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Yesterday afternoon I returned home with my lab/possiblybordercollie from a saunter on the moors to discover an anonymously mailed box on my doorstep. Immediately, Mischa (my trusty bomb disposal lab/possiblybordercollie) and I sprung into action. Employing her preternatural talents of scent...

Being as I've been smoking a pipe for several years now I feel like I shouldn't need help with this, but.... well, I do. :P Lately the cake on my pipes has been flaking off in chunks. It seems to be a recent development, although it happened on a pipe that I hadn't touched for three years and...

I've been smoking a pipe for nigh on seven years now, and have been smoking (with varying degrees of success) flakes and virginias for about three years, so I feel kinda dumb asking this question, but.... What the f@#! is the deal with virginias? Particularly virginia flakes. I try everything...

I LOVE Samuel Gawith tobacco. Love it. And I can't look at a can of Gawith tobacco without getting angry, because I know that as much as I enjoy that wonderful tobacco,to the exact same degree will be my frustration when the can runs out and I enter into the grim wasteland of waiting for Iwan...

I was away from the internet for most of the last year, and when I came back I discovered that Snoffbox.org and NicoteneRush had disappeared. And it seems like acquiring snuff is night impossible these days. What happened? And what can I do now? I feel like I've been cut down in the prime of...

I've sometimes heard of flake tobaccos (and the sugars therein?) developing "crystals" when left in the tin for a long long time. I have a tin of Irish Flake that I opened once a good year ago and then closed (tightly) and left closed until a couple weeks ago. The tobacco now has... well, it...

I've been smoking a pipe on and off for the last seven years, and I thought by now that I knew what perique tasted like, and how to identify it in a tobacco blend. Last night I smoked a bowl of Mac Baren's HH Acadian Perique... and, well, if there was any of what I've thought was perique in...

I've smoked so many tobaccos that are listed as having 'red virginia', or 'lemon virginia', or various other types of virginias. I've smoked dark fired Kentucky (is there any other type?) I'm pretty sure I've smoked something with Maryland in it. What do all these names mean? What are the...

So I recently bought a 14 oz. can of Prince Albert from Iwan Ries. It's been a year or so since I smoked a pouch of the stuff (which is near impossible to find here in Chicago), but I seem to remember it tasting different. I've read here and there that they put a lot more propylene glycol in...

I happen to be lucky enough to live about a thirty minute train ride from Iwan Ries, in Chicago. Depressingly, it has been some time since they've had any Squadron Leader in stock. Tonight I finally started looking online to see where I might find some, and it every place I've visited is out...

I've just stumbled upon what should have been an obvious combination: A mixture of equal parts Prince Albert and Blenders' Gold "Golden Burley". In my humble opinion, it is perhaps the best burley experience I have had so far. The PA's mildness brings down the bite in the Golden Burley just...

...Anybody ever heard of it? One of the pipes I inherited from my Grandpa bears that marking on it, along with something mostly illegible in German. It's a straight bulldog, and I do believe the best smoker I own. I guess I'm just wondering if anybody has any information on the pipe maker...

In another post I've mentioned a little about some of the awful tastes I get in my pipes. I've come to the conclusion that a lot of this has to do with them being wet at the bottom (as the bottom is when the smoke starts to get the awful taste). I'm assuming that having a better cake on the...

So I heard that if one is going to smoke Englishes, one ought devote one pipe strictly to them. However, when I did this it wasn't long before the pipe got a horrible 'briney' taste in it that stayed in my mouth for an hour or so afterwards. It was an old pipe (one of my Grandpa's) which I...