AceFour
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This has developed nice. All Red Virginia 50% cased with tonka and 50% cased with blackberry. Stoved in the press for 4 hours at 200F.
What Pipes or Pipe Tobacco did you smoke today? (2024-2025)
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Sid.Stavros
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Hello from Athens-Greece, we have sun with few clouds and 66'F although the Weather forecast says rain in few hours.
Poeschl Brookfield Black Vanilla.
Poeschl Brookfield Black Vanilla.
Sutliff Balkan Sobranie Original Mix Match, in a cob. This has been my favorite blend for a while, and I wanted to compare it to the ToA I’ve been smoking recently. They’re not far apart, though the Sutliff blend is subtly different. There’s a slight anise-like or “soapy” note that I’m missing in my blend. And I do miss it. I’m not sure if it’s the Izmir I'm using, or a different batch of Latakia, or some casing or topping they use, or something else entirely. It’s not a show stopper, but I’d love to figure it out.
Lavender has been used as a preservative in soap for centuries. It's what makes soap smell "soapy", instead of like lard. I believe that the "soapy" smell of Latakia comes from one of the aromatic brush cuttings used in creating the smoke.
Bob
Bob
TigerTom
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Stokkebye Bullseye Flake
Sid.Stavros
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'Dayyy from Athens-Greece, we have sun with few clouds and 65 'F here.
Planta Black Vanilla.
Planta Black Vanilla.
adamziegler
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jaredwyoung
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My first plug with my tobacco I grew last year. 45% burley, 40% oriental, 15% DAC. A little green still, and spicy! I'm hooked now!
Still hooked on this stuff. The jar has 50 g rubbed out and another 100 g plug sitting in the bottom. Earlier today I enjoyed a bowl of Flight Surgeon Deluxe, but I keep coming back to Towers of Antioch. Martini in the silicone tumbler.
Tonight it was C&D’s Autumn Evening in the Everyman billiard. I take back some of what I said about this stuff before. It’s not as terrible as I thought. Still an overpowering maple syrupy scent in the jar, but I guess I was too aggressive with it before. If you like aromatics it’s OK. My full writeup can be found in my blog, I don’t want to post the whole thing here.
TigerTom
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This morning I enjoyed a bowl of Stokkebye PS702, a sort of Cavendish cut Burley, in my little Guildhall. Tasty and smooth smoke. Went well with the accompanying coffee.
A good way to start the day.
A good way to start the day.
Sid.Stavros
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Café categories in Greece, part 1.
It is not something ''official'' but over the years it has been established, depending on the area and the decoration you expect and the corresponding service-quality of the environment and coffee. The owner has decided in advance where he will open the shop and what customers to expect and the customer sees at first sight what decoration it has and what to expect in terms of comfort etc. For example if you open a Café in a poor neighbourhood with low cost equipment and cheap coffee you will expect as customers young people or couples with kids playing around, if you open a Café in a rich neighbourhood with classy equipment and expensive coffee you will expect customers with suits-ties and some newly rich and not students or grandpas with low pension.
1) Cafeneio, is the place to go to have coffee mainly in the villages. Small marble or iron tables, wooden chairs with wicker seats, no music. They serve mainly Greek coffee (boiled or frappé) or a refreshment or ouzo-raki. The customers are mainly older people, they play cards or backgammon, they smoke cigarettes and there is a lot of noise, customers discuss various topics and there is also gossip. In the old days, there was a lot of cigarette smoke in the interior and then the wives would complain to their husbands about the smell that came from their clothes (coats). As you can understand, i don't go to such a place to smoke a pipe.
2) Bakery/Coffee shops, many large bakeries have tables and chairs outside, but they are self-service, there is no waiter. Also some shops that sell coffee beans have tables and stools outside but they are very uncomfortable (mainly for one person) and also self-service. They are all close to a main road, there is a lot of noise from people passing-by and cars. The only time to go to a shop like the first place is when it is in the middle of a journey. You stop for a little rest, go to the toilet, get coffee-water-pie and sit outside at the table, sometimes when i have time i sit and smoke a pipe if the place is quiet although the decoration isn't something great. In a shop like the second one, never.
3) Take-away, although the title says it, some of them with the annoying tolerance of the government and the Municipal Police, also put tables and chairs outside on the sidewalk. The environment is not nice, no waitress, the seats are uncomfortable, it is usually close to a traffic light so there is a lot of noise and pollution from cars-trucks-buses. The customers usually are young people, non-locals which often arguing each other or middle-aged people who do not want to go to a Café. Some shout or laughing loud, others talk in their mobile phones with the speaker On (no hands-free), others listen to music from a YouTube video even though the Cafe already has music and it is loud (modern songs or folk songs in the evening), often beggars coming etc. There is no way i would sit in such a place like this to smoke a pipe!
The part 2 in a next post plus what happens if there is a ''troublemaker'' in a Café (not a bar of nightclub).
We have sun and 66'F here in Athens-Greece, i smoke Vanilla Hausmarke.
It is not something ''official'' but over the years it has been established, depending on the area and the decoration you expect and the corresponding service-quality of the environment and coffee. The owner has decided in advance where he will open the shop and what customers to expect and the customer sees at first sight what decoration it has and what to expect in terms of comfort etc. For example if you open a Café in a poor neighbourhood with low cost equipment and cheap coffee you will expect as customers young people or couples with kids playing around, if you open a Café in a rich neighbourhood with classy equipment and expensive coffee you will expect customers with suits-ties and some newly rich and not students or grandpas with low pension.
1) Cafeneio, is the place to go to have coffee mainly in the villages. Small marble or iron tables, wooden chairs with wicker seats, no music. They serve mainly Greek coffee (boiled or frappé) or a refreshment or ouzo-raki. The customers are mainly older people, they play cards or backgammon, they smoke cigarettes and there is a lot of noise, customers discuss various topics and there is also gossip. In the old days, there was a lot of cigarette smoke in the interior and then the wives would complain to their husbands about the smell that came from their clothes (coats). As you can understand, i don't go to such a place to smoke a pipe.
2) Bakery/Coffee shops, many large bakeries have tables and chairs outside, but they are self-service, there is no waiter. Also some shops that sell coffee beans have tables and stools outside but they are very uncomfortable (mainly for one person) and also self-service. They are all close to a main road, there is a lot of noise from people passing-by and cars. The only time to go to a shop like the first place is when it is in the middle of a journey. You stop for a little rest, go to the toilet, get coffee-water-pie and sit outside at the table, sometimes when i have time i sit and smoke a pipe if the place is quiet although the decoration isn't something great. In a shop like the second one, never.
3) Take-away, although the title says it, some of them with the annoying tolerance of the government and the Municipal Police, also put tables and chairs outside on the sidewalk. The environment is not nice, no waitress, the seats are uncomfortable, it is usually close to a traffic light so there is a lot of noise and pollution from cars-trucks-buses. The customers usually are young people, non-locals which often arguing each other or middle-aged people who do not want to go to a Café. Some shout or laughing loud, others talk in their mobile phones with the speaker On (no hands-free), others listen to music from a YouTube video even though the Cafe already has music and it is loud (modern songs or folk songs in the evening), often beggars coming etc. There is no way i would sit in such a place like this to smoke a pipe!
The part 2 in a next post plus what happens if there is a ''troublemaker'' in a Café (not a bar of nightclub).
We have sun and 66'F here in Athens-Greece, i smoke Vanilla Hausmarke.
cigarillofingers
Have a go roller
Had some Gawith Hoggarth Jamaica Flake in a cob except I paired it with a G&T instead of a rum
Just for fun, I dried out a bowl of Lane 1-Q and am smoking it in a Peterson Kildare 120 P-lip. I smoked this stuff regularly until I discovered English and Navy flake tobacco. Everyone loves the smell when I light it up. Right now all I can taste is the additives, and they don’t taste great. Maybe I’ve just lost my taste for it. I think it’s enjoyable for everyone except the poor sod smoking it.
TigerTom
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Been on a Burley kick.
Stokkebye PS 702
Stokkebye PS 702
Tookish
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Its been a long time since I've been on the forums here, but I am once again going to attempt to clone this amazing blend (only have a few tins of it left). FM OTT, out of my Vauen Jay 541 white dot.
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