Biggest nicotine hit

[NeverBend]

Ah, yes. Not straight. Good advice.

I let it dry about 45 minutes and it was a little damp still. Perhaps if I do try it again I'll mix it into something that needs a little kick. Maybe the Missouri Meerschaum Country Gentleman pouch I have. VaPer/Happy Bogie blend?

I mix Dark Flake (Unscented) and Dark Sliced (they're not the same) with Stokkebye Luxury Navy Flake or Escudo. I can smoke my 30+ year old Happy Brown Bogie pigtail straight - it has mellowed with a lot of age.

I find that Gawith Hoggarth flakes and ropes are still very similar to what they were many years ago. They were always coarse, never subtle but always big on flavor and they still deliver. My advice when smoking the high nicotine mixture is to focus on controlling the volume of smoke. Sip them slowly.

[Haebar]

In addition to the others mentioned, Half & Half has always been satisfying in the nicotine sense for me.

[Branzig]

Well.... @Emperor Zurg

Leave it to me. I mixed my last Black Cherry coin with some Grousemoor last night

Wow! Good stuff! It is like a mix between Earl Grey, Cherry, and Lemon. In my pipe!

Yes please

(As far as nicotine hit though, not so much. Of course I smoked the Black Cherry straight and didn't even get a buzz...so YMMV)

[Emperor Zurg]

Grousemoor eh? Now I'm going to 'need' a tin of that, because that sounds delicious. I love Earl Grey tea.

The enabling on this site is out of control.

[PMR]

Yep. I'm going to have to move cigar money over into a pipe tobacco fund. Another $65 just spent.

Damn enablers.

So what else is good?

[Branzig]

Yep. I'm going to have to move cigar money over into a pipe tobacco fund. Another $65 just spent.

Damn enablers.

So what else is good?

Well it's ok really. I mean, if you keep piping away, soon you won't have to worry about some silly cigar fund

My suggestion is slow down and smoke what you have/have coming and learn what you enjoy. There are so many pipe tobaccos out there that it can get pretty overwhelming if you can't narrow it down a bit.

[PMR]

Well it's ok really. I mean, if you keep piping away, soon you won't have to worry about some silly cigar fund

If it weren't for that emoji I would have been put off. . My cigars are what keep me sane. I smoke one every morning, then a pipe around lunch. Then either a cigar or pipe on the way home.

My taste is evolving for sure. Earlier in the day though I still like aromatics best, especially Shenandoah. I'm finding VaPers enjoyable more than before but some a lot more than others. Latakia blends later in the day are good for me. But I've had a few miscellaneous blends that I.got no nicotine from and was left needing it. That's mostly why I started this thread. I smoked a bowl of one tobacco or another and got no satisfaction as far as nicotine.

But yes, with what's on hand now I'm in good shape.

[Branzig]

If it weren't for that emoji I would have been put off. . My cigars are what keep me sane. I smoke one every morning, then a pipe around lunch. Then either a cigar or pipe on the way home.

My taste is evolving for sure. Earlier in the day though I still like aromatics best, especially Shenandoah. I'm finding VaPers enjoyable more than before but some a lot more than others. Latakia blends later in the day are good for me. But I've had a few miscellaneous blends that I.got no nicotine from and was left needing it. That's mostly why I started this thread. I smoked a bowl of one tobacco or another and got no satisfaction as far as nicotine.

But yes, with what's on hand now I'm in good shape.

Luckily I smoke for flavor and not nicotine. I also have a really high nicotine tolerance, so even stronger blends and cigars don't do much for me. Only inhaling gives me a buzz, and I quit doing that when I dropped cigarettes and have never looked back.

I used to be a heavy cigar guy too. I still have a coolidor and couple humis....but I sold my wineador and good chunk of my stash years ago. Pipes rein supreme in my world

[PMR]

Its not my main objective, but if it isn't the whole package I sometimes find the smoke lacking. A great tasting tobacco with very little nicotine is great but sometimes its not enough.

I like Scotch, but if it tasted amazing and I didn't get a buzz I'd be disappointed, you know what I mean?

[Branzig]

Its not my main objective, but if it isn't the whole package I sometimes find the smoke lacking. A great tasting tobacco with very little nicotine is great but sometimes its not enough.

I like Scotch, but if it tasted amazing and I didn't get a buzz I'd be disappointed, you know what I mean?

Yeah I get, and at the same time, don't get what you are saying haha.

Like I said, I have a pretty high nicotine tolerance, so very very few tobaccos give me a nicotine hit at all. I can't think of a single pipe tobacco that gives me both a great flavor and some vitamin N. I guess Samuel Gawith Black XX Twist would fit the bill. That is a big boy's kind of tobacco, but not something I feel like smoking often