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

[TN Jed]

I’ve been eying Scott Thile’s pipes; they’re so good! That one looks incredible!!

Thank you! I'd highly recommend one. This one is a great smoker.

 

[Benedict Munsinger]

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.

I fully agree — it’s just like with tobacco. Tastes and impressions are always subjective: what one person finds “deep and complex,” another may find “flat or dull.” Marketing only amplifies this effect — polished stories and brand legends often shape expectations more than the actual quality. But nevertheless, we still share our impressions of the products — and that’s exactly what makes the exchange interesting.

 

[dottlejockey]

Smoking the last of a tin of C&D Dawn with a pinch of 5 Bros on top in one of my favorite pipes. A Castello Epoca.View attachment 415835

Nice pipe. Love the wax drip detail, too. Both Castello and Ser Jacopo's versions always catch my eye.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

I’ve been smoking St. Louis cut ribs - could be eating in about 1 1/2 hours! Now on the deck above the smoker with some Wilke Rum & Maple in a Weaver.

 

[BCF]

Milan Our London Dock in this little Pete apple. Cold beer on a very Fall-like day. Beautiful weather.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking KBV Prince of Wales 2023 in a straight smooth terracotta 2014 Sherlock Holmes Baker Street bulldog with sterling silver band and a tapered black p-lip stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[bobpnm]

About to put a whole chicken on the Weber Kettle. Amphora Virginia Blend in this SavinellI Eleganza 315KS. Diet Dr. Pepper.

 

[BCF]

Sitting back with a bowl of G.L. Pease Charing Cross in a Peterson Rosslare shape 68 getting ready to cheer on my Steelers!
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What a game!

 

[Jwebb90]

Campaign Dark Flake (2014) in a Peterson. This pipe is a favorite of mine.

 

[abecox]

Had a nice weekend full of long drives and laughter with good friends. I smoked some Haunted Bookshop in a big Savinelli around a fire and on the drive up, then today on the drive down I smoked some Bayou Night in a Savinelli Pot on the way back. Now its just chores and what to do for dinner and perhaps a dessert smoke as well. An afternoon of opportunities.

 

[das3353]

2020 507C in a Pete PSB Strand

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

Yardwork is done so I’m watching sportsball with a bowl of G&H Rum Flake in a Kaywoodie Flame Grain Meerschaum Canadian ‘72’

 

[ashdigger]

Klondike Gold in a Peterson P-Lip Patent 1906 Dutch.

I finished a long report I’ve been working on and off for about three weeks. Time to celebrate and tonight it’s Old Fashioneds.

 

[Bbailey324]

MB Seven Seas Regular in a Brulor billiard.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Wilke Vermont Maple in a Nording Hunter Cheetah - a beautiful Sunday.

 

[Nevaditude]

New to me Peterson estate from Las Vegas.
It arrived Tuesday & the 1st smoke is ‘Hobbit’s Weed”. It felt appropriate & tasty too. Seems to draw quite well. Happy Sunday Smoakes!

 

[Day2Day]

After a great dinner of Tom Yum Goong and Pad Thai, I'm about to enjoy a relaxing bowl of Ellipsis on the back deck.

 

[elvishrunes]

Enjoying a nice pipe of Erinmore (in an Ennerdale tin) and drinking a beer in the park, in an upgraded WW2 era Brigham, like a vagrant. Both completely legal in Toronto parks, not that anyone would likely complain anyhow. I have a front and back porch to smoke on, but like flashing and exposing myself in public sometimes…

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Exclusive in an IMP, water. Watching football

 

[kcmontie]

2016 Xmas Cheer in a Wiley. Drinking black cherry coolaid.