My first smoke of the day is normally my favorite. A pipe, a cup of coffee and some peace and quiet, can’t be beat in my book. My go-to tobacco is almost always Sir John’s Flake Virginia…what’s yours?
That Morning Smoke
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I got to have three small bowls, one for each mug of tea. Usually start with a cob full of Gold Block / F&T Blackjack mixture, then SG Cabbies, then a random third. But this morning, second was Germain's Medium Flake, third Germain's Rich Dark Flake and later on, Germain's Brown Flake - I'm pulling together my thoughts on these flakes.
RDF and Brown are close rellies to my mind, right down to the cut.
RDF and Brown are close rellies to my mind, right down to the cut.
Usually Haunted Bookshop Cake the followed by OJK or lately Briar Fox. I usually smoke my first bowl of the day in a Pete SPD 2011 69.
I enjoy a bowl of Early Morning Pipe to start the day. Obviously, the optimal time to smoke it is printed right on the label… But I do enjoy it quite a bit with a cup of coffee.
I almost always start the day with a burley blend in a cob.
C&D Exclusive a ribbon cut Virginia-Perique 50/50 blend and French Roast through a press.
My morning smoke tobacco is randomly chosen. Could be Peretti's Ampersand Flake ... could be Watch City Glass Slipper ... or something aromatic from the Ken Byron collection. Always coffee, black. And always meerschaum.
It's a random choice but I enjoy a coffee while I smoke. Grounds me before work.
Workdays, it’s a 04:00-4:40am smoke of usually one of three blends (Ryback+P, Match Victorian, or my Dark Sails mix) in my commuter pipe, a great little Briarlee Dublin/billiard that lives in my car’s sunglass holder) and black coffee.
Days off, whatever I feel like in whichever pipe I feel like once I get up and go outside.
Black ADC coffee, Ibuprofen and mornings are inseparable.
Days off, whatever I feel like in whichever pipe I feel like once I get up and go outside.
Black ADC coffee, Ibuprofen and mornings are inseparable.
Ahhhh, the morning pipe, best smoke of the day! Coffee and a codger blend, lately Carter Hall.
It really is the best smoke. I call the smoke and a coffee a French breakfast.
I’m an outlier. My morning pipe is at 11:30 after I’ve been up and about since 5:30. 50+ years of smoking a pipe and I still can’t think about lighting one until then.
You're missing out lol. My first and last smokes of the day are my favorite. The two most pleasing of my 12-15 bowls.
Best pipe of the day is definitely first of the morning with coffee. Royal Yacht (which is what I smoke 90% of the time).
I too love my morning smoke. What I usually smoke is usually what I smoke throughout the day: one bit my blend, one bit perique, one bit half and half top off with my blend (which has latakia, perique and some base tobacco I forget what, usually stuff I'm trying to get rid of).
For quite some time I avoided the early morning smoke because I was worried about smoking on an empty stomach. A few weeks ago I got a “wild hair” and took my coffee on the balcony with a bowl of Carter Hall. It was wonderful. Absolutely lovely.
Morning coffee time was already my favorite part of the day— but now it’s so much better.
I also enjoy Early Morning Pipe and Prince Albert.
Morning coffee time was already my favorite part of the day— but now it’s so much better.
I also enjoy Early Morning Pipe and Prince Albert.
When it comes to first smoke of the day, it has to be a blend with burley and perique, (OJK), to go with my dark French roast coffee and chamber music.
Unfortunately I dont usually get a morning pipe. I get up between 3am-3:15am naturally, haven't used an alarm in two decades.
Then my mind is racing with my morning activities. No time to relax, not yet. Lives are on the line!!.....not really, but that's the way my mind works. I walk through the clinic kennel to make sure all is well. There is someone there 24/7, but that's just how I am. Then off to take detailed and specialized care of our livestock.......mucking stalls.
Check everyone's water, give meds where needed, and do a head count.
Then back to the clinic for actual, money making work. Check the chart, start prepping for surgery, then dig in....so to say.
All that just to say, my morning pipe comes about 2pm usually. If it's a slow morning, maybe 10-11am.
THEN my day starts. I need to clean up and face actual people in public, and be somewhat presentable.....a few days a week anyways.
Then my mind is racing with my morning activities. No time to relax, not yet. Lives are on the line!!.....not really, but that's the way my mind works. I walk through the clinic kennel to make sure all is well. There is someone there 24/7, but that's just how I am. Then off to take detailed and specialized care of our livestock.......mucking stalls.
Check everyone's water, give meds where needed, and do a head count.
Then back to the clinic for actual, money making work. Check the chart, start prepping for surgery, then dig in....so to say.
All that just to say, my morning pipe comes about 2pm usually. If it's a slow morning, maybe 10-11am.
THEN my day starts. I need to clean up and face actual people in public, and be somewhat presentable.....a few days a week anyways.
I love my first pipe of the day, working or not. Usually Bayou Night or Solani 633 in a cob. Milky coffee espresso and fizzy water for a gentle kick and hydration, respectively, but there has to be some perique to fire up the brain!
Yeah I take a Café au Lait with 2 sugar cubes and a pastry with my pipe. Sometimes no pastry.