Typing this up while watching the evening news on TV (I just got done simultaneously scanning the local news app and various sources through Apple News on the Pad ... must be a Monday), enjoying what has become a perennial favorite of mine for the cooler half of the north-midwestern year.
Standard Tobacco Company’s War Horse Green! I don’t jar this stuff, I just leave it in the opened tin. The cake is smokeable as is when you pop the tin, but remains smokable even when stored carelessly. I
was worried, though ... I opened this tin months ago.
Remember Terence Fisher’s adaptation of
Dracula from 1958 with Christopher Lee? Remember the scene at the end when his hand hits the sunlight and crumples to ash? I thought that was going to happen here. I dug out the chef’s knife dedicated to plugs and ropes and gave it a good sharpen. Even fresh, this stuff doesn’t cut easily.
Not as dried out Is I expected ... I even had to break it up a bit afterward. It was dry enough, though, that I snapped the above picture, then quickly gave the pipe a gravity fill and barely a flattening tamp, and lit ‘er up. This is a
great smoke, at least to my taste. (This Peterson Premier System 313 is getting the workout today.)