Look what I found, Just info. sharing.

KABUL07

Hello Pipe and Tobacco Aficionados I hope all is well out there. I wanted to share that I was fumbling through some of my tobacco jars and found some original "old school" tobacco. I located, not Peterson but some "Dunhill Morning Pipe", a full jar untouched for who knows how long it has been there :-). I opened it up and loaded my Savinelli Bruno from the 1980's in order to give it a go. I must say that it was a little on the dry side however I unloaded all of the tobacco out of the jar and added a "Raw Hydro Stone" stone and sealed the jar back up for several days and "Wollah" very good. Matter of fact I really like it a lot and it may become my go-to for a while at this moment and time. I just wanted to share because I have not visited the TPL family in some time. Remember, smoke what you like and like what you smoke, and take time to contemplate. Be safe out there.

opipeman

@KABUL07;
I need to dig through my jar storage, who knows what I'll find?

PappyJoe

@opipeman
Even though I keep an inventory list of my pipe tobacco and update it every 5 or 6 months, I forget what I have stashed away. 
My New Year's resolution was to open one of the oldest tins in my stash every month.
For February, I opened a tin of Grousemore I purchased in 2019.

I will probably open a tin of Dunhill Apertif or Standard Mellow Mixture from 2018 for March.

opipeman

@PappyJoe
A couple of years ago I started to list all my stash and got bored before I finished the list. Whenever I look through the tins and jars(which isn't very often), it's like discovering them all over again. Maybe my Bride is correct, maybe I am a little weird. Well... at least I'm good at it. 

Whoispra

Solani Products in stock and on sale right now at the country squire online.

PappyJoe

And then there was one....
Scandinavian Tobacco Group has bought Mac Baron.

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/6/27/2904932/0/en/Scandinavian-Tobacco-Group-A-S-to-acquire-Mac-Baren-Tobacco-Company-A-S.html

opipeman

@PappyJoe;
Interesting. 

motie2

Peter the Great, a young tsar, was never without a pipe in his mouth. He began to teach Russians to smoke persistently and purposefully. He even managed to benefit from it. He sold the monopoly rights on the tobacco trade in Russia to the English (although for only seven years) for 200,000 pounds, which at the time was a huge amount of money. Access to the Russian market was expensive.

The tsar put the money to good use, funding the army, the navy, and employing foreign experts. He also personally began to actively enforce smoking among the Russian nobility. At the time, smoking was done through long-stemmed clay pipes which were first imported, then produced in Russia. The tobacco was imported from America and Turkey.

opipeman

@motie2;
Definitely an entrepreneur. Did he also start TPL? It took me so long to figure out how to spell entrepreneur that I have a headache.

motie2

Our friend, @thebadgerpiper

motie2

More of @thebadgerpiper if you have instagram. Great pictures of our friend.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C9ATWjGOz66r2Hk8bvxdRlb0F1ZiA5hE50L8qI0/

Londy3

@thebadgerpiper
Greg is a cool cat 

motie2

More @thebadgerpiper

KABUL07

Great Photos and thanks for sharing. Wanted to once again share another find within my cellar. A McCranie's "Spring Vale" blend that I forgot to place a date on the label, don't like it when I make this mistake but stuff happens :-). So moving forward, has anyone out there tried this one and what is your assessment concerning this blend. I know I have had this for some years now and it's pretty good, really nice flavor and smoking abilities, no issues at all in my corn cob. It has Zimbabwe, Malawi, Blk Cav and Burley. with that please share your thoughts, looking forward to hear them. Thanks.