What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

Stokkebye Dutch slices in Jeantet prince. Really excellent Burley blend, and ought to be good for reestablishing a bit of cake on this little pipe that easily reamed back to bare Briar.

Now smoking 2012 Anniversary Kake in a straight Lane era Charatan black with burgundy undertone sandblasted billiard 420.

Spent this morning revisiting a VA/burley blend I concocted a few years back. Mainly red VAs with a small dose of white VAs and an equal amount of burley, plus one component I can't recall at the moment. It's fairly straightforward and just tasty enough to keep me puffing, but it's brutal if you go too hard. Definite tongue bite territory. I don't think I'll mix any more of this.

The afternoon was then spent revisiting an Oriental/Lat/VA blend that I made around the same time. It's good, especially for having been jarred for two years. The exotics didn't lose any punch even though I blended it to be on the mild side. I think it's a keeper and will probably whip up a pound or two and see how the customers take to it.

Right now I'm puffing on an aro I made for a customer. He wanted something a bit stronger than Trout Stream that featured a little more butterscotch and a faint vanilla backbone. He seems to love it, judging by how often he buys it, but I only had access to PG-soaked flavored tobaccos so it's not quite my cup of tea. There aren't enough VAs and burleys in the world to cut through the PG flavor I pick up from things like this.

Bald headed teacher in the mm ozark

Kentucky Mixture match in a MM General

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Originally Posted by AndyCAYP

Spent this morning revisiting a VA/burley blend I concocted a few years back. Mainly red VAs with a small dose of white VAs and an equal amount of burley, plus one component I can't recall at the moment. It's fairly straightforward and just tasty enough to keep me puffing, but it's brutal if you go too hard. Definite tongue bite territory. I don't think I'll mix any more of this.

The afternoon was then spent revisiting an Oriental/Lat/VA blend that I made around the same time. It's good, especially for having been jarred for two years. The exotics didn't lose any punch even though I blended it to be on the mild side. I think it's a keeper and will probably whip up a pound or two and see how the customers take to it.

Right now I'm puffing on an aro I made for a customer. He wanted something a bit stronger than Trout Stream that featured a little more butterscotch and a faint vanilla backbone. He seems to love it, judging by how often he buys it, but I only had access to PG-soaked flavored tobaccos so it's not quite my cup of tea. There aren't enough VAs and burleys in the world to cut through the PG flavor I pick up from things like this.

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Hi Andy,

Welcome to the forum.

Who manufactures White Virginia, I haven't heard of it before.

I've never been able to taste propylene glycol but I don't smoke aromatics.

Pete

Taking a cigar break with a 2012 Montecristo Double Corona, iced Diet Pepsi, Seattle (still) Sports Radio on a chilly Fall night.

About half way through this bowl of MacBaren HH Pure Virginia in a mid-late 1930s straight black grain relief Dunhill OX Shell bulldog with a silver band repair.

Enjoying some SPC Potlatch in a bier

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Half way through this bowl of Jim's Half Va., Half Burley w/Per in a 1970s slight bend Caminetto business 134 poker with a gold acrylic stem.

A couple beers and Samuel Gawith Navy Flake make for a wonderful end to a productive but stressful day.