What is in your pipe?

Flake will expand more than a cut tobacco will. You will need to allow for that. I like flake both ways but if you fold it it is often an all day smoke. It burns slow, tastes milder IMO and you have to have lots of time to enjoy it. Rubbing it out will give a fuller flavor but it will also burn hotter so be aware of that change too.

I opened my tin of Davidoff green For my Burfday smoke.

i thought it was okay, i only got a little bite out of it and i really enjoyed the aftertaste. i need to try it a couple more times to really see what i think of it though.

Peter Stokkebye English Luxury while doing some yard work, i think i like this better than the davidoff green but i still havent found an english blend that i just love.

taythegibs:

Peter Stokkebye English Luxury while doing some yard work, i think i like this better than the davidoff green but i still havent found an english blend that i just love.

I would actually consider Green Mix a light English aromatic. There is a clear casing in the burley and cav. and I don't really care for it that much. The only Davidoff mix that I do like is Royalty but even that is just OK. EL, that you are currently smoking if I smoke it early on would have been OK.

Blends that I consider good English that are mild- med. are Peterson's Old Dublin. SHPC's Great Hiatus. I think that just about everything Stokkebye puts out is OK to great. For a long time my favorite English was his Proper English but my taste has started to change and I have had to move away from it for the moment. It is not as good as Great Hiatus.

I love that stuff.

catfishbluezz:

Frog Morton on the bayou. Good stuff, and odd thing I've discovered, is my first Cobb is the best tasting am burning pipe I own. Weird...

I still haven't had the on the bayou, but have really liked the FM's I've had.

The great thing about cobs is that they smoke like a 5 year old briar. Unfortunately, I'm not sure that there are 5 year old cobs.

If you wanna send out some more samples im willing to be a test monkey XD ill right some reviews c:

catfishbluezz:

My own blend with some tobaccos I got from my pipe shop. Basically it started a half and half black cavendish and straight burley, then I added a few pinches of natural cavendish. I'm really diggin it lol.

Interesting, isn't it. I'm eyeballing shelf space and perusing the opportunities over at P&C. Got lots of Mason jars.

catfishbluezz:

Amos Umwhat:

catfishbluezz:

My own blend with some tobaccos I got from my pipe shop. Basically it started a half and half black cavendish and straight burley, then I added a few pinches of natural cavendish. I'm really diggin it lol.

Interesting, isn't it. I'm eyeballing shelf space and perusing the opportunities over at P&C. Got lots of Mason jars.

im taking this over to my pipe shop and blending it there for a bulk jar. It's exactly what I like, and so weird that smoking any of them by themselves doesn't give this flavor to me, but combining them all does.

You are now truly one of us.

catfishbluezz:

pilgrimtex:

catfishbluezz:

Amos Umwhat:

catfishbluezz:

My own blend with some tobaccos I got from my pipe shop. Basically it started a half and half black cavendish and straight burley, then I added a few pinches of natural cavendish. I'm really diggin it lol.

Interesting, isn't it. I'm eyeballing shelf space and perusing the opportunities over at P&C. Got lots of Mason jars.

im taking this over to my pipe shop and blending it there for a bulk jar. It's exactly what I like, and so weird that smoking any of them by themselves doesn't give this flavor to me, but combining them all does.

You are now truly one of us.

I tossed a cigar for it... And I still love and crave cigars more really. However, I am finding what pipe tobacoo I like is very limited. It's not like cigars, where I like to smoke different stuff and choose different wrappers, blenders, tastes, etc... I like a couple pipe tobacco's and that's it. Totally different experience really.

I find the comparison the same. I really haven't found a pipe tobacco I don't like! There are some which I don't prefer as much as others (like cigars) but really have been enjoying the heck out of pipes. What I have really liked is the ability to satisfy my family with pipe smoking. I never heard compliments on how much they liked any cigar...

mgk2020:

I don't smoke cigars, but I'm finding my habit to be similar. I have now tried probably 30+ blends and I find more and more lately that I end up disappointed. There are 3 or 4 that I enjoy so much more than everything else I've tried that smoking anything else ends up feeling like a missed opportunity. That said, my "to try" list is still about 20 long. lol. However, it's now mostly variations on my 3 or 4 favorites, rather than a variety.

This means its now time to enter the world of blending. Start easy. Try blending some of the 3-4 you like together. Start reading the reviews on blending tobaccos at P&C. You will enter a new world that you will find satisfying.

AVJim:

Just a simple Lane Very Cherry tonight in a Peterson...

Treva likes my version of it. Just add 2 parts BLWB by volume with 1 part Very Cherry,

Had a bowl of walts ( pilgrimtex) English and now onto a bowl of his original. Enjoyed both but I think I may have another bowl of English befit the night is done.