp, at 40 minutes dry time.
Cornell & Diehl Sun Bear Black Locust from June 2021 in a modern Kaywoodie Rhodesian from 2020
A quarter of the way through this bowl of Pfeifen Huber Virginia Golden Flake in a 1938 smooth straight brown patent Dunhill R 115 bowling ball apple with a tapered cumberland stem.
I doubt it. Joe created over one hundred blends and kept the recipes. Over many years, Joe would go to Seattle Pipe Club meetings with something he made just for that meeting, and only those folks got to smoke them. He even made one for me. It was a five pound block of Mississippi River made with aged McClelland tobaccos with a decent amount of yenidje added to the mix.
Late start today on smoking, first bowl at 7:10 pm. Sir John's Flake Virginia in an Alden.
Smoking some C&D Old Joe Krantz in a Savinelli Silver billiard.
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