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Union Square is not new, but I had not had it before. Union Square is a straight Virginia Flake without any added toppings, casings, or sugars. It is the kind of flake that J.R.R. Tolkien enjoyed. Seeing that I will be giving a presentation on Tolkien at our Pipe Club Dinner at Twins Smoke Shop
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I open up a jar of BriarWorks latest blend, Smokehouse, for the first time and share my thoughts on this English flake. It surprised me!
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In the opening scenes of the iconic movie, The Princess Bride, Princess Buttercup loved to order her farm-boy Wesley around. It didn’t matter if the request was big or small reasonable or unreasonable, he always responded saying “As you wish,” and then went and did it. Then one day she realized that when he said
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In this video I unbox both smooth and sandblasted finishes of the Chacom Bent Dublin made exclusively for Twins Pipe Club. Erik Stokkebye worked with Chacom to make this happen. A total of 50 pipes were made, 19 smooth and 31 sandblast. Like anything else, it took longer than any of us thought, but it
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In this video I review Cornell & Diehl’s King Cake, one of the blends from their Cellar Series. King Cake is an aromatic blend presented as a crumble cake meant to evoke the spirit of the Mardi Gras cake of the same name that is traditionally served during the Christian church season of Epiphany, honoring
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In Genesis 15, God let Abram witness Him entering into a covenant on Abram’s behalf. The covenant was with Abram in the sense that it was for Abram, but it did not depend on Abram. His part in this covenant was not to take an oath, but to be the legal witness of God’s oath
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One of the things Gawith Hoggarth is famous for is their twist or rope tobaccos. Among the most popular are Brown Irish X and its cooked and pressed cousin, Black Irish X. They also make twists with different toppings, in this case, rum. Does the rum add something to the twist, or does it get
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“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things, there is no law” (Galatians 5:22-23, NIV). My wife, Mandi, has a green thumb. A big green thumb, if I am honest. And it will not be denied! She often talks about the garden as
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In this video, I open a tin of G.L. Pease Windjammer to review and take the opportunity to show how I prefer to pack a flake cut tobacco in my pipe.
Not Just Blowing Smoke with Pastor Padron 