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Crystal Ball

Thanks for enjoying the new Sword & Board series as well as the new aromatics. We haven’t been this busy since the early days of the pandemic when people needed a lot of tobacco to get through lockdowns. Chicago, Howdy Hey. Baby don’t you wanna go? We sure do. But Ken already has to be […]

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Live / Next

Next Our intro to Lakeland style Virginia/Burley, Moriarty, restocks this week. On a bed of aromatic black cavendish, he’s one smooth criminal. The wait for Van Gogh is almost over. A new Mountain of Madness is almost ready. Our “orc Scottish” mixture Goblin City shall return this week as well. The new batch of Uzu

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Dread Knight Cometh

The next blend in the Sword & Board series premiers Tuesday at 10am CST. This one hearkens back to the days when latakia and anise-ish notes were often found paired together. Even the original Krumble Kake blend (according to one historian) was licorice infused. The final name is still being withheld at the moment, We

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Restock and News

Western Trilogy, Acadian Flek, and Stampede Kek (scented crumble plug) are back in stock. Van Gogh, Uzumaki, Moriarty, and Mountains of Madness get restocked next week. The next blend in the Sword & Board series debuts next week: Lich Knight (aromatic licorice Latakia mixture). Instagram is the most deleted app of 2023. We’ve decided to

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Adventures to Go

We normally make a batch of Burlier Morning Pipe once a year for people who still want it. We stopped selling it because we try not to sell variant blends as a practice. We may start licensing or selling off old blends that we don’t have room for. We mentioned it before the end of

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Adventures to Come

The Sword & Board series has kicked off. The adventures are just beginning. Dwarven Mine is an aromatic Latakia mixture that won’t leave you with a greasy creosote mouth feel. Despite the elegance of the blend, it is born of different fiery processes. Smoked Orientals (Latakia), steamed Virginia, toasted Burley, and blackened Burley. The next

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This Week

It’s going to be a fun one. We hope to get Western Trilogy back in stock by the end of week latest. We have Noble Aztec and Chocko Leone debuting tomorrow at 10am CST. Dwarven Mine is scheduled to make appearance Wednesday or Thursday. Moriarty may return this week if we’re lucky. Cheers,Ken

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a little bird

We’re on the app formerly known as Twitter. We’re not sure what we’re going to do yet. For now we’re keeping all real news here on the web site and using X for behind the scenes and work in progress art. I’ve been off social media for years and I am sure it can only

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Blending Lessons pt. 5

Ever imagine what it would be like to have twelve fingers? Of course you have. The default number system humans use is called base-10 and it works really well without paper because we have 10 fingers. One of the downsides of this numbering system is that it means blending more difficult. When we think in

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Eye on Fire

We do dark fired differently. Whether it’s our runaway success Spaghetti Western (steamed dark fired), Dark Fired Cherry (changed in the past few years to use steamed dark fired), or Uzumaki (aged dark fired); you’ll find less astringent notes and rough edges than the regular dark fired blend. Looking for something exotic? Mycroft uses unsmoked

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