Welcome from the Pacific NW. :)
I smoke whatever is interesting at the time, regardless of the season. Enjoy what you've got and what you're soon to TAD out on after reading too many suggestions here.
After some goat curry and saag paneer for lunch (i love Indian food), I'm filling up this bowl of 1792 in a Mehmet Cinar baby billiard and getting back to burning some pipeweed.
I need to try this one. I enjoy a few blends from KBV, namely, Burley Morning Pipe (want to try Burlier MP, too), Uzumaki and Acadian Flek. Thanks for the mention. :)
After a nice snack of Cremant de Bourgogne and stanky roquefort with salami, it's time for another taste of the leaf. Fresh Doblone d'Oro in a Celebi deep lattice reverse calabash.
I just use everclear on a pipe cleaner like any other pipe. Get the gunk from the shank/mortise area well and swab the bowl with it doubled over when done with the 2 ends of the cleaner. Can rinse well with water after. Biggest thing is running a cleaner through it after every smoke to keep...
Barely afternoon bowl of 2010 ABF in the new Tekin squashed tomato with the rest of the morning coffee. Initial bowl in this pipe exposed a tight draw. Turns out the issue was somewhere in the stem. The bore for the draught was perfectly open in the shank. So i took a few moments to redrill...
Got back in town last night to a nice little package on the porch. A new Tekin had arrived and it's high time to put it to work. 4th bowl of the morning is the 1st bowl for this new meer. Dug back on the shelf for something appropriately special and pulled this 2010 tin of Wessex Burley...