skychaser
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Happy Birthday Bob. Are you as excited as I am about having another birthday? I just can't wait! :?
Pure Tobacco Pipe Blends You Can Make
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Having another birthday is always better than not having another birthday.
Bob
Bob
skychaser
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True. I've always said the only thing worse than getting old is not getting old. It beats the alternative. I'd rather be looking down at the daisies than looking up at them.
Alberto
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May your birthday be full of happiness
Best first post ever. Full of kindness and graciousness. Welcome to the forum.
Alberto
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thanks for your welcome
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A brown dwarf is a dud of a star--a disappointment. It forms all on its own, just like our Sun, but it just doesn't have what it takes to initiate fusion of hydrogen. It's too runty. Not enough mass. Instead, it bumbles along. A brown dwarf can't even emit visible light--only infrared. So they are not "brown", but infrared. [They are not "ultra-cool" dwarfs, since, as everyone knows, tiny stellar objects cooler than 3092 F (1,700 C) must be brown dwarfs, while those hotter than 4,400 F (2,400 C) must be stars.] When the Webb space telescope (an infrared telescope!) becomes operational, maybe we can actually see them clearly. In the mean time, just light up a bowl of this simple blend.
This is a medium-to-full bodied blend for burley lovers. The dominant pouch aroma is from the Burley Red Tip Cavendish. And the burley Cavendish provides much of the nicotine. The role of the Trabzon is to add a sharper edge, and lower the pH (increase acidity) from that of the burley Cavendish. Nothing light. Nothing bright. Room note is burley, burley and burley. Trabzon is in the same group of petiolate Orientals as Bafra, Katerini and Samsun, so those could easily substitute. Burley Red Tip is harvested from the upper leaves of the stalk. (You might consider the Red Tip the brown dwarf of this blend.) Using other burley leaf may require adjusting the proportions. Substituting a "brighter" Oriental, such as WLT Stacked Basma, for 2/3 of the Oriental (5¼ parts Basma and 2¾ parts Trabzon, Samsun or Katerini per 16 parts) provides a gentle approach to broadening the flavor profile. Using all stacked Basma for the Oriental component causes tongue bite.
Brown Dwarf
- Burley Red Tip Cavendish 50%
- Trabzon 50%
- Burley Cavendish 50%
- Oriental 50%
Bob
Another knockout. I was just hankering for a quick burley blend I could wing together quickly and this came up. Made it immediately. Loved it instantly. Even the label colouring is perfect because, for reasons I am unable to express, my Harrow velvet Cavendish tastes 'purple'.
My taste buds are color-blind, so I can't say. But I agree that Brown Dwarf is an embarrassingly easy blend.
Bob
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Dino butt. Sounds enticing. Just watch out for that tail! While the Black Mammoth (a dark air-cured variety) Cavendish component can be made from any dark air-cured variety, the Black Mammoth is particularly potent and aromatic. Düzce is a Turkish Oriental variety, and can be replace by any Basma-type Oriental.
The Black Mammoth Cavendish was made from @BigBonner's Black Mammoth. After my having cooked it to Cavendish, it required almost a year of rest, before I felt it had truly calmed down, and lost an edgy terpene taste that I easily detect in Black Mammoth and in certain other varieties (e.g. Silver River, Bolivia Criollo Black, etc.).
Nicotine is quite full. This is one of the few blends that I can rate for room note: whew! Dino butt. Definitely dino butt. Taste and aroma are rich and satisfying. It's just a tail, so no bite. But that tail carries a wallop. I would consider this blend for a final bowl of the evening. (That is my way of confessing that if I smoke several bowls of this in succession, the nicotine would produce unwanted symptoms.)
[BLENDING TIP: If you have a pH balanced blend that is too strong--that is, too heavy a nicotine load, then you can mix any quantity of that blend with an equal quantity of a different pH balanced blend, to end up with a new blend that is still pH balanced. An instant, new blend that has no bite.]
Carnotaurus Tail
- Black Mammoth Cavendish 50% (8 parts per 16)
- Dark Air-cured 12.5% (2 parts per 16)
- Düzce 37.5% (6 parts per 16)
- Dark Air-cured Cavendish 50% (8 parts per 16)
- Dark Air-cured 12.5% (2 parts per 16)
- Oriental 37.5% (6 parts per 16)
Bob
Of the dozens of different Oriental varieties I have grown and sampled, Trabzon seems to carry the heaviest weight. Although in the same family as Bafra, Katerini and Samsun (all with petiolate leaves), the Trabzon that I have grown has been somewhat higher in nicotine, and sun-cures to a darker color. Its productivity is high, even when closely planted, and it sun-cures on the stalk quite readily. Trabzon does offer a subtle floral aroma.
Of the cigar varieties that I have cooked into Cavendish, Long Red (along with PA Red, Dutch Ohio, Little Dutch and PA broadleaf varieties--like Lancaster and Glessnor) seems to lose its "cigar" aroma more thoroughly than Caribbean cigar varieties as a Cavendish. The Cavendish process also moves cigar leaf acidity slightly away from the alkaline end of the pH scale, meaning that its proportion can be increased in a blend, without blowing you away with nicotine absorption.
Bronze Sky has no white puffy clouds. It is medium-to-full in nicotine, and offers deep aromas. There is a light, floral overtone that I can detect only when I first light it. Bronze Sky's largest ingredient is Dark Air-Cured, but also cooked into Cavendish, which softens its impact quite a bit. The Dark Air Cavendish aroma dominates.
This bronze map of the sky (known as the Nebra Sky Disc) is thought to be about 3600 years old. It marks the solstices and positions of certain stars.
Photo credit: Stellar House Publishing
Bronze Sky
- Dark Air-Cured Cavendish 43.75% (7 parts per 16)
- Trabzon 37.5% (6 parts per 16)
- Long Red Cavendish 18.75% (3 parts per 16)
- Dark Air-Cured Cavendish 43.75% (7 parts per 16)
- Oriental 37.5% (6 parts per 16)
- Cigar leaf Cavendish 18.75% (3 parts per 16)
Bob
Interesting blend and great name
As an aside, looks like the holes were punched into the circumference of the chart/medallion, contrary to the diameter as stated in the graphic, and much later and by a different hand than made the original piece. Very curious. Wonder what it was stitched to..
As an aside, looks like the holes were punched into the circumference of the chart/medallion, contrary to the diameter as stated in the graphic, and much later and by a different hand than made the original piece. Very curious. Wonder what it was stitched to..
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Definitely not underwear.
Photo credit: Stephen Hall
"White as snow, with sinewy frames, a fierce temperament and vast horns that curve menacingly into jet-black tips, these are no ordinary oxen. Among the last remaining wild cattle in the world, they retain a primeval character. They are also some of the rarest animals on the planet; currently numbering around 130, they are far fewer in number than giant pandas, Siberian tigers or mountain gorillas."
[BBC 16 SEP 2021]
This pipe blend, despite its heavy load of Cavendish, has a fierce temperament, though no horns. Unlike the Greenbriar Two-Tone blend, which is simply half and half burley Cavendish and VA Bright Cavendish, this one uses Cavendish made with upper leaf of both burley and VA flue-cured. Its nicotine is substantial, and requires taming with a sweet, Basma-type Oriental, in this case, Krumovgrad, though any Basma-type will do. It is still a hefty smoke (perhaps harboring a touch of Siberian tiger).
Chillingham
- Krumovgrad 18.75% (3 parts per 16)
- Burley Red Tip Cavendish 37.5% (6 parts per 16)
- Flue-cured Virginia Red Cavendish 43.75% (7 parts per 16)
Bob
Balmoral Castle was purchased as a private residence in 1852, by Prince Albert. It remains a private estate.
Balmoral
- Maryland Cavendish 37.5% (6 parts per 16)
- Latakia 25% (4 parts per 16)
- Virginia Red Cavendish 18.75% (3 parts per 16)
- Izmir 18.75% (3 parts per 16)
Bob
*The spelling, "Scotish", rather than "Scottish", was becoming obsolete by the time Prince Albert made his purchase.
Roanoke (Virginia No. 9)
This mixture is a well balanced, tongue bite-free Virginia/Perique blend. The most notable thing about this blend is the sweetness, which varies from citrus to a sweet hay like taste. The sweetness is balanced out by the Perique which offers a consistent musty tone and occasional spicy notes.
4 parts 2019 WLT Red VA
3 parts 2020 WLT Bright Va
1.5 parts 2020 WLT Lemon Va
2 parts 2019 WLT Perique
After mixing and bringing the tobacco into low-medium case, it was pressed for 4 hours.
Before taste testing the pressed cake, I allowed it to dry down to low case and settle for 7 days.
This mixture is a well balanced, tongue bite-free Virginia/Perique blend. The most notable thing about this blend is the sweetness, which varies from citrus to a sweet hay like taste. The sweetness is balanced out by the Perique which offers a consistent musty tone and occasional spicy notes.
4 parts 2019 WLT Red VA
3 parts 2020 WLT Bright Va
1.5 parts 2020 WLT Lemon Va
2 parts 2019 WLT Perique
After mixing and bringing the tobacco into low-medium case, it was pressed for 4 hours.
Before taste testing the pressed cake, I allowed it to dry down to low case and settle for 7 days.
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Ginsinjones
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This is very similar to a blend I smoke often.
I have pressed it into flake as well.
In fact I was enjoying a bowl of this a few hours ago.
I have pressed it into flake as well.
In fact I was enjoying a bowl of this a few hours ago.
Thank you for the label, Bob!
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