A review of Burley tobaccos
“Holiday Spirit Pipe Tobacco 2015: This mild, smooth blend of Burley, Virginia and Cavendish tobaccos is flavored with dark rum, pecan, and cocoa. It brings a warm glow to the coldest winter day. The aroma of a favorite holiday confection wafts from the bowl bringing pipe smoking contentment. Happy Holidays!” – McClelland Tobacco This is a…
When you ask people what their favorite holiday’s are, you basically know that their answer is going to come from a very short list of popular celebratory days such as Christmas, Thanksgiving, or Easter. However, pipe smokers have a different favorite holiday. February 20th. This day, my esteemed colleagues, is International Pipe Smoking Day. The best…
For one reason or another, we all look forward to holidays. Some look forward to seeing family. Others look forward to having fun and partying. Everyone looks forward to getting off work (well most of us). But for me, I look forward to the limited release holiday pipe tobacco’s that finally come out of hiding. Every…
Besides smoking pipes, another one of my beloved hobbies is smoking meat. I don’t think there is anything more relaxing than sitting on my patio, smoking a large spice rubbed brisket in the smoker, and having a few bowls of my favorite blend. What I always look for in a tobacco blend is what feeling…
I was born and raised in the beautiful Commonwealth state. I am in every way a Kentucky boy, and love all things from Ky (specially basketball, but that is another conversation entirely). When i saw that Sutliff Tobacco had a burley blend (a Ky original tobacco blend) called Kentucky Planter, there was no way I was going…
Sometimes us men, or women too, just need to do something incredibly manly (no matter how smart or stupid!) just to get our testosterone pumping! When I smoked the Cornell and Diehl Burley Flake #2, I got slapped right in the face! But you know what? That slap felt pretty great! As a connoisseur, at…
Confessions of a Pipe Smoker 