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The History of Mac Baren Tobacco![The History of Mac Baren Tobacco]() In Svendborg, Denmark, on the coast of the Baltic Sea, a very small tobacco factory with the name S. Bønnelyckes Tobaksfabrik opened in 1826 and did business primarily in snuff and chewing tobacco manufacturing. It continued for 50 years, never seeming to attain much success, and in 1887 its owner lost it in a poker game. The winner of that poker game traded it for a horse and a barrel of whisky to Harald Halberg, who had recently completed a four-and-a-half-year education in tobacco rolling for chew tobacco. It was an education taken very seriously; it took longer to become a certified spun-tobacco master than to earn a bachelor's degree. Halberg applied his specialty, knew what he was doing, expanded the company, and made it a family business that has evolved into one of the largest manufacturers of pipe tobacco in the world: Mac Baren. | All Pipes Considered: Savinelli's Storied History![All Pipes Considered: Savinelli's Storied History]() Hey, everybody, I'm Shane Ireland. Welcome to another episode of "All Pipes Considered." I have two very special guests with me today, Edoardo Cassani, Head of Production and Director of Operations at Savinelli, and Paolo Tamborini, the Export Sales Manager at Savinelli. | Codger Country: Velvet![Codger Country: Velvet]() Welcome to Codger Country, the series where we'll be smoking every Codger blend we can find and ranking them in an effort to find the "definitive" Codger blend. From Carter Hall to Super Value, we're giving them all a fair shake. Today, we're taking a look at Velvet pipe tobacco, which if the old ads are to be believed, will give us "the right word for smooth smoking." | Cigar Anatomy: The Components Of A Cigar![Cigar Anatomy: The Components Of A Cigar]() Hi everybody. Today we are going to sacrifice a cigar to show you the components broken down. Everyone's familiar with wrapper/binder/filler, but I think very few people have ever split open a cigar to take a look at how they come together as one. |
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