Monthly Archives: March 2004

What could be hard about pairing coffee with Tobacco? You pour a cup, you pack your pipe and it’s a good Morning, right? Well, not once you learn that there are almost as many coffee varietals out there as there are tobacco blends. That means a lot of “research”! Unfortunately, this much research means that there is a lot of information to share with you, so I will have to present the results to you in installments. This, our first installment, will focus on the African and Arabian coffees.The African and Arabian coffees are characterized by their wine-like flavors and fruity or floral aromas. They are arguably the most acidic tasting coffees going, but that can be much to the advantage of the pipe smoker, as pipe tobacco naturally has a base pH. This allows for quite a bit of “tension” to be built in combining the natural acidity of these coffees with the natural base state of pipe smoke. Anyway, that’s enough about chemistry. Let’s get down to the good stuff… Read more