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***What Are You Smoking, August 2024?***
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Things after last night's Pipe Club:
1) Thanks to BenMN for the pic! Coupla real STUDS there, right?
2) Recalling there were numerous favorable comments on Eight State Burley. I (regretfully) passed on sampling it, so took some time tonight to read up on Tobacco Reviews. Might have to try my hand at mimicking the recipe with a Home Blend.
3) Have been enjoying some Dunhill Standard Mixture Medium ... (Thanks, Ted) ... my first ever with this. It's nice. I like the idea that I'm touching something with a decade's old history, plus its original British roots.
4) Enjoyed an excellent Gyro Plate lunch today at a Lebanese Greek restaurant. Got a chance to use a bit of my Arabic language knowledge, always fun.
5) Grateful to several of my Pipe Club brothers for some other samples ... (Thanks, Craig & Steve & again Ted).
6) Love hearing the sharing of pipe & tobacco experiences, the talk, the various opinions and certainly the humor. Love seeing the different pipes that are brought ... as tantalizing as looking at the pipe pics shown on this forum.
7) For those who might be wondering from the pic = NO, I am NOT a Police Chief.
2017 HH Vintage Syrian in my gourd calabash
Following up on my post just completed:
Per BenMN's comment, if I were ever to "lose" my name (Sandblast) --- which won't happen since I've had it since the old Smokersforums.Co.Uk --- I would call myself Parfait Guy. Maybe over half of the bowls I load, I do "double Parfaits", sometimes even "triple Parfaits". Of course, I also like Home Blending. Last night's Parfait was some McClelland VA atop some McConnell Scottish Cake. Kudos to BenMN for immediately identifying the McClelland in the smoke. I was impressed!
Also, last night, I brought a tin of McClelland Royal Cajun Special, dated '06. Cracked the tin (nice WHOOSH) & passed it around for all to sniff, but said the plan is to now let it breathe until next month's Pipe Club. Then we all, including me, can have the first sampling. Also have the Dark & the Ebony, still cellared. One member said I have more patience than he does, since he usually has the first pipe as soon as he cracks open a new tin. I've read a bunch about letting freshly cracked tobacco "breathe", "settle", so I'm trying to do it "right", but not criticizing anybody else's practices! Would be interested in opinions on McClelland's Cajun Black. They were such a special company (!!!), plus their Stave Aged idea.
Also, I'm letting Sobrbiker & Skippy (plus any others) know that their favorable comments on GH Rum (Jamaican) Flake haven't fallen on deaf ears. I just had to give in to a TAD Monday & amongst some tins, I added 4oz of Rum Flake ... maybe should have chosen 8oz. I've been giving GH some proper attention lately ... the Dark U/S, the Brown U/S plus added some Curly Cut Deluxe to a previous TAD. Hmm, does it ever end?
Per BenMN's comment, if I were ever to "lose" my name (Sandblast) --- which won't happen since I've had it since the old Smokersforums.Co.Uk --- I would call myself Parfait Guy. Maybe over half of the bowls I load, I do "double Parfaits", sometimes even "triple Parfaits". Of course, I also like Home Blending. Last night's Parfait was some McClelland VA atop some McConnell Scottish Cake. Kudos to BenMN for immediately identifying the McClelland in the smoke. I was impressed!
Also, last night, I brought a tin of McClelland Royal Cajun Special, dated '06. Cracked the tin (nice WHOOSH) & passed it around for all to sniff, but said the plan is to now let it breathe until next month's Pipe Club. Then we all, including me, can have the first sampling. Also have the Dark & the Ebony, still cellared. One member said I have more patience than he does, since he usually has the first pipe as soon as he cracks open a new tin. I've read a bunch about letting freshly cracked tobacco "breathe", "settle", so I'm trying to do it "right", but not criticizing anybody else's practices! Would be interested in opinions on McClelland's Cajun Black. They were such a special company (!!!), plus their Stave Aged idea.
Also, I'm letting Sobrbiker & Skippy (plus any others) know that their favorable comments on GH Rum (Jamaican) Flake haven't fallen on deaf ears. I just had to give in to a TAD Monday & amongst some tins, I added 4oz of Rum Flake ... maybe should have chosen 8oz. I've been giving GH some proper attention lately ... the Dark U/S, the Brown U/S plus added some Curly Cut Deluxe to a previous TAD. Hmm, does it ever end?
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Morning smoke of Amphora Brown Original in a Peterson 15 harp
Did a little low calorie snacking, and am smoking Wilke No. 72 in a pre-1974 dark brown straight Larus & Brother Co. Signature billiard with a nickel band and a tapered black vulcanite stem with the initials LCR on the top of the stem. This blend was smoked by Walter Cronkite.
Thank you! @dublinpiper90 …I do have an addiction to all things pipe smoking
Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and have about a quarter of a bowl left of Watch City American Cut Plug Mixture in a black rusticated medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY 4AB No. 67/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Fed all the ferals. Abner the Eager is here again, and is eating. Harry the Hairy tried to chase him away, but I stopped that, and brought Abner inside to eat. Daisy the Feral Princess is snoozin' on her blanket.
Passing the first third of this bowl of year 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a 1984 medium bend black grain etched Savinelli Non Pareil 9310 pokerish dublin with a horn ferrule and a black vulcanite flared stem. Reading baseball box scores, and may end the day with this smoke.
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Happy birthday, my friend.
C&D Exclusive in a Castello KK Pot
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A glorious 51f out this morning so gotta have a Lat blend next to celebrate.
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️ on the side. A glorious 51f out this morning so gotta have a Lat blend next to celebrate.
Instead of my usual "burley in a cob" to start my morning, today it is some 10 year old Dunhill flake in a little Castello Sea Rock saddle stem billiard.
Capt. Earles Ten Russians in a Glenn Tinsky Stippled Billiard and the last of the ️ 
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Drucquer and Son's First Amendment in a Billiard
My mornin Steamworks in the Miscoi blasted full bent w/mammoth fossil.
Woke up thinking of the dove season opener in 10 days so smoking a bowl of Lane ready rubbed in my Peterson 606 spigot with the barley finish. Lavazza coffee to pair and thinking about it some more!
The postman was kind today. He brought my Kai Nielsen. It has a bowl coating so Im not smoking my ususal afterluch vaper becuase I know I will taste the coating. Im having some HU White Horses plus perique. I can already tell its a great smoking pipe.
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