Pipe Smoking 101 Part Two

Pipe smoking 101 Part II How to smoke a pipe without burning your tongue. “Tongue bite” is probably the main reason people who start smoking a pipe decide to abandon the practice early on. Sometimes when a person sees me smoking a pipe, they’ll mention that they tried it but it burned their tongue, or made their mouth hot and found pipe smoking to be an unpleasant experience. There are several reasons why this could occur. It may be the tobacco. If your tobacco is old and dried out, or new, but dried out, chances are the tobacco will burn…
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Brewing Smoke Blog

How to succeed in pipe smoking without really trying.   Breaking in a briar pipe. The gentle art of pipe smoking continues to be one of life’s rare pleasures. It can’t be hurried and the mere process of choosing a pipe from your rack, selecting the right tobacco to match your mood or time of day, carefully filling the bowl and lighting that first match has probably already lowered your pulse rate and calmed your blood pressure. The act of smoking a pipe does not necessitate sitting back in a comfortable chair. A lot depends on the pipe you choose.…
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