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Tasting Notes: Low Country Black

May 4, 2022 by Shane Ireland

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Welcome back to Tasting Notes, everyone. On today's episode, I'll be reviewing Low Country's Black, a unique English pipe tobacco crafted by Cornell & Diehl. For those of you who've missed my reviews over the past couple months, I've been slowly revisiting the Low Country line, and it's been such an interesting experience. After the release ... Read More

Wilsons of Sharrow Moor

April 29, 2022 by Chuck Stanion

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In an idyllic valley in Sheffield, England, the Sharrow Moor mill has been operating for more than 440 years, tucked away among trees, lawns, and Porter Brook's curving waterway. For those of us who comprehend time intervals by comparison with our oldest surviving socks, that's an impressive span. ... Read More

Mystery Cigar Review: April 2022

April 28, 2022 by Shane Ireland

Welcome back to the Mystery Cigar Review. For this today's episode, we've enlisted our good friend and Head Blender of Cornell & Diehl, Mr. Jeremy Reeves, to serve as our Inquisitor for this month's review. Jeremy is one of the most hands-on and prolific blenders in the pipe tobacco industry, but the tobacco wizard actually got his start in cigars ... Read More

Pipe Smoking Desktop Backgrounds: May 2022

April 27, 2022 by Andrew Wike

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It's time for another round of beautiful pipe smoking desktop backgrounds! As in previous months, we've compiled some of our favorite shots and artwork to share with you. Below you'll find ten unique images, split between desktop and mobile orientations and available for download in two high-resolution formats. They're ready for you to use however you'd like. Feel free to download and set them as your desktop or phone background, or print them out and hang 'em on your wall. ... Read More

Favorite Places to Smoke a Pipe

April 21, 2022 by Davin Hylton

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Any long-time pipe smoker will inevitably provide the same advice to novices entering the hobby: "Find the pipe that best suits you." Finding the "right" pipe, of course, takes time and patience, not to mention an exact understanding of what one wishes to extract from their smoking instrument. It's a well-known pleasure (and pain) of the hobby, and like anything, preferences and tastes are unique to the individual ... Read More

Mystery Tobacco Review: April 2022

April 20, 2022 by Andrew Wike

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Welcome back to the Mystery Tobacco Review! You know the drill: We're back at it again with another blind taste test of an unknown pipe tobacco blend — this time a smoky English mixture chosen by our very own Steve Mawby. Our Customer Service Manager here at Smokingpipes, Steve has sat in the Inquisitor's Chair a couple of times now, and he's done pretty well at tricking our palates on ... Read More

Mark Irwin: Doctor of Pipes and Peterson Researcher Extraordinaire

April 15, 2022 by Chuck Stanion

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Our pipe-smoking hobby is filled with impressive individuals. We have tobacco blenders and people involved in the tobacco side of the industry. We have independent artisan pipe makers and other artisan makers who contribute to the production of larger workshops; we have accessories makers who make everything from custom artisanal tampers to pipe furniture to leather ... Read More

Aromatic Tobaccos for Non-Aromatic Smokers

April 14, 2022 by David Wheelock

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Is there a divide within the pipe-smoking community? There are certainly enough differences of opinion, varied preferences, and spirited debates to go around. We're an opinionated lot, but honestly, it's part of what keeps this community interesting. One of the topics that generates the most heated exchanges regards ... Read More

Tasting Notes: Low Country's Cooper

April 13, 2022 by Shane Ireland

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Welcome back to another episode of Tasting Notes! On this month's episode Shane sits down to take a look at the only English in Low Country's line of tinned pipe tobaccos: Cooper — named for the cooper river in South Carolina. ... Read More

March Mayhem: 2022 Tournament of Blends

April 8, 2022 by David Wheelock

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It's March once again and that means that much of the United States' sports-obsessed population is deeply embroiled in a certain basketball tournament whose name shall remain unsaid (let's at least TRY to keep the lawyers from descending into "madness"). With University hoopsters from around the country competing for ... Read More

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