Sunday smoke
Posted on: Sun, 08/31/2008 - 09:44
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Sunday smoke
Hello to all the pipe smokers,
This afternoon I'm enjoying a bowl of G&H Kendall Kentucky in Morleysson's honor, in a sterling-banded Donegal Pete Rhodesian. After reading his review on tobaccoreviews.com I knew I had to have some...it just took me until now to get it.
In the bag this has rich, dark, old-world scents of peat and campfires. It doesn't smell like latakia, it's like a hickory fire. I haven't smelled a tobacco like it. After setting a bowlful aside on paper to dry for 20 minutes or so, I filled the bowl and struck a match.
It bites at the light and then rolls like a freight train through the bowl with dark tastes at every corner. There's plenty of body and clouds of deep grey smoke. It ought to go oustandingly well with a dark roast or espresso coffee. I feel like I'm back in 1886 with Doc Brown!
Thanks again to Morleysson. A good day to everyone!
Israel
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Old Joe Krantz, and Riverboat Gambler are on the menu today. They'll be served up in a Butz-Choquin Mirage.
Thoughts and prayers to those folks in the path of the storm, and to the rest of us when gas prices go up again.
"If you can't send money, send tobacco." -George Washington to the Continental Congress, 1776
Did they announce a my-pipes.com club pipe and nobody told me? What's with the Butz Choquins?
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I'll bring the Stanwells and even things out a little.
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That ballance is getting back a bit closer to even. Edgeworth RR'd in a Stanwell Poker.
"I think people should be allowed to do what they want, as long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses."
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Jim
of course! The 2005 POY loaded up with SG Best Brown Flake for an evening smoke. Concerning this storm. Who do we have in its path? GI's in Fla, but it should go South of there. Very scary, the whole thing. My thoughts are with you guys. The weather here is windy - very windy - typical of our August. Normally whips up a few bush fires. Same thing happens in Australia, but MUCH worse. The rains come after that. Quiet day at home, barbequeing with a friend. Enjoy your evening.
My long time favorite tobacco in one of my favorite pipes. Out on the patio this glorious sunny day - book in hand ("Mistborn" by Brandon Sanderson). Lazy day for me today - as it should be on the Labor Day Holiday Weekend!
Rick Piatt
This time filled with billy budd.
my tastes buds are on vacation/dead/POW/MIA, my dinner tasted like crap, all tobaccos but revor plug tastes strange. Billy budd tastes really sour... and it is not the pipes either...
ah well, I was about to order some more revor plug, but somehow ordered a tin of Caledonian Grand Reserve Green and two tins of Dunhill Elizabethan mixture instead.
think I better go to bed, a day when not even coffee tastes good is not a good day at all. Good night.
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Had the whole "fam-damnly" over for a brat fry. Been smokin Captain Bob's all day. A while back Craig supplied me with a new sauce to put on in miniscule amounts and it is really good. Still a non-aro as far as I am concerned. The trick is balancing so the natural taste of the tobacco is still out front and the touch of sweetness stays in the background. Every topping takes a lot of work to get just the right amount.
Here's how you do it. You take a couple ounces of the staright blend and make it an aromatic. Then you keep that in a separate jar. As I experiment, I mix a "little" of the aromatic tobak into the straight tobak. Once I have determined the correct balance, I know how much topping to apply.
You can always add but you can't take away. For example, if topping 4 ounces, one squirt might be enough. If that is too aromatic, I add more straight tobacco.
Appleton, Wisconsin USA
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Today i'll also be smoking from a butz-choquin mirage loaded up with macbaren navy flake. This is my first experience with the blend and so far i am liking it alot.
Hope everyone has a safe and happy labor day.
Ah, another satisfied Navy Flake customer! Man, when MPC first started out just about all of us were head over heels in love with this fine flake. I think we still are (I sure am) but it just doesn't get much press lately. For years - I don't know how many but its got to be over 5 by now - MacBaren Navy Flake has been my favorite tobacco. There is one that is knocking hard on Navy Flake's door lately ... but at the moment I'd still have to say Navy Flake rules. I'm glad you found it ... and not surprised that you like it.
Hey, there is another tobacco that also doesn't get that much press around these parts lately but is one that is right up there with Navy Flake as far as having fans here on MPC: Orlik Golden Sliced ... oh baby is that one super fine VA. If your tastes run like many of ours do ... and it seems they do ... you gotta give OGS a shot.
Rick Piatt