Tips, Tricks & Information
Pipe Tobacco
Pipe Tobacco Types
Kentucky
(a.k.a Dark Fire-Cured Burley)
- Rich, pugent tobacco with an earthy, smokey, woody almost cigar-like taste.
Oriental
- Sun dried tobacco that secures some of the natural sugar, half of a typical Virginia tobacco but still offers a slight sweet note.
- Spicy flavours and robust smokes.
Flavouring Terms Explained
Casing
- Flavourings that can be added to pipe tobacco, primarily aromatic blends.
- Typically applied to smooth out the smoke and act as a base flavour.
Flue Cured
- Cured using heat from pipes that are connected to a furnace.
Blend Definitions
Aromatics
A blend with added flavouring, typically to a cavendish base.
- Spirits (rum, bourbon ect) are considered natural flavours and are not classified as aromatics.
English
Contains Latakia.
Scottish
Unsweetended Black Cavendish, may or may not include Latakia.
Balkan
Latakia and Orientals added to a Virginia base.
Side note: English blends may or may not have a percentage of Orientals but Balkans will always have Orientals added.
English Aromatics
Contains a flavouring additive and Latakia tobacco.