***What Are You Smoking, September 2025?***

[JimInks]

Jim love reading your reviews! GOAT reviewer! Approx how many bowls a day do you average? I’m finding it difficult with work, family, and gym time trying to fit in a pipe sesh these days

I never count them so I don't know. It depends on how little sleep I get.

Thanks for the compliments on my reviews. Glad that they help you.

 

[JimInks]

Passing the last third of this bowl of year 2014 E-soterica Tilbury in a straight smooth Danish gold straight grain undated W.O. Larsen Hand Made in Denmark dublin with a tapered black vulcanite stem. This pipe is from the estate of David Cuneo. I'll end the day with this smoke.

 

[Benedict Munsinger]

Two Friends Redwood in this Ashton Achievement. View attachment 415755

The pipe floats on the tobacco sea

 

[Benedict Munsinger]

Mario Pascucci -P Rust-2127
A beautiful Sunday afternoon with good tobacco, a good pipe and a good German beer. What else do you need for philosophical reflections on the frailties of existence in this world?

 

[PaulRVA]

C&D Exclusive in a Castello KK10 and Coffee ️ on the side

 

[judcole]

Sutliff Virginia Slices in a nameless billiard of Algerian briar (the only stamping) with a slightly canted bowl and a prince-like 1/8 bent stem.

 

[The Clay King]

I can be seen on screen at 2:14.

 

[JimInks]

Couldn't sleep, so I put out some dry food for Harry the Hairy, and brought Daisy the Feral Princess in to eat wet food. Tomato the Brave is still snoozin' on the couch. I'm smoking Wilke No. 72 in a pre-1974 dark brown straight Larus & Brother Co. Signature billiard with a nickel band and a tapered black vulcanite stem with the initials LCR on the top of the stem. This blend was smoked by Walter Cronkite. Sleepy Suzy was sleeping on my chair, and is by my side now. Watching the original Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. Loved this show when I was a kid.

 

[samuelgawith01]

Couldn't sleep, so I put out some dry food for Harry the Hairy, and brought Daisy the Feral Princess in to eat wet food. Tomato the Brave is still snoozin' on the couch. I'm smoking Wilke No. 72 in a pre-1974 dark brown straight Larus & Brother Co. Signature billiard with a nickel band and a tapered black vulcanite stem with the initials LCR on the top of the stem. This blend was smoked by Walter Cronkite. Sleepy Suzy was sleeping on my chair, and is by my side now. Watching the original Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. Loved this show when I was a kid.
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Let's hear it for the Late Marlin Perkins.

 

[Briarcutter]

Beautiful day yesterday, spent the whole day on the 450sq.ft. deck with Celtic Talisman.....staining finally figured it out. If it weren't for application and purchasing materials, I'd actually enjoy painting

 

[Eireprof]

C&D Pegasus in a Peterson Irish Harp 106.

 

[Steddy]

Year 2013 C&D Five O’Clock Shadow in a cob. Black coffee.

 

[Ben.R.C]

Brothers In Arms in an Abe Herbaugh Stublin Spigot with antique Bakelite. Let’s hope C&D continues this blend and hires on master blender Per Jensen permanently.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Beluga is definitely not a bad choice — it has its place.
In the US, Beluga = marketing + the image of “Russian luxury vodka,” with taste and quality a bit above average, though not outstanding.
In Russia, the selection is richer: Beluga isn’t really seen as the “benchmark,” more as an export brand. For the domestic market, there are vodkas that are both cleaner and more interesting.
There are cleaner and more interesting options. For example, Putinka (in its premium versions) — politics aside, it’s often rated higher than Beluga in terms of organoleptic qualities.

As a lifelong denizen of Kentucky, and an early admirer of bourbon, I cringe at the contemporary bourbon fancier world of the past decade+.
I’ve long admitted to myself that it’s all marketing and subjectivity. Taste..
Rating a bourbon.. or vodka/cigar/pipe tobacco, it’s all subjective for the individual.

An actual Russian with an actual Russian accent brought a bottle of vodka that he said was his favorite- I enjoyed it. It’s not often I hang one on before noon anymore.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

an afternoon with an Americano and a bowl of Barens scottish blend out of BBB Boldergrain 176 Lovat

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Passing the last third of this bowl of year 2014 E-soterica Tilbury in a straight smooth Danish gold straight grain undated W.O. Larsen Hand Made in Denmark dublin with a tapered black vulcanite stem. This pipe is from the estate of David Cuneo. I'll end the day with this smoke.
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I always do a double take for this one.. something about that slight (shadow?) bow to the shank and stem.


For me- Steamworks in the Barling Straight Grain via James J Fox Co.

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

I’ve got a stage V lap cat situation on my hands this morning as I ease into the day with a bowl of GLP Telegraph Hill in a cob, along with a hot cup of coffee ️

 

[The Clay King]

Cumberland Wrestling competition to be held at West Cumbrian fair

A CUMBERLAND wrestling event will be held at a historic annual fair this year.

www.newsandstar.co.uk

 

[Ben.R.C]

More Brothers In Arms in a Manduela

 

[BCF]

Granger this morning in the Weber Old Standard pot. Coffee.