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

[MontyTX]

2013 FVF in a 2024 Stanwell POY, while contemplating my next TAD purchase on SP. Dangerous activity for the wallet, kind of like grocery shopping when you’re really hungry

 

[Choatecav]

Happy day after to everyone...........
Gonna be cloudy but dry today, with more mild temps.
Had some CS Cowboy Coffee in my Altinay meer.

 

[xrundog]

OJK in a 1987 Dunhill Tanshell 5109.

 

[MisterBadger]

Some more Rattray's Stirling Flake, this time in the veteran Makonde Rhodesian Meer. Smoked far better than yesterday when it was only roughly rubbed and left dry a little for half an hour then smoked in a new Meer. At that time I thought: "Meh! Brassy, ashy, a one-trick pony - how on earth could anyone compare it favourably with Peterson's Irish Flake?" Well, this time, after drying some more (overnight) and some more assiduous rubbing, it smoked beautifully and allowed a slow, quiet cadence... by mid-bowl, some mysterious alchemical process had transmuted the brass to gold and amber tangerine marmalade and occasional hints of caramel. It will still take some getting to know, so next time I'll try it in a briar... by the way, the ashdigger/tamper is a gem-encrusted silver masterpiece from my not-so-secret Santa of this SomBesthsFest, @cosmicfolklore. (May his shadow never grow less).

 

[Roach1]

Haunted Bookshop in an Il Ceppo. I also ordered a new Irish Seconds pipe on Smokingpipes.eu. 15% Discount. It has the Sherlock Holmes stamp on the band. We will see what it is when it gets here.
Here is the new pipe. Perhaps someone can tell me what it is.

 

[PaulRVA]

Haunted Bookshop in an Il Ceppo. I also ordered a new Irish Seconds pipe on Smokingpipes.eu. 15% Discount. It has the Sherlock Holmes stamp on the band. We will see what it is when it gets here.View attachment 441034
Here is the new pipe. Perhaps someone can tell me what it is.
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Milverton

 

[PaulRVA]

C&D Exclusive in a Castello 31 and the last of the Coffee ️

 

[spearheadbill]

Some more Rattray's Stirling Flake, this time in the veteran Makonde Rhodesian Meer. Smoked far better than yesterday when it was only roughly rubbed and left dry a little for half an hour then smoked in a new Meer. At that time I thought: "Meh! Brassy, ashy, a one-trick pony - how on earth could anyone compare it favourably with Peterson's Irish Flake?" Well, this time, after drying some more (overnight) and some more assiduous rubbing, it smoked beautifully and allowed a slow, quiet cadence... by mid-bowl, some mysterious alchemical process had transmuted the brass to gold and amber tangerine marmalade and occasional hints of caramel. It will still take some getting to know, so next time I'll try it in a briar... by the way, the ashdigger/tamper is a gem-encrusted silver masterpiece from my not-so-secret Santa of this SomBesthsFest, @cosmicfolklore. (May his shadow never grow less).
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My friends and I like to argue which is “better” Irish or Stirling with me always preferring Irish. I do like the rattrays offering but find it a tad more stout and what I sense is a bit of a cinnamon twang. Doubtful it is actual cinnamon but just a note.

 

[Roach1]

Milverton

Thanks @PaulRVA

 

[PaulRVA]

Thanks @PaulRVA

• The "Milverton" pipe is a specific bent billiard shape with a distinctive diamond shank, part of Peterson's popular Sherlock Holmes collection, named after the villain Charles Augustus Milverton
  
  
• The Character: Milverton is a charming but ruthless blackmailer, holding secrets of London's elite for exorbitant sums, described by Holmes as "worse than all of them".
• The Story: In "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton," Holmes attempts to retrieve incriminating letters for Lady Eva, ultimately leading to Milverton's murder by a woman he wronged.

 

[pipersalmanac]

Bobs chocolate flake in a Christmas Savinelli 606KS.

 

[spearheadbill]

Blatter and Blatter author packed tightly with Watch City’s discontinued American Cut Plug Mixture.

 

[Ben.R.C]

BIA in a freshly reamed and cleaned J Alan

 

[MisterBadger]

• The "Milverton" pipe is a specific bent billiard shape with a distinctive diamond shank, part of Peterson's popular Sherlock Holmes collection, named after the villain Charles Augustus Milverton
  
  
• The Character: Milverton is a charming but ruthless blackmailer, holding secrets of London's elite for exorbitant sums, described by Holmes as "worse than all of them".
• The Story: In "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton," Holmes attempts to retrieve incriminating letters for Lady Eva, ultimately leading to Milverton's murder by a woman he wronged.

Milverton was a dreadful man. Everything a good, manly Victorian gentleman would despise. I'm frankly surprised that Peterson's named a pipe after him, rather than - say - a baddie with more cachet, like Irene Adler (the one woman Holmes really admired and almost loved). What can we expect next? A Peterson's Moriarty? Or a Moran? (And why do so many of Doyle's villains' names begin with an M?)

 

[redbarchetta]

On to Per G. Jensen Brothers in Arms in a rusticated Roma 606 KS. The jury's still out on this blend. Enjoyable, but not delivering the DFK intensity I prefer. It's the End of Days as we anticipate our first snowfall of any significance this season. A 3 to 6 inch forecast used to be ho-hum in these parts, but not anymore.

 

[Scottmi]

Happy Boxing Day! Jolly Old St. Nicholas in a 2022 Savinelli Saint Nicholas 602, with morning coffee

 

[Roach1]

Diced Hamborger Veermaster in a Karl Erik Handmade.

 

[Danny Haigler]

Granger in an MM cob

 

[keith929]

2021 MB Cringle Flake in a 2013 Peterson Antique Pat B.

 

[Roach1]

Milverton was a dreadful man. Everything a good, manly Victorian gentleman would despise. I'm frankly surprised that Peterson's named a pipe after him, rather than - say - a baddie with more cachet, like Irene Adler (the one woman Holmes really admired and almost loved). What can we expect next? A Peterson's Moriarty? Or a Moran? (And why do so many of Doyle's villains' names begin with an M?)

I liked the way it looked, I'm not really concerned about his virtues. He is after all fictional.