Pipe Mixtures

[n2ize]

A while someone posted a link for a free sample tin of "Maple Street" pipe mixture. Well, they sent me two tins. But this past week I finally got to try the mixture. I smoked it in my short stemmed brier. Not bad. It's a light smoke, with a sort of nutty flavour and a slight hint of sweetness. Mildly aromatic. Mild, with just a little bit of tongue bite. I prefer a mixture that is spicy and rich in Latakia but, for a gently mild smoke this mixture is nice. I would recommend it as a great mixture for beginners.

[N8YX]

E.A. Carey was once located in the Canton area - they had a walnut-apple blend which was positively joyful to smoke.

I gave all that up in '89, tho...

[n2ize]

Instead of chewing tobacco I might go back to smoking an occaisional pipe. I want to try the same tobacco in my "chuch warden" pipe and in my bent stem brier (if I can find it). I would like to try and mix some Latakia into the "maple street" blends. I generally prefer smoking Latakia rich mixtures and pure Latakia.

[ki4itv]

Mostly Mango Diesel right now. :cool2:

[rot]

I'm strickly Rimboche...Acadian Perique
The son's stuff not the father's blend. Some kind of fermented stuff if I rembember correct..Smoothness.
rot

[W7XF]

I'm strictly clean air myself...although pipe tobacco smells immensely better
than cigar or cigarette smoke...I'll pass, thank you.

[n2ize]

I'm strictly clean air myself...although pipe tobacco smells immensely better
than cigar or cigarette smoke...I'll pass, thank you.

I too appreciate clean air and I generally don;t like to be surrounded by smokers all belching smoke at me. At the same time I still ennjoy an occasional smoke of a quality pipe and a good mixture.

Pipes are not for everyone. But, there is something very subtle and relaxing and classic about smoking a pipe. It is in some ways a throwback to another time. The aroma of the mixture, the taste of the tobacco, the smoke. It is along the lines of enjoying good whiskey, scotch or cognac, or, enjoying the tastes of fine coffee. matter of fact pipe smoking and fine whisky and or coffee go together. And like some types of Scotch and Coffee's, various kinds of tobacco mixtures require an acquired taste. They grow on you over time.

The nice thing about pipes is that there is so much variation. There are so many different tobaccos and mixtures. Ffrom the subtle aromatic cavendish and virginia tobaccos to the rich spicy Balkan and Latakia's and the multitudes of different blends flavourings and variations, historical mixtures dating back centuries to new mixtures that have yet to be tried to personal personal custom mixtures. Mathematically the number of possibilities for pipe mixtures is enormous.

Add to this the many different possibilities of pipes. From the cheapest cob pipes to the expensive ones (yes fine quality cobs can be quite costly) to the many different styles of briers, meerschaums, clay's,etc. Among my favorites are the long stemmed church warden, bent stem briars, old style long stemmed clays. However, I have recently been smoking my short stemmed briar which I happen to like for mild tobacco's.

These days quality pipes are so damned expensive... many falling in the $200 - $500 range. However, quality does not always have to come at a high price. You can get some good pipes in the $50-$150 range. And believe it or not I have a cheap drug store brier that gives an incredibly good smoke and is surprisingly well made.

I consider pipe smoking an example of one of the finer enjoyments in life.

[W1GUH]

Mostly Mango Diesel right now. :cool2:

My friend Ernie had some Teenage Mother a couple of weeks ago....said it was dynamite!!! Sour Diesel is also a staple.

For the other stuff...David P. Erlich in Boston had a couple of nice ones....Plug Crum Cut and Boston Common.

[W2NAP]

i finally got my tin today. havent broke it out yet

[N9FE]

I prefer maui wowi myself. OH wait a minute the was the seventy's.. Carry on