Aged bullseye in a Peterson p-lip 301. This tobacco has been pared with this pipe for six years now. The perfect combo. Non of my other pipes bring out the flavors I expect from this tobacco. Don’t know why but, it just does.
Went out to smoke at a local cigar lounge and met up with the Chicago pipe show director, he offered me a couple pipe loads of 9 year old Astley's No. 55 Elizabethan, which is a tumbled out flake of straight virginia.
My experiences with straight virginia pipe tobacco have been mostly poor up to now so I generally avoid them; this was something else all together, I actually asked him if he was sure there wasn't any burley in it.
Did not taste anything like any of the others I had tried in the past, was truly excellent.
So I guess there's nothing left to do but buy some tins and hope I live long enough to enjoy them.
My first pipe in well over a week due to subfreezing weather! Decided to drag out a @Corey562 (Abe Brown) pipe and load it up with some Peterson Sunset Breeze that was gifted to me by a good friend here at TPL. This blend has good flavor, smokes slowly and evenly and has a pleasant room note. IMHO, it is definitely a blend to be sipped. Get a little bit carried away in your puffing rhythm, and you'll start to feel the beginnings of tongue bite. But once you've established your puffing limit, it provides a very relaxing experience...
Nice enough outside to have two pipes while sitting out and listening to Radio Classic episodes of Sherlock Holmes. First a bowl of Sherlock Holmes in my 1926 Dunhill Bruyere while listening to “The Iron Maiden.”
Second is a bowl of Larsen Indigo in a bent Rinaldo. Listening to “The Murder In Wax.”
One line in the second episode: Sherlock says, “I’ll smoke a few pipes on this problem.”
@KA9FFJ My experience with “Sunset Breeze” has been similar.
On another note. I went to one of the local Tobacco Row B&M today to get some bristle pipe cleaners and the tobacconist pointed out a few new pouch blends they just got in. I bought the two that did not have latakia. One was Tobacco Galleria “Blue Note”, the other was Tobacco Galleria “Night Cap”, neither are their more famously named counterparts or were meant to be substitutes, they are both aromatics. I smoked the “Blue Note” in a Pete System Deluxe 12 1/2s.....man it bit like a saber toothed tiger, I am not a fan. Low and behold, I checked the manufacturer, Sutliff, another Sutliff blend that is not my cup of tea. It did burn much better than others I have tried though. I’m tempted to just leave the other in the pouch for some other sucker, but I will have to try it....maybe it won’t suck....riiiiight.
@PappyJoe Sorry if you have told me before, but I don’t recall. What is the “Indigo” like?
Smoking another bowl this evening...errr....morning. Trying out the Sutliff Tobacco Galleria “Night Cap” in a nice little Yorkshire Supreme Lovat I received as a gift from a great TPL friend👍🏻 After giving the pipe my once over, it is smoking like a dream. I’m glad I loaded this tobacco up and tried it, it is probably the best smoking (no tongue bite) Sutliff tobacco I have tried. Maybe it’s the magic of the gifted pipe👍🏻
I first opened the Indigo in September or October. I was real wet, the tin note was a sweet & fruity vanilla. It smoked okay but I only smoked three or four bowls before putting a rubber band around the foil bag and putting it in one of my ceramic tobacco jars.
The other day I decided to have another bowl of it. It has dried out some (I have since moved it into a ceramic tobacco jar with a hygrometer in the lid and it is currently the Indigo is at 74% RH - almost down to where I like my cigars). I like it better. The tin note has been tamed down some but I still get the fruity/plum notes while I smell more honey than vanilla. To me the vanilla is a supporting background player.
I found that at the 74% RH, it light easily and I haven't had to do any relights that I recall. The last bowl I had, I just had to tamp it after the charring light and then about halfway through the bowl. The flavor is sweet and slightly fruity and what aroma I detect (smoking outside) is pleasant.
Smoking some C&D “Espresso” in what used to be a “Briar Freak” belge. It had some nasty fills, and a few years ago when the “Devil Anse” pipes were en vogue, I cut the stem down to get the look of the “Devil Anse”. I’m thinking maybe that old pipe that Kevin Costner was smoking may have had the stem chewed off with use? I never saw the bit end, so I don’t know for sure.
By the way....Apple sucks, the f’in bastards sent an update to my iPad and now I can’t go to any websites.......the fricken keypad won’t come up to type the sites in the search bar. $”&”£€¥#%?!
Finally got this dang iPad working...for some reason it was loading a string of inter web searches that I haven’t been to in months. I had to keep loading one after the other, clearing each one as they came up.
@RockyMountainBriar I gave up on Apple when they gave up on the II c and transitioned to the sealed proprietary Mac. I've also turned some Windows systems into Linux. Now I stick with Android devices.
Same forecast here. Hope it's true. Other than last Friday evening during VPC, when SWMBO allowed me to use the window exhaust fan in the upstairs office with the door closed, I had not smoked a pipe since last year. I've cleared a little portion of the rear deck and two of the chairs. Hope to sit in one Wedsnesday and burn a bowl or two.
60° here! I've pinched myself several times to make sure I wasn't dreaming. After washing the car, I decided to try a private blend, one of many, made by a friend of mine, Dale Covington. He gave me a few small bags to try. This one is called 1916 Switzer. It's a blend of bright Virginias, a touch of Burley and black Cavendish, infused with essence of licorice. Enjoying it in a Hilson Viva 201...
I took advantage of the Smoking Pipes sale last Wednesday and the 250 gram bag of Hamborger Veermaster and 500 gram bag of GH Balkan Mixture arrived today! Jarred up and enjoying some Veermaster in an MM Rob Roy.
@Zouave I like smooth pipes in general, but sometimes a contrast sandblast just hits the spot. I think I only have three sandblasted pipes.
On a side note, I got bit by that W.O.Larsen L.E. 2013 like it was a rabid dog. I dumped it and loaded some C&D “Espresso”....ahh smoooth. I have had similar experiences with that Larsen tobacco before. It’s why it is still almost a full jar after about seven years. I keep coming back to it occasionally to see if something has changed....it hasn’t🙁. It’s probably a good thing that it was a limited edition and I’m glad I only bought one tin.
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Decided to drag out a @Corey562 (Abe Brown) pipe and load it up with some Peterson Sunset Breeze that was gifted to me by a good friend here at TPL.
This blend has good flavor, smokes slowly and evenly and has a pleasant room note.
IMHO, it is definitely a blend to be sipped. Get a little bit carried away in your puffing rhythm, and you'll start to feel the beginnings of tongue bite. But once you've established your puffing limit, it provides a very relaxing experience...
One line in the second episode: Sherlock says, “I’ll smoke a few pipes on this problem.”
My experience with “Sunset Breeze” has been similar.
On another note.
I went to one of the local Tobacco Row B&M today to get some bristle pipe cleaners and the tobacconist pointed out a few new pouch blends they just got in. I bought the two that did not have latakia. One was Tobacco Galleria “Blue Note”, the other was Tobacco Galleria “Night Cap”, neither are their more famously named counterparts or were meant to be substitutes, they are both aromatics. I smoked the “Blue Note” in a Pete System Deluxe 12 1/2s.....man it bit like a saber toothed tiger, I am not a fan. Low and behold, I checked the manufacturer, Sutliff, another Sutliff blend that is not my cup of tea. It did burn much better than others I have tried though. I’m tempted to just leave the other in the pouch for some other sucker, but I will have to try it....maybe it won’t suck....riiiiight.
@PappyJoe
Sorry if you have told me before, but I don’t recall. What is the “Indigo” like?
I first opened the Indigo in September or October. I was real wet, the tin note was a sweet & fruity vanilla. It smoked okay but I only smoked three or four bowls before putting a rubber band around the foil bag and putting it in one of my ceramic tobacco jars.
The other day I decided to have another bowl of it. It has dried out some (I have since moved it into a ceramic tobacco jar with a hygrometer in the lid and it is currently the Indigo is at 74% RH - almost down to where I like my cigars). I like it better. The tin note has been tamed down some but I still get the fruity/plum notes while I smell more honey than vanilla. To me the vanilla is a supporting background player.
I found that at the 74% RH, it light easily and I haven't had to do any relights that I recall. The last bowl I had, I just had to tamp it after the charring light and then about halfway through the bowl. The flavor is sweet and slightly fruity and what aroma I detect (smoking outside) is pleasant.
It's an enjoyable smoke in my opinion.
By the way....Apple sucks, the f’in bastards sent an update to my iPad and now I can’t go to any websites.......the fricken keypad won’t come up to type the sites in the search bar. $”&”£€¥#%?!
Finally got this dang iPad working...for some reason it was loading a string of inter web searches that I haven’t been to in months. I had to keep loading one after the other, clearing each one as they came up.
They say technology's great.
I say, ONLY when it works...🥴
I gave up on Apple when they gave up on the II c and transitioned to the sealed proprietary Mac. I've also turned some Windows systems into Linux. Now I stick with Android devices.
Same forecast here. Hope it's true.
Other than last Friday evening during VPC,
when SWMBO allowed me to use the window exhaust fan in the upstairs office with the door closed,
I had not smoked a pipe since last year.
I've cleared a little portion of the rear deck and two of the chairs.
Hope to sit in one Wedsnesday and burn a bowl or two.
After washing the car, I decided to try a private blend, one of many, made by a friend of mine, Dale Covington. He gave me a few small bags to try. This one is called 1916 Switzer. It's a blend of bright Virginias, a touch of Burley and black Cavendish, infused with essence of licorice.
Enjoying it in a Hilson Viva 201...
I like smooth pipes in general, but sometimes a contrast sandblast just hits the spot. I think I only have three sandblasted pipes.
On a side note, I got bit by that W.O.Larsen L.E. 2013 like it was a rabid dog. I dumped it and loaded some C&D “Espresso”....ahh smoooth. I have had similar experiences with that Larsen tobacco before. It’s why it is still almost a full jar after about seven years. I keep coming back to it occasionally to see if something has changed....it hasn’t🙁. It’s probably a good thing that it was a limited edition and I’m glad I only bought one tin.
I'd store that Larsen tobacco deep down in the circular file in preparation for a trip to Never Neverland, aka the dump!