HU Dark Moor in a Peterson House Pipe and Diet Coke on the side.
***What Are You Smoking, December 2025?***
- Thread starter JimInks
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No snow overnight. Cold enough for snow again today, and I think I caught a flake or two fluttering down while pottering in the garden, but that was it. Some G&H Dark Plug in the little unmarked Meer prince. Lord! What a stout tobacco this is! (Smoked in the greenhouse, in deference to Mrs. Badger's refined olfactory sensibilities). 
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Ha, good story. I suspect that there are many so called "connoisseurs" out there that could be fooled in like manner......That puts me in mind of an old friend of my father's (and mine), who - having been all his life, because of his humble origins, a victim of snobbery of various kinds - had his revenge on a malt whisky snob: the family friend, himself, like my father, a connoisseur of Scotch single malt whiskies (but never vaunted it), served this pretentious wretch a cheap blended supermarket own-brand Scotch which he had decanted into an empty 50-year-old Glen Grant bottle (or something like that), and did his utmost to keep his face straight while the fool sniffed at his glass, rolled a little thoughtfully around his tongue, swallowed, smacked his lips and uttered some ballocks about the uniqueness of the water of the river Spey, the subtle peat-and heather-tones, the granite terroir, blah blah blah.
Might I suggest that you introduce your - ahem - blend - to your pipe club associates, as "Just some aged Oriental-Virginia mix I threw together a while back: a naif little confection without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption"?
Yesterday 4pm-ish. Old World in Pete XL02. Chilly. Well dried leaf. Crumbled. Gravity fed. This is 30 minutes in.
9/18 F&T Golden Mixture in an Altinok.
Port Guardian in a new George Boyadjiev. Cleaning the garage.
Samuel Gawith Commonwealth In a Frank Axmacher author.
One of my favorite go-to classics in this Comoy's billiard. It's nice to have something to return to that's always reliable, always enjoyable. Sweet, refreshing, zesty, with just enough Latakia for interest. Can't ask for much more in a tobacco blend according to my tastes.
Last of the jar of Gawith Hoggarth & Co. Dark Flake Unscented in a Belgrade Carved Rusticated Lovat alongside a mug of black coffee.
Did a set of walking reps on this very cold day, and am close to finishing this bowl of year 2016 D&R Three Sails in a slight bent black pattern etched 1977 Lorenzo Lorsan Sigma level top billiard with a gray swirl acrylic saddle stem.
Haunted Bookshop in a Jirsa 186.
Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am smoking year 2020 Watch City Rouxgaroux in a 1999 smooth brown medium bend Peterson Sherlock Holmes Series Baskerville with a sterling silver band and black vulcanite p-lip stem. Giving the 4AB Natural a day of rest. Gold Star Hawaiian Kona Extra Fancy, neat, is my drink. Getting ready to clean a few pipes.
Round two is C&D Pegasus in my Vauen Fashion 20.
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The prized and now nicely aged Samuel Gawith Bracken Flake in a 2024 Peterson Christmas 999. I’m glad that we now have Westmorland slices available here in the USA because it is somewhat reminiscent of the great Bracken. Bracken adjacent I would say
Never had the opportunity to try Bracken but did get a bag of Westmorland in the mail today!
SG Hansom Flake in a Peterson Dracula 69.
HU Dark Moor in a Peterson Sherlock Holmes Squire and Diet Coke on the side.
It’s growing on me more each time I smoke it. Fire cured VA forward but there’s a great Virginia underneath it.
Smoking some Plumb Pudding in a Peterson 106.