I also like to select a Balkan for a new (estate) pipe just in case there are any ghosts from what the PO may have smoked. Their flavor is more full and can mask many ghosts - but nothing can mask #79. They produce a nice soft ash for me so I can spread ash over the bowl (a technique called 'ashing'), and help promote a cake. If I do detect a ghost with a Virginia like the Red Ribbon, I will switch the next smoke to a Balkan, and after smoking the bowl, let the dottle stay in the bowl to 'season' the bottom of the bowl, which helps mask the ghost better on the next bowl.
Joe H
--- On Fri, 8/8/08, Jeffery Suter <jeff@ripplingbrook.com> wrote:
From: Jeffery Suter <jeff@ripplingbrook.com>
Subject: Re: [Pipe smokers] I'm an Idiot!
To: pipesmokers2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, August 8, 2008, 7:21 AM
1983 crop McCranie's Red Ribbon...
; )
Best-
Jeff
http://ripplingbrook.com
----- Original Message ----
From: Eatp69 <eatp69@yahoo.com>
To: pipesmokers2@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, August 8, 2008 1:18:12 AM
Subject: [Pipe smokers] I'm an Idiot!
what do you guys suggest my first smoke out of my savinelli puto oro full bent
bulliard be?
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