New piper here. I absolutely love virginias. It forces me to learn cadence and meditate. My first was Escudo. Dry 10 minutes and loosely fold. Heaven

This video has the most home run suggestions I've ever seen. Awesome!

Learning the minutiae of pipe tobacco, tobacco processing and curing, blending, etc. was a huge part of the enjoyment of smoking a pipe, at lease for me 🙂

I've been pipe smoking only a few days, Royal Yacht Club (Virginia) has been my first blend. Your channel has been a good find, I like your down to earth manner so thank you for what I've learned so far. As for packing the pipe? I seem to have had excellent luck using the "Frank method" and now I'm learning how to consistently make the bowl stay lit on just 1 lighting. The experience has already surpassed my expectations so much!

What I love about pure Virginias, Capstan Original Navy Cut for me, is that I can pack a large bowl and if I don't finish it, it's even better the next day.

Been smoking a pipe for close to 10 years now and starting to settle into the fact that Virginia is my favorite category. I’ve been going hard on Reds like Give Me Liberty and Red Virginia Crumble Kake. Also a fan of a solid English style black Virginia cavendish like Rattray’s Black Virginia and Gawith - Dark Virginia Cavendish (DVC). For browns I’ve about a pound of Luxury Twist flake and Newminster 400 cellared up and aging. Full Virginia flake if I could ever get it lol I kind of accidentally skipped over a lot of classic tried and true Va’s like Capstan Erinmore and Peterson Flake and going back to try those. Perique is such a wild card for me. It’s in some of my favorite tobaccos like Plumb Pudding where it adds something to that kitchen sink style blend in the background. In a Va I find perique just stands out so much over everything else that it takes over and then kicks my ass. Golden Sliced is the best luck I’ve had with a true Va/Per. Big fan of the unsweetened tea you get from Va/Burs like Briar Fox. Kind of enjoying the recent Va/Or wave that seems to be picking up some interest of a lot of people. Bijou being a classic for me. So many options even in straight Va. it’s crazy how diverse a simple Virginia leaf can be after it’s processed and topped and/or combined with different categories. Excellent vid!

Great explanation video! C&D Opening Night is a favorite of mine.

A flavorful smoke. Crunchy peanut buttery goodness.

GL Pease Opening Night is an awesome pure VA broken flake. Seattle Pipe Clubs Hogshead (plug) is a great too, its already aged 10 years before packaging. Cheers love the VAs!

Great video, very informative 👍

Capstan Gold / Ready Rub is pretty darn good out of the tin. Stockpiling a few tins of that.. Haven't tried the Captstan original yet. Peterson De Lux mixture is a good virginia that doesn't have that much bite.. One of my favorite is the Stokkabye Virginia twist ( That has a bit of kick and needs some Jar time ) .. Thanks for sharing

Great video. I am now in love with Avanti Kentucky Fire Cured Cheroots!!!

Have been smoking a pipe for a long time. Loved this video, until the last few years I only smoked Captain Black original. That's exactly what my grandfather smoked. Have now started to experience different tobacco blends from Lane, Sufflift and Cornell&Diel. Thank you

Great video. I learned a lot from you and the information you presented today. Thank you.

11:17 The J is pronounced like a Y "Yanus" Great video and spot on! Most of these are the Virginias I started on. Really love that twist!

Very interesting. Enjoying the video and lots of good info.

Great video

Thank you for all the information 👍👍👍

Such a great video to introduce folks to Virginia's and the steps up from there into the VaPer's and English's, etc.

Really nicely done. I hate to be critical. London flake is a Virginia perique. And I really like Symphony and they taste nothing like each other. Symphony is burly heavy with some Virginia and a cocoa topping. I highly recommend people try both.

you nailed the perique being the ''cajun spice'' of the tobacco world, right on the head! but, perique is a process, rather than a leaf type. Straight virginias are hardly a beginner tobacco. they won't tame it nor appreciate the many offers it has. Great video!

I gave up tobacco years ago, but this was a very enjoyable watch. Watching an enthusiast describe their craft is very enthralling.

3rd attempt at this pipe smoking hobby. From what I’ve tried, I tend to gravitate to burley blends like Presbyterian Reformation, Rivendell and MB Vanilla Roll Cake. After watching this video and your video on Blockade Runner , I’m going to try some straight Virginias. Wish me Luck.

Capstan Blue is the blend that I have smoked the most of in all my time as a pipe smoker. Probably over a hundred tins already. It just never gets old to me.

im new to pipe smoking but well done..good video and thanks for the info

I really love Capstan and SPC's Give Me Liberty (which I can't wait to have a tin age for several years) for a straight VA. Lane Limited 125th Anniversary and Hansom Flake for VA/Pers. Most other VA/Pers seem to need a little latakia for my tastes.

I see tobacco a Star Wars fan and a hornady sticker I’m subscribed

Good Informative Vid , like your channel. Only thing being for NOOBS , is just personaly I would start where most of us did , with the Codgers . Then move into these you have to hunt for or order. Shoot , everyone calls the staples Over The Counters , well once upona time yes. But at least in my Country in western Ks , Southeast Neb. Good luck. Its vape and roll your own , chew and almost Zero for Pipes. Two grocery stores here , 30 mile apart , one has half and half and one Sir Walter , reg and aromatic . Even smokeers friendly stores / outlets an hour and 30 min away are not stocking much . Let alone items that go with like evenpioes , filters ect. Might as well get online. But just me no biggy , would starr with them , then more content to go into more like you have. You can always revisit those for true NOOBS lol , and theres more videos . Keep up doing your thing brother , I enjoy it.

Great video 🎉

Along with the ones you mentioned. Peterson Flake and Rattray’s Hal of the Wynd are two more really good blends.

Thank you good sir.

Great video, very informative!. One you didn't mention that I really enjoy is Samuel gawith full virginia, lately I can't get enough of it

Nice video! I like Virginias a lot and especially as flakes or spun cuts. But I was wondering that you put the Orlik Golden Sliced as a Virginia-Perique flake. As far as I know it's a pure Virginia, what would also match my memory on the palate. Maybe a very suttle casing or top flavour, almost not recognisable. Four more tips from my side: Richmond Navy Cut (pure Va in a constant quality over a 100 years), McConnell Old London Pebble Cut (back to base smoking experiance), Peter Heinrich #110 (Va-Perique-Kentucky, a bomb of natural aroma), SG Brown Flake (rich pure Va's, nice slow smoker). Let's add a fifth: Bell's Three Nuns (Va-Perique curleys with quite some punch). I don't know if you can get them in the US, but if so give them a try and enjoy.

What kind of pipe is that? I like the rounded edges of the bowl. Almost calabashy but it looks heftier like it might be a rhodesian.

Just to clearify :) Yellow capstan is the milder of the two. Blue being stronger. Back in the days there where 3 diffrent. Yellow, blue and brown. Yellow was called mild, blue medium and brown was called full or strong. Today they are not allowed to use worts like mild, and brown got discontinued. Thx for a great video. Really enjoy my virginias myself

As a native Virginian, I agree.

Nice video, big fan of virgin tobacco and you helped me out with your breakdown of it all. Also love the boonie can you let me know the brand of that hat.

Are you a reloaded as well? I saw the Hornady sticker in the back and had to guess.

Virginias tend to bite me terribly. Especially MacBaren Virginias.

In my experience, Virginia blends are somewhat flavorless until they get at least a year of age on them. I've cracked opened fresh tins of Mac Baren's Virginia Flake, Capstan's Blue, and Peterson's Flake in the past that to me were very boring and tasted like hot air but after a year on the shelf taste like a totally different blend are amazing.

Holy 💩! Is that a I’m Groot pipe?? That would be an epic pipe if it is

Just found your channel & subbed you.

Best rum soaked Virginia blend is Windjammer by far.

Im sorry that you had bad luck with LJ Peretti 150 flake but my experience with it has been great. The flakes I have received and dark and sugary with quite a bit of moisture. Give them another try I really like it. Im sure if you contacted them they would make it good. They are an extremely reputable company.

In my experience with Elizabethian mixture, you have to give the perique time to settle. It seems very over powering when its fresh. My wife hates the room note of this tobacco more than any of the others. Peterson flake {the blue and whit can) is a good straight virginia to smoke. Its a little more spinsive, but it has that rich Virginia taste that i so love. On a different note, what do you think of gl pease union square? Have you tried it?. Im thinking of ordering some.

I tried pipe tobacco but eventually gravitated away. I have quite a bit jarred for 10 years. Is it still good? It is in Ball jars, in a dark room with ambient temps in the 60s. Thank you

I tried capstan blue and i got this weird gasoline taste. Tried it in 3 different pipes. Anyone else have this issue? Orlik golden flake is amazing.

I need to pick up a Vaper so that I can start picking these flavors apart, since the only pipe tobacco that I have smoked thus far is Boswells cupcake! That being said, I placed 1st and 2nd place out of 30, two years straight in a St Tammany Parish crawfish cook off 🦞

12 year old virginia no1 best tobacco in the world but but bitey when new

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