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Smoking your pipe... |
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| May I smell your tobacco? |
| Especially the ladies ask this question. They have
their expensive perfume. But they love the smell of good tobacco - anyway when it is not
lit. Then, lit it and anything can happen... I try to do the things, I enjoy - one of them is to smoke my pipe. By the way - did you know, that in Denmark, the Pipe-Man of the Year is elected. Over the years, many famous Danish people have won the honour. |
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Jaegerspris - once a royal hunting seat... |
Pipe rack with 80 of the Danish King Frederik 7's pipes in his study at Jaegerspris |
| The late King Frederik IX of Denmark was very fond of pipe-smoking. A Danish tobacco is named after him... |
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The Treasury |
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| It is amazing what you can find in a
treasury. In the treasury I am thinking of you will not find gold - no, you will find
books. I often visit the public library. And some time ago I found a small and old book about pipes and pipe-smoking written by a Danish author called H.B.J. Cramer. The book must have been written shortly after the ending of World War II. One of the chapters is telling about what material pipes can be made of: In Australia there is a very hard kind of wood called Yarra. This material should not differ much from briar-root, and it is said that a Yarra-pipe tastes quite good. |
During the war the Danes had the opportunity of becomming acquainted with another kind of pipe-material: Kibrako (Quebracho). This plant - which is actually a large tree - grows in South America. Originally the wood was imported to Denmark to be used as railway sleepers, but it was too hard. In Denmark we have a lot of beechwoods. If you ever come to Denmark in Spring, a walk in a beechwood is a must. It is a real exciting experience. You will walk under a roof of leaves of the finest and brightest green colour you have ever seen. Well, back to pipes... in fact Stanwell made their first pipes of beech. The war made it impossible to get briar-root. I have never tasted a beech-pipe (I was not born when they were made), but I can imagine the taste... In 1946 briar root was imported and two years later the Stanwell-name was registered. In 1952 the factory began a small export which has grown largely since then. Then there is the cherry pipe. The nice little book tells that quite a few Englishmen enjoy cherry-pipes. It is said that these pipes should taste well from the very first pipe and give the smoke a unique kind of sweetness. However, the life of a cherry-pipe is short. You might say that the pipe burns itself up. |
Ingredients for a dry nightcap: |
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