jamesthomas
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As an aside on the Pipe thread, what are some good tobacco's to try?.
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Whats your favorite Tobacco?
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I'D RECOMMEND A GOOD English blend. Skiff, Penzance, Dunhill's Early Morning Pipe, something like that. Most drug store brands are made from inferior tobacco. :td: Don't try to smoke hard. Lots of puffing will make you feel like your tongue is on fire. :shocked2: Don't inhale. Use a pipe tamper and be sure to clean it well after each smoke. graybeard
The question is, are you looking for something akin to what they might have had then, or simply looking for something good?
Flake style pipe tobaccos were popular as they shipped and stored well.
Samuel Gawith Full Virginia Flake is made from straight VA tobacco.
A less robust Virginia is MacBaren Full Virginia No.1 which is pressed and cut as a flake, BUT then "rubbed" back into its final form and aged a bit further.
If those are a wee bit too fancy and a bit dear, well there's good old Captain Black Gold for an inexpensive, Virginia Cavendish. Maybe not nearly as high quality as many prefer, but you can often find it at stores along the way as you journey to your event, and having remembered you left you tobacco at home, eh?
Then there's:
MacBaren Navy Flake doesn't include Turkish tobacco as some other brands do.
Rum Flake from Gawith , Hogarth & Company is pretty good, though stong.
Special Brown Flake is a "rummed" flake, but less robust than the GH&C rum above.
Really, as long as you have it in a period container, you're probably fine, no matter what you like to smoke.
I do know that folks that have tried to put loose, cigarette tobacco into a pipe have found that's not the way to go :shocked2:
LD
Flake style pipe tobaccos were popular as they shipped and stored well.
Samuel Gawith Full Virginia Flake is made from straight VA tobacco.
A less robust Virginia is MacBaren Full Virginia No.1 which is pressed and cut as a flake, BUT then "rubbed" back into its final form and aged a bit further.
If those are a wee bit too fancy and a bit dear, well there's good old Captain Black Gold for an inexpensive, Virginia Cavendish. Maybe not nearly as high quality as many prefer, but you can often find it at stores along the way as you journey to your event, and having remembered you left you tobacco at home, eh?
Then there's:
MacBaren Navy Flake doesn't include Turkish tobacco as some other brands do.
Rum Flake from Gawith , Hogarth & Company is pretty good, though stong.
Special Brown Flake is a "rummed" flake, but less robust than the GH&C rum above.
Really, as long as you have it in a period container, you're probably fine, no matter what you like to smoke.
I do know that folks that have tried to put loose, cigarette tobacco into a pipe have found that's not the way to go :shocked2:
LD
Agree NONE, was a slave to tobacco for 30 years now free for 15 NEVER STARTRichard Eames said:
I am too much a novice and don't smoke enough pipe tobacco to have sampled many that I would bother to recall. I have a blend from a tobacco shop here that they call Captain Black and claim is a simple old Virginia and Burley that is most comparable to Captain Black White. Non-aromatic as far as junk being added. I do like it very much and have a bowl of it as I type... It is my mainstay at this point.
Like the Mac Baren Cherry Ambrosia OK. Yeah, it's like a Neapolitan Ice Cream Sundae of smoking but it smells SO good -- in fact better than it tastes.
I look forward to everyone's "recommendations" -- LOL.
Like the Mac Baren Cherry Ambrosia OK. Yeah, it's like a Neapolitan Ice Cream Sundae of smoking but it smells SO good -- in fact better than it tastes.
I look forward to everyone's "recommendations" -- LOL.
If you travel to Gettysburg I would highly recommend stopping by the Gettysburg Cigar Company (Google the addresss). They blend some excellent pipe tobacco and probably have 20 varieties, from mild to stout.
My favorite is their "Longstreet" blend which is quite mild and aromatic with a good flavor.
It is worth checking out or stopping by.
My favorite is their "Longstreet" blend which is quite mild and aromatic with a good flavor.
It is worth checking out or stopping by.
Try to buy your tobacco at a cigar and pipe shop. Lots of the over the counter stuff have preservatives in it that make it burn hot and give the pipe a bite. I smoke an English blend, but the principle flavor latikia was not used until after the 1820s and is unlikely to have been used in the Americas. English blends tend to be an acquired taste. Black cavendish and navy flake and Virginia are great for a true 18thcentury taste. Early 19th century a Kentucky burly can be added. Purique, a spicy flavored fermented tobacco out of Louisiana was going north before 1800. Enjoy your smoke, enjoy it in moderation, don't worry about becoming a slave to a pipe. I've been pipe smoking 40 years and ain't addicted yet. You know the Japanese eat blow fish. They have a saying that to eat the blow fish is to die, to not eat it is to have never lived.
I haven't smoked a pipe in a while, I would say if you want something more traditional then probably Twist. However my personal favourite was Borkum Riff Cherry Cavendish. My wife's uncle used to mix his own using Erinmore mixture and a black plug Tobacco something like Condor and I have to say it was very nice. I don't know whether these brands are available on your side of the Atlantic.
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My favorite is a pressed Virginia flake. The processing brings out a natural from the tobacco. It needs to be pulled apart by hand and it's a slow burning, pleasant smoke. NEVER puff hard with any pipe tobacco.
Then there is a mild English blend. Lots of flavor but some folks think it dries out their mouth.
In a pinch, the original Sir Walter Raleigh, not the aromatic version, is decent for a burley blend. It burns easily and is fairly easy to find. Comparatively inexpensive, as well.
Hope this gives you a starting point.
Jeff
Then there is a mild English blend. Lots of flavor but some folks think it dries out their mouth.
In a pinch, the original Sir Walter Raleigh, not the aromatic version, is decent for a burley blend. It burns easily and is fairly easy to find. Comparatively inexpensive, as well.
Hope this gives you a starting point.
Jeff
If you haven't already tried it, you should try a Latakia tobacco or at least a mixture made with it. it has a very distinctive flavor. Although it wasn't around the colonies in the 1700's as long as you store it in a period container, no one other than another pipe smoker will know. :wink:
Now days I only smoke a pipe at reenactments with a clay pipe and usually use Capt. Black or Borkum Riff. Both are Cavendish tobaccos meaning they have bee pressed and fermented and sometimes flavoring added (bourbon to both of those). Cavendish tobacco's are also usually long cut, which makes them easy to pack and to light.
Kind of sad really as I have some nice pipes in my collection that I haven't used for 40-years or so. One is a carved Turkish Meerschaum pipe that my brother bought for me in Turkey back in about 1969 or so. Another is a "space-age" pipe called "The Pipe" that has a permanent pre-formed carbon layer built up inside a plastic shell. Unlike briar pipes that you need to build up a carbon layer by smoking them, this pipe came "broken in" because of that layer. If I wanted to know what a particular tobacco was like, I would put it in The Pipe first. I also have a number of briar pipes in a variety of shapes.
Also have an English officers Calabash pipe from 1910 that has an unusual hinged-leather case. Has a padded felt liner inside with depressions for the bowl and stem. The letters CSSA are embossed in gold in the lid. It's a classy pipe that always smokes well. My parents brought that back for me from London on their one and only trip to Europe around 1970.
Maybe I'll take it out and smoke a pipe tonight just for S&G's.
Twisted_1in66 :thumbsup:
Dan
Now days I only smoke a pipe at reenactments with a clay pipe and usually use Capt. Black or Borkum Riff. Both are Cavendish tobaccos meaning they have bee pressed and fermented and sometimes flavoring added (bourbon to both of those). Cavendish tobacco's are also usually long cut, which makes them easy to pack and to light.
Kind of sad really as I have some nice pipes in my collection that I haven't used for 40-years or so. One is a carved Turkish Meerschaum pipe that my brother bought for me in Turkey back in about 1969 or so. Another is a "space-age" pipe called "The Pipe" that has a permanent pre-formed carbon layer built up inside a plastic shell. Unlike briar pipes that you need to build up a carbon layer by smoking them, this pipe came "broken in" because of that layer. If I wanted to know what a particular tobacco was like, I would put it in The Pipe first. I also have a number of briar pipes in a variety of shapes.
Also have an English officers Calabash pipe from 1910 that has an unusual hinged-leather case. Has a padded felt liner inside with depressions for the bowl and stem. The letters CSSA are embossed in gold in the lid. It's a classy pipe that always smokes well. My parents brought that back for me from London on their one and only trip to Europe around 1970.
Maybe I'll take it out and smoke a pipe tonight just for S&G's.
Twisted_1in66 :thumbsup:
Dan
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I mostly smoke petersen sunset breeze or captain black.
My favorite had been La Merde du Boeuf Sauvage Tabac but that has been unobtainable. * sigh *
When I do smoke it is Pipeworks & Wilke #10 (mostly Virginia and Latakia) blended by Carole Burns. Very nice in a reed stemmed clay pipe.
http://www.vtpipes.com/tobacco.html
When I do smoke it is Pipeworks & Wilke #10 (mostly Virginia and Latakia) blended by Carole Burns. Very nice in a reed stemmed clay pipe.
http://www.vtpipes.com/tobacco.html
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Unadulterated Sir Walter Raleigh was (is?) indeed my "uh oh -- I forgot tobacco" tobacco. Borkum Riff -- been there, done that too.
Stumpkiller, you can find that French tobacco next to the Lay's Southern Biscuits and Gravy potato chips at PathMark...
Tenn, I do buy from a tobacconists.
And Twisted, I remember The Pipe! It was like a black-lined egg with a matching stem. A 2001: A Space Odyssey pipe!
Stumpkiller, you can find that French tobacco next to the Lay's Southern Biscuits and Gravy potato chips at PathMark...
Tenn, I do buy from a tobacconists.
And Twisted, I remember The Pipe! It was like a black-lined egg with a matching stem. A 2001: A Space Odyssey pipe!
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+1 about Wilke #10.
Others that I like - for the few bowls that I smoke are both hard to find: Esoterica Penzance and Balkan Sobranie
Others that I like - for the few bowls that I smoke are both hard to find: Esoterica Penzance and Balkan Sobranie
A good natural mix without flavorings or additives is to blend 20% Five Brothers brand burley with about 70% cut up wholeleaf Virginia tobacco and some Turkish Izmir tobacco or Samsun tobacco mixed with Izmir. Samsun may need to be grown because it appearantly is not available in whole leaf form. Simple, no nonsense smoke.
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Wow!, thanks guys, it looks like I have some experimenting to do. I have a Tinder Box Tobacco store in town that I will visit and see what they have.
