***What Are You Smoking, December 2021?***

[gamzultovah]

Three bowls today.

1. 50% MacBaren Old Dark Fired with 25% Sutliff Red Virginia and 25% Newminster Virginia Flake, smoked in a James Barber B127 Ruby Billiard.
The Old Dark Fired seems too one note here, I think it needs more tangy Reds and less of the plain VA slices.

2. SG Skiff in a second James Barber Ruby Billiard.
Same as last time, still quite moist, full flavor smokey and savory from start to finish.

3. "Blueberry Cheesecake" home blend in a Missouri Meerschaum Freehand.
Equal parts Sutliff Vanilla Custard, Stokkebye English Oriental Supreme, and Sutliff Mature Red Virginia, then 17% Perique mixed in, and topped generously with Royal Jamaican Blackstrap Molasses Rum, and finally extracts of Almond, Anise, Orange, and Vanilla.
This blend holds its flavor quite well, full flavored through the first half and while losing fullness it is still quite fruity in the second half. This is one of my favorite blends and I was really lucky getting it right in the first batch.


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Your blends sound spot-on (and delicious).

 

[Brendan]

After dinner smoke of Petersons University Flake in a Peterson 106 Dalkey.

 

[Curtas Loew]

Wilke Lizzie Blood Red English in a Brebbia Plum Calabash

 

[The Clay King]

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It was a disappointment ?

@samuelgawith01 I've paid much less than 50g of pipe baccy in the UK!

 

[judcole]

HH Burley Flake in my elderly IRC Blackruf apple sitter. (Happened to check the bottom, and sure enough, the style name was there,)

 

[samuelgawith01]

Warped Cloud Hopper in my LJ Peretti 150th anniversary billiard made by Peterson .

 

[Ag®o]

S.G. Full Virginia Plug in a Il Ceppo.

 

[JOHN72]

Good afternoon. We started with the fourth smoke of the day. Old Dublin of Peterson, in a MM General.........................

 

[LotusEater]

H&H Black House in a GBD New Standard

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Over the weekend I was away doing some odd trucking jobs with only one pipe and one tobacco there now back home free and smoking my Regd era Stanwell Selected briar model 61 medium size billiard with Solani silverbflake in it

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Running my routes today, but still trying to not overdo it. Taking a couple of my Nording Valhallas. The bulldog will be for PS Sweet Vanilla, and if I smoke the other, it will be with some Haunted Bookshop.
But, I want my voice back, so I may save it for lunch.

edit: damn, my pipe clamshell looks way dirtier in this picture than in life. I may need a new one.

 

[Es0teric]

Escudo in my Medico meer billiard with black coffee.

 

[timt]

Good morning everyone. Smoking some Bold Kentucky in a meer.

 

[stogie37]

How is the Evening Flake? I haven't tapped into mine yet and am intrigued.

Only one bowl so far - and with none of my usual drying time and in a brand new cob - ? To say I don’t have a proper grip on it yet is an understatement! Initial notes were quite citrusy, not a lot of depth, well behaved in the burn department (fully rubbed out) and light to moderate Perique presence. Next bowl will be dried a bit and probably in a familiar briar. Maybe this afternoon…

 

[craig61a]

8 degrees F with a 20 mph wind out of the NW; I’m sitting here in my office in shorts and a Tshirt smoking Carter Hall in a 3 star Pipe by Lee Apple…

 

[stogie37]

Opened an old tin of Dunhill Durbar at the December Low Country Pipe Club meeting. Having a second bowl in this Northern Briars Helix. Absolutely outstanding!

 

[JimInks]

Couldn't sleep, so I'm going with the flow with a bowl from a freshly opened first production tin (2013) 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. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Just fed Suzy and the irrepressible Molly.

 

[The Clay King]

Condor Ready Rubbed in my clay pipe; had a couple of pints of beer? and had to sit in the smoking shelter as it was raining ?️. The man I was talking to said he liked the smell of the Condor and that a group of old men used to sit in the smoke room playing dominoes and smoking their briars before the 2007 smoking ban. I imagined the Cavaliers going to the pub on the night before the smoking ban all wearing their costumes and smoking the **** out of their clay pipes
I could almost smell all that pipe smoke!!!

 

[The Clay King]

Just the way ya see it...

@weezell Smoked some more Condor in my clay pipe today; man it went down well!!!

 

[The Clay King]

Escudo in my Medico meer billiard with black coffee.

@Es0teric I'll let you know how I get on with the Markus Fohr clay pipe; smoked some Condor in my clay billiard pipe today - it went down well!!!