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Mystery Review: July 2024

Mystery Review: July 2024

July 24, 2024 by Stephen Mawby

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Welcome to another thrilling installment of Mystery Review, a monthly series in which our panel of experts attempts to identify a mysterious tobacco. This month's inquisitor is Jared Coles, artisan pipe maker and tobacco lover. Based in Visalia, California, Jared has been fashioning quality tobacco pipes since 2011, and like ... Read More

A Selection of Boutique Burley Blends to Expand Your Horizons

A Selection of Boutique Burley Blends to Expand Your Horizons

July 19, 2024 by Rose Kiser

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If you recently picked up and fell in love with Eight State Burley, then you might be itching to expand your horizons in the world of Burley blends beyond your everyday Codger mixture. While there is nothing quite like Eight State, many Burley blends in regular production offer complex flavor profiles and reliable smoking ... Read More

Best-Selling English Aromatics

Best-Selling English Aromatics

July 18, 2024 by Kayla Ivan

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The art of blending a traditional English with a bold Aromatic is a tricky business. Not many English Aromatics have persisted in popularity or prevalence in the pipe-tobacco world. However, we've assembled the best-selling English Aromatics, each unique and flavorful in their own ways. ... Read More

Five Coffee and Tobacco Pairings

Five Coffee and Tobacco Pairings

July 9, 2024 by Rose Kiser

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For many pipe smokers around the world, the morning begins with a cup of coffee and a bowl of their favorite tobacco. While some are content with their Maxwell House and Folgers, others pursue the greatest cup of coffee possible to accompany their morning pipe. I'm partial to the plight of those seeking the perfect ... Read More

Tasting Notes: Eight State Burley 2024

Tasting Notes: Eight State Burley 2024

July 5, 2024 by Shane Ireland

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Welcome to another episode of "Tasting Notes." Today, I have the great pleasure of discussing the most recent iteration of one of Cornell & Diehl's most popular Small Batch products, Eight State Burley. ... Read More

Eight State Burley: A Delectable Salute to the Burley Belt

Eight State Burley: A Delectable Salute to the Burley Belt

July 5, 2024 by Chuck Stanion

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Burley tobacco has been with us since 1864, when a tobacco grower named George Webb planted some seeds from Bracken County, Kentucky, on his land in Ohio and found that the leaves were lighter in color and responded well to air curing, resulting in an exciting new varietal. Three years later, he sold a crop of the new tobacco: 20,000 pounds of it, and it has been consequential ever since, grown throughout what would become known as the Eight State Burley Belt. ... Read More

The Benefits of Nicotine

The Benefits of Nicotine

June 28, 2024 by Chuck Stanion

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Nicotine has been demonized in virtually every culture, perhaps with good reason. As every pipe smoker knows, it has some benefits. We enjoy pipe smoking for the flavors, for the relaxing aspects of smoke rising around us, for the craftsmanship and history of the pipes, for the rituals of smoking, and, it must be ... Read More

Tasting Notes: G.L. Pease Horizons

Tasting Notes: G.L. Pease Horizons

June 25, 2024 by Shane Ireland

Hey everybody, it's Shane Ireland. Welcome to another episode of "Tasting Notes." I am here to tell you about the latest edition to the Zeitgeist series by G.L. Pease: Horizons. Horizons is the third edition in the Zeitgeist series by Greg, who is affectionately known in the community as the Dark Lord ... Read More

What's Happening Lately with Greg Pease

What's Happening Lately with Greg Pease

June 21, 2024 by Chuck Stanion

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Greg Pease has garnered accolades for his blending since the inception of G.L. Pease tobaccos in 2000. Even before then, he was admired for his photography, writing, tobacco, and pipe expertise, and his reputation has continued to multiply. He's been entrenched in premium tobaccos and pipe smoking since his start at Druquer's ... Read More

Top Summertime Smokes

Top Summertime Smokes

June 14, 2024 by Kayla Ivan

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Some people consider summer to be the best time of the year: lots of sun, outdoor excursions, beach trips aplenty, and barbecues with your favorite people. Others despise the summer for all that sun making them hot and burnt, sweating during outdoor time, messy beach days with seagulls ... Read More

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