Thread: Pipe of the Day

Earl Grey and a Viking squashed tomato with McClellands 2001 Fragrant Matured cake Virginia before bed.

I was on the MM cob today (shhh! Don't tell anyone, but I was going for an easy 20km ride when I decided to light up) with the BK Cherry Cav. It made for a nice roll through some local bushland reserves.


Mick

Cut up cigar (La Aroma de Cuba) in a 1930's Kaywoodie

Originally Posted by 1OldGI

Cut up cigar (La Aroma de Cuba) in a 1930's Kaywoodie

That's a cool looking little pipe man.

Originally Posted by Nightblade

That's a cool looking little pipe man.

It's compact and fat at the same time, a really good smoker too not nearly as hot and bitey as most compact pipes. I normally don't have dedicated pipes as my diversity of tobacco is not all that great but this is the one I typically smoke cut up cigars in.

I've never smoked cigar through a pipe.That mostly a Burley tobacco then ?

Yeah, mostly burley but burley is pretty much 99.99% of my rotation. Every once in a while I'll pick up something with a burley base and condimental levels of virginia and perigue (i.e. Old Joe Krantz) or in some cases latakia (Billy Budd) but it's all very burley based. Every couple years (whether I need to or not) I'll pick up an English blend (Squadron Leader or Early Morning Pipe) but it never takes me long to get back to my old school burley.

The cut up cigar thing started a couple years back out of curousity more than anything else (other than perhaps my Scottish heritage). When I bought good cigars it bothered me that I'd smoke them down to the butt and throw that much tobacco away. I decided to put the butts in a jar and let them de-funk for a while then try cutting them up and stuffing them into a pipe. It worked like a champ and when I pay $5-6 for a good cigar I"m no kidding making ashes out of the whole thing. Don't tell anyone but I think I prefer smoking them in a pipe over smoking them as cigars. I can usually get at least four or five bowls out of a cigar butt.

Stanwell with 4noggins Chipman Hill. Good latakia blend.

Saturday evening smoke, some Midnight Ride in a Joe Case pipe, along with some Speakeasy Big Daddy IPA, a brewer from San Francisco. This is a very good tobacco. Good evening gents.



p.s. since this is a straight razor site, I will be touching up some straights on a Naniwa 12k tomorrow morning, I have three days of stubble that's gotta go.

Originally Posted by 1OldGI

Yeah, mostly burley but burley is pretty much 99.99% of my rotation. Every once in a while I'll pick up something with a burley base and condimental levels of virginia and perigue (i.e. Old Joe Krantz) or in some cases latakia (Billy Budd) but it's all very burley based. Every couple years (whether I need to or not) I'll pick up an English blend (Squadron Leader or Early Morning Pipe) but it never takes me long to get back to my old school burley.

The cut up cigar thing started a couple years back out of curousity more than anything else (other than perhaps my Scottish heritage). When I bought good cigars it bothered me that I'd smoke them down to the butt and throw that much tobacco away. I decided to put the butts in a jar and let them de-funk for a while then try cutting them up and stuffing them into a pipe. It worked like a champ and when I pay $5-6 for a good cigar I"m no kidding making ashes out of the whole thing. Don't tell anyone but I think I prefer smoking them in a pipe over smoking them as cigars. I can usually get at least four or five bowls out of a cigar butt.

I can totally understand where you're coming from GI . I seem to remember somewheres on the Pipes and Cigars site a buzz about a brand that actually used cigar tobacco in it's blend, unfortunately the name is escaping me.....Possibly a McClellands line ??