Mac Baren Burley London Blend (2014) in a Peterson SH Baker Street.
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Haunted Bookshop Cake in a Savinelli Tortuga 673KS. 
Big N Burley in a new estate Savinelli. Enjoying some sunshine in the yard with the pup before my gig.
Feb Pipe Club Meeting, one of my Pipe Club brothers mentioned he had some Capt Black Grape. I asked couple questions about it, then last month (Mar Pipe Club Meeting), "lo & behold", he brought a tin offering me to take a generous sample ... with the admonition that "It'll ghost whatever pipe you smoke it in, even a cob."
I chose to use my oldest cob ('07), a MM Legend (Bent - 5th Ave Bowl). I've smoked a lot of Mac Baren's Plumcake plus other Aros in it, figured no damage could happen.
Smoking Dynamics = I thoroughly dried it, so it smoked fine, not goopy, all the way to the gray ash.
Taste = definitely grape, but as a fruit, who's to say it shouldn't be VS cherry, pineapple, etc?
I've now smoked 2 bowls with enough left for 2-3 more, but I'm going to smoke something totally different in the next bowl, just to see if it's been ghosted.
Interesting ... I wouldn't buy any, plus TR states "No longer in production".
I chose to use my oldest cob ('07), a MM Legend (Bent - 5th Ave Bowl). I've smoked a lot of Mac Baren's Plumcake plus other Aros in it, figured no damage could happen.
Smoking Dynamics = I thoroughly dried it, so it smoked fine, not goopy, all the way to the gray ash.
Taste = definitely grape, but as a fruit, who's to say it shouldn't be VS cherry, pineapple, etc?
I've now smoked 2 bowls with enough left for 2-3 more, but I'm going to smoke something totally different in the next bowl, just to see if it's been ghosted.
Interesting ... I wouldn't buy any, plus TR states "No longer in production".
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Mee Three!!
Nah, I have two tubs of Captain Black Grape and have yet to ghost a pipe. However, I never smoke the same blend more than twice in any given pipe. To me, the secret to anti-ghosting is to switch it up.
Got ya whupped, HLB. Made it past noon. Slept through my alarm.
Also an alternative for the now defunct Capt. Black Grape (???)
Seems only The Shadow knows for sure . . . .
Getting the house ready for the dog sitter. Wife and I are heading to Charleston for a few days R&R. Always time for some Pegasus in a Savinelli 320 KS. Iced tea.
Interested to know if that pipe has taken on more color since your last photo. It's a looker, for sure regardless. Both my meers have done so, but it is a slow process.
Hmmmmm . . . I think the interesting thing about this post is the concentration you're displaying. What are you reading?
Yah, but at this point I don't have enough pipes to do that!
Quick bowl of Boswells Cherry Smash this AM, a cuppa iced Cat & Cloud coffee I brewed the night before, then off to cars and coffee with my neighbor in his "bitchin' Camaro", after that breakfast with him and another car club member at the local diner.
Getting my second wind with a bowl of LJP 432 before getting the rototiller running again (hopefully) to prep the garden for this years planting.
Getting my second wind with a bowl of LJP 432 before getting the rototiller running again (hopefully) to prep the garden for this years planting.
I was still hungry, so I ate two open face ham, cheddar cheese and double egg sandwiches. I'm smoking year 2016 D&R Two Timer Gold in a straight, black sandblasted pre-1970 Comoy’s Sunrise Etched Grain straight Liverpool 309 with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Was scrubbing out the bowl of an estate pipe. Going to relax and watch the Braves-Rays game that I was listening to. Sleepy Suzy is by my side. Tomato the Brave is on m'lady's lap.
GH Kendal #6 in a Savinelli Punto Oro Gold 101 and Diet Coke on the side.
KBV Burley Morning Pipe in a Imp Meerschaum 
The Drucquer has been opened about 4 years and was nicely dry.
A straightforward English blend.
The Rattray is a “sweeter“ blend - most likely because of the black cavendish.
Perfect moisture level straight out of a newly opened tin.
Smoked very cool
I preferred the Rattray
Spent this sunny morning with my first bowl of Pegasus (loved it) in an LHS Purex Preferred caboose with 8 O’clock bean coffee with cream. 
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