Dr. Grabow Pipes

Sir Duke · Guest

C&D's #104 Crooner in one of mine own. Been negleting them. They're mad.

Taking the rest of the day offline to cookout!

Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to our Veterans and to the enlisted.

drbridges · Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 1:45 pm Post subject:

A fine bowl this morning of Golden Cavendish and Long Grade Burley 1:1 in a DELUXE mountain laurel Dr. Grabow. Best bowl of the day.

drbridges · Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 6:30 pm Post subject: Dr. Bridges' Blend

The Golden Cavendish + Long Cut Burley is now the Dr. Bridges' Blend at the San Pedro Humidor in San Antonio. Dina assured me it is going in the recipe book. Got 1 lb. coming as I type. We will see if they get it right.

Also the Texas Ranger Blend I have smoked and enjoyed for many many years, and written about on this board is the Lane RLP-6.

Would like to sample the Lane LL-7 someday. Perhaps I should plan a fact-finding trip to San Antonio.

Sir Duke · Guest

drbridges · Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 9:04 pm Post subject:

drbridges · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 1:43 am Post subject:

Sir Duke, I know you are NOT cheap, merely frugal.

I will send you some samples of my blends next week.

My Dr. Bridges' Blend was my poor attempt to recreate Carter Hall. CH is truly a blessed blend; mild mannered, friendly, even tempered. Maybe it isn't a tempestuous passionate lover, but it is a steady and stalwart friend.

And to think you introduced us.

drbridges · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 1:45 am Post subject:

Best bowl of the day:

Carter Hall in a cob while driving across town. My best pipes always happen when I'm doing something else.

Sir Duke · Guest

drbridges · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 1:10 pm Post subject:

My cafe crebow cups just arrived!

Pipes & tobak still mystify me. The packing, the lighting, the tamping, the drawing. I can enjoy the best bowl in memory one day, go to that same pipe and blend later and become so revulsed I dump it half way.

That really struck me reading tobacco reviews. How the same blend affected reviewers so differently. One thought it was mild and cool. A second thought it rivaled the fires of hell. And we don't know did both of them begin with clean dry pipes? How differently did they pack their bowls?

Pipes are more like campfires, each is a unique creature of the moment. You can no more recreate a fine and memorable bowl, than you can last night's campfire.

drbridges · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 2:12 pm Post subject:

Good case in point: I just returned to the same pipe and same blend that blistered and tormented me last evening. This morning it seemed mild and friendly, even pleasant. I did make some conscious changes in packing the bowl this morning, mindful of the tearful experiences of the previous smoke.

36 years of pipe smoking, and I am still learning.