Smoke em if ya got em

**Jock Scot** · 7th February 15, 04:14 AM

In the days when I used to smoke a pipe, "Erinmore" was my choice. I am not sure if it is still available, but I keep some of my fishing flies in some of the old tins and the wiff of that wonderful tobacco still catches my nostrils when opening up the tin, even after all this time.

**Singlemalt** · 7th February 15, 04:38 AM

I have smoked a pipe off and on for over 30 years. At one time I felt I was smoking too much and it was impacting my health. I stopped entirely for about five years. It really was not hard, I don't think I developed the full physical tobacco addiction that cigarette smokers are afflicted with. However, I continued to miss the comfort of my pipe so I decided I would start again but only treat myself on very special days. I now basically only smoke when I am fishing or hunting (shooting).
I smoke a Canadian blend called Muskoka Mixture which i beleive is based on a Danish style. My father was a pipe smoker and like Jock smoked Erinmore. I have a couple of his old pipes which I smoke occasionally. Though he has been gone for well over twenty years in the first puff or two from his old pipes I can still taste the Erinmore flavour with which they are infused. I have bought it and tried to smoke it but it is too powerful for me.

**Father Bill** · 7th February 15, 05:02 AM

Thousands of years ago, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I too smoked Erinmore. Later I smoked a locally blended tobacco called Black Orchid, but it's been over thirty years and while I still enjoy the scent, I couldn't stomach the taste.

**HixwithanX** · 7th February 15, 07:19 AM

Although I'm on the coffin nails right now, I've smoked pipes off and on since I was a teen. Like others that have posted, I stay away from the heavy aromatics (am I the only one that doesn't like the term "aromatic?") but a little non-tobacco flavor adds variety. I like Dunhill Early Morning Pipe and and I've been trying several Sutliffe Reserves, R-Blend being one of my favorites.

I know that there are several X-Markers that live in and around Atlanta, GA. If you were ever at Edward's Pipe Shop and noticed a picture of a young man in a Cunningham kilt, well, that'd be me! Worked there for about four years or so. I worked the Edward's booth at the very first Stone Mountain games as it happens.

Regards,

**Pipersson** · 7th February 15, 08:00 AM

I started pipe smoking with forty after a decade of cigar experiments...
Prefering english mixtures and natural virginas my daily smoke is a self made mixture of a lightly whisky-flavoured virgina called "Sweet Dublin" and a quarter of spicy latakia.
From a small german manufacturer in the north (Lauenburg) i get a tobacco called "Bulldog Golden Flake" with a soapy note in the beginning (typical for irish tobacco as I heard)...very interesting too.

Tom

**Liam** · 7th February 15, 10:35 AM

I too used to be a pipe smoker, and still have my collection of 20-30 briars. I was fond of Erinmore, but also enjoyed Amphora Black Cavendish and Captain Black. Both had a significant amount of Latakia in their blend.

**BadenochWolf** · 21st March 15, 07:59 PM

Originally Posted by Jock Scot

In the days when I used to smoke a pipe, "Erinmore" was my choice. I am not sure if it is still available, but I keep some of my fishing flies in some of the old tins and the wiff of that wonderful tobacco still catches my nostrils when opening up the tin, even after all this time.

Erinmore is definitely still available in both flake and mixture (ribbon cut). I had a pipe of the flake tonight. Interesting flavor; different from most of the VA/burley flake I've had, but VERY good.

**Jordan** · 21st March 15, 09:32 PM

I'm a pipe smoker, have been for a few years now.

I've got quite a varied taste in tobacco, smoking anything from heavy aromatics to Carter Hall (when I can get it over here!) I'm not a massive fan of English blends but I like the occasional bowl.

As for pipes my collection is varied there also, I do like Corn Cobs though.

**Tenmiles** · 21st March 15, 10:12 PM

BadenochWolf, my retelling of the story which I heard when I was perhaps twelve should be taken with a grain of salt. My knowledge, and use, of terminology is probably deeply flawed. Where I said "CO", it very well might have been a drill sergeant or something; I just meant to convey, through my weak recollection, that it was the bloke in charge at the moment. To everyone who's actually served, please do not take my ignorance of the finer points as disrespect.

**BadenochWolf** · 22nd March 15, 07:53 PM

@Tenmiles, I'm really and truly sorry if anything I said sounded either offended or offensive. No disrespect was intended. I was genuinely interested in your father's story. I've spent most of my adult life either in the military, or dealing primarily with other veterans; sometimes I forget that service jargon is bewildering to others, and that linguistic imprecision isn't a mortal sin. Please accept my apologies for being entirely too much of a stickler.

You were correct in your guess as to where the thread title came from. I meant to congratulate you on that, rather than harangue you for some a minor detail lost in the re-telling. In the old days of road marches and symmetrical warfare, this would often be the call during rest stops. Although smoking in the field is now very passé, these phrases survive as a way of announcing a break from whatever task to which one's unit has been set. Again, my apologies for being utterly obtuse.