***What Are You Smoking, August 2024?***

[ravkesef]

Pipeworks and Wilke #72 in a Dunhill Patent Billiard

 

[Chasing Embers]

My kids recently bought me this for my bad hands.


I'm using it to play this.


I'm smoking 2018 Double Down in this.

 

[JimInks]

A quarter of the way through this bowl of year 2014 Astley’s No. 55 in a 1915-1920 straight smooth dark brown BBB Own Make 150 apple with a silver band and a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[Pip'n'Piper]

4noggins Prairie Wind in a Pete SS303

 

[Doctor Chopper]

Black House in an Oliphant

 

[Chasing Embers]

Black House in an Oliphant

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That a Kulp?

 

[PaulRVA]

Son of a ……. Yard work is done for the week and before the storm.
Peterson Navy Rolls in a Dunhill
5117 Bulldog.

 

[Bbailey324]

SG Chocolate Flake in a freshly cleaned Peterson Dracula 80s. I need another 80s as I reach for this one a bit often.

 

[FurCoat]

EGR in a Peterson Derry 68

 

[cshubhra]

Esoterica Dorchester from May 2021 in a Sasieni Four Dot Viscount Lascelles S

 

[Hillcrest]

Sutliff Match Sunrise in the Vauen Olaf bent egg between severe thunderstorms and potential tornados ...

 

[Manawydan]

Pre-2015 Esoterica Penzance in my Peterson smooth system spigot B42. This is my first experience with Penzance and also my first experience with an aged Balkan of any kind. It was definitely in the Balkan Sasieni ballpark, but a lot smoother (the smoothest Balkan I've ever tasted), and with a couple faint notes that were hard for me to pick out (I don't have @JimInks well-honed senses or experience). Definitely woody, earthy, a bit smoky, slightly sour - almost metallic but not quite at times, faint floral notes and some mellow exotic spice. I am really glad to have had the experience! I will enjoy periodically revisiting this but have primarily come away feeling like whatever FOMO I've felt about Blends of Olde is largely relieved.

 

[telescopes]

Kristiansen Bulldog, my retirement gift from my wife in 2021, with Blessed Condor on a warm desert afternoon. The first light lifted and expanded the tobacco. A quick tamp and then then the True Light. Now, to the true smoke.

 

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking year 2022 unreleased Sutliff Brown Virginia Flake in a 1920s medium bend smooth dark brown BBB Umbra bulldog with a tapered black vulcanite stem with an orific bit. Watching the Yankees-Tigers game.

 

[didimauw]

Burley flake 2 in my claw.

 

[sittingbear]

Last of a sample of Velvet from 1926 in my long clay. Pretty good, for almost a century old!

 

[Doctor Chopper]

That a Kulp?

Yes! He does nice work

 

[Bright Orange Red]

KBV 2023 Jim's Special Flake in a Savinelli Autograph sandblast volcano.

 

[Doctor Chopper]

Horizon’s in a Peterson system

 

[Mike N]

I love my smaller pipes during the day, but in the evening, nothing smokes cooler than a big bowl briar. Here is a Radice with a natural rim finish, filled with Newminster No. 400 Superior Navy flake, a tasty bulk blend.