Beiträge von Fermat

Hi Aaron!

It looks so good. Are you planning to build an online version?

Thanks for sharing!! I will try to translate it.

Greetings

Louis

Michele Brentegani

Never saw straight grain from Tobias. But this is incredible.

Congratulations.

Louis

It’s gorgeous Rolf! I like the mouthpiece. Enjoy!!

And the next is a gorgeous piece from fellow Tobias:

Greetings

Louis

PD: only one last to arrive.

Now the third part that comes with more beauty: first this

Zitat von Karlo

Hi Louis,

2 more fine pipes. Blackwood seems to be good for a good looking

rusticationing and like Phil, I find the bamboo in such way very attractive.

Greetings Karlo

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Yes, Karlo! think this craftsman did a good job with the rustication. The pics don't let us see but the sunlight brings out nice and. subtil colour reflections.

I'm really happy.

Greetings

Louis

Zitat von TheStoneOfThor

Hola Louis y feliz navidad y un feliz a~no nuevo posteriormente,

crazy new Pipes, congratulations. You have an eye for a very special kind of freestyles.

I'm impressed by the mouthpieces of the first serie of your christmas pipes (I think,

Santa, or los reyes magnos, hasn't enough space in his/their bag for both ).

A cumberland, which structure is so fine and full of contrasts, I like it and will

have an eye on it in future.

Enjoy your regalos

Thorsten

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Muchas gracias Thorsten! Feliz año para ti también.

Glad you like the pipes! I'm sure I will enjoy them.

It will be a good year for all of us sharing good moments around here.

Greetings

Louis

Zitat von rolf

Hello Louis,

that is a extrordinary and fine selection of pipes you have acquired or auto-gifted

I like all of them very much, but the Rizza (tall Dublin) with the stunning mouthpiece decoration would be my favorite

Have lots of fun with them

Best regards,

Rolf

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Hi Rolf! I saw that pipe several months ago and I fell in love. I was lucky!!!

Greetings

Louis

Zitat von manni-wan

Hi Louis,

you were very busy over christmas too - welcome to the club

BR - Manni

Indeed Manni! I went crazy !! Still waiting for more!! Post-office here is collapsed

I tested the Morta yesterday (with Xmass Cheers 2000) and it was almost perfect. I decided to take good care of myself these days

Greetings

Louis

Zitat von petephil

And very nice again. Also like the wood-looks-like-bamoboo carving, never seen it done this way.

It also looked curious to me. This one came with slight scratches on the surface but nothing critical, just the varnish. I can survive.

Greetings

Louis

Thank you, fellows! Glad you like it.

Here comes the second part:

Hamzah Darmawam. Reverse calabash (Blackwood and japan ebonite)

And:

A bit late, but here is the first part. My collection is still not a collection but I really enjoy them:

Greetings

Louis

I bought this pipe a long, long time ago. I was on vacation, spending some time with my aunt and enjoying the company of my three cousins, hanging around the beautiful landscapes "dans la Bretagne". It was a good summer. I bought the pipe as a present for my father altogether with a pair of earrings for my mother. He had only three pipes. This is the one that survives. I smoke it rarely, don't know why, but each time is a pleasant one. I use it for va's or va-per's. The bowl gets very hot but the smoke doesn't. It is humble but, certainly, a good and friendly pipe.

Cheers

Louis

Zitat von TheStoneOfThor

Hola Louis,

great Review of a great Tobacco. I was hooked by burley blends a while ago,

McBs' Burley Flake was my favorite. But when this african queen arised from

his masters hands (or nose, or palate?) my flag circled around in a blink of

an eye. This one exhibits the nuttiness and the chocolate I loved about the

Flake, also the latter is somehow boostered by a small amount of artificial

helper. The advantage is his mellowness, a big, deep grip into the wheel

of aromas which makes him a full bodied blend with medium strenght.

MacBarens Flake has the bad habbit of being harsh, almost astringent

on his last third and gets quite strong.

Number 2 in line (for me) is the Amphora Burley Blend, which provides an

even more entensive natural Nut&Choco aroma when starting the pipe.

But this boy also tends to be very tangy at the end.

I guess that the mixture provides the mildness, I would give the earthiness,

peatiness, sometimes mouldiness to a seasaw of Perique and Havana.

Pero a mi me da igual, up the pipe with the stuff...

Saludos

Thorsten

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Thanks Thorsten! Glad you like!

I totally agree, for me this is a master example of skills, accuracy and good taste.

Will be a blend in my bar for a long time!

Hugs

Louis

Zitat von Karlo

What happend with your pictures?

a sunny sunday to all, Karlo

I loaded the pics again. There must be some kind of error.

Zitat von Karlo

Hi Louis,

thx for this review, a tin is in my storage cellar

I think you will enjoy it!!

Zitat von Fermat

...When I smoked it in too depth bowls,...

what does it mean: only too deep or wide and too deep. Give my an example.

I have a Nording very wide but not depth: in this case I didn't realise anything out of range. But I have a Soler wide and depth and in this case I felt that the end of the bowl tends to brought up the bitter thing of the cigar beyond limits. As I said it could be my fault: maybe I just loose the attention at the end and smoked with more intensity. But it happened twice (I love that pipe!)

What happend with your pictures?

What happened?

a sunny sunday to all, Karlo

Here not too sunny at all

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Nyala. African Line. HU Tobacco. Blended by Hans Wiedemann. Manufactured by Kohlhase & Kopp. Bu-Va-Per-Cigar (Brazil, Havano).

The last three African Line blends load cigar leaf. Nyala is the first in order of appearance; after came Manyara and Khartoum. There are Havana and Brazil leaves in Nyala, that all together with Perique spice a base formed by Red Virginia and a good dose of Burley. This last is cased with a pinch of chocolate. I feel it closer to the European than to the American taste.

Before lighting the bowl scents of: dried citric rinds, chocolate, pepper, vinegar, nutmeg, pickles. At first sight: any type of browns. The cut is a potpourri: tiny cubes, scattered broken flakes, threads of different sizes. I dare to think it has so much to do with a comfortable combustion and the perfect fusion of flavors.

The first puffs smear your face with a dense smoke, fully loaded of floral nuances; the conjunction of all those leaves produces a very aromatic fragrance with plenty of exotic spices, a carnival of sweet and sour, toasted and fresh.

The Red Virginia gives shape and outline the air-cured leaf flavor that definitively leads the way. These initial notes are very cheerful and full of nuances: by the side of the Burley, bittersweet chocolate, some kind of nutty creaminess and sweetness. Both (Va-Bu) combine and complement perfectly. Besides that, the Burley helps to spread his buddies’ flavors so efficiently. Perique draws attention from the beginning, adding that characteristic fruity sourness and the funny tickle on the back of the nose. Both cigar leaves by their side provide some strange spiced and no nosy. They complete the whole picture by being in the right place with that perfumed woody touch.

As you leave the first third, the flavors start to evolute without denaturing. And the accents swing. In the chocolaty Burley, the bitterness gains vigor and weight. Perique progressively leaves the roll of fermented fruit and enjoys playing as hot aromatic spice. Virginia offers more of that rich toasted side as the cigar leaves rise the bitter without losing the floral spicy touch. But all of this is just guessing because if something must be said is that this mixture is above all a blend: a blending of tastes, flavors, colors.

When I smoked it in too depth bowls, felt that the ending turns a bit bitter and cigar tone overpasses the rest but maybe it was me. In average capacity pipes the balance of flavors was perfect until the last thread.

I’m not used to burley-based blends, but I could smoke this tobacco on a daily basis. Besides that, I’m sure it still could teach me more. I didn’t go through its limits. For me the combination Cigar Leaf-Perique is really accomplished: spicing but not overwhelming or being out of tune. It gave me good pipings. Being an absolute profane in the blending art it seems really hard to reach such a perfect balance between these particular and distinctive flavors. The goal was to build a global taste effect and here it is.

Greetings

Louis

Zitat von TheStoneOfThor

Hola Louis,

the Flanagan is DTM-stuff, so he should have slept a night or two over

the VA/O bags in Lauenburg before creating this one.

Saludos cordiales

Thorsten

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Hi Thorten!

Thanks but I realized it when I saw the sticker without any useful information about the date of production Actually the image referred more to the careful choice of oriental each time Mr. Wiedemann use it.

Anyway, is a superb blend and I love it.

Greetings

Louis

Zitat von Karlo

Hi,

this was the long version, now my own in short:

I like to smoke my pipes and tobaccos

greetings, Karlo

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Indeed Karlo! A perfect match with the summary. What I like the most in the text is the sense of humour. Behind the philosophical slang, there is a big smile. and the simple joy of smoking his pipes and tobaccos.

Gruß!

Louis