'evening Gents. RC's Scottish Flake in a Savinelli Milano.
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'evening Gents. RC's Scottish Flake in a Savinelli Milano.
Blackwoods Flake in my Tinsky LE.
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This evening, I'm about to light up a bowlful of Cornell & Diehl "Irish Blessing" in my Peterson Dublin.
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Blackwoods in the Brigham Algonquin 216
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I shared a pic of my new mahogany Calabash in a recent post. I't's a beautiful pipe, smokes cool and dry, and the block meerschaum is already coloring a nice rosy, tannish color after only two smokes!
Here's the question, or issue: First, this is my first mahogany wood pipe. I've read that these will impart a flavor to the tobacco and I've noticed a kind of sweet, woody, somewhat cedarish note while smoking the calabash. Not necessarily bad, just different. My first bowl, I tried Uhle's Black Stoker and had a great smoke. My second bowl, the next day, was McClelland Navy Cavendish and was also a very enjoyable smoke. But I noticed about an hour, or two (?) after finishing the "Navy" an almost cloying(?), overly-rich, overwhelming flavor/ body sensation from the mixture of the tobacco and mahogany flavor. It wasn't just a taste in the mouth, but almost as if I had been entirely saturated by the flavor. Almost nauseating. Never had this reaction with the same tobacco in a briar or in a full meerschaum pipe.
So finally the question(s): Is this typical of mahogany? Does the mahogany taste mellow with time? Or, should this experience be telling me that the navy cavendish is not a good pairing with this calabash pipe?
As I rest up from an overly festive weekend i smoke a couple of roasts to turn into BBQ while enjoying a cob full of granger.
Nice Sunday evening. Cold outside and can smell the neighbours wood burning stove.
Enjoying a bowl of Luxury Twist in a birth year Dunhill while studying for the provincial hunting exam. I promise to bag my own turkey this year for Thanksgiving!
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Do you really have to wear a big fluoro orange sleeping bag like what they got on, on the cover of your book?
Mick
Working on breaking in another one during the morning drives. I wasn't overly impressed with this blend from pipesandcigars.com at first but it was gotten much better with age. Just a nice smooth mellow aromatic.
Pipe: Tim Thorpe Custom
Tobacco: P&C Fusion Labs Caramel Apple Pie
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