Saturday, November 16, 2019

A FIT SUBJECT FOR DARK NIGHTS

For the benefit of pipe smokers, and only pipe smokers, seeing as no one else is likely to find any of this fascinating, here are links to essays containing short reviews of some pipe tobaccos. So mostly men.
Though some are, regrettably, hobbits.
Well, maybe there might be some women who are interested (Mary in the Carolinas, for instance), or even impressionable young ladies looking for something to enjoy of an afternoon with their tea.

Men. And hobbits.


SUNDAY, JULY 15, 2012
GREG PEASE REVIEWED - A REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLING OF HIS OEUVRE
Exceptionally good stuff, old-fashioned blends.

TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 2019
OBSESSIVES REJOICE!
About Samuel Gawith tobaccos

THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2019
ESOTERICA
Stuff produced by six misanthropes in an old brick building in the Channel Islands surrounded by fish.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 08, 2015
APPRECIATING MORLEYSSON -- BLENDS BY BOB RUNOWSKI
Old-school Burley concoctions.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 03, 2019
REPRESENTATIVE SAMPLES, BUT SKEWED
Sutliff.

THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2019
WHAT REAL MEN SMELL LIKE
Ashton pipe tobaccos, some of which are reprehensible.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 06, 2019
WHAT THEY WERE DOING IN KANSAS CITY (MCCLELLANDS)
This company no longer exists.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2017
THE OBSESSIVE LIST
Taking the list of tobaccos that You. Must. try. To Call. Yourself. A. Man. to the nth. degree. There are several you shouldn't.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2017
WHEN YOU ARE OLD ENOUGH TO MAKE YOUR OWN MISTAKES
Aromatics.


And lastly, because these days I smoke mostly Virginia-Perique blends and flake tobaccos, this:


FRIDAY, AUGUST 09, 2013
FLAKES: A BRIEF PERSONAL INTRODUCTION


As a personal eccentricity, I am somewhat obsessed with the idea of a young woman deciding that she should smoke a pipe, and do it well.
So avoiding aromatics and Latakia overloads, eschewing too much Perique, and determined to not abuse or hotbox (overheat) her briars.











If I were a young woman, that's what I would do.

Nice pipes are very feminine.



TOBACCO INDEX


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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I am always delighted when you do a reprise of your greatest hits, be it pipe tobacco, cookery or anything else. May I suggest a compendium of things Dutch?

M

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