Lazy River Pipe Blend Challenge (Sep 2024)

[deluxestogie]

Lazy River 2024 Pipe Blend Challenge

This challenge is open to any forum member. The premises of the Lazy River challenge are:

• use any tobacco varieties that are available from WLT, or varieties for which seed is available and is home-grown
• no added flavorants
• may be pressed (if you wish), and prepared as a press-cake, crumble-cake, sliced flake, rubbed flake, or simply shredded
• ingredients can be finished in any manner (air-cured, flue-cured, fire-cured, Cavendish cooked, pressure-cured perique, etc.)

Each participant will be able to download a printable pdf certificate with the participant's name and user ID, and on which his or her individual blend will appear on the full-color label.

To Participate:

• Create your blend. (Only one blend per participant)
• Post a clear photo of the blend, and its recipe (with percentage of each ingredient), along with your tasting notes—in this thread.
• The Challenge will close at the end of September 2024.

Bob

 

[Juxtaposer-]

Sorry but I case my tobaccos.

 

[deluxestogie]

There are a number of cased pipe tobacco blends that I have enjoyed. I've made a few. The thrust of the Challenge is to encourage the exploration of the natural flavors and aromas of uncased pipe blends.

Bob

 

[deluxestogie]

Just in CASE you CASE your pipe blends, see this link:

Mountain Ford 2024 CASED Pipe Blend Challenge

Painting: Thomas Cole (American, 1801–1848). The Mountain Ford, 1846. Mountain Ford 2024 CASED Pipe Blend Challenge This challenge is open to any forum member. The premises of the Mountain Ford challenge are: use any tobacco varieties that are available from WLT, or varieties for which seed...

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Bob

 

[PressuredLeaf]

Bob,

I always like these, and really want to participate. However, I only smoke my pipe when it’s cooler out. Today was 110F, so I may miss this round of competition.

 

[adamziegler]

Frog Chocolate Daydream
(5) Flue Cured Virginia Ripe/Red Leaf
(4) Turkish/Oriental Izmir
(4) Ecuador Maduro Scrap
(3) St. James Perique

Pouch Note: dried fruit, raisins and fig
Room Note: Hints of chocolate and roasting coffee, occasional floral accents
Taste: dark malted barley, nutty, occasional tang

I have a bag of left over maduro scraps from the past couple months of rolling cigars. I have been using them to roll little rustic cigars for quick trips to the store, but kept wanting to see what the did in a pipe blend. I certainly taste hints of natural tobacco chocolate when smoking this, but it was confirmed when my wife came in and asked if I was smoking Bob's Chocolate Flake. This is NOT BCF, and I do not want to suggest anything of the sort, but it is something for my beloved to remark that the room note had a pleasant chocolate aroma. Nic levels are noticeable for me after midway through a small bowl. I pressed this for a few days and cubed it up which seems to slow the burn down a bit. It had a bite to it when smoked fast as ribbons.

 

[deluxestogie]

It looks wonderful in the final photo. Do you have the percentages for the recipe?

Bob

 

[adamziegler]

It looks wonderful in the final photo. Do you have the percentages for the recipe?

Bob

Thanks Bob! I put "parts" as the numbers out in front. Converted to percentages it would be:
(5 parts) (31.25%) Flue Cured Virginia Ripe/Red Leaf
(4 parts) (25.00%) Turkish/Oriental Izmir
(4 parts) (25.00%) Ecuador Maduro Scrap
(3 parts) (18.75%) St. James Perique

 

[deluxestogie]

 

[Knucklehead]

Pretty. It resembles your avatar.

 

[deluxestogie]

I actually never noticed the close similarity, and that may be why I unconsciously found the photo attractive. That association, together with the fact that the image is public domain (anyone can use it), made it a good candidate for my blend label collection. (My avatar image is one I created with fractal algorithms in Bryce.)

Bob

Dreamsplice - Gallery

 

[slouch]

This one sounds tasty with the cigar leaf.

 

[deluxestogie]

Thanks to members who participated, and those who followed along.

Bob