Smoke em if ya got em

**IsaacW** · 7th February 15, 03:34 PM

I am an occasional pipe smoker and have been since quite young. Now days, I tend to smoke tobacco that I grow myself in the garden and cure. The last few pipes I have had, however, I have been smoking a Balkan flake that a friend left at my place on Burns Night.

**S Mitchell** · 7th February 15, 03:53 PM

I'm also in the 'don't smoke my pipes much anymore' camp, but when I do, my favorites are Penzance, Squadron Leader and Bob's Chocolate Flake (each in its own dedicated pipe.)

**Cavfsnco** · 7th February 15, 04:41 PM

I miss my pipes gave it up about 18 months ago. Still have my pipes waiting when I was smoking I smoked a oriental blend from the local shop LJ Perretti been in business for over 100 years.

**notlob** · 7th February 15, 05:42 PM

i started in college when i happened upon this pipe store in Boston named David P. Ehrlich. They had a cavendish blend called Judges Mixture which was just wonderful. I'll smoke it outside when the spring bugs come out. Never could handle the English blends with lots of Latakia in them. Cavendish's & Burleys are fav's,

**mookien** · 7th February 15, 06:46 PM

I smoke an occasional cigar and gravitate towards the Dominicans, though the Nicaraguans are my 2nd favorite, especially Villar y Villar - a truly great "value" cigar.

Over the years I have smoked a good number of Cuban cigars, mostly procured via Europe where it is legal to purchase them. I have never smoked any Cuban that was comparable in quality to the best Dominicans. Almost all were good, but not great smokes. Castro drove the great cigar makers out of Cuba decades ago and most of them moved their operations to the DR.

**YOJiMBO20** · 7th February 15, 07:31 PM

While cleaning out my truck today, I was smoking some Frog Morton on the Town in a basket briar from my local shop. It's pretty much the only tobacco I smoke nowadays.

**pn1scott** · 7th February 15, 08:43 PM

I enjoy a nice hot cup of tea while smoking Dunhill Early Morning Pipe....or Dunhill Scottish Mixture....I also like Peterson's
holiday blends....

**tundramanq** · 8th February 15, 08:21 AM

My brand of choice is "Prince Albert". It is reasonably priced, available most places, consistent, mild and cool smoking. Friends who detest cigarette smoke generally like the aroma of this mild blend.
The aromatics tend to be too hot on my tongue.

**AFS1970** · 10th February 15, 11:15 PM

Never been a smoker myself but my father used to smoke pipes and for a bit one of my brothers did. I thought I would relay a story from when my brother smoked a pipe, as it is a funny blending story.

My brother would get his tobacco from a local shop when we had such a thing, and from drug stores when the tobacconist closed. He smoked a fairly wide variety of flavors. He had a tub at home where he would put the bits from his various bags that were not enough to fill his pouch for the day. This tub would be shaken up so it always contained an ever changing and somewhat random mix. When it was full he would start filling his pouch from that for a while.

So we were on a road trip with a friend of ours who was also a pipe smoker and he noticed my brother smoking a pipe and commented on how nice the blend smelled. He asked what it was called and where he could get some. He was a bit taken back with when the answer was leftovers and in the tub in my suitcase.

As a non smoking aside, I think he got that blending method from our mother, who for years kept a tin of coffee that was blended the same way. When it would get low, a pound of whatever was on sale would get mixed in.

**Stitchwiz** · 11th February 15, 05:46 PM

Captain Black Gold...

My ex used to smoke a pipe which he got from his grandfather. It was beautiful but he didn't know anything about pipe tobacco. He tried a few and disliked them. A tobacconist suggested he try Captain Black since he would be able to buy it in various locations. After trying all the varieties of Captain Black, Captain Black Gold was the only one that he would buy. It had a lovely apple scent which even I liked (I've never been a fan of smoking, but I married one! Love does strange things to us all.)

I could smell that delicious odour in my kitchen all the time. Even after he stopped smoking in our home, I could still smell it. I pull out my appliances every year to clean the backs and bottoms of dust etc. Imagine my surprise when I found an unopened package of Captain Black Gold caught on the cooling grid on the back of the fridge. Here it had been sitting, getting heat activated when the cooling pump came on, releasing a subtle scent from the tobacco for about a year. Best room freshener I've ever had.

Hmm, maybe....