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  1. jbfrady

    My Plum Pudding Cigar Review

    I was excited to try this cigar from the moment of its announcement. Plum Pudding is easily my go-to English blend and I was eager to try something that felt novel in the cigar world too. And while (spoiler!) I ultimately liked it okay I guess, I don't feel that this cigar captures the platonic...
  2. jbfrady

    Danish Import - Black Label

    (Author's note: What I sampled was a 16-year-old - near voting aged - tin of a bygone tobacco. Take this review with a grain of salt, as it's for the enjoyment of the writing and its reception, rather than the accuracy of its criticisms.) I didn't expect to win the auction. But sometimes I bid...
  3. jbfrady

    A DTM/Orlik Question for Those in the Know

    All things considered, I believe Dan Tobacco to be my favorite brand, though great producers abound. I happened across an anomaly as to their catalog, however, that I'd like to know more about. I've got a tin of Ropers Roundels on the way - I'm a serious sucker for spun cuts - and I usually...
  4. jbfrady

    Idyllic Night

    This topic stems from a conversation I was fortunate enough to have with Greg Pease at the Las Vegas event this past year. Both of us wondered how food and beverage taste correlate with tobacco taste, but it is something very difficult to measure. I think I've come up with an interesting little...
  5. jbfrady

    Benchmark Blends

    I arrived pretty early to the craft beer craze, in 2010 or 2011 latest. I was driven by novelty, and when something new came out I simply had to try it. By 2015, crazy insanity was in full swing, so everybody and his mother was making IPA's, Coffee Oatmeal Stouts, and dopplebocks. I'm the kind...
  6. jbfrady

    Tobacco As Memory Root

    New experiences keep us sharp. Trying new things, changing routines, and creating novel moments have been shown to be the key to keeping your brain functioning like new and forbidding days from running together in an abysmal blur. I've started using tobacco for that purpose. If I get my hands...
  7. jbfrady

    WTTF: HU Dockworker (3/11/24)

    I opened a tin of Dockworker at Muletown this past weekend and I blazed right through it like Napoleon in Prussia, so I'd like to get my hands on some more of these. I plan on ordering from Estervals, but I wouldn't mind landing a few aged ones as well. I've got variety aplenty in the cellar...
  8. jbfrady

    On The Discernment Of Dogs

    My wife and I have a 13-year old Shih Tzu-Pekingese named Luna. [See photo below.] We've found that she's quite partial to the historic leaf and this past Christmas I received tins of tobacco from Holly (my wife) as well as my dad. Both my parents are avid anti-smokers, but my dad has come...
  9. jbfrady

    A Ritzy DIY Blend to Recommend - A Recipe-in-Review

    I can't promise I'll keep this short. But I'll try to keep it amusing. This past Christmas my wife bought me a tin of MacBaren's HH Rustica with a little age on it. I've eyed it often, but I remained too hesitant to pop the tin. I've only been back to smoking in earnest for about a year and a...
  10. jbfrady

    Favorite Halvsies

    What are your favorite blends to mix half and half? I always enjoy finding mixes which either maintain or improve on the sum of the parts. My recent favorites have been: Capstan Blue + Dan Black Velvet Haddo's Delight + Wessex Burley Broadcut Lewis Tree Mixture + Stokkebye 1989
  11. jbfrady

    Best Blend of 2023: An Elimination Game

    I’m ripping this format from the old video game forums from my youth, where we’d pick our favorite video game characters throughout the year and affix them to a list. From there, a battle ensued where characters were eliminated via point addition and deduction until there was only one left. With...
  12. jbfrady

    Share Your Gifted Pipes

    In case I'm not the only one who received a pipe for Christmas (I hope I'm not), this thread is to share the ones you received. In my case, my best friend got me a Ser Jacopo rusticated churchwarden. And yes, I know my desk is messy as all hell.
  13. jbfrady

    WTB: Small Humidor

    My buddy @Ash Cooper got me some fancy Davidoff cigars and so I've got no excuse not to properly preserve them. I'm primarily a pipe guy so I haven't had a humidor in a minute. Anybody got a small humidor with which they'd like to part? If so, just shoot me a photo and what you'd like for it and...
  14. jbfrady

    First Try, Revisited

    Is there a blend you wish you could wipe from your memory so that you could go back and try it for the first time all over again? Maybe you cracked an advanced tin too soon - before your tastes were developed properly - and that spoiled it, or perhaps you tried a blend in the wrong moment and it...
  15. jbfrady

    Christmas Song Elimination

    It's that time of year where your ears inevitably suffer the consequences of the commercial seasonal swing. If you could eliminate any 3 of these myriad audible atrocities from the modern lexicon, which would they be?
  16. jbfrady

    Thoughts on Ravenwood?

    I recently bought a couple tins on a whim from Ravenwood and they should be arriving today. I'm the type to judge the shit of of a book by its cover and the tin art won me over. However, I don't know about them, minus that they're blended by a guy named Ravenwood - one bad ass moniker. Where...
  17. jbfrady

    Supreme Snuff

    I've found myself getting into snuff this year. It's along the must historic uses of tobacco and with the general unknown nature of the product as it stands now, even top shelf snuff is relatively inexpensive. I've been going hard in the paint on Wilson's of Sharrow, Fribourg & Treyer, and Sir...
  18. jbfrady

    Kajun Kake - C&D Classic

    Reviewer's note: I judge books by their covers and I do so with shameless and reckless abandon. That being said, I never would've purchased this tin of my own volition. I acquired it second-hand, after my buddy tried it said said, "This tastes like shit... You want it?" After such an...
  19. jbfrady

    Discerning Cobblestone Prod Dates

    I f@cking love Cobblestone tins and as it turns out, my local retailer has a bunch of their tins that they feel certain have been in the shelf for quite some time. I'd like to scoop up these oldies, but I don't know how to tell them apart. With Cobblestone being produced by Kohlhase & Kopp...
  20. jbfrady

    Choicest Plugs

    Plug tobacco is among the most historic of preparations, being as labor-intensive to produce as it is flavorful to smoke. I'm quite fond of plug tobaccos in theory (Cobblestone Virginia Plug is among my absolute favorites and to my knowledge, Greg Pease has never made a bad plug in his life). In...
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