@ocpunk714, I have the elf cobbit. I love smoking it, just smokes great especially with Virginia’s. If you do get one I would also pick up churchwarden pipe cleansers as well.
The grab bag is also perfect for getting a friend into pipesmoking too.
Well just received order from P& C that was sent out Tuesday, so it was 5 days total time , which is about the time I stated above. Wish it could be faster, I guess we all hope for that.
@Jayhawk422 this is off topic but I’m wondering what you mean by full-bodied aromatics? How do they differ from other aros? Sorry for the newbie question.
@Ryanmclellansr to clarify I am meaning an aromatic that has more characteristics of a non aro blend. My personal taste had always been needing something that had more body, and more flavor.
I loved the way traditional aromatics smelled but to me they never tasted the same. I craved more of a tobacco taste vs. a candy taste. Took me years to come back to tinkering with aromatics to try to find something that you could still taste through out the smoke, but had more of a tobacco taste.
I hope this helps and always glad to help someone out.
@Jayhawk422 -- Try Revolution Tabac from E.A. Carey
<<Revolution Tabac is a blend of our two best light aromatics and Latakia. It will have the taste of a light English blend when the strands of Latakia ignite and then go back to a light aromatic blend after the Latakia has burned.
It all started out when I thought about my favorite tobacco. It’s a fine tobacco and I had been smoking it for years. But then I asked myself: Is this really the best of what’s available today? Am I smoking it only out of habit? If I wanted to try a new blend, which one would I try? Every shop has dozens of blends, all with descriptions that don’t really tell me anything.
Since I’m at EA Carey I do have one advantage. Carey has 32 tobacco blends and I have access to all of them. I can smoke them with my choice of Carey pipe. Yes, I had an advantage not available to the average pipe smoker…. A big advantage.
As I said, I have been smoking my favorite blend for years, so I didn’t really know anything about the 32 Carey blends on a first hand basis. There was only one solution. I had to smoke each one in a test and make my own notes. I chose to smoke two ounces of each of the 32 blends.
Now, I smoke a pipe a lot but that was not easy. That is four pounds of tobacco. Off and on, it and it took me about three months to finish the project.
I then divided the 32 blends into categories and rated them as type and preference. My preferences are for a mild tobacco that I can smoke all day, and yet I wanted something different, a bit of a unique taste. It seemed that while many of our Carey tobaccos are high quality, most were just not that unique. It seemed to me that there was not much difference in one blend to the next.
6 Finalists - I finally selected six quality blends that each had a distinct taste. But making the best blend can be elusive: which of the six blends should I use and how much of each one? There are 1,956 possible combinations with six blends.
This is where it got subjective. I selected the best blend according to my tastes and then modified it with the other five blends. I then used a scale accurate to 0.001 ounces and prepared one ounce samples of various blends, labeling each in plastic pouches. I don’t know the exact number of pouches I consumed as I discarded many of the blends as unacceptable. This step took me about a month.
In the end I had my first two choices, both I thought were great. Then a funny thing happened.
The First Discovery -- The burn rate of one blend was different than the other. The first one burned slow and easy and didn't require re-lighting to the same extent as the other. That’s very handy when I am busy, such as driving a car.
The Second Discovery -- The first blend changes taste from time to time. That’s because it contains a small percentage of Latakia. When that strand ignites it tastes like a mild English blend. Then it goes back to the basic blend which is mild and smooth.
This whole thing took about six months to complete. I needed a name. I thought of the Russian Revolution because it changed an entire nation. I didn’t think I would ever cause a national revolution, or even a pipe smoker’s revolution. I still liked the name Revolution, even if it’s in my own small way. Revolution it is. “Revolution Tabac.”
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The grab bag is also perfect for getting a friend into pipesmoking too.
I loved the way traditional aromatics smelled but to me they never tasted the same. I craved more of a tobacco taste vs. a candy taste. Took me years to come back to tinkering with aromatics to try to find something that you could still taste through out the smoke, but had more of a tobacco taste.
I hope this helps and always glad to help someone out.
<<Revolution Tabac is a blend of our two best light aromatics and Latakia. It will have the taste of a light English blend when the strands of Latakia ignite and then go back to a light aromatic blend after the Latakia has burned.
It all started out when I thought about my favorite tobacco. It’s a fine tobacco and I had been smoking it for years. But then I asked myself: Is this really the best of what’s available today? Am I smoking it only out of habit? If I wanted to try a new blend, which one would I try? Every shop has dozens of blends, all with descriptions that don’t really tell me anything.
Since I’m at EA Carey I do have one advantage. Carey has 32 tobacco blends and I have access to all of them. I can smoke them with my choice of Carey pipe. Yes, I had an advantage not available to the average pipe smoker…. A big advantage.
As I said, I have been smoking my favorite blend for years, so I didn’t really know anything about the 32 Carey blends on a first hand basis. There was only one solution. I had to smoke each one in a test and make my own notes. I chose to smoke two ounces of each of the 32 blends.
Now, I smoke a pipe a lot but that was not easy. That is four pounds of tobacco. Off and on, it and it took me about three months to finish the project.
I then divided the 32 blends into categories and rated them as type and preference. My preferences are for a mild tobacco that I can smoke all day, and yet I wanted something different, a bit of a unique taste. It seemed that while many of our Carey tobaccos are high quality, most were just not that unique. It seemed to me that there was not much difference in one blend to the next.
6 Finalists - I finally selected six quality blends that each had a distinct taste. But making the best blend can be elusive: which of the six blends should I use and how much of each one? There are 1,956 possible combinations with six blends.
This is where it got subjective. I selected the best blend according to my tastes and then modified it with the other five blends. I then used a scale accurate to 0.001 ounces and prepared one ounce samples of various blends, labeling each in plastic pouches. I don’t know the exact number of pouches I consumed as I discarded many of the blends as unacceptable. This step took me about a month.
In the end I had my first two choices, both I thought were great. Then a funny thing happened.
The First Discovery -- The burn rate of one blend was different than the other. The first one burned slow and easy and didn't require re-lighting to the same extent as the other. That’s very handy when I am busy, such as driving a car.
The Second Discovery -- The first blend changes taste from time to time. That’s because it contains a small percentage of Latakia. When that strand ignites it tastes like a mild English blend. Then it goes back to the basic blend which is mild and smooth.
This whole thing took about six months to complete. I needed a name. I thought of the Russian Revolution because it changed an entire nation. I didn’t think I would ever cause a national revolution, or even a pipe smoker’s revolution. I still liked the name Revolution, even if it’s in my own small way. Revolution it is. “Revolution Tabac.”
~ William Miller, President of EA Carey
http://www.eacarey.com/revolution-tabac.html