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The Quality of 100 y/o Briar
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<blockquote data-quote="momus" data-source="post: 171333" data-attributes="member: 1450"><p>I only have four pipes in my immense collection. Three I bought new, and one I bought used (doesn't "estate" pipe sound much more elegant than "used" pipe? Ha.) Anyway, my used, er "estate", Sav has a much sweeter smoke than the others. It was pre-cleaned before I bought it, more or less, so no older carbon buildup, and my spidey sense tells me that has to do with the age of the briar and the amount of smoking that has gone on in that thing. Others I know claim the same thing that older pipes develop a sweet taste over time. </p><p> The other concurrent argument is that back in the day they used higher quality briar and now there is less of it. I don't know. I have a feeling that argument is weak and I can think of about four different potential holes in it. But I'm too lazy to actually care enough to research that end. </p><p> So, in the end, the more a pipe is smoked the better taste it should give you----that's the advice I've heard. So older pipes, regardless of how fantasitic that briar was or wasn't in the 19th century, should smoke nice because they've been smoked in a lot.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="momus, post: 171333, member: 1450"] I only have four pipes in my immense collection. Three I bought new, and one I bought used (doesn't "estate" pipe sound much more elegant than "used" pipe? Ha.) Anyway, my used, er "estate", Sav has a much sweeter smoke than the others. It was pre-cleaned before I bought it, more or less, so no older carbon buildup, and my spidey sense tells me that has to do with the age of the briar and the amount of smoking that has gone on in that thing. Others I know claim the same thing that older pipes develop a sweet taste over time. The other concurrent argument is that back in the day they used higher quality briar and now there is less of it. I don't know. I have a feeling that argument is weak and I can think of about four different potential holes in it. But I'm too lazy to actually care enough to research that end. So, in the end, the more a pipe is smoked the better taste it should give you----that's the advice I've heard. So older pipes, regardless of how fantasitic that briar was or wasn't in the 19th century, should smoke nice because they've been smoked in a lot. [/QUOTE]
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