The Orlik Dark Strong Kentucky (DSK) is one of the most prolific and popular blends on the market. Having been out of distribution for years, the re-release of DSK has caused an uproar of excitement and positive angst in the pipe community. There was a point when I couldn’t scroll down my feed in Instagram…
“Remarkably cool-smoking, delightfully fragrant. Frog Morton journeyed far across the pond to find the exotic components for this rich, smooth pipe tobacco blend enhanced with rare Syrian Latakia. He says it was worth the trip.” McClelland Tobacco Frog Morton, having taken its name from the port city Frogmorton from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, lives up…
“This is the strongest pipe tobacco among the blends in the Mac Baren range and is not recommended for inexperienced pipe smokers. HH Bold Kentucky contains a high amount of the finest Dark Fired Kentucky from the USA and Africa and is combined with bright Virginias to soften the taste just a bit. Still the…
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…
“You enter the dark paneled room, its walls lined with ancient books. An antique table stands beside a leather club chair. Upon it, next to a small silver coin, an open tobacco tin entices you with an aroma deep, rich, authentic. You fill your bowl, strike a match. The first puff stops time as the…
Professionally writing comes with many perks. Scholars can get to access restricted documents. Novelists have an opportunity to get rich. Sports Writers get to meet world famous athletes and go behind the scenes of all the biggest games. But there is one kind of writer who is much luckier: Tobacco Writers. Tobacco writes have the…
First and foremost, what does the term “Kasimir” refer to? According to the Sutliff description, Kasimir was the name given to a vast amount of Polish kings and military leaders as a sign of their power and authority. This was a term of great honor and elevated the status of the recipient above all others.…
As of late, I have noticed a recurring theme among pipe smokers: Many begin pipe smoking with Aromatics and later begin smoking English blends. There comes a point with some pipe smokers when Aromatic tobacco is simply not as satisfying as an English blend. There seems to be an evolution of the palate making English blends preferable…
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…
Confessions of a Pipe Smoker 