Busy day at work. Finally at home enjoying Spirit of Scotland in my first pipe ever, Savinelli One 321.
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2015 Peterson Signature Flake in the MG.
Happy birthday man! Here's to a better next couple of years!
LJP London Slices in a Cumberland Apple.
Sheathing is done, hopefully wrapping up the exterior wrap tomorrow, weather permitting:
Sheathing is done, hopefully wrapping up the exterior wrap tomorrow, weather permitting:
My heartfelt sympathies. They are the absolute worst . . . .
HU Director‘s Cut in an Ashton Dublin and Ginger Tea on the side.
Apologies for the lack of a pipe in this picture, but this was the view from Pier 1 on the Brooklyn waterfront earlier this evening after a downpour. Out with a very good friend who's a cigar smoker (and kinda got me hooked on tobacco), smoking and drinking King's County peated bourbon while shooting the s&%t. Had a small appetizer of OGS in a Rattray's Blower's Daughter, then a very satisfying bowl of WCC Ahab's Comfort in a Peterson Donegal Rocky 68, and finished with WCC Deluxe in a Tinderbox Verona dublin. Much talk and smoke, good times, and the night sky was even more spectacular and impossible to photograph: this is what pipe smoking is all about.
Ye Olde Signe in Ye Olde birthyear Dunnie Shell 6120 F/T 4S
I've never had MB Va#1 but I understand it is a common opinion..It's 39 degrees and windy, so I'm just having a quick bowl the MacB VA#1 in a cob.
Sorry, the camera focused on the wrong thing.
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Last pipe of the night. Great day of hockey. GH Dark Flake in a 1900 Ben Wade with Ryan Alden Cumberland stem. This pipe originally had a horn stem, but it looked like a cannibal owned it. So it received a new stem and new life.
Second generation two star rusticated Lee with an apple shaped bowl and some experimental Black Maria.
Star of the east that dried out completely over the winter, I guess the mason seal had some bits of tobacco or something that prevented it from sealing. Anyways it's fantastic, I think you crispy dry smokers are on to something. Has a bit more strength, no gurgle, I just might be a convert
Aged a year Buoy Gold from the buckle of the Old Belt at Kinston North Carolina by Fred Rouse, of the eighth generation of tobacco manufacturers in an oxblood colored Bertram’s medium billiard made by crippled soldiers in the shadow of the Capitol dome in the District of Columbia of carefully selected, ancient, oil cured, aged, unstained, unpainted and unvarnished Pre 1954 Algerian briar!
Sing one Harold, Phil, Don , and Lew!
Silver Medals and Sweet Memories
Sing one Harold, Phil, Don , and Lew!
Silver Medals and Sweet Memories
What does granulated perique mean? What does it taste like? Never tried it. C&D is in their usual style with their marketing ploys.
No doubt, but if they're trying to be unique with this one, they succeeded, for better or worse. Here's a shot of the texture, to bring clarity on the use of the term "granulated."
More like a short, chunky, ribbon cut - but "granulated" is much more cohesive for marketing purposes.
Tin note is lightly of dark fruit and, oddly enough, dark cocoa powder. Not spicy/peppery at all on the nose. I've never tried it straight, but i'm tasting it in the M Cinar hammer now and it's surprisingly easy going with a little spicey note coming through on the palate. Certainly, quite different to my old favorite, which was Jewel of St. James. I had stocked up on a few jars of that when they stopped production years ago, but alas, it has all since been used in home blends. I was trying this as an alternative. Next time i am in New Orleans, i'm going to see if i can tour St James Parish (and possibly procure some product from one of the farms).
Anyhoo, last bowl for me tonight -- after i finish up this little pinch of perique -- will be Burley Flake #5 in a Mastro de Paja dublin.
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For the Saturday afternoon pipe buddies ZOOM, I filled my Charatan's Make Belvedere 2122 with Drama Reserve and enjoyed a great smoke while I engaged in lively conversation and warm camaraderie. My beverage was Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey Coffee in a large mug.
I likey, verrrry niiiice. Texted with a Borat accent.
Gawith Hoggarth Dark Flake Aromatic in a Falcon Extra with a Bantam Dublin bowl tonight.
I'm starting to wonder if the added toppings in Dark Flake Aromatic exist in some sort of quantum flux that causes no two people to taste them the same. To me they taste like lemongrass coupled with the aromas of pine needles and cedar chips, but I've never heard anyone else describe the flavor even remotely similar to that. I've heard it described as camphor, licorice, #2 pencil, maple sugar, beefy, vanilla, fruity, herbal, sweet, bitter, and at least a dozen other disparate adjectives.
In fact, if you look on TobaccoReviews.com you'll find no two people describe the flavor of Dark Flake Aromatic the same way. It's a complete mystery. A tasty mystery, though.
I'm starting to wonder if the added toppings in Dark Flake Aromatic exist in some sort of quantum flux that causes no two people to taste them the same. To me they taste like lemongrass coupled with the aromas of pine needles and cedar chips, but I've never heard anyone else describe the flavor even remotely similar to that. I've heard it described as camphor, licorice, #2 pencil, maple sugar, beefy, vanilla, fruity, herbal, sweet, bitter, and at least a dozen other disparate adjectives.
In fact, if you look on TobaccoReviews.com you'll find no two people describe the flavor of Dark Flake Aromatic the same way. It's a complete mystery. A tasty mystery, though.
C&D Winchester in a Pete. It makes for an enjoyable ride home from work. 
G.L Pease - Maltese Falcon in a Radice and a Cup of Joe.
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