I caught a ridiculous cold from one of my band mates (pretty much the whole band ended up getting it) and it has been dogging me for weeks. It really put a damper on my desire to smoke. I'm finally getting over it though, so I smoked some Sutliff D40 Vanilla in this Tinder Box Vintage estate pipe. I swear I had this stem polished up black and shiny, and as soon as I went outside and started smoking, it began to turn brown again and the bit tasted like an old tire. Cheap vulcanite.