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  1. JimInks

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

    I'm starting off this month with a bowl of year 2021 unreleased Sutliff Black Virginia Flake in a late 80's, early 90s James Upshall P DS Tilshead England Made By Hand L185 Canadian with a silver band and a tapered black vulcanite stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
  2. JimInks

    Jim's C&D XXV Reserve Dawn and Dusk Reviews.

    C&D XXV Reserve: Dawn (Small Batch): The various grades of red Virginias are from years 2000, 2017, 2019 and 2022. They provide a wealth of fermented tart and tangy citrus, grass, bread, sugar, floralness, sour lemon, some vegetation, earth, wood, spice, mild darker fruit, light molasses, cream...
  3. JimInks

    Jim's Watch City Simply Cavendish Review.

    This went on sale today. The various gold Virginia cavendishes provide a wealth of distinctly tart and fairly tangy citrus, fragrant floralness, bread, sugar, vegetative grass/hay, sour lemon, spice, and slight acidity as the lead components. The izmir offers a moderate amount of floralness...
  4. JimInks

    Jim Talks About Comic Books.

    I chat about myself a little, and about some of the comic book creators who I have known in two short interviews. 203 Historian Jim Amash | Fantastic Comic Fan - https://fantasticcomicfan.podbean.com/e/203-historian-jim-amash 5 Jim Amash by Comic's Fantastic History -...
  5. JimInks

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

    I'm starting off the month with a bowl of year 2016 Peter Stokkebye Luxury Navy Flake in a straight smooth brown post-1964 Parker Super Bruyere 88/F group 3 bulldog with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Abner the Eager was on my lap, but I had to move the li'l...
  6. JimInks

    Dave Parker, RIP.

    Former baseball great Dave Parker passed away today. When he was a minor leaguer and 1972 league MVP for the Salem Pirates, I got to know him a little. I was the bat boy for the Burlington Rangers that year. When the Pirates came to town, the Rangers let me be the bat boy the Pirates. Parker...
  7. JimInks

    Jim's Gladora Pesse Canoe Reviews.

    Gladora Tobacco Pesse Canoe Latakia Flake 20: The Turkish Latakia provides an abundance of mustiness, smoke, floralness, herbs, vegetation, earth, wood, leather, spice, some sharp sourness, red wine-ish sweetness, and mild incense as the lead component. The Turkish Orientals (primarily Izmir)...
  8. JimInks

    Jim's Low Country Pee Dee Review.

    This will be a regular addition to the Low Country line. It goes on sale Tuesday, June 10 a 1 p.m. EST. The more obvious aged white burley and the aged dark burleys produce a wealth of nuts, bread, earth, wood, some sharp, dry, bitter sourness, spice, floralness, sugar, molasses, creamy cocoa...
  9. JimInks

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

    A quarter of a bowl left of year 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a very much appreciated 1979 brown, slight bend grain etched flat front Stanwell Rego 969-48 (09) with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Fed all the ferals except for the absent Abner the Eager...
  10. JimInks

    Jim's Watch City BADA Bing! Review.

    The tingly Watch City matured perique provides plenty of spice, floralness, dried sour plums, raisins, earth, wood, bread, apple cider vinegar, and mild sugar. It takes a very small lead at first, and becomes more obvious by the first third of the bowl. The tartly sweet, lightly acidic cherry...
  11. JimInks

    Jim's C&D Sansepolcro 2025 (Small Batch) Review.

    This goes on sale Tuesday, May 20th at 6 p.m. EST. 10,000 tins were produced this year. The double fermented Italian dark fired Kentucky provides an abundance of earth, wood, floralness, smoke, vegetative grass, toast, some herbs, spice, nuts, bitter sourness, peat, leather, mild mesquite...
  12. JimInks

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

    Enjoyed two egg, ham and cheddar cheese open face sandwiches, and am near the half way mark of this bowl of year 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a 2002 smooth top, black sandblasted quarter bend military mount Karl Erik Ekstravagant horn with a horn insert in the ferrule and black acrylic...
  13. JimInks

    Jim's GLP Ellipsis Flake (Zeitgeist Collection) Review.

    This goes on sale Tuesday, April 29 at 6 p.m. EST. The 31 Farms St. James perique provides an abundance of mildly sweet and very sour dried plums, spice, dried figs, floralness, bread, earth, wood, light dried raisins, and some smoked mesquite. It takes a modest lead. The aged Izmirs offer...
  14. JimInks

    Jim's Watch City F.U.S.T.G. Review.

    It goes on sale April 28, at 6 p..m. EST. The dark air cured burley and the white burley produce a wealth of earth, wood, nuts, spice, toast, cocoa, sour bitter sharpness, some floralness, sugar, vegetation, and light anise as the lead components. The dry sourish bourbon casings is a little...
  15. JimInks

    Jim's Briarworks Smokehouse Review.

    This goes on sale Tuesday, April 22 at 6 p.m. EST. It'll be in regular production. The dark fired Kentucky provides a wealth of earth, wood, spice, smoke, mesquite, herbs, vegetation, floralness, toast, sourness, some nuts, and mild sweetness as the lead component. The aged red Virginia...
  16. JimInks

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

    Now smoking year 2014 Sutliff 1849 in a medium bend smooth dark brown 1968 Corporate Era Barling 5631 London England TVF billiard silver spigot with a tapered black vulcanite stem. M'lady is cradling Harry the Hairy like a baby, and he's got all four paws up in the air. When he's happy, he's...
  17. JimInks

    Jim's C&D The Beast! (Small Batch) 2025 Review.

    This goes on sale Tuesday, April 1 at 6 p.m. EST. The fermented St. James perique from 31 Farms is fifty-one percent of the blend. It provides an abundance of mildly sweet and very sour dried plums, spice, dried figs, floralness, bread, earth, wood, light dried raisins, and smoked mesquite. The...
  18. JimInks

    Jim's C&D Rivertown Tobacco Works Reviews.

    Here are the first five in alphabetical order. The other five are in the second post. Rivertown Tobacco Works Crimson Shadow: The stoved red Virginia provides an abundance of tart and tangy citrus, bread, sugar, floralness, vegetative grass, some earth, wood, tangy ripe dark fruit, spice, and...
  19. JimInks

    Jim's Watch City Fibonacci Sequence Review.

    I don't know what day it'll be released next week, but it'll be on sale soon. The Cyprian Latakia provides some smoke, floralness, spice, earth, wood, vegetation, herbs, incense, leather, bitter sourness, and light buttery sweetness. It takes a small lead. The bright Virginia offers plenty of...
  20. JimInks

    Barling's ID Help Needed.

    I got fifteen Barling's from the late David Cueno's sister today. The first batch are six from family era. Later, I'll post the corporate era pipes. What I would like to know is if anyone can give approximate dates for them, and which would be Algerian briar or another kind. I would greatly...
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