Last thread >>2856593This is a thread for enjoying a pipe while doing outdoor activities. If you ask why this belongs on /out/, you've never spentan evening by the campfire with a pipe silently enjoying the nature around you, and you're missing out.>how to get startedPurchase a corn cob pipe (or a cheap briar pipe) and a pouch of Half and Half or Captain Black tobacco from a smoke shopor online. You will need a lighter or match, and something to tamp it with--a large nail works well if you don't have a pipe tool.Fill the pipe with tobacco, pack it down halfway, top it off, pack it down to 3/4, top it off again, pack gently and enjoy. Smokeslower than you think you need to, the tobacco tastes best when it is burning cool. Tamp and re-light as needed. If you stillhave trouble, try different methods on YouTube until you find one that works for you.>smoking a pipe will give you cancerOriginally the Surgeon General found that pipe and cigar smokers, following a careful study of the statistics (at a time whenmost adults smoked, so they had a good sample size), had insignificant death rate increases. Nowadays, tobacco is beinglegislated against while hard drugs are being legalized. Put two and two together. Tobacco is just another good thing under attack by the government.>muh weedNot the time or place. Start your own thread.All tobacco users welcome.
What's /out/ smoking now that spring is finally here?
>>2868476since the body is able to smell & taste more at higher humidity, i go for more nuanced/special blends that i collected during winter
is there a tobacco you guys would recommend to someone that tend to smoke too fast?
>>2868481i'd recommend finding a way to constrain the draw, like using a filter, an insert, or a stinger/condenser
>>2868481Maybe an aromatic. I don't like aromatics that much, but if you smoke aromatics too fast they taste even more like hot air than usual and they can give tongue bite. Maybe also learn the "breath method" and just do solely that for a while. Breath method is basically you just stick the pipe in your mouth and breath normally. Your tongue sort of acts as a diaphragm and draws the pipe for you anyway.
>>2868481Flake of any sort will slow you down. Five Brothers doesn't mind being smoked fast and hot.
>>2868476Englishes are almost complete out for me now! I don’t like em’ with warm weather.I tend to reach more towards brighter virginias in Spring and Summer—namely chasing that hayey, bready, and/or citrusy profile. Virginias and VaPers. Think Orlik, HH Virginia, Luxury Bullseye, Bayou Morning Flake. Yummy stuff (though today I think I fancy some tart Kentucky so it will probably be jackknife plug getting stuffed into a cob when I get home)
>>2868476It's almost time to stop smoking anything with a medium or large nic hit.
I’ve noticed that I tend to avoid my plug cut tobaccos, just because the preparation always seems too inconvenient in my head. But every time I actually smoke them it really isn’t too difficult to prepare and smoke and I’m always left wondering why I avoid them.I need to get over this silly little mental barrier
G.L. Pease blends really are impressively good, and represent some of the best quality leaf that comes out of the cornell & diehl factory. I think GLP even beats out the new Per G. Jensen line through c&d
>>2868595I'm slowly learning some of the stuff that was common knowledge 150 years ago.
>>2868476White Elephant Sahara. It's fine, but nothing beats Rattrey's Union Jack IMO.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but aromatics are so gay and gross. Are you going to paint your nails after you smoke your goopy cherry vanilla maple hazelnut chocolate 0% nicotine blend? Put another ladder on the back of your jeep with ducks across the dash board?
>>2868677have you only had cherry / chocolate / cheapo aromatics?
>>2868677Once in a while it's a nice change of pace. They aren't all goop.
Does anyone have any recommendations for some OTC codger blends?I have half & half, which I quite enjoy every now and then. Trying to decide between getting a tub of Carter Hall or Prince Albert.
>>2868715carter hall is heavy on burley, and while prince albert is also seen as a burley, it has black cavendish in it, so it really depends on what you're into
>>2868715I could smoke Carter Hall all day.
Started putting ground up poppy seeds in with along with my bac. Hooooooly shiiiiiiiit bros.
>>2868747Is it just a nutty flavor or is there actually any meaningful amount of alkaloids leftover to feel something?Any claims of euphoria from this is probably just explained as a placebo. Still though, I love poppy seed
>>2868677I don't like aromatics just because I don't like them that much. Carter Hall type aromatics is the most I can really tolerate as being smokeable. Even something like C&D's Bijou is just too much aromatic for me even though I really wanted to like it. You need to smoke them way too slowly to get them to taste like anything other than just hot air. Though I will say, a cigar shop I went to while sort of out of town (hours away) had this house blend that was kind of like a kitchen sink blend. Perique, Latakia, Burley, I'm sure Virginia, Black Cavendish, etc. Just kinda everything, and it was topped with some light chocolate flavor. That was an aromatic that I could easily see myself smoking, but it's just too far away to go get and I haven't found that blend online anywhere. It was like 90% cigar and vapes so I have a hard time believing it was genuinely a house blend, but it might have been.
>>2868747don't do it again or you'll become addicted to polish pastries >>2868761you can get high off it, so long as its the correct poppy varietyin fact, even half of a dried poppy pod has killed a guy after they made a tea out of it
>>2868795This is making my mouth water. I love poppy seeds UGH. In addition to tasting great in pastries and muffins and overnight oats - I went through a phase where I considered making unwashed poppy tea. I never considered grinding & smoking them, though. Would you be able to do it with regular ol’ poppy seeds obtained from a grocery store spice aisle? Or do you need more virginal unwashed home-grown ones. In minecraft; this is all about the hypothetical efficacy
>>2868797if its "breadseed poppy" (papaver somniferum), yeah, you can do itsome people will buy a shaker of seeds & make a tea out of it for pain, but the pod itself is where you can really get the power out ofthe biggest issue is that you don't know how much it actually has though, so you can pretty easily kill yourself if you're abusing it (well, that and the fact its extremely addictive, since its literally just opium)smoking it would definitely be the most dangerous way, since you'd have basically no time to tell if you're starting to overdose, along with the specific method being more addictive too
have someone here tried to replace these rubber clenchers by some rope or a nylon line?i want to be hand free but i don't want to chew too much on the stem itself, and do so without buying something on the web since i'm away, hence repurposing some line or similar
>>2869095Silicone straws work.
I love coin cuts so much it’s unreal. Very whimsical, fun to stuff or rub out. Beautiful presentation.Very euphoric when you get a new shipment of de luxe navy rolls or LBF and see all those stacked coins
I’m on the hunt for the new “definitive” pure virginia. It’s such a shame I can’t just go out and get HH Pure VA.C&D’s opening night is close but still not a good match
>>2869751Have you tried Yorktown?
>>2869773Nope. I think my next purchase will be Union Square. Though I also have a cellared tin of peterson royal yacht with like 5 years of age on it that I need to pop open first
>>2869751I would pay $50 USD for a tin of Ilsteds Own Golden Flake.As far as I’m aware it’s only available on the European market. But it’s supposed to be close to HH Va
just spotted a baby snapping turtle in my yard (pipe for scale)i'm surprised i saw it, its so small, but pretty quick for what its worth
>>2870057>but pretty quick for what its worthmy grandparents had an hermann tortoise as a pet, little bastard ran surprisingly fastalso nice pipe, arn't these chunky pipes unpractical?
>>2870058its a great sitter, i like the thick walls, and it fits well enough in the hand too; so i can't complain
It was asked in the last thread but I already forgor the answers: charcoal, meerscham, or balsa filters? I have a bunch of 9mm pipes but never use filters. Recently saw a discussion of a guy claiming his vaun dr perl filters give him better Virginia smoking sessions by killing the tongue bite. I’m interested in snagging some
What's the consensus on brair vs pear wood? I've enjoyed cigars for a while and want to dabble into pipes. Looking at the No. 25 Kaiser from Mr. Brog and a Retro Brair Smooth Apple. I've heard that pear heats too quickly/adds a fruity taste.
>>2870093get charcoal, they're cheap & work just fineif you're not used to filters, they'd suit you best anyway, as something like meer & balsa will have a learning curve / expectations they can't fill>>2870139theres plenty of people who like pear wood pipes even after having briar, so i don't see why you shouldn't at least try it
>>2870142I can find briars everywhere, is there any other suppliers or reputable brands for pear wood other than Brog? Also is there any other woods I should keep my eye out for?
>>2870144theres cherry, olive, and bog oak, but they all burn easily compared to briaragain, no reason not to get them, just can't smoke them too hard or anything like that
>>2870144You could always give a corncob a go if you're new and looking for something cheap and easily sourceable, a lot of people swear by them, they'll also impart a kettle corn flavor to most tobaccos which is often nice. If you're a cigar enjoyer, stay away from aromatics until you know them by reputation.
>>2870150Apologies, I read can as can't. I thought you were in some shithole.
>>2870150>they'll also impart a kettle corn flavor to most tobaccosi have never experienced this beforeall my cobs have basically no taste at all, besides when the wood stem insert gets charred, which simply tastes of wood
i am exited to announced that i just spotted another turtle
>>2870173what place got that many wild turtles around?
>>2870178tennesseenice an humid here, i love it
>>2870173A most welcome development
>>2870181i'm kinda jealous, here most of our turtles have disappeared
has anyone else noticed their clay pipes gain an extremely pleasant, sweet & nutty taste with continued usage?
Sometimes you just have a bad smoke.Beautiful day, wind didn’t look too crazy on the weather app, busted out my tin of salty dogs that I save for special occasions. Supposed to be a delectable evening on paper…Ended up with a breeze JUST consistent enough to blow over the pipe and scatter the baccy on my charring light. Then it just billowed my pipe too much and the whole smoke was too hot and my tongue got burned and I couldn’t taste a thing. Wind cap didn’t help, just caused my pipe to keep going out. Can’t win em all.
>>2870337to win against wind, you need to tamp accordingly, which i do by tamping harder than i normally wouldplus, wind can be useful as it keeps air flowing to cool the pipe's walls, while also allowing fewer relightsi am frequently on drives with the window all the way down, and have actually gotten 2 hours out of a smoke on one of them
>>2870341Yeah I find I can have successful blustery smokes with tall/skinny chambers. Corncobs, especially.Unfortunately I packed today’s blend in a squat and short briar–one of my smaller pipes–to try and use as little salty dogs as possible considering the hefty price. Nature said “not so fast, have some wind!”
>>2868475Fuco me, I did it AGAINI still might try to fix it with ceramic glue again since it held up pretty well before when I'm not being retarded and careless
>>2868476Enjoying a bowl of Crooner in my little (non-broken) clay
>>2868715I'm a Prince Albert guy if I'm going OTC blends. But that's probably because it's what my grandfather smoked
This isn't healthy, you know. Stop committing slow suicide.
>>2870484how about you go outside and try convincing people that in person?it would be much more convincing for them to see somebody who is actually there & cares about them, than a random comment on a mongolian basket weaving forum
>>2870484Pipe tobacco is mostly harmless.
This stuff is tits can anybody recommend something similar or perhaps somewhere to branch out towards? Still pretty new to all of this.
>>2870492Try Balkan Sasieni.
>>2870494Please don't, I ended up mixing the only tin of that I've ever bought with ryo tobacco and smoking it in cigarettes it was that bad.Ashtons artisans blend is much nicer for a similar price.
>>2870484Don't drink alcohol. Don't eat processed meat. Don't eat refined sugar. Don't live near a factory, highway, farm, or golf course. Don't get too much sun exposure. Don't stare at screens for too long. Don't consume anything packaged in plastic. Don't eat anything that isn't organic, free-range, non-GMO, and hormone-free. Don't spend too much time in basements or stone buildings. Don't fly in airplanes. Don't live at high altitudes. Don't drive on the highway. Don't have sex.Don't you want to live forever?
>>2870492GLPease Gaslight
Been sitting on a tin of C&D Red Carpet for so long. Was hoping it would blow my socks off and be some sort of cheaper Escudo.It was so mid and meh. Nothing special.
I'd like to try smoking a pipe and wondering what tobacco would be right if I'm the kind of person that loves a nice strong yet smooth cup of french press french roast coffee or 90% dark chocolate with a heavy cabernet. I don't know if there's some similarity between food and smoke strengths and I just don't want a bad first experience
>>2870671I always smoke Pegasus when I want a chocolate experience, granted it doesn't exactly taste like burnt beans, you could probably add something like perique if you'd like to darken the taste and increase your nicotine hit. I think I may actually try this now.
>>2870671Peterson Nightcap sounds up your alley
I added two pinches of perique, just enough to add two flat layers, it could probably only do with one. It has the taste of a very rich dark coffee, a creamier haunted bookshop.
absolutely loving this rossi canadian, being able to effortlessly take off the stem is greatsuper cool smoking too, especially with a breeze passing by
>>2870671Orlik Golden Sliced and Peterson Nightcap are enough to expose you to classic, beginner-friendly, (and downright some of the best) pipe tobacco out there.
>>2870671Boswell Northwoods is a hidden gem of English blends: https://boswellpipes.com/product/boswell-northwoods/
