***What Are You Smoking, April 2025?***

[ThermionicScott]

More C&D Blockade Runner in the MM Hardwood.



I left it in bigger pieces rather than rubbing it out completely, and that seems to be the ticket for more tang and sweetness. Gonna dedicate this pipe and blend to each other while I continue to wrap my head around it.

 

[das3353]

HU Dark Moor in a Pete SH Hudson

 

[TubbyInTweed]

C&D The Beast loaded in my Bent Hunter Falcon with a chimney meer and paired with an iced coffee.



A little while later I enjoyed a bowl of GH&Co Dark Birds Eye Vintage Cut in my Savinelli Roma 106.

 

[BurleyVonPuffington]

Out in the rain, covered but blowing in, so a MM Country Gentleman cob smoking some inexpensive, old (2007) BR Bourbon Whiskey. With more Virginias than the average aro, it took to the aging well.

 

[ohin3]

G.L. Pease Abingdon in a Dunhill Quaint 1/4 bent Shell Briar.

 

[infectedpsyche]

Sweated in my Wiseman Stublin.

 

[Sig]

C&D SOTE in this GBD Constitution 9456. This is one of my favorite shapes.
This pipe is very well made and finished. This is obviously post Cadogan due to the name, Made In London in a circle and the Lucite stem. But as far as I have found it's very early after the merger due to the brass rondel. It also has an L stamped on it. Nobody seems to know why. If anyone here knows, I'd like to know.....you know?

 

[Mr_houston]

McClellan’s Virginia #27 in a Radice Rind twin-bore.

This was always my favorite McClelland blend.

 

[JimInks]

Passing the quarter mark of this bowl of Wilke Lizzie Blood Virginia in a straight black with a burgundy undertone sandblasted early 1960s Lane era Charatan 420 billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem. This should get me to dinner time. Cleaned a few pipes, and gave Abner the Eager some attention. He's on top of my chair right now.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Gonna have a long smoke of Rivendell, cut with some Exclusive in this Soren…coffee. Poker tonight, gonna pack a few Eltang basics, with various tobaccos including 5 brothers and Pegasus.

 

[PaulRVA]

GH Kendal #6 in a Nuttens Bing and an Americano ️ on the side watching the Oriole’s game. Game postponed so Toronto/ NY

 

[dozicusmaximus]

Quiet Nights in my Gigi.
I'm starting to see why this guy is called the Dark Lord. This stuff is really good. I knew on the char I was really going to like this one. All of the Pease latakia blends have been pretty great.

 

[renfield]

5 year old KBV Live Wire in a lattice globe meer.

 

[jakesmokes]

Temple Bar in a Squire

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, cod and green beans dinner with the other half of the chocolate meringue pie. I'm a quarter of the way through this bowl of year 2014 Sutliff 1849 in a medium bend smooth dark brown 1968 Corporate Era Barling 5631 London England TVF billiard silver spigot with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. Watching the Yankes-Jays game while waiting for the Braves-D-Backs game to start.

 

[Chieftiabo]

Volkan with C&D Bayou Morning

 

[Scottmi]

2021 Mad Fiddler Flake in the Richard Mason Blasted Strawberrywood Big Apple, and another go with an ancient bottle from the cellar.

Successful extraction of the whole cork! and decanted. This bottle of Sebastiani Barbera is undated, and my best guess is from 1970~1972. Well past malolactic fermentation and well into the oxidative stage. Color is brown with a faint reddish tint remaining. Sherry notes on the nose and tongue. Not at all unpleasant for my evaluative testing, but spouse will have nothing to do with it (as usual when i get on my old wine kicks) and few guests rarely appreciate these trials. Works for me and doesn't fight the Mad Fiddler.

 

[Scottmi]

but not daft, ADD, Asperger's, autistic, or any of the like.

Of course not, @gord ! We ain't got no spectrum folks here..

 

[Questionable Source]

Watch City Bada Bing! in a Military Mount.

Still need to finish up some custom cuts for the sheathing, but I got the open beam ceiling done today before the weekend rain:

 

[dottlejockey]

Running the remnants of this 2009 Escudo through a Hoskinson Handcrafted partially rusticated volcano (made by my brother). Nice after dinner with a small dram of Arran Quarter Cask single malt whisky.