Recent content by MadMan56

Aberlour 16yo Double Cask Matured, $60 for 750 ml I'm out on a business trip which was supposed to be short, so I bought the only decent looking 375ml I could find, which was Dewar's 12yo. Then I found out the trip will be at least a week long, so I went back this morning and bought a 750ml of...

Congratulations and welcome to the Brotherhood of the Briar!! You'll slowly work out the kinks with time, but you'll love it all the way ;)

Mac Baren's Scottish Mixture -- Just opened 4 oz that was packed with a seal-a-meal about 5 years ago. The vaccuum compressed it so hard that, as it lost some moisture, it turned into a solid irregular brick. I broke it up into almond shell sized pieces. Just rubbed some out and I gotta say...

I smoke both pipes and cigars. It just depends on my mood at the moment, like choosing to sip on a shot of scotch or of bourbon. I don't inhale either of them, I get enough nicotine absorbed in my mouth. To me, pipe smoking seems a little more gentlemanly, but I'm not sure why. I certainly...

I tried this as part of a The Belvanie sampler that had 3 50 ml bottles, one of the 21 yo Portwood, one of 15 yo Single Barrel and one 12 yo Doublewood. I think I paid $12 at a liquor store. I enjoyed all three tremendously, but the Portwood was most satisfying. I bought the sampler twice...

Nice video, thanks. They even mentioned my personal favorite, Buffalo Trace :thumbs:

Whenever I buy a pipe with a filter in it, I toss the filter as soon as I get home. If your tobacco is too moist and the pipe starts go gurgle, you can run a pipe cleaner in even while the tobacco is still burning and that should soak up most of the moisture. As with slcraiders post, I store...

You're tamping, right? You might want to try stirring the very top of the tobacco/ash layer that is burning. It doesn't take much, and then tamp. You can use the spoon part of your pipe tool, but sometimes I'm too lazy to pull the spoon away from the rest of it so I just push the ash/tobacco...

This afternoon I had a bowl of McLelland's St. James Woods. This evening it was Balkan Sasieni. Ahhhhh!

I second all that was said above. The main thing is that you like it. Some basket pipes are smaller than average. My dublin is such a pipe, but it is the very best pipe I have for smoking Va/Perique blends. I don't know what it is but those blends just party in that pipe! And I only paid...

I bought a bottle of Buffalo Trace a couple of weeks ago, after I finished my Knob Creek. I aparently got a great deal at about $15. This bourbon is delicious and incredibly satisfying. I usually sip it straight, but had it with ice once or twice. I like this better than Knob Creek; there's...

The great thing about pipe tobacco is, you can get the best tinned tobacco for about the same price as a nice stogie. Go to www.jrcigar.com and order a couple tins of McClelland tobacco, like Frog Morton (sounds wierd but I've never read a post by someone who didn't like it) and Deep Hollow.

This afternoon I smoked some McClelands Deep Hollow in a no-name Dublin. I am about to light up my favorite: Harvest Cut "Fine Burleys blended with Virginias & Turkish tobaccos pressed to marry their flavors, then sliced in long cut mocha strips. Manufactured in Denmark." from my local B&M.

OK, now let me ask a dumb question: "Opus Ten" or "Opus Ecks"?

It is possible that some of the customers you've lost have started leaning towards the tinned tobaccos like the ones mentioned above. If you begin to carry a shelf full of them, you may regain those customers and then some. Personally, I never buy those bulk aromatics. It certainly won't...