Tips, Tricks & Information
Pipe Tobacco
Pipe Tobacco Types
Virginia
Bright Virginia
- Light and sweet, often with hay or grassy flavours. Skilled blenders can produce honey and citrus flavours.
Red/Brown Virginia
- Cured longer, burns slower and cooler.
Red: Some sweetness and slightly fruity
Brown: Nutty, woody and earthy
Dark Virginia
- Subjected to more direct heat, being either hot pressed or stoved (literally cooked), which removes the majority of the sugar and results in a very deep almost black colour.
- Strong, cool and slow burning packed with earthy, smokey and leathery flavours.
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.