After two bowls of Carter Hall in my Cutty - one yesterday and one this morning - I waited until this afternoon and loaded it with Peterson's Founder's Choice. Smoked it down to the ash in a little over an hour.
Just like my Marine Friend KA9FFJ, (no collusion) a bowl of my Sutliff Black Cherry in a smallish Kaywoodie Rusticted Briar Pipe with a 1/4 bent stem. I suppose great minds DO think alike.
@motie2 Great minds think alike. I just had some SPC PPBB aged delivered last week. Smells great, but I need to "bone up" on how to prepare that cut for smoking. It better be dam,n good for the price, which will probably be the last tin I can afford, I am getting ready to smoke a bowl of "frankenblend" 50% Nording Labrador Hunter and 50% Lane BCA in a bit here.......
I have a friend who is the president of the Lewis and Clark Pipe Club here in the St. Louis area. He enjoys blending his own tobaccos and decided to give me a few samples. The one I'm doing today is 1909 Late August Evening in a MM Cob. As most of you know, some blend flavors can be enhanced when you expel the smoke through the nostrils. While doing that, the orange becomes very bright and refreshing. This is a very good blend... Below is his descript...
Gentlemen Scholars I recently bent my own rules and bought a tin of the SPC Plum Pudding Bourbon Barrel Aged tobacco. First, I have to guess the weight of the product includes to barrel stave as there surely is not much tobacco in there. The cost of this tobacco would normally take it off my radar, but I had to check it out.
I have a question as this tobacco 'cut" is not what I am used to, can someone tell me the best way to prep a bowl's worth? Do you rub it out, cut it, just stuff it? I am not used to this type of tobacco and any guidance would be most appreciated.
@pwkarch It is a “crumble cake”, just break off a chunk with you fingers and “crumble” it. You can also slice off a bit with a knife like a plug if it is stubborn, but “crumble cakes” are not pressed as tightly so they break up pretty well with just bare hands. You can load it as you like, if it is not crumbled as much, it would be more like a flake or coin, a little bit more and it would sort of be like a cube-cut, rub it out fully and then it packs like a rough cut or ribbon.
@pwkarch, @motie2 You are welcome. Here is a short video I just found by Jeremy Reeves of C&D preparing it two ways. Moving pictures are better🙂 https://youtu.be/00lLHMZ2-gU
Birthday today. Now officially 72. Man, time really does speed up the older you get! Anyway, before firing up the grill for some beef steaks, I'm going back to basics with some SWR Aromatic in a full bent meer...
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The smoke tastes purple...for several moments, and then it settles down into a light English sort of smoke.
But why? All I know is that I like it.....
i just pulled the trigger and ordered a tin of SPC Plum Pudding Bourbon Barrel Aged.
Great minds think alike. I just had some SPC PPBB aged delivered last week. Smells great, but I need to "bone up" on how to prepare that cut for smoking. It better be dam,n good for the price, which will probably be the last tin I can afford, I am getting ready to smoke a bowl of "frankenblend" 50% Nording Labrador Hunter and 50% Lane BCA in a bit here.......
Sounds like a good mixture!
The one I'm doing today is 1909 Late August Evening in a MM Cob.
As most of you know, some blend flavors can be enhanced when you expel the smoke through the nostrils. While doing that, the orange becomes very bright and refreshing. This is a very good blend... Below is his descript...
Back to some Erinmore Mixture, something about that top flavor that always brings me back.
Drucquer & Sons Trafalgar in my favorite, almost indestructible work pipe. a Stanwell black brushed # 15
I've dropped at least 100 times, its like the Timex of pipes
I recently bent my own rules and bought a tin of the SPC Plum Pudding Bourbon Barrel Aged tobacco. First, I have to guess the weight of the product includes to barrel stave as there surely is not much tobacco in there. The cost of this tobacco would normally take it off my radar, but I had to check it out.
I have a question as this tobacco 'cut" is not what I am used to, can someone tell me the best way to prep a bowl's worth? Do you rub it out, cut it, just stuff it? I am not used to this type of tobacco and any guidance would be most appreciated.
It is a “crumble cake”, just break off a chunk with you fingers and “crumble” it. You can also slice off a bit with a knife like a plug if it is stubborn, but “crumble cakes” are not pressed as tightly so they break up pretty well with just bare hands. You can load it as you like, if it is not crumbled as much, it would be more like a flake or coin, a little bit more and it would sort of be like a cube-cut, rub it out fully and then it packs like a rough cut or ribbon.
As always, much obliged, Sir!
You are welcome.
Here is a short video I just found by Jeremy Reeves of C&D preparing it two ways.
Moving pictures are better🙂
https://youtu.be/00lLHMZ2-gU
Anyway, before firing up the grill for some beef steaks, I'm going back to basics with some SWR Aromatic in a full bent meer...
It’s downhill from here on....