Maiser
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Gents, I have a smoking method that I was discussing with someone else, and was told would be better shared on the boards.
I do not generally smoke pipes by myself. In fact, about 80% of my smokes are shared with one of my best friends, Derek. Furthermore, when Derek and I smoke together, we always smoke the SAME EXACT BLEND in each of our respective pipes. Furtherurthermore, as we smoke we share our thoughts on the blend and we even exchange pipes to see how it smokes out of the other's pipe. I have found this to be extremely beneficial to my thought process and tasting of a blend, especially new ones.
I HIGHLY recommend this practice. You get double the insight into what is going on in a blend, twice the amount of pipes to try it out of simultaneously, great times together, etc etc.
Switching pipes, I think, is a great practice. You get to see how the same blend smokes out of a pipe with, perhaps, completely different geometry or smoking qualities. That is all, of course, given that you are not repulsed by smoking another man's pipes.
Thoughts? Similar practices? Contradictions?
-Michael.
I do not generally smoke pipes by myself. In fact, about 80% of my smokes are shared with one of my best friends, Derek. Furthermore, when Derek and I smoke together, we always smoke the SAME EXACT BLEND in each of our respective pipes. Furtherurthermore, as we smoke we share our thoughts on the blend and we even exchange pipes to see how it smokes out of the other's pipe. I have found this to be extremely beneficial to my thought process and tasting of a blend, especially new ones.
I HIGHLY recommend this practice. You get double the insight into what is going on in a blend, twice the amount of pipes to try it out of simultaneously, great times together, etc etc.
Switching pipes, I think, is a great practice. You get to see how the same blend smokes out of a pipe with, perhaps, completely different geometry or smoking qualities. That is all, of course, given that you are not repulsed by smoking another man's pipes.
Thoughts? Similar practices? Contradictions?
-Michael.