I was reading this thread the other day and decided to pull the trigger on my first pipe.  I ended up buying four corn cobs and a cheapie briar.  I also got some Frog Morton's tobacco.  First night?  8-9 relight's and it took 90 minutes to smoke a fairly small bowl.  Tonight went much better.  Only used four matches total and the smoke was great and relaxing for about a 45 minute smoking session.  Think I'm going to stop in at the local tomorrow and buy a couple of aromatics since the Frog Morton, while tasty, doesn't have that pleasant smell that always made me love pipe smokers when I was a kid.  Thanks for all the great info here to help me get started!

good to hear... pipe smoking has a bit of a learning curve, but once you figure it out... fuhggedaboudit.

Holy smokes (no pun intended) ...... 90 minutes for a single bowl, and a small one at that?  You must've been smokng and resmoking a lot of burnt ash.  That must be a world's record for the least amount of pipe tobacco smoked in a 1 1/2 hour time period.

Quotesam a - 2/11/2012  2:14 PM

good to hear... pipe smoking has a bit of a learning curve, but once you figure it out... fuhggedaboudit.

I love the aromatics too. I tend toward the black cavendish, usually black cherry, but also vanilla, rum and many others. Check out pipesandcigars.com ... I have found the McClelland cavendish to be quite tasty. I have yet to try any Gawith Hogarth, but others on the site recommend it.

Quotemike46 - 2/11/2012  3:05 PM

Holy smokes (no pun intended) ...... 90 minutes for a single bowl, and a small one at that?  You must've been smokng and resmoking a lot of burnt ash.  That must be a world's record for the least amount of pipe tobacco smoked in a 1 1/2 hour time period.

Yeah, I probably shouldn't have done that first one in the dark at night.  It kept going out, I'm sure I didn't pack it right and I very well likely was smoking ash over and over again.  After my bowl last night though and then the one I just finished this afternoon, I think I have it down.  Got some Black Cavendish from the local B&M and another vanilla and cherry smelling blend (that I forgot the name already ) and they both went down quite smooth.

Quotekola - 2/11/2012  1:07 PM

Quotesam a - 2/11/2012  2:14 PM

good to hear... pipe smoking has a bit of a learning curve, but once you figure it out... fuhggedaboudit.

I love the aromatics too. I tend toward the black cavendish, usually black cherry, but also vanilla, rum and many others. Check out pipesandcigars.com ... I have found the McClelland cavendish to be quite tasty. I have yet to try any Gawith Hogarth, but others on the site recommend it.

just a word of warning... if you are used to aro cavendish blends, most all of gawith and hoggarths stuff will likely blow your head off. not a bad thing necessarily, just much stronger.

Quotesam a - 2/11/2012  9:16 PM

Quotekola - 2/11/2012  1:07 PM

Quotesam a - 2/11/2012  2:14 PM

good to hear... pipe smoking has a bit of a learning curve, but once you figure it out... fuhggedaboudit.

I love the aromatics too. I tend toward the black cavendish, usually black cherry, but also vanilla, rum and many others. Check out pipesandcigars.com ... I have found the McClelland cavendish to be quite tasty. I have yet to try any Gawith Hogarth, but others on the site recommend it.

just a word of warning... if you are used to aro cavendish blends, most all of gawith and hoggarths stuff will likely blow your head off. not a bad thing necessarily, just much stronger.

Thanks for the warning Sam.  I love the aromas of the cavendish, but have never yet had any kind of nic-kick from it, even after 2 or 3 bowls.
So now you have really piqued my interest in the Gawith Hoggarth line.  Maybe I will start out with the Brown Irish X ...  

Quotekola - 2/11/2012  7:02 PM

Quotesam a - 2/11/2012  9:16 PM

Quotekola - 2/11/2012  1:07 PM

Quotesam a - 2/11/2012  2:14 PM

good to hear... pipe smoking has a bit of a learning curve, but once you figure it out... fuhggedaboudit.

I love the aromatics too. I tend toward the black cavendish, usually black cherry, but also vanilla, rum and many others. Check out pipesandcigars.com ... I have found the McClelland cavendish to be quite tasty. I have yet to try any Gawith Hogarth, but others on the site recommend it.

just a word of warning... if you are used to aro cavendish blends, most all of gawith and hoggarths stuff will likely blow your head off. not a bad thing necessarily, just much stronger.

Thanks for the warning Sam.  I love the aromas of the cavendish, but have never yet had any kind of nic-kick from it, even after 2 or 3 bowls.
So now you have really piqued my interest in the Gawith Hoggarth line.  Maybe I will start out with the Brown Irish X ...  

haha, godspeed.

I find the pipe to be very relaxing.  Hope you enjoy it just as much when you get the hang of things.

Well all I just smoked a pipe for my very first time! And I'm screwed! Loved it. Went to my local B&M Sean helped me pick out 3- 2oz pouches of tobacco and since I had a $15 credit coming at me anyway he picked out a 3 way tool for me and then gave me a La Rocca pipe for free

Just to interject a tobacco question.

Why is it an accepted practice to smoke cherry, vanilla or chocolate pipe tobaccos, producing billowing clouds of smoke that can smell like a Mrs Fields caught on fire?  However, if someone around here lights up an ACID, their manhood is called into question.  

QuoteJackal - 2/28/2012  1:52 PM

Just to interject a tobacco question.

Why is it an accepted practice to smoke cherry, vanilla or chocolate pipe tobaccos, producing billowing clouds of smoke that can smell like a Mrs Fields caught on fire?  However, if someone around here lights up an ACID, their manhood is called into question.  

Dunno about anyone else but I dislike both equally.  It's been many years since I lit up a Swisher Sweet stick (or Rum Soaked Crook) or a bowl of Cherry Blend (or similar pipe tobacco flavored/sweetened with fruit/rum/maple/bourbon/etc.).

QuoteJackal - 2/28/2012  10:52 AM  Just to interject a tobacco question.  Why is it an accepted practice to smoke cherry, vanilla or chocolate pipe tobaccos, producing billowing clouds of smoke that can smell like a Mrs Fields caught on fire?  However, if someone around here lights up an ACID, their manhood is called into question.  

 

haha... actually in pipe smoking circles i think smoking aros is viewed much the same as smoking flavored cigars in cigar smoking circles. there is defiantly a stigma. but generally, pipers in my experience just seem to be more gentle in expressing their opinions/preferences than the cigar crowd.

Quotesam a - 2/28/2012  2:33 PM
haha... actually in pipe smoking circles i think smoking aros is viewed much the same as smoking flavored cigars in cigar smoking circles. there is defiantly a stigma. but generally, pipers in my experience just seem to be more gentle in expressing their opinions/preferences than the cigar crowd.

I was going to say the same thing.  One time I was at an event, and a piper got a sniff of someone else smoking an aromatic.  I think his exact words were "who smokes that stinky shyt."