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This smart-looking corona comes dressed in a milk-chocolate wrapper that is a touch on the dry side with slight veins and a bit of tooth.  The wrapper gives a faint scent of bay rum, leather and molasses while the foot is far more lively - chocolate-covered raisins and baking spices greet the nose.  The cold draw reveals a nearly level of resistance, with a hazelnut note mixing with the chocolate raisins.             Dry cedar from the very start, but only a few puffs in and you are greeted with a spicy, smoky mesquite flavour that fades to a very sweet...

Please spread the word.  Share around, tell your friends.  On August 31st Health Canada will decide how to proceed with plain packaging for tobacco in Canada.  Currently they are advocating plain packaging for all tobacco products including premium Cigars and Pipe Tobacco.  Despite being deemed unequivocal failures by the people who implemented similar packaging in Australia and England, Health Canada is using them as a model.  The reality is this will increase the cost of cigars in Canada (even more!), increase Black Market sales which will cause tax increases to recoup lost revenue and diminish the products available to you. ...

 Every year Brigham creates a new pipe of the year that aims to keep us thinking about what brings us all together. In the past we have done pipes that honor our heritage as a company and ones that honor our history as a country. This year we have chosen to go a different route, this year we have started our four year series about the four elements. Fire is the first element that comes to mind when we think about warmth and strength. To embody this we have created a modified Volcano Pipe with a straight grain that makes...

Roy Brigham, after serving an apprenticeship under an Austrian pipesmith, started his own pipe repair shop in Toronto, in 1906. By 1918 the business had grown to include five other craftsmen and had developed a reputation across Canada for the high quality of workmanship. After repairing many different brands of pipes over the years, Roy noted certain recurring complaints by pipe smokers, the most common referred to as "tongue bite". Tongue bite is a burning sensation on the smoker'’ tongue, previously thought to be due to the heat of the smoke (i.e. a "hot smoking pipe"). He soon began manufacturing...