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  1. Dillon

    Beverages That Work Well With the Pipe?

    Typically strong (1 scoop per cup) black coffee for me, hot black tea, iced sweet tea or water can substitute if I'm twonked on caffeine already. Scotch and whisky are okay, but it's been a while since I've had any. For some reason I can't drink beer with a pipe--it feels weird and throws off...
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    Peterson Old Dublin - too much?

    Old Dublin is a great one--it was my #2 favorite a couple years back and this thread is making me consider buying a new tin. I agree with Brewdude on the Peterson blends. All but one (Gold Blend) of theirs that I've tried is a little heavier than normal, but I love them, and I found OD in...
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    Another Missouri Meerschaum Churchwarden

    Looking good. I bought a MacArthur about a month ago that I still haven't smoked, and this post made me realize I would be making a churchwarden (which I've wanted for a while) out of it, so I might as well do it.
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    Presbyterian

    I had a tin of this a few years ago, liked it a lot. Great well-rounded kind of Oriental/English hybrid with a good amount of Lat if I remember correctly.
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    What's your favorite beer?

    My go-to beers are High Life, Pabst, and Budweiser Original. Can't beat the first two for about $4.50 for a six-pack or $1.20 for a 40oz. It's not great, but it's definitely drinkable. My all-time favorites I've ever had though are Schneider Weisse (Hefeweizen, had it in Germany, it's a small...
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    What are you smoking?

    Just finished a small bowl of straight Latakia in my Dr. Grabow Grand Duke, now packing 3P's into a 1/8th bent basket flake pipe.
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    packing a pipe

    Lighting is something I believe everyone is going to think about too much. I did, and as a result pipe smoking wasn't half as enjoyable as it should've been at least half the time. It probably takes a lot of people a lot of practice to master the three-layered "Traditional" method, which I say...
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    What Are You Reading?

    Yesterday I started on Und Sagte Kein Einziges Wort from Heinrich Böll. The English version is titled And Never Said A Word. It's about a man working in a telephone company soon after the end of WWII in Germany who left his wife and children when he got fed up with being poor in order to be poor...
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    What are you smoking?

    Peterson's Perfect Plug for the first time in a straight MM Country Gentleman to get a "true" taste before I try it in a briar. I'm amazed at how well this lights and stays lit after being rubbed.
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    Any tips on how to smoke a MacArthur?

    I don't think I have a dowel available per se, but I have flat-ended pens I could use, and a fully extended Czech tool will reach all the way to the bottom. I guess there really isn't an easy lighting solution for them--I'll just have to work on my rhythm and keeping a light.
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    Southern writers

    Just about anything from Cormac McCarthy, if you can stomach it. Child of God is about a necrophiliac mountain man in Tennessee, and his most famous novel before The Road, Suttree, is about a lone fisherman on the Tennessee River in Knoxville. McCarthy was born in Rhode Island and sets most of...
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    Things to do in Zurich (and maybe the rest of Europe too)

    If/when you're in Germany, and you get good weather, go to a pub/cafe in the afternoon and sit outside and people watch with a drink and a smoke. If you're worrying about anything at that point, you're doing it wrong. The German countryside as seen from a train or along the autobahn is really...
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    Any tips on how to smoke a MacArthur?

    Today I bought a bent MacArthur at a B&M and was wondering if anyone here has experience with MacArthurs and can tell me a little about, ah, how to smoke it? I'm really curious about how I can best pack, relight, and tamp it and clean out the dottle. Thanks in advance!
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    Hello again

    Thanks everyone! @Natch: German Language and Literature. Just the skill every employer is looking for. @Metropolmodern: I smoked Carter Hall (I have a big plastic tub of it that's at least two years old) in my Peterson System 309.
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    What are you drinking?

    Right now sipping on Jameson's neat while working through a six-pack of Shock Top. Both are pretty good (Shock Top reminds me a lot of the Hefeweizens I drank in Germany), but the combo is definitely strange. I just bought the whiskey yesterday for the first time, and it's not disappointing. :)
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