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  1. chefmike

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

    WC Strange Flake in a little James Barber sand blast I have come to like.
  2. chefmike

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

    2016 GLP Union Square in a Bones Oom Paul. Fantastic smoke.
  3. chefmike

    Recommendation Request - Creamy, Sweet, Smooth Latakia Blends - EU Available

    I am sitting here smoking a bowl of Peterson old Dublin. I find creamy and sweet. Like Lapsang tea with milk. Almost a little hazelnut. The tin was gifted, has been in my car for a while. I didn’t love it at first. But honestly would buy a lot more now. This pipe has been perfect.
  4. chefmike

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

    Boswell’s Titus in an Elrich, watching the Lioness.
  5. chefmike

    What are You Reading Now?

    Enjoying this from a Colorado author:
  6. chefmike

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

    Boswell Premium Burley in a 2007 Peterson St Paddy. Got a selection for my birthday. I am impressed. This will likely be a working from home all day smoke. Mindless, tasty, effortless.
  7. chefmike

    Any Homebrewers Around?

    When I started homebrewing the 90s, the range of beer was not there. Homebrewing was the route to get the styles I desired and for a good value. Now the selection of styles is available at the grocery store. I do miss the process.
  8. chefmike

    Any Homebrewers Around?

    I homebrewed for years, then launched a commercial brewery with some friends. That took up my free tine for a while. Haven’t brewed in about 12 years. Been thinking of doing a batch every year at the holidays like the OP.
  9. chefmike

    I Know it's Been Done Before, but Post Some Cool Piping Photos.

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/11626105/Commemorations-of-Operation-Dynamo-75-years-on-in-pictures.html
  10. chefmike

    Cigar Tobacco in Pipes?

    I have often found when I think I know something, I have an opportunity to learn. Case in point here. I almost dug out Winchester, as I REALLY like it. Went Redburn instead. Thank you for the link! I tried a bowl of Winchester at the C&D B&M in Little River years ago and bought a bunch.
  11. chefmike

    I Know it's Been Done Before, but Post Some Cool Piping Photos.

    Just me, or is that pipe upside down?
  12. chefmike

    Cigar Tobacco in Pipes?

    Mmmm… perhaps you are thinking of another blend? Winchester is red VA and cavendish. Or maybe I have something to learn? It does have the… purity? Simplicity?… of a cigar. But not what I generally find from cigar leaf in a blend.
  13. chefmike

    Keeping Pipes in Cars

    My personal experience in Texas: 3 years of 2 Briarworks pipes that lived in my car had no ill effects. Summer 2022 had maybe 5 days under 100 May 15 to August. They have had no issues through winter in Colorado either.
  14. chefmike

    Chewable Plugs?

    True on the dark fired: I love a bit of dark fired in a blend. Burley flake #3, ODF, Kendall Kentucky. Mmmm. And I would agree: some pipe tobacco is not mouth worthy. Casing or topping perhaps?
  15. chefmike

    Chewable Plugs?

    I really like to put in a bit of Redburn. I have had a long love affair with Cope. No other taste like it to me. But I tend to chew a bit more than my appetite for what is charged for a tin. RYO was the same: nothing by PS Amsterdam shag. In a pipe never seems the same. Honestly Newminster...
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