I saw the email but skipped it, kind of watching my money right now......my list is over $500 for what I want to get and saving up to buy everything at same time. Review set back due to being busy yesterday, today and most likely all the way until Sunday, I went out to smoke my pipe this evening and about froze my toes off. Low 50's might not be bad for some of you but that and the wind blowing is to cold for me! My old bones hurt since I didn't take care of them when I was younger.
Back in the early days of my pipe smoking the "Old Guys" (40?) told me to put a thin slice of Apple in my pouch to keep it moist, which I did and never did I experience any mildew or mold. Lucky I guess. The reason I mention this is I did get a hint of apple in the smoke, of course I may have imagined it. I soak my Black Cavendish with Madiera Wine as part of my Old King Cole re-creation. Has anyone tried spraying BC with Calvados?
My experiences with adding liquor to my tobacco has always ended in disaster. I bought one of the Out Of Office blends from Pipes And Cigars called "Up All Night" which is a rum flavored blend but the rum flavor was so slight I decided to mix in some spiced rum. Didn't help one bit - if anything it made it worse. I have better luck with food grade flavorings.
@woodsman - I use fresh orange peels instead of apple slices when I get a tobacco that starts to get too dry. Drop about a 1 inch slice in the jar, close it and let it set for about 24 hours. You'll notice the peel start to dry out and the moisture from the peel transfers to the tobacco.
I have added alcohol, fruits and distilled water to my containers to moisten up my tobacco, you just have to be careful how you add it, don't directly add to the tobacco, try to put it in something and let it moisten from natural evaporation ....unless your wanting the flavor to be strong on your tobacco, then you have to shake and stir and then let dry a little, after that you can moisten in back to smoke-able tobacco by doing the first step and not directly putting the moisture on the tobacco.
Anyone have a recommendation for a good tobacco when you might be catching a cold? I was out in the cold for a while yesterday and today I am stopped up and my throat is itchy......I HATE COLD Weather!
@Wolf41035 -- My doctorate is not an MD, but common sense says, if you've got a cold, lay off the pipe for a while. You can't taste right, or smell, so let it go. It'll be there when you're well again.
For those of us who prefer the taste of sweet aromatics, you're missing out if you have not tried @ghostsofpompeii's custom "Mrs. Hudson's 221B Bakery Blend."
Three parts Sutliff Vanilla Custard
Two parts Sutliff Chocolate Mousse
One part Sutliff Crème Brulee
A pinch or two of (preferably dried out) Sutliff Irish Cream
This blend is a delight and @ghostsofpompeii is a freakin' genius. I've tried mixing tobaccos and have never come near anything so enjoyable on every level: easy to light and keep lit, great taste, smell, and room note, no bite, moist but not goopy dottle and bowl bottom, no negative ghosting. I smoked it in the Carey Billiard formerly known as Cursed, and enjoyed the bowl top to bottom.
Was knockin around one of the other sites and there was a fella that was lookin for a good home for an ounce of vanilla custard. After reading all the praises here, I sent him a PM and it looks like it's headin to NC.
Does anyone have experience with Orlik's Mellow Mixture - "a combination of Virginias, toasted Burley. and black Cavendish, enhanced by notes of chocolate and caramel" ????
Keep them comments coming! lol Nice smoking area by the way! Also going to have to try that blend out, sure sounds good, Ghosts knows how to blend them!
If you notice we are currently on page 7 of this particular discussion. I've been trying several times to get back to page 1 and can't seem to get the site to change pages back to the first page. I've done everything from hit the arrow before the #1 and even hit the #1 page key a dozen or so times. What I'm actually trying to do is compile as many older tobacco reviews for the one dedicated review page but if the page won't take me back to the beginning of the original discussion page that's going to be hard to do. This seems to happen all the time and sometimes after banging the Hell out the keys it will eventually change to the original title page. But maybe I'm doing something wrong - and someone here can enlighten me.
@Ghostsofpompeii I had same problem but noticed it was only the buttons on the top of the page and the buttons on the bottom worked fine. I went through and moved as many as I could see, if you go to my Review page most of them are there now, I did however post 2-4 reviews per comment so I didn't get in trouble for to many comments at one time. Read through them and see if they are all there, if not try hitting buttons on top and bottom and see if one set works better than the other. I found for me the bottom buttons work all the time for me but could just be with my system or with firefox browser??
I'm a Sutliff fan and have been teased about it by manly English blend smokers, so I know take-downs, and this is one of the best anti-aromatics screeds ever:
<<When starting out you might be tempted to sniff each jar and grab a few ounces of the fruitiest smelling one you can find – but I suggest you avoid those tobaccos. When a tobacco smells fruity, sugary, or generally not like actual tobacco, it’s probably cased. Casing is a process in where the tobacco is blended then sprayed with aromatic material – sometimes a form of chocolate, licorice, cherries, or morning breath.
The tobaccos smell good in the jar and you’ll make even more friends as they smell divine in the air – but the actual taste ranges somewhere between gym socks and fire. You’ll also burn the sh1t out of your tongue even when smoking the pipe correctly, so just take a pass here. Those tobaccos are produced largely for the old guys who walk into the shop and buy three pounds at a time because it’s something their wives don’t mind the smell of around the house. They aren’t in it for an experience, they do it likely to feed an addiction and they don’t so much as have a tongue in their mouth as they do an old flap of charred leather. They don’t smoke because it tastes good or helps them relax, they smoke because FDR died.>>
Been on and off the past couple days without posting or replying to messages, Friday I had to go get a pig, kill it, gut it and clean it up to put over a fire Friday night, Saturday I was still cooking it and getting things ready, then Saturday evening a bunch of people showed up for the pig roast. Had a good time but slept most of Sunday since I hadn't slept since early Friday morning. Sunday and Monday was clean up, yesterday was getting stuff around here done and going after Bees and today I set up the Hives and tilled the garden.....Very Busy!
@motie2 That fellow should keep a safe distance from my cellar because everything he seems to hate is exactly what I have. Hate to be the one to burst his bubble but the majority of sweet vanilla, chocolate, and fruit flavored tobaccos he's complaining about were probably introduced long after FDR's death. As for me I prefer my tobacco to small more pleasant than goat urine on a bale of hay or a burnt log.
So hippiesters are trying to go underground. They know real men have their numbers! The secret to being a dude like that is to sardonically make fun of what other people like then feel superior while they're playing video games (and probably smoking aromatic tobacco because that's what his wife likes).
And for the record, a lot of us are not upset FDR is gone, we are upset DDE is gone, so that's get that strait hippie.
@philip - People choose to forget that FDR was a socialist at heart and friends with Stalin. It was Roosevelt who made the decision to let the Russians capture Berlin at the end of WWII when American forces were on the outskirts of the city. He was the precursor to what the Democratic Party of today has become.
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Review set back due to being busy yesterday, today and most likely all the way until Sunday, I went out to smoke my pipe this evening and about froze my toes off. Low 50's might not be bad for some of you but that and the wind blowing is to cold for me! My old bones hurt since I didn't take care of them when I was younger.
Back in the early days of my pipe smoking the "Old Guys" (40?) told me to put a thin slice of Apple in my pouch to keep it moist, which I did and never did I experience any mildew or mold. Lucky I guess. The reason I mention this is I did get a hint of apple in the smoke, of course I may have imagined it. I soak my Black Cavendish with Madiera Wine as part of my Old King Cole re-creation. Has anyone tried spraying BC with Calvados?
Was knockin around one of the other sites and there was a fella that was lookin for a good home for an ounce of vanilla custard. After reading all the praises here, I sent him a PM and it looks like it's headin to NC.
I'll keep ya'll posted
http://www.tobaccoreviews.com/blend/1946/orlik-tobacco-company-a-s-mellow-mixture
Jim is a smokers smoker if ya know what I mean. Great guy with a very discerning palate.
I've found his reviews spot on and much more in depth than what I pick up the first couple of times smoking a new to me blend.
I just tried to go to the first page and had no problem at all.
That being said, earlier today I got some sort of "fatal error" notice that locked up the site completely.
Still other times it won't recognize my logging on and keeps me in the visitor view.
So, try it again
Read through them and see if they are all there, if not try hitting buttons on top and bottom and see if one set works better than the other. I found for me the bottom buttons work all the time for me but could just be with my system or with firefox browser??