If you haven't head about our Spark of Love Toy Drive/Christmas Party, I'll let Richard and Adam tell you a little bit about it. Isn't that great? In addition to helping out those less fortunate during this holiday season, we'll be giving you in return a Rocky Patel cigar, hot dog (or chili dog) and a beer (or Mike's Hard Apple Cider or soda or coffee) when you attend the event. But keep your eyes peeled on your inbox because every day between now and the party, we'll be announcing a special promotion that is only...

Looking for a real wild time this Halloween? Then why not pack up your old kit bags, a few pipes and some tobacco and head for swinging Las Vegas, Nevada for the West Coast Pipe Show on October 31 and November 1, 2009. For a mere $10 cover charge, you’ll get access to over 100 tables of vendors hawking pipes, pipe tobacco and pipe smoking accessories at the Palace Station Hotel and Casino. This pittance of a cover charge will get you show access on both days of the show! Looking to exhibit or sell off part of...

The L.A. Pipe Club will be holding their December meeting at the Tobacco Barn in Lake Forest, CA in our lounge on the afternoon of Sunday, December 13th. All pipe aficianados are welcome. Please bring your favorite pipe(s) and tobacco (or pick up some fine pipe tobacco at our shop) and spend the afternoon talking with like-minded Brothers of the Leaf! View Location On Google Map

Please join us Wednesday Evening, July 29th from 7 until 9 for the July OC Briar Meeting The Orange County Briar Pipe Club meeting will be capped by a special discussion led by our own mixmaster Tom Cottom on pipe tobacco ingredients and blending. It’s amazing how common it is for pipers to not fully understand what their favorite blends contain! This will be educational for both veteran pipers and those relatively new to the brotherhood. Also, don’t forget to bring your own pipes and tobacco for swapping and sharing. This meeting, to be held...

  Jim Allison recently shared some of his favorite pipes with the OC Briars Pipe Club at the Tobacco Barn.   A small selection of JIm’s treasures (left). This oversized Peterson pipe (right) was commissioned by Alfred Hitchock for a movie. Anyone know which one?   Jim discussing pipes with Rene C. and Jim V. at left. At right is his Dunhill ”Space Shuttle” pipe with gold “Barley” pattern band from 1982. Created in ...

   Springing from the depths of “MixMaster” Tom’s mind come three new custom blend pipe tobaccos exclusive to the Tobacco Barn. First up you’ll find Silverado pipe tobacco. Silverado is a replacement for the recently discontinued Arcadia and as such, has big shoes (or boots) to fill. This English-style tobacco has a flavor as big movie by the same name without succumbing to the “big budget” that caused the filmmakers so much grief.   The next new release is Balkan’s Best pipe tobacco. Balkan’s Best is another English-style pipe tobacco that follows in the footsteps of our  traditional Balkan tobacco blend.   Last, but...

While I’m not too terribly keen on the subheading of their article (“Despite Risks, More Young People Light Up; 'It Looked Like the Coolest Thing Ever'”) it is a pretty good piece overall. The timing of their article coincides with International Pipe Smoking Day so hopefully you’ll all break out your pipes and smoke a bowl or two! Early on in the article they point out that: Friday is International Pipe-Smoking Day, when a number of puffers will unite to protest tobacco taxes and smoking bans. They will also engage in slow-smoking competitions to...

Yes, now you too have the opportunity to become one of the few, the proud, the fans of the Tobacco Barn on our newly launched FaceBook page. That’s right, the Tobacco Barn now has a presence one of the fastest growing and hottest social networking sites for adults. Yes, you must be at least 18 to become a fan but fans of all ages can come to this page and check out the latest pictures, comments, discussions and events all from the comfort of your own wall FaceBook. Our hope is that this will become a virtual extension...

Mother Earth News has published an article on their web site called How About a Corncob Pipe. This particular article is really nothing new; it is a reprint of an article that originally appeared in a Peace Corp Volunteer Publication. The spin on the article is that if you can't stop smoking, then save money and smoke a pipe. However, their approach to making a corncob is not for the faint of heart or the clumsy of knife. If you like to do things the hard way, you can use the small blade of...

Well, we'll get to that in a minute. All of us at the Tobacco Barn would like to thank all the customers who bought a Cottom's Choice pipe and in particular, those who participated in our Cottom's Choice Coloring Contest tonight! In addition to entries here in the store, we also had a mail-in entry from a customer of ours in Japan. Unfortunately, we were unable to use his pictures in the main voting but he won a special award from the judges for having the pipe furthest away from the store. Our entrants awaited anxiously for the...