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  1. BriaronBoerum

    🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟

    Everyone waiting for their SS 2025 goodies to arrive:
  2. BriaronBoerum

    🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟

    I'm a tea drinker, so I used tea leaves, but I can scrounge some coffee grounds from the dumpster outside of the local coffee shop. Will it help balance the blend, or will it make it too wet to smoke right away?
  3. BriaronBoerum

    🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟

    Good morning all! I wanted to check in and get some advice from more experienced smokers about this special "Kitchen Sink" blend I'm preparing for my SS 2025 -- is it ready to go, or do you think I should age it for another week?
  4. BriaronBoerum

    🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟

    I love Ironic Blend! Citrusy Va's, nutty Burley, and that tang of rust and old machinery!
  5. BriaronBoerum

    Taking My Leave

    So sorry to hear this, you've been a big help to many newcomers like me and all the members who come here for knowledge, camaraderie, and sometimes just a good argument. I wish you well in all things; you'll be missed, but your thoughts and your example to others will endure.
  6. BriaronBoerum

    LJ Peretti - 5 Burley Blends I Ordered

    A number of people have gotten hints of Lakeland-like floral flavor popping up even in blends that aren't allegedly topped with it -- I just assume it's the cross pollination, so to speak, that might happen in a small, by-hand blending shop. To respond to Mike N's excellent description, I don't...
  7. BriaronBoerum

    Show Us Your Knife (And Pipe)

    The man who designed the Banter gets a lot of respect in my book. Nace Knaf!
  8. BriaronBoerum

    LJ Peretti - 5 Burley Blends I Ordered

    I like both 333 and W, I agree the latter has an interesting, almost chile-like spice note. I sometimes appreciate DD and 102, despite the LJP topping that comes across to me like an American style of Lakeland floral essence. B-94 may be a bit of an under-the-radar blend, it's got a dry spicy...
  9. BriaronBoerum

    Cold weather

    VaPer Flake and chill.
  10. BriaronBoerum

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

    I am so sorry for your loss. I hope you are raised up by many happy memories of him.
  11. BriaronBoerum

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

    I am really amazing that no one has used "Pensive" in a blend name, it seems like a no-brainer, so to speak.
  12. BriaronBoerum

    Most Figgy Blend?

    As the holiday season steamrolls over us approaches, thoughts, at least my thoughts, turn to old fashioned desserts. Fruitcake -- yes, though not the cheap artificial-dyed bricks, but a well made example; Jamaican Black Cake; Panettone; weird steamed British puddings -- I love 'em all. So...
  13. BriaronBoerum

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

    Congrats on the new job, enjoy the smoke and the RC!
  14. BriaronBoerum

    Show Us Your Knife (And Pipe)

    Popped a tin of GLP Geometrie to try and decide if I want to buy more on sale, and I found the Cold Steel SR1's tanto blade a nice match for the rhombohedron shape of the plug (yeah, I had to look that up). I think I want some more. But that plug is a b*%! on wheels to shove into a Ball jar!
  15. BriaronBoerum

    🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟

    I'm in, I think -- my email seems to have bounced back -- and I just have one question: do we have to include soap, and is it ok to do store bought instead of artisanal homemade? Som Besths
  16. BriaronBoerum

    Considering stocking up on Watch City & Peretti. What would you buy?

    I had a chance to try some this summer at my local pipe club, and man, was it fine! I asked Ernie Q about it, and he confirmed that it's gone for good unless some quality Orange VA reappears.
  17. BriaronBoerum

    Considering stocking up on Watch City & Peretti. What would you buy?

    That pretty much IS the high end of my (small) cellar -- but can you just order a bit extra of everything for me?
  18. BriaronBoerum

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

    This is classic black cat.
  19. BriaronBoerum

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

    One reviewer on TR called Lane HGL "connoisseur's crack" for a reason!
  20. BriaronBoerum

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

    Happy Birthday Bob, glad it was a good day with family, friends and smokes!