***What Are You Smoking, August 2022?***

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, wild caught catfish and sugar snap peas dinner with a big blueberry muffin for dessert. I'm half way through this bowl of Pfeifen Huber Virginia Golden Flake in a 1938 smooth straight brown patent Dunhill R 115 bowling ball apple with a tapered cumberland stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[Carol]

Evening pipe: Maiden voyage of my new Radice Hawkbill with some Chenet's Cake.

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Beautiful pipe!

 

[ChonkyTonks]

Beautiful pipe!

Thank you! I just received. Smokes great.

 

[tfdickson]

HU Flanagan in my Castello diamond shank bent billiard.

 

[JimInks]

A quarter of the way through this bowl of year 2018 Esoterica Dunbar in a smooth straight, dark brown early 1960s Lane era Charatan Selected 43 Dublin with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem. This pipe was formerly owned by actor William Conrad.

 

[yohanan]

Milan's Colonial Pastime in a MM DGE Tribute pipe.

 

[Ahi Ka]

Sweet ol goose creek red. This batch was sun cured, twisted, pressed and then sliced into curlies

 

[dunnyboy]

Sun Bear Black Locust in a 1982 Castello great line.

 

[Servant King]

Christened my brand new Savinelli Bacco 321 bent author this afternoon! I was feeling EMP for the maiden smoke, but upon realizing I'd have to crack a new tin (which is something I'm trying to avoid doing due to my preponderance of active blends in jars), I went with Dunhill Aperitif. Oh man...what a smoke! This sadly discontinued blend is one of my favorites, and the pipe smokes beautifully. Super lightweight, and I love the rustication. Paired with Eel River White Ale organic beer from Whole Foods. I'm on Cloud Nine right about now, folks!

Bird report: California scrub-jay, Steller's jay, House finch, Red-tailed hawk, California quail, White-breasted nuthatch, Mountain chickadee, Common raven, California towhee, Violet-green swallow, Oak titmouse, Western bluebird, Mourning dove, and Hairy woodpecker. Most of these were heard but not seen...I was too engrossed in the smoke to pay much attention to the world around me.

@Brendan you wanted a full report, you got it! ?

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Vauen No 14 in an Altinay.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

EGR in a Dagner nose warmer

 

[cshubhra]

Watch City Rhythm and Blues in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard

 

[daytonsean]

Autumn Evening in an MM cob.

 

[Streeper541]

Gonna try out the new Presbyterian Reformation in a Nording pipe.

 

[B.Fee]

That Meer looks the business, so do those flakes ?

Mahalo, it's an IMP and smokes great. The Marlin Flake's are going down well in it.?

 

[JimInks]

A third of the way through this bowl of Wilke No. 515 in a smooth dark medium bend 2021 Peterson Heritage Brown POTY 4AB No. 45/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. This was the blend Basil Rathbone smoked. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.

 

[Rpink53]

Sample of C&D Engine 99 in an IMP. First time smoking this blend and its excellent. It will be my next tobacco purchase:

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed the other blueberry muffin m'lady made, and am smoking KBV Butternut Fluff in a 2003 medium bent Ural meer with a lined and etched egg shaped bowl with a silver band and a brown pearl acrylic stem. Working on a review of this blend. Watching a 1960s Rock and Roll concert on PBS.

 

[cshubhra]

John Cotton’s Latakia in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard

 

[TexJake]

Enjoying an old jarred 50/50 mixture of Dunhill Standard Mixture and LL Crown Achievement in this large billiard by Adam Davidson