*** What Are You Smoking?*** (April 2017)

[Chasing Embers]

Brown Sugar Flake in a blasted Bruce Weaver billiard.

 

[newbroom]

OGS (I opened my only tin recv'd 9/14, yesterday) in a Ropp Cherrywood Deluxe
I find that the age I've managed to put on this blend has improved its overall performance to me, and I attribute that to not only the aging, but the smoking experience I have accumulated in that same time frame.
I think that now I know the difference between the sharpness of a VA (especially when chuffed)or the spice of a perique and the sweet qualities of each can be appreciated as well.
My observation of the differences between a fresh tin of OGS and a tin that has a couple of years on it is that aging did improve the flavor of this blend significantly.
It is smoother, and somehow richer with time.

 

[pagan]

EMP in my morning Woodie

 

[newbroom]

d & r TwoTimer in my Sunday Savinelli, an 'o' grade smooth freehand Autograph gifted to me by a forum member from the north country.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Mcclelland Epitome in the Anastasopolous lovat.

 

[piffyr]

Simple pleasures this morning. Half and Half in a Dr. Grabow Belvedere.

 

[papipeguy]

Peretti #333 in a Savinelli bent billiard.

 

[pagan]

Baker Street in a Billiard

 

[pipeboy122]

Stokkebye Proper English in a Savinelli Porto Cervo 510

 

[leacha]

McClelland TGL

 

[JimInks]

Just finishing smoking Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem. A bottle of Sprite is my drink.

 

[JimInks]

The last of this sample of Park Lane Connoisseur’s Flake in a brown sandblasted medium bend 1970s Savinelli Autograph 5 freehand with a black acrylic stem. This pipe has a big bowl, so I'll be kept busy for a while with it as I watch the Braves-Pirates game.

 

[mso489]

Packed Something Different, courtesy lasttango, in a Mountain Laurel partial rusticated straight saddle stem billiard panel by Jerry Perry, will light up in a while.

 

[ravkesef]

Watch City Slices in the 2013 NASPC POY canted Bulldog By S. E.. Thiele

 

[pagan]

McConnel Mature in a Ehrlich Zulu

 

[JimInks]

A quarter of the way through this bowl of 2012 Rolando’s Own in a smooth straight Lane era Charatan Executive Extra Large stretch apple with diagonal channel cuts on the lower right and left of the bowl along with a black vulcanite double comfort stem. This pipe was formerly owned by actor William Conrad. A bottle of Mountain Dew made with pure cane sugar is my drink.

 

[JimInks]

Villiger Jamaican Export in a 2002 IMP smooth full bend egg shaped meer with a black acrylic stem.

 

[mso489]

C&D Super Balkan in a once-unfinished Savenelli bent Dublin in the early stages of a walnut color

 

[pipeboy122]

John Cotton's #1&2 in a MM Country Gentleman

 

[pagan]

Captain Black in a cob