***What Are You Smoking, August 2023?***

[CptKing]

Plum Pudding Bourbon Barrel Aged in a Rossi Author tonight. Diet Dr Pepper is by drink

 

[troutface]

Current version Sobranie in a Ceppo.

 

[Ben.R.C]

John Cotton Latakia in a Satou. I like having a couple of Bing length pipes in my collection. This one smokes great.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Peterson ‘23 POTY Rua and Sutliff Xmas Spice.

 

[grimpuffer]

Sun Bear Tupelo in a Peterson PotY Rua 2023. Water on the side and Cicadas in the background

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

MB HH Pure Virginia in a Howell.

 

[umbrella001]

Flake #558 in an Ashton brindle poker.

 

[FLDRD]

Mmmm. Cringle Flake 2020

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Some Mark Twain in a Brebbia, smoking some ribs in the barrel

 

[Scottmi]

Power is back. ODF in an Eltang snail
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Man I don't know how to do it with ODF! The pinch I put in with an aro the other day in not too big a bowl was plenty for me--I had to go take a little nap afterward!

 

[J.Henry845]

2018 Escudo in a Savinelli Tortuga Bulldog.

 

[macaroni]

Just finishing up a bowl of Bayou Morning--mmm good

 

[jaytex1969]

An unidentified, crusty Gawith flake found in a paper cup with a napkin stuffed in the top. Smoked in a Missouri Meerschaum cob.

 

[macaroni]

I'm cleaning out that last bowl and just started puffing a delightful follow-up (to Bayou Morning) with Mac Baren's HH Pure Virginia Flake.

I like to cut this tobacco into little cubes (same as I do with Newmister 400) for easy loading and what I find, for me, delightful smokes. It takes a while to cut 1 pound but it's worth it in the coming month. Something to enjoy on the coming Super Blue Moon and while I'm still night gazing as I search for a comet! LOL - haven't seen one yet with this meteor shower! Maybe tonight!!
kindly
mike

 

[sittingbear]

Rich's (Portland, OR) Bill's Blend in my Winslow Crown freehand. Sitting on the back patio after dinner with my wife, who is smoking Sutluff Black Swan in a Mastro Beraldi bent dublin. Life is sweet!

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and sugar snap peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm passing the first third of this bowl of year 2014 Full Virginia Flake in a straight 1968 Dunhill Shell bulldog with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.

 

[cshubhra]

Gawith Hoggarth and Company Dark Flake Aromatic in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard

 

[Ben.R.C]

Man I don't know how to do it with ODF! The pinch I put in with an aro the other day in not too big a bowl was plenty for me--I had to go take a little nap afterward!

I find that one pretty mild. HH Bold Kentucky is a little more challenging, but I’m up to the task at least once a day. Rustica kicks my butt though. I hate saying something is too strong for me but HH Rustica is basically unsmokable unless I go slow that it’s no longer enjoyable. I used to smoke 2+ packs of unfiltered luckies a day, inhaling of course, so that may have something to do with my tolerance.

 

[rsshreck32]

Some Sun Bear Tupelo in the good ol' Savinelli poker. I find that rubbing out the flakes works best for me. I've tried folding/stuffing and cubing the flakes with little success.

 

[JimPM]

Just putting the last trimmings on this Friday’s aromatic review, as I selfishly indulge my interest in a tasty bowl of my #2 favorite Burley, Wessex Burley Slice. The generously deep contours of this Old Grabow Freehand adore this particular tobacco as you would have it. And after this, I must retire to the next Netflix episode of The Witcher; a great show that one.