Evening relax smoke is my first time trying Cringle Flake. Rubbed it out and loaded, gonna watching a few snaps of this TNF game and decide if the whole thing is worth watching. bourbon pic for attention ?
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In this case, the older vintage lost a touch of the topping even though it came from a new opened 1970s tub. As often happens with old burley, there's a spice note that can nip at the tongue a mite if you're a very fast puffer. With moderate puffing, I still notice it. Aged burley also gets woody and a little savory, and in this case that has happened. I will say the topping is still richer than the current version.
A couple of years back, I opened a pouch of late 1960s PA. It had a deeper flavor than either the new or the current aged production I am smoking. And, surprisingly enough, no spice, no savoriness, but it was a tad woodier than what you'd get today. I imagine age did that.
FVF in a Linkman’s Dr. Grabow Lovat. The original must have loved this pipe. He had two silver dots inlaid into the shank.
Are you sure? I've got a zulu with a silver circle on the shank. Just thought it was a Linkman's thing.
Cringle Flake 2020 in a Caminetto Bulldog.
Interesting. Cool either way. Just nothing I’ve seen and viewed a ton of Linkman’s.
Smoking a bowl of Mac Baren Symphony and drinking an IPA, getting ready to cook a later dinner...for now, playing some Chess.
That’s cool. Stuff like that really intrigued me. Thanks.
A topless Elizabeth Warren?
After a hell of a busy day in 35c heat I'm finally relaxing with a well deserved dram of whisky, a coffee and a very enjoyable bowl of Virginia/Burley in the Charatan 610.
Enjoying some Nightcap in a Nino Rossi Duca 1886 1/2 bent fluted acorn #234
Almost finished smoking year 2013 H&H Classic Burley Kake in a straight 2012 MM Pony Express cob with a yellow plastic stem. Dinner is next!
Gawith Hoggarth & Co Dark Birds Eye in a Paykoc Meerschaum Bulldog
My first bowl ever of C&D Bayou Morning in an MM Huck Finn. This is really delicious! Lots of perique. I should dry this a wee bit but I was anxious for a taste as this just arrived today. I think I'm a barnyard kind of guy.
After dinner Solani 633 in a Radice Silk Cut Hawkbill.
2018 Carolina Red Flake in a Boswell natural graceful swirl freehand with plateau top and fudge ripple stem. 
Peretti's Yuletide 2019 in my St. Claude Canadian, after a major snowstorm here on Cape Ann, Massachusetts. Very pleasant indeed.
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Uhle's 00/Dark Birdseye in a Savory's Curzon.
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