I just tried GL Pease Embarcadero

[DrumsAndBeer]

This tobacco's Kiss is on My List.

 

[jefe1037]

This tobacco's Kiss is on My List.

no...just no

 

[Kyle Weiss]

Ha! Now that song will be stuck in a few of your brains. That amuses me. :lol: I hope you go to work/lunch/sleep whistling it randomly, catching yourselves, and feeling ashamed.

Shane, Yak suggested fresh 'Barc was best, which is good, because I need a few tins of stuff I can crack into fresh and not worry about aging. *shrug*

 

[Brewdude]

Had my first bowl of Embarcadero today, and am suitably impressed.

I rubbed out and dried a bowls worth, and fired it up in my Savinelli 1/2 bent billiard.

Very interesting weed. Quite subtle, not a strong tasting blend at all. What it does have is a beguiling complexity that Kyle noted in his first post. While I can't say I identified all the nuances he did, there was certainly a lot going on there and it did change down the bowl. Certainly kept my interest.

Burned really nice too. Put the pipe down about halfway to go off and do some guitar playing and came back to finish it a little later. Must have given me at least an hour all told.

I'll be looking forward to future bowls of this for sure. Whatta great 'baccy!


:drunken:



Cheers,

RR

 

[Kyle Weiss]

Glad it raised a proverbial eyebrow, Rande... 8) ...especially if it had some strumming time in between-- the DGT on 'Barc is really, really, really good.

 

[Anonymous]

I'm still letting Embarcadero "choose" it's favorite pipes...

You know, it's funny, but I've never smoked it in a (clean, rested) pipe it hasn't done well in.

:face:

 

[Kyle Weiss]

I'm still letting Embarcadero "choose" it's favorite pipes...

You know, it's funny, but I've never smoked it in a (clean, rested) pipe it hasn't done well in.

:face:

Thurston, the Pete I have, didn't impress me with 'Barc, but I have a feeling it's cockpit error and wonky smoking on my part. I really, really lucked out choosing, first time, the first pipe for the first smoke with this stuff. I doubt that'll happen to often, so I truly feel like I hit all 7's.

 

[Kyle Weiss]

Update:

Cobs + Embarcadero...

...holy wow does the Izmir come alive! It's spicy! I'm still havin' a go at it now, but here's yet another trick this mix is able to do. Toward the end (as in, right now) I'm noticing a lot of sweetness that cobs sometimes contribute, and it's pretty interesting... very pleased. Again.

 

[MisterE]

Just an observation: it generally works well with pipes that I smoke Virginias in. If I smoke it in Vaper or Lat pipes I lose the subtleties. As Yak said, it also depends on how long it's been since I last smoked the pipe too.

Another point for pipe dedication.... or, at least, genre segregation. :rabbit:

 

[Kyle Weiss]

I only have VA or Lat pipes, with one exception being a cob I have just for Storm Front. So, that was one little variable I didn't have to muddle through.

 

[MisterE]

That's right, you're still ixnay on the Perique, lol!

One day you'll fire up a bowl of skoodo and say, "Geez, this is goooooood! Damn! I can't believe I missed out on this for this long".

Trust me. It'll happen....just....trust.....me.

:lol!: :lol!:

 

[Kyle Weiss]

Hey, for my sake, I hope so! It's not "ixnay" per se, I like Rattray's stuff... *shrug* It's just gotta be minute quantities.

 

[Anonymous]

I would venture to suggest that you got a cross-over effect you didn't like in Thurston. If memory serves, you've had so many different weedages in him by he's about like a briar garbage can.

I warned you -- E is a princess. And princesses aren't happy in hovels. I bet it might be a different story if you'd started him out with it and kept the relation monogamous.

Clean, clean, clean's the ticket

No sloppy seconds 8)

Just sayin'

:face:

 

[Kyle Weiss]

Not really. Thurston had only Scottish Flake in him until I started firin' up 'Barc back when this whole relationship started. The Scottish Flake, better in other pipes--in fact, even in the Harris Copper. Now, that pipe, the Harris, has been a ginnyweed whore for quite a spell longer than Thurston.

Like I said, I hit all 7's with the first combo, and have repeated it effectively since then. The Harris Copper, if any, will be my "Barc only" briar if anything. Thurston just needs the right puff with the right stuff, and I haven't found it yet. "Yet' being the key operative. I like a challenge, and I'll figure it out. Thurston may need to be broken in a bit more, too.

This cob is smokin' the 'Barc pretty smooth though, I do have to admit. Quite pleased.

 

[Anonymous]

Scottish Flake = Kentucky + Virginia + Turkish + Cigar Leaf

And Lord knows what the Turkish is . . .

The prosecution rests, Your Honor.

:face:

 

[s.ireland]

I'm still letting Embarcadero "choose" it's favorite pipes...

You know, it's funny, but I've never smoked it in a (clean, rested) pipe it hasn't done well in.

:face:

I agree. I never said I had any poor smokes with Embarcadero; only that I'm letting it naturally select which pipes it LOVES lol

Earlier today I brought my 2007 stash with me to a little pipe get together at a friends house. A few of the guys wanted to try some Embarcadero so of course I told them to load up and get on with it. I knew one of them was going to really like it as he and I share the same tastes and sure enough he really enjoyed it. Another friend, who fairly recently began to enjoy more and more Virginia blends, also liked the blend a lot. Then, and this was my highlight, another guy who almost exclusively smokes Latakia blends and who always has something negative to say about VA blends, really enjoyed the smoke. He said it was "an un-Virginia-like Virginia!" I assume that he meant it didn't bite or taste like hay lol I was just glad they enjoyed the stuff

 

[Kyle Weiss]

Scottish Flake = Kentucky + Virginia + Turkish + Cigar Leaf

And Lord knows what the Turkish is . . .

The prosecution rests, Your Honor.

:face:

*nods* I see your point. Good call.

 

[Anonymous]

"This has an Embarcadero note to it!" That's gonna make my foodie/drink friends look at me like I've lost my marbles.

Without the experience involved, they wouldn't "get it."

If you're in search of a more nearly universally-accessible adjective to describe the allure it exerts, I'd suggest

callipygian.

(Now watch this get bum-rushed off to the rubber room ! :lol!: )

:face:

 

[Kyle Weiss]

Bum rushed. You just had to say it, didn't you?

"Embarcadero is completely callipygous in flavor." (...ahhhh yes!)

"This rump roast is bovinically callipygian." (...you're doing it wrong.)

:lol:

I like it. 8)

 

[Anonymous]

It isn't by accident that a heart looks like a bum 8)

:face: