***What Are You Smoking, April 2023?***

[isaac liu]

@isaac liu ,
A wonderful photograph. Is that a well aged brick of tea?

I knew you would bite the hook .
This is a 2kg tea brick pressed in 2009. I took it out yesterday to check its preservation status. The difference between it and Pu'er tea bricks is that the raw materials and origins are different. The leaves of Pu'er tea come from trees, and the material of this tea brick is shrubs, at the same time, this tea brick undergoes longer artificial fermentation, Based on this difference, we call this "black tea" (black tea in English is red tea in Chinese). In addition, its manufacturer once provided products for TWININGS and produced 2000 tea bricks for TWININGS' 200th anniversary celebration. I had the opportunity to buy one of them, but the price was too outrageous, so I gave up.

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty red delicious apple, and am smoking Wilke No. 72 in a pre-1974 dark brown straight Larus & Brother Co. Signature billiard with a nickel band and a tapered black vulcanite stem with the initials LCR on the top of the stem. This blend was smoked by Walter Cronkite. Fed Daisy the Feral Princess and Tomato the Brave, too.

 

[OzPiper]

A very enjoyable 1st bowl of Hu Dockworker.
Wet, cool rainy day so a couple of relights needed.
But smoked down to white ash with the help of a few Nording Keystones

Now another Bulldog
A Comoy’s Selected Grain straight with tapered vulcanite stem

A bowl of MacBaren HH Arcadian Perique

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Capstan Blue RR in a Howell.

 

[isaac liu]

Is that tobacco under the pipes?

I really hope it's a 2kg v+p brick

 

[coming to_falling too]

Mr. Christian's Brown Flek in a Tsuge Mizki Dublin

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Going to have Sutliff Birds of a Feather Signature Series Seussical by Per Georg Jensen in a cased Undated Cutty that @ashdigger deacquisitioned in his new shift in collecting Savinelli.


I figure it’s still April 1st somewhere.

 

[ThermionicScott]

I tried cube-cutting St Bruno Flake for the first time. Filled this bent cob that I don’t use as often last night and stuck it in a baggie so it could air out a bit without losing too much topping. Having a really tasty smoke on a cool still night.



That said, from the relights, I could probably have let it dry out a little more.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Rivendell in a cob…earlier pic

 

[ashdigger]

Going to have Sutliff Birds of a Feather Signature Series Seussical by Per Georg Jensen in a cased Undated Cutty that @ashdigger deacquisitioned in his new shift in collecting Savinelli.

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I figure it’s still April 1st somewhere.

To be fair, it was not only April 1, I was semi shit-faced.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2020 D&R Raccoon’s Delight in my very reliable smooth straight post-1938 pre-Republic Peterson Sterling Canadian 263 with a sterling silver band and a tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Listening to Calling All Cars from my collection of radio shows.

 

[coming to_falling too]

Now smoking year 2020 D&R Raccoon’s Delight in my very reliable smooth straight post-1938 pre-Republic Peterson Sterling Canadian 263 with a sterling silver band and a tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Listening to Calling All Cars from my collection of radio shows.
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I like that pipe, Jim. I have a Sterling 155 bulldog that I need to get cleaned up and put into service.

 

[canucklehead]

Mixture 79 again, this time in a Peterson Killarney 80s bulldog. I need to order more of this already, I wasn't expecting to like it this much, and people around me like the smell better than my normal stinky barnyard smelling blends. Dr. Pepper Zero to drink and a good story to read.

 

[MidnightPuff]

Smoked Half & Half when I woke up. Now smoking EGR out of my Rossi 320.

 

[seanv]

2 bowls of GH Glengarry Flake in a brand new A Govem meer. This is my first Turkish meer and so far I really like it.

 

[coming to_falling too]

C&D year 2022 House Reserve

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Wilke Surbrug’s Golden Sceptre in a late 40s, early 50s straight black sandblasted Wagner British Thorn 495 (Comoy’s second) pot with a black vulcanite saddle stem.

 

[JimInks]

I like that pipe, Jim. I have a Sterling 155 bulldog that I need to get cleaned up and put into service.

Thanks. That Pete Canadian is one of my favorite pipes.

 

[dino]

I spent the afternoon with my ZOOM buds in a fun meeting peppered with a bit of April foolery. I smoked my Upshall ring-grained, blasted, bent bulldog filled with 10-year-old Wilke's 524, with Syrian Latakia, blended by Carole Burns.
A tumbler filled with Peach/Mango Green Tea, a splash of Honey Jack and a fistful of bergs was my beverage.

 

[dPero]

StBernard in Radice and coffee