Counting down the hours till I get home and fire up my pipe tonight... It's a Hearth & Home kinda night... Going to start off with a bowl of Berry Nice and then later wrap up the night with a bowl of Larry's Blend...
Just opened a tin of Davidoff Royalty. This is really the only Davidoff blend I have tried and liked. I bought two tins. One smoked right away and this one has about 18 months on it. Not a lot of change but the orientals seem a little more forward then they were in the first tin. A great mid-afternoon smoke with a cup of coffee.
a bowl of Island Ambrosia before a dust storm made me call it early-ish was a fantastic smoke in my Meerschaum pipe. Also was a Pee n Cee "Fusion Lab" blend by a bloke named M. Gregory
Had some McClelland Legends last night that was a tad dry about a month after I popped the tin lid; rather unpleasant taste, won't be getting another tin ( not sure what it was, it was a dominant taste, maybe too much latakia for my preferences). I've decided to pack a bowl of Penzance tonight that's a tad dry (eg - not the wet mess it ships as, but dried out a bit more than I'd like), we'll see how that goes.
EDIT - Penzance was much nicer; the latakia wasn't nearly as dominant and was blended far better with the other tobacco's in the blend
Smoking a bowl of 1-Q.... It's my 2nd bowl overall... Won't stay lit, I think I packed it too light and the flavor is wispy....
But I do like it
Also, I have a Missouri Meerschaum corn cob pipe and from start to finish it lasted about 40 minutes. Anyone have any experience with this corn cob? 40 minutes to me seems low, which would support my light packing theory. Any help is appreciated.
Smoking a bowl of 1-Q.... It's my 2nd bowl overall... Won't stay lit, I think I packed it too light and the flavor is wispy....
But I do like it
Also, I have a Missouri Meerschaum corn cob pipe and from start to finish it lasted about 40 minutes. Anyone have any experience with this corn cob? 40 minutes to me seems low, which would support my light packing theory. Any help is appreciated.
Cobs do come in different sizes but If I remember the pic you had somewhere, I would think it could be a little short but not by much. Anyway what you are describing as wispy is my experience with 1-Q I could not taste the tobacco at all, I got a mild vanilla flavor that seemed to come and go and I really don't think there is much of Mr. N. in the blend either. So, I am probably the wrong person to try to help here but that is what I got from it.
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I love Peterson's SH blend. I am out right now so I need to restock.
EDIT - Penzance was much nicer; the latakia wasn't nearly as dominant and was blended far better with the other tobacco's in the blend
Won't stay lit, I think I packed it too light and the flavor is wispy....
But I do like it
Cobs do come in different sizes but If I remember the pic you had somewhere, I would think it could be a little short but not by much. Anyway what you are describing as wispy is my experience with 1-Q I could not taste the tobacco at all, I got a mild vanilla flavor that seemed to come and go and I really don't think there is much of Mr. N. in the blend either. So, I am probably the wrong person to try to help here but that is what I got from it.