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  1. troyniss

    ***What Are You Smoking, January 2024?***

    Enjoying some GLPease Piccadilly in a Peterson Emerald X105 on a rainy and gloomy day in Michigan. This is the old style of rustication for this line before the new iteration released last year or so.
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    Opening A Tin? Show Us!

    My favorite Va/Per. Just a hands down stout smoke and perfect burn. Hope it was good.
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    ***What Are You Smoking, October 2023?***

    Smoking some Newminster No.702 Light Burley in my Chris Morgan Sparky Special 27. It’s a tan sandblasted Dublin with a Cumberland stem. This pipe is dedicated to this blend.
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    2023 Carolina Red Flake w/ Perique

    I skipped this year. I still have many tins of the previous release and only opened one and have barely smoked it. I prefer the CRF with no perique. My go to Va/Per though is GLPease Stratford for a lighter fare or Fillmore for a strong smoke.
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    Appreciation For C&D Crumble Cakes

    Redburn is another great one. Burley forward with quite a bit of spice and a tinge of dark rum. One of my favorite fall time smokes.
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    Appreciation For C&D Crumble Cakes

    Checks out. I preferred the older method. Somehow the previous cut married the flavors differently for me, because I’m still trying to chase that flavor I got from my first cake of Briar Fox.
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    Appreciation For C&D Crumble Cakes

    I do agree that C&D cakes are a pleasure to use. Over the years I’ve collected quite a few offerings from them. Briar Fox is one of my favorites but it seems they might have changed the formula over time or perhaps not, but I’ve had varying ‘cuts’ of the cake itself. I first picked up BF while...
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    What Have You Cellared the Longest?

    My oldest I had was a tin of McClelland Cc from 1998 that I bought. Opened it up last year. I have no reference to what previous or later years taste like but I will say it was tangy and super smooth. I also bought a first year production of GLPease Stratford which I believe was 2003, and...
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    Has Cringle Lost its Luster?

    I can’t comment on previous releases but this was the first year I bought Cringle Flake. I could have got some of the yesteryears but I had bought so much limited releases (CRF, Sunbear, MacBaren London Burley, etc) that I was burnt out. Glad to have got some this year. Probably won’t buy...
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    11 year old Penzance.

    I was blessed by a friend last year to get what was decade old Penzance. Since then, for times sake it now has 11 years on it. Only 1/4oz but it’s amazing to see the plume or crystals form even on an English blend. Only had it once last year and saving the rest for…. Well who knows.
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    Your Cellar Size

    My main collection, 8oz tins and bulk options besides my Gawith and Hogarth bulk.
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    Losing Track of your Pipes

    Never lost a pipe. They usually stay in their boxes if I’m not smoking those particular ones, my pipe rack on the wall or my little 4 pipe stand on the bookshelf. However I’m still waiting for my 1st Edition Holographic Machamp Pokemon card to show up after losing it at a roller rink night in...
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    Is Stonehenge Flake Gone?

    I’ve got 10 tins in my cellar with 2-3 years of age on it. Such a lovely blend. Scarcity for blends come and go. I remember for a while when Peterson 3P’s was out of stock for the longest time and now it seems to never go out of stock. Same with Prince Albert and Carter Hall.
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    2022 Cringle Flake

    I have 5 tins of Anthology and haven’t even opened one yet. Just got my 7 tins of Cringle Flake in today. Probably going to let them age before popping a tin. Too many tins open at the moment.
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    SPC Christmas Spirit

    Passed. I’m sitting on 2-3 lbs of regular plum pudding, a few tins of the special reserve, 3 of the bourbon barrel aged and another 5 of the special reserve flake. I am however looking forward to Sutliff Cringle Flake. Have never bought any and this will be the first year I will.