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What I Smoked This Week 3 - Cornell & Diehl Billy Budd & Bailey's Front Porch
So in last week's column, I said I'd be doing the four blends in the Cobblestone Indulge Series between two weeks—I covered Vanilla Custard and Walnut Maple Pie last week, and this column was going to...
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7 of the Best Budget Cigars
Punch Clasico Maduro Elite La Venga No. 37 Maduro Robusto Stallone The Pony Sumatra Short Gordo Casa Turrent Nicaragua Perfecto Arango Sportsman 200 Natural Lonsdale Matilde Serena Corona Nicarango...
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What I Smoked This Week 4 - Peterson Irish Whiskey & Captain Earle's Ten...
Well, hello. Back again for another What I Smoked This Week with Peterson’s Irish Whiskey and Captain Earle’s Ten Russians (European friends may know Irish Whiskey as Irish Mixture). This was a very...
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What I Smoked This Week 5 - Newminster 403 Superior Round Slice & Sutliff...
This week it’s all bulk, baby. Jar it and char it as I always say. Alright, that's the first time I’ve said that but I might start. This week I enjoyed some Newminster 403 Superior Round Slice—my dive...
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What I Smoked This Week 6 - Cornell & Diehl Black Frigate & Capstan Original...
Hello, hello—What I Smoked This Week apparently is nautical themed today. Why? I'm not sure—It's Friday, I'm hours from posting the column, and I just noticed. At any rate, today we have Cornell &...
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Introducing Compare & Share—Fostering Community and Affordable Exploration...
We’re very excited to announce a new offering here at TobaccoPipes.com that we hope you’ll take part in—Compare & Share. An opportunity to explore different blends, engage others in the hobby, and...
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What I Smoked This Week 7 - Amphora Burley Blend & Peterson Elizabethan
Two great blends this week, both entirely new to me: Amphora Burley Blend and Person Elizabethan Mixture. But first a little restoration update...This Duke of Dundee is now restored and I'm loving it....
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What is Perique-Processed Katerini?
Pipe smokers will soon have the rare opportunity to try a new varietal included in some special and limited blends from the Sutliff Tobacco Company— Perique-Processed Katerini.A high grade of the rare...
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A Complete Guide to Cellaring Tobacco
Why Cellar Tobacco Blends How Different Blends Change The Right Environment for Aging Tobacco Keeping Track of your Cellar Different Containers for Cellaring If you’re at all like me when I was...
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The Tobacco Files 8 - 4th Generation Afternoon Melange & G. L. Pease Fillmore
So, a few weeks ago I closed What I Smoked This Week with the news that the column wouldn't be weekly any longer. Though that was three weeks ago, starting today, I’m giving bi-weekly a shot. I think...
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Compare & Share April Reveal!
We’re very pleased with our first month of Compare & Share! Thank you to all who participated in discussions around April’s Mystery Blends on our Instagram post, and we want to give a special...
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The Tobacco Files 9 - Sutliff Uno & Presbyterian
The blends for this column was a lot of fun—a novel newcomer and a sanctified classic. I've been smoking Sutliff Uno and Presbyterian. For a little context, Uno is the first of a six blend series,...
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Introducing, Briarville Cigars—A Craft Line of Premium Cigars With Artistic...
You may be familiar with Briarville for their pipe repair services, or perhaps their fantastic tobacco pipe cleaning solutions. Well this company that has for the past decade been a staple of the hobby...
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The Making of Sutliff's Birds of a Feather—A Signature Series by Per Georg...
It all started on the first weekend of October 2021, when pipe smokers from all over descended on the Sutliff Tobacco building in Richmond, Virginia for the 33rd annual CORPS Pipe Smokers Gathering....
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The Tobacco Files 10 - Captain Earle's Honor Blend & Davidoff Flake Medallions
There's been a lot going on the last couple weeks that's allowed me the opportunity to try some exciting blends. I'm still very much enjoying the recently released Uno which I wrote about for the last...
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Compare & Share May Reveal!
Compare & Share for June 2022 is now live! Places to discuss: Facebook Discussion Group Instagram Another fine month of mystery tobacco tasting! The blends for May 2022? Mystery Blend #1 - Balkan...
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5 Best Pipe Kits for Beginners
Beginner pipe kits are perfect for the newcomer learning to smoke a pipe. Along with starting you off with a great, affordable pipe, you’re set up with the accessories you need to hit the ground...
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The Tobacco Files 11 - Seattle Pipe Club Hogshead & Savinelli Janus
For this Tobacco File, we have Seattle Pipe Clubs latest, Hogshead, and Janus from the Italian pipe masters at Savinelli. HogsheadOur hogshead is a blend of very old Virginias cultivated in Africa,...
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Best Smelling Pipe Tobaccos (Top 10 Aromatic Mixtures)
In his 1965 book The Pleasures of Pipe Smoking, Carl Weber dedicates a chapter to the etiquette of pipe smoking, which is introduced with the following quotation: "Too often, the word tact is used to...
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The Tobacco Files 12 - Mac Baren HH Balkan Blend & Two Friends Redwood
Hello friends, welcome to another Tobacco File. Today we're exploring Mac Baren HH Balkan Blend, Two Friends Redwood, and to throw something new in the mix, the Files will now feature a cigar segment....
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