Ten years of selling the best pipe tobacco, cigars, accessories and talking to thousands of you on the phone or messaging back and forth via our Facebook account has taught us a few things about pipe tobacco smokers and RYO lifestyle enthusiasts. Dive into our blog for recommendations and thoughts. Our Short List for Essential […]
Pipe tobacco has moved into the mainstream, used by millions of smokers every day. Some are buying products off the shelf, more enterprising out on the fringe “RYO lifestyle” smokers are making their own blends at the kitchen table and reinventing pipe tobacco usage all over again. Most good pipe tobacco is from the Commonwealth […]
The ubiquitous American commerce symbol, the tobacco farm is gradually fading from view. But, luckily brands like Kentucky Select Pipe Tobacco are driving tobacco consumption. And, let’s be honest burley tobacco grown in Kentucky is the “go-to tobacco plant” used in many popular brands of the best pipe tobacco including Kentucky Select. Our Kentucky Select […]
Historians believe the birth of the modern RYO lifestyle has it’s roots (sorry for the pun) in the days when organic tobacco plants were discovered by Native Americans in approximately 6000 BC. No one knows for sure but the earliest know usage of smoking what is now called pipe tobacco began when Native Americans began […]
Gourmet popcorn has been around for thousands of years – it is believed Native Americans discovered how to pop plain corn by tossing it into the fire and watching it pop. Voila: popping corn was born. It is believed fossilized popcorn cobs were discovered in 4,500 BC in Peru and New Mexico around this same […]
Back in the good old days a man or woman with a cigar in hand was held in high esteem every debutante or bachelor of the moment celebrated smoking a stick while sipping champagne. Windy City Cigars has got the best tobacco for pipes on their website, please check it. Although, to be candid more […]
We all embrace the grill as part of the week-end ritual of sharing good times in the company of fiends and family, with a premium cigar on the front or back end and a libation du jour. Let’s be honest, every woman, man and even children in some cases think they have the penultimate secrets […]
Taste can mean many things to many people (just Google it) and pipe tobacco is no different. You can buy low grade pipe tobacco at just about any convenience store or corner market in any city in the U.S. But in most cases, in a convenience store on the corner you don’t really have any […]
Okay, let’s say you break out a premium cigar and it’s not a handmade Cuban that you can rave about and the “fine folks” around you blanch in horror as you light up that Rocky Patel Catch 22 Rothschild. Here are our ten steadfast warning signs that tell your immediate circle are possibly premium cigar […]
Every premium cigar needs to be cut correctly to ensure your smoking experience is going to go well. There is somewhat of an art to cutting a cigar and for those with inquiring minds here is our deep dive into cigar cutting basics.? Let’s Talk About the Cutting Process A cutter is used to remove […]
Back in the early days here in America, the original settlers (some times are known as Puritans) were no strangers to brew and pipe tobacco (the classic kind). If you dive into history and check the Mayflower logbooks, they mention their beer supplies were running low (our language), so time to pull the Mayflower into […]
Whatever you want to call roll your own tobacco: RYO, RMO (roll my own), roll-ups, rolllies, blunts, hand rolled cigarettes – the list of slang names is endless. The actual “roll your own” tobacco term refers to cigarettes made from a specific brand of pipe tobacco and combined with rolling paper or a cigarette tube, […]
We live in the age of videos, right? Your on the phone and text is too boring. Here are five favorite videos on pipe smoking, pipe tobacco and related topics. First up this entertaining five minute short on pipes: it’s informative and entertaining. One of the best Videos we have seen on Pipe Smoking and […]
No offense meant but a premium cigar is not like puffing on a blunt or a cigarette. It involves a lot more than just lighting up, puffing and yacking away with your bae on your smartphone. Lest we sound too “cigar geeky” – but there are finite techniques any “true” cigar aficionado should be aware […]
Each of these pipe tobacco flavors has been tasted and tested: smoked, rolled, mixed, and sniffed by one of our hard-working tobacconists, reflecting the right product that’s aggressively priced for the pipe-smoking connoisseur. Let’s start with a classic from Henrik Halberg, the master blender who happens to be a 4th generation owner of Marc Beren Tobacco products. […]
Okay you have embraced the premium cigar or pipe tobacco lifestyle and you want to understand what are the basic rules of the road for etiquette, how to identify or care for a premium cigar, what are the basics about the best pipe tobacco and more. This blog is for you and we hope it’s […]
Filtered cigars are not cigarettes, the tobacco used and the construction of these products differ significantly from cigarettes. Cigarettes are simply processed tobacco wrapped in basic paper tubes, filtered cigars have filler tobacco and are wrapped in a pipe tobacco wrapper like a traditional cigar. A Cheyenne Filtered Cigar is a great example of a […]
As a new generation of Americans takes over what we eat, consume, smoke, drink and even how we share everything (think: social media drenched world) is undergoing a transformative shift. Our Demographics are being redefined: in the 1960’s the primary “foreign born” immigrants were from Europe (65%), Canada (10%), South America (9%) and Asia (5%). […]
So you are taking the plunge and going with DIY tobacco and you are “challenged’ when it comes to rolling a smoke by hand – you are not alone BTW if that’s any consolation. If you are shopping for a cigarette rolling machine you have two primary options: electric or manual. The former is, of […]
There are no hard and fast rules for smoking in public in the company of others who may or may not enjoy the smell of fine pipe tobacco wafting on the evening breeze or enveloping a room over an after dinner brandy. But, know going in you want to be sympathetic to the social mores […]
