Back from running errands and smoked a bowl of Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style.
***What Are You Smoking? December 2019.***
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C&D Cigar Leaf with nearly equal portion of PS Black Cavendish, in a Luciano rusticated straight billiard; this is a pleasantly mild home mix that isn't available as a commercial blend I don't think.
I love Presbyterian, Durbar, and Standard Mixture Mellow. A friend asked why I didn't list EMP amongst those favorites and the truth was I just hadn't gotten around to trying it before it became unobtainium. So he surprised me one night with a 3 yr aged tin smack in the middle of the drought so it was quite a valuable gift indeed. I wasted no time popping the top and loaded some into my pipe reserved for Pres&Durbar. I was surprised when it tasted acrid and bitter and burned on the hot side so I waited a few days and tried it in a pipe dedicated to SMM and Ready Rubbed. Same thing. Bitter, woody, not much flavor. I tried it a few more times over the months but decided it just wasn't a blend that I'd ever appreciate the way I do other oriental-forward light Englishes. Last night I thought I'd give it a try in a larger bowled pipe I usually use for medium Balkans like Sasieni, Supreme, Whiteknight, etc,. Not sure if it was the chamber size, the lat ghost, or what, but this pipe gave me my first enjoyable smoke from this tin and might have redeemed the blend for me! I liked it so much I decided to go for the combo again as my first pipe of the day with coffee.
Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am part way through this bowl of Sutliff Cringle Flake (Holiday Edition 2019) in a 2002 straight grain Karl Erik Ekstravagant A medium bend freehand sitter with a small horn ferrule accent and black acrylic saddle stem. Watching Mad Dog Russo.
GLP Haddo's Delight in a cavalier figural meer by Medet.
Solani Aged Burley Flake in a Neerup Rhodesian.
Just finished a bowl of 2013 Capstan Blue Flake in Rad Davis Rhodesian.
Now smoking some 2012 Wessex Brigade Campaign Dark Flake in a Brian Ruthenberg Apple.
Now smoking some 2012 Wessex Brigade Campaign Dark Flake in a Brian Ruthenberg Apple.
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Curzon mixture in a Rattray's Butcher's Boy pipe.
Commodore Flake in a Peterson 150 bulldog.
Now smoking Watch City Spill’sbane in a smooth unfinished brown slight bend 2015 Savinelli 320KS author with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Been a very busy day.
Just fired up some Star of the East Flake for the inaugural smoke of my Dragon Briar Dublin.
Having some HH Acadian Perique in a MM cob
WWC spill's bane in an Irish Peterson 221.
Now smoking Watch City Off the Rails in a medium bend raw sienna toned early Radice sandblast egg with bamboo carving on the shank and a black acrylic saddle stem. Bright and sunny, but slightly chilly today.
Not a big aro fan but gonna try it out anyway
One Ton Sally in one, Nightcap in the other.
Rad Davis makes some RAD pipes!
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