***What Are You Smoking, December 2022?***

[PipeIT]

Gifted to me here from Secret Santa, Straus Kentucky Gentleman, I’m smoking in my MM Apple Diplomat with a Forever stem. I was also given some Straus Sleepy Hollow I smoked for Christmas last night. Both blends really nice.

This Kentucky Gentleman is a lot better than the reviews, but this doesn’t have Cavendish, it looks more like stoved VAs, hmm maybe they changed the recipe.

I’m such a computer nerd/geek/junkie, I live behind the keyboard. LOL So I had to get off and disconnect for Christmas, I really hope everyone had a great Christmas!





@isaac liu I hope you are doing better, take care!

OH @Jwebb90 I’m so jealous that new one from George is so sweet! Ahhhh LOL Now if I could get one with a Cumberland stem... Tell George Cumberland Pretty Please.

 

[Briar Tuck]

SV Black Cavendish in a Cobbit Dwarf.

 

[addamsruspipe]

Having some Cocoa blend in my Peterson cob.

 

[chefmike]

Big and Burly while on a hardware run. Always have a Briarworks stright standard. Workhorse pipe, easy to clean, pack and smoke. Ah well, back to work. Ripping out a bathroom. Now to patch drywall before dinner. Holidays...

 

[Scottmi]

We Three Kings in the Santa Savinelli 602

 

[beargreasediet]

Lunting/skulking around the Kingston ferry terminal with some Royal Jersey Latakia Mixture in a Neerup.

 

[Ben.R.C]

First bowl of Haddo’s delight in my new estate Ser Jacabo bent egg. Friggin delish! I think I’m starting to get how could pipe smoking can be. this almost tastes like an aromatic, sweet cocoa like flavor coming through. I may start hoarding this blend

 

[Ben.R.C]

Not far from finishing this bowl of year 2014 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. Watching Mad Dog Russo.
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Lovely pipe

 

[Hillcrest]

This morning TCS Old Toby in the Savinelli 2614KS with 6mm filter. This afternoon TCS Cherokee in a 68'-71' transitional Kapmeer 999. This evening Lane 1-Q in a Butz-Choquin Fait Main Calabash Junior.
Later tonight ... ??? undecided ....

 

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Hi Carol. I think I will remove any bowl coatings I get from now on. The alcohol treatment seemed to do the trick.

I got a new Peterson for Christmas and couldn't wait to smoke it. Didn't remove the bowl coating and just packed and lit it up. It didn't have any off flavors. I used Haunted Bookshop since its the blend I'm most familiar with and would be able to notice anything different. Each manufacturer has a proprietary coating, some better than others. Glad you've been able to deal with yours. The Rossi I had a problem with was also a Vitoria.

 

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Just finished a few bowls. Last one was Winchester in an HS Studio squat tomato. Had bourbon with all of them. Primarily Gentleman Jack.

 

[PipeIT]

Lunting/skulking around the Kingston ferry terminal with some Royal Jersey Latakia Mixture in a Neerup.

There’s the man who sold me some Brighton, out of the kindness of his heart!

Now when you see these Burly looking men, walking the streets late at night, whom ladies and small children might shreek and run the other way in fear.

Fear not, for their is kindness in the hearts of these Burly men!

 

[PennyStonks]

Bob’s Chocolate Flake in a Rossi

 

[beargreasediet]

There’s the man who sold me some Brighton, out of the kindness of his heart!

Now when you see these Burly looking men, walking the streets late at night, whom ladies and small children might shreek and run the other way in fear.

Fear not, for their is kindness in the hearts of these Burly men!

Lol - more of a Latakia and Virginia guy than I am a burley man. However, ladies and small children needn’t fear - my womanizing days are behind me and I’m in training to be a grandpa!

 

[Akoni808]

Mac Baren Golden Extra in this fancy cob my wife got me for Christmas.

 

[LeafErikson]

Smoked nothing but sir Walter Raleigh and Pegasus (separately not combined) for the past few days out of my two meers.

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and sugar snap peas dinner with cherries for dessert. I'm a quarter of the way through this bowl of year 2014 Full Virginia Flake in a straight 1968 Dunhill Shell bulldog with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Watching an episode of Nature on PBS.

 

[LeafErikson]

I got a new Peterson for Christmas and couldn't wait to smoke it. Didn't remove the bowl coating and just packed and lit it up. It didn't have any off flavors. I used Haunted Bookshop since its the blend I'm most familiar with and would be able to notice anything different. Each manufacturer has a proprietary coating, some better than others. Glad you've been able to deal with yours. The Rossi I had a problem with was also a Vitoria.

Was yours a p-lip? I agreed to a trade with a fellow forum member and am receiving a couple of p-lip Petersons. I’ve never tried one but I figured I should try it at least once. Worst case scenario I just trade it away.

 

[LeafErikson]

For work today, 40th Anniversary in a Bruce Weaver. Red Algerian briar with an ivory accent and the one piece stem and tenon, a rarity for him, was made from 1930s brindle ebonite (bowling ball).

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Doth my eyes deceive me?? Duane smoking a billiard?? Now I’ve seen everything and the good lord can take me at his discretion

 

[Carol]

Hi Carol. I think I will remove any bowl coatings I get from now on. The alcohol treatment seemed to do the trick.

Thank you. I think I will also.