Recent content by brando71

Me too I prefer the fold 'n stuff method. I use to prepare a small cigar with the enrolled flake. I don't use matches with flakes but my faithful Corona Old Boy (the one with engraved shapes). It works like a charm with flakes, ropes, etc.

About Americans tobaccos, one of the strongest blend I smoked in 20 years of messing around with pipes and tobaccos is Daughters & Ryan - Picayune Contents: Dark Burley, Bright Virginias, Orientals (Samsun), Perique Description: A full bodied blend of exceptional dark air-cured and the finest...

About me, there are more differences than similarities. The only real thing in common is the Rum flavoring. Contents: BR has Virginias bright and red, NV has fire-cured Kentucky added. Cut: BR crumble cake (pressed ribbons) vs. NV sort of crumble flakes. Flavoring: BR is soaked in Rum, NV is...

I will try to be serious (very hard task for me). IMHO it's very difficult to proclaim the absolute winner in a brand with hundreds of blends, but talking about some sort of classification, I would pick Atypical Blend: Mississippi Mud Aromatic: Crooner Burley Blend: Burley Flake #3 Burley...

So I'm abominable... :P Mississippi Mud is my C&D favorite ever :cheers:

At your service, my King! :D

One week ago I wondered I had 43 open tins... now just 35... :D

And to Luigi (me)... no thanks for the question? I'm kidding :D

Really a great response to my answer. Thank you Greg! - Luigi

I know it sounds funny :D but I collect tobaccos, vintages mostly. Sometimes I smoke them, too. :D

I read several pages of threads about how much lbs. someone is cellaring. It is an interesting reading indeed. As pipe tobacco collector, what interest me more is how many blends we are cellaring. It's ok to cellar dozens of lbs. of your favorite blends but from my perspective, I wouldn't do...

The only places where I'm allowed to smoke are my studio and the patio. Period. The rest of the house is forbidden to me and my baccy :( :P When I was unmarried I used to smoke in my car also... Sometimes I miss those latakia smell...

Ending three last coins of Escudo in a giant Savinelli... I need to pick more of this stuff!

I did the list one year ago but actually with the last orders I think that I'm close to the 100 lbs. milestone... Colombian customs are going smarter and it is more difficult to pass packages as Candles Supplies as I did for a while... :D

I'm one pipe per day guy so I guess I will never smoke out my whole stash. The point is that I love to collect and trade tobaccos, I did it in the past two decades. For the last whole year I stopped to buy new blends and I just started some weeks ago again... please don't let my wife know :)