By G. L. Pease What makes a truly great, memorable smoke? I don’t mean the every day good smoke that we become accustomed to, but those stand-out smokes where everything […]
Read moreGoing to the Chicago Pipe Show doesn’t really feel like going to a show at all. It feels more like going to a magnificent 3-4 day party where you get […]
Read moreBy G. L. PeaseWelcome to the first episode of Ask G.L. Pease. (Can we call it an episode if it’s not on radio? How about edition? That’s more like it.) […]
Read moreBy G. L. Pease There’s more than a little irony to be found in the notion that, as I begin to write an article about seasonal smoking, and especially summer […]
Read moreBy G. L. Pease Recently, the "market value" of some vintage, no longer produced blends seems to have skyrocketed to record-setting altitudes. A 2oz tin of a once popular English […]
Read moreBy Bob Tate Balkan Blend. That term is very mysterious. Is there really such a thing? If there is, what is it? What distinguishes a blend as a Balkan […]
Read moreEvery year at the Chicago Pipe Show in May, Mac Baren unveils a new tobacco blend of the year. PipesMagazine.com just received a pre-release sample, and here’s the early review […]
Read moreBy Russ Ouellette I love Perique. There, I’ve said it, and I’m not ashamed. I know that, as men, we’re not expected to wear our hearts on our sleeves, but […]
Read moreBy Bob Tate In the years that I have been involved with pipe smoking, I have heard and read numerous things from pipe smokers that I do not agree […]
Read moreBy G. L. PeaseMemory tells me it was the summer of 1977 or 1978. Giants game at the ‘Stick. I was in the bleachers with a friend who didn’t smoke […]
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