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Wife and I picked up a bottle of Redbreast 12YO for Thanksgiving dinner. Of course, we couldn't wait until the 24th, so we've had a few tastes. This is our first experience with a pot still whiskey -- I think it might be one of a handful of whiskeys still done in that style -- and we're both...

Like the subject says: I'm planning to order three or four tins (or equivalent in bulk) of tobacco for the winter months. My tastes are thoroughly in the Must Have Latakia line of things, so I'm looking for English/Balkan recommendations. I'm pretty sure that I'm picking up a tin of GLP...

(With apologies to Mr. Weller.) Sometime last winter I wrote that I no longer liked latakia, that any blend I smoked with it just did not do a thing for me. Tonight, for dinner, I'll be having a dish of Corvus brachyrhynchos. In other words, I love latakia again. So much so that it seems...

Right, so I'm trying to rid my Dunhill of the latakia ghosting, and...well, it's still there after three rounds of the ol' salt-&-alcohol treatments. I've reamed it pretty close to the wood before the last round of salt-&-alcohol, as well as giving it a good 20 minute session of cleaning out...

I have a question about how I should store the tobacco I have opened. As I've still been in the process of figuring out what blends I really like enough to start putting in a cellar, I have quite a few tins open, as well as tobacco that I've bought in loose/bulk form. The loose/bulk tobaccos...

My Glencairn whisky glass came in the mail today, and after christening it with some Talisker 10 and Laphroaig 18, I'm ready to declare that I'm happy with the purchase. I was a little surprised at the daintiness of the glass, and it took a few tastes to get used to how much I had to toss my...

The last bowlful confirmed it for me: I no longer like latakia. This is a fairly big shift in my tastes. When I first started out, I smoked aromatics exclusively. Then there was a year that I didn't smoke much, and when I started back up, I found at that the aromatic I'd enjoyed was just...

Can anyone say for certain is Marlin Flake has perique in it or not? I've seen it described as being pure Virginia to a VaPer to a Va/Cav/Per blend. Either way, if future bowls hold up to the first that I had last night, I think I might have to stock up.

Within the past couple of months, I've come across the notion of pipe dedication. Before this, I've smoked whatever I pleased in whichever pipe I wanted. For the most part, that meant that I moved from smoking aromatics -- really, just one aromatic -- to a variety of English/Balkan blends...

I've been a casual, though infrequent, pipe smoker for some time, but in the last year I've found myself really drawn into the hobby. I'd still consider myself to be quite new and inexperienced, despite having owned a pipe or two for nearly a decade now. You'll probably see frequent questions...