Urban Cowboy is roughly 65% SWR, 20% black cavendish, and 15% McBaren ODF. Not by weight but proportions. I just eyeball it. You can adjust to taste. Up the % of ODF to get Round Up. Cut back on the black cavendish for Cattle Drive.
And it tastes wonderful
Good Question Gaius.
There's a pipe smoking technique named Delayed Gratification Technique or DGT that you can look up. Essentially you light up the pipe and smoke maybe the top quarter and let it go out. Let it sit a few hours or overnight, remove the ash, level the tobacco, and, light it up. I frequently let bowls sit overnight and finish them while doing morning chores.
Hello Mr. G Marius - top o' the morning. Your question regarding how long to leave a tobacco pipe loaded... there is a whole school of thought about this. Virginia based tobaccos tend to do well if not better when on the drier side. Some pipers have embraced a "technique" called DGT - Delayed Gratification Technique. This is basically letting a full pipe "rest" between smokes for up to a day or even two before calling it good/emptying the bowl and ending the affair. I have seen va/pers do well this technique. I will fire up the pipe, smoke for a while, put it down for a few hours. Come back to it. Put it down for a few hours/half a day/sometimes even the next day. I have seen some tobaccos respond extremely well to this - basically noticeable improvements in flavor as the tobacco gets air time. Some blends I don't notice a whole lot of change but am able to enjoy a single pipe over the course of a day/evening/morning. Essentially this comes down to personal preference for each piper, so this is completely subjective. Basically it comes down to each of us to smoke what we like, and to like what we smoke. So in the end there is no "wrong way"/"right way." Your only map to navigate all of this is your own personal palate and preferences, which can only be sussed out over time and with experimentation. Your mileage will likely vary greatly. Currently I am enjoying a rather large bowl of Sansepolcro - a Virginia based blend. I will likely be puffing on this off and on through the day and into the evening. Cheers to the day.
I've done that, but not on purpose, and didn't know it had a name, lol. But yes, smoking the rest later is never bad, unless you smoke too far down.
When this happens to me (having a partial bowl waiting to finish), I tend to layer another tobacco (not too radically different) to fill the bowl. Then just relight and smoke on my merry way!! Makes for an interesting transition from the top layer to the bottom!!! FWIW, FTRPLT
