***What Are You Smoking, December 2023?***

[FurCoat]

Sitting out in the workshop with a glass of E.H Taylor, some P.S Navy Flake and my 1979 Dunhill birthday pipe celebrating my 44th. Cheers! View attachment 269451

Happy Birthday

 

[RobNYC]

Irish Flake in a CAO/Bekler.

 

[FurCoat]

WCC Simply Red in a Savinelli St. Nicholas 904

 

[Peter Turbo]

Cornell & Diehl Vieux Carré in this years Christmas Pete

 

[The Clay King]

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Working from home today and decided to do a little experiment with The Royal Yacht in a few different pipe materials:

(1) my Old German Clay “The Offering” tester;
(2) my AKB Meerschaum smooth cherrywood tester; and
(3) my Rattray 100 Goblin (dedicated to this blend for some reason)

Also loaded a bowl of Elizabethan Mixture into my new Chacom 996 Rhodesian, which has been perfect for this blend.

Question: for some reason, I really love The Royal Yacht and I wonder if you all can help me to explore blends similar to this “unique” mixture. What I enjoy isn’t the Vitamin N, but rather the way the Virginias are so smooth and subdued (in some blends I like them to sing, but here they just hum comfortingly in the dark), and the fact that the topping is “deep” flavored (not flowery or sweet). Thanks!

@FriendlyPiper Only one pipe there I'd smoke; can you guess which one?
The Clay King enjoyed his clay pipe of Elizabethan Mixture at last year's Nottingham Pipe Show in memory of Queen Elizabeth II.

 

[TN Jed]

Briar Fox in a Sasieni Four Dot

 

[The Clay King]

GH Kendal Black Cherry in a clay. Finished the bottle of Pinot Grigio I got at Dronfield last weekend. Re-enactors not allowed to smoke in costume in public so we didn't get to smoke our pipes. Met another pipe smoker at the bus stop yesterday; he was smoking Special Virginia.

 

[cshubhra]

Happy birthday @Laurent

I am smoking Gawith Hoggarth’s Dark Birds Eye in a MM Country Gentleman Cob

 

[PipeIT]

@Laurent

 

[Doctor Chopper]

@Laurent Happy Birthday!

 

[Ryan]

Haddos’s Delight in a Peterson.

 

[Bbailey324]

Bob's Chocolate Flake in a Peterson bent Aran.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

The first bowl of Sir John's Flake Virginia was so good this morning, I had a second.

 

[BenMN]

Slow day for smokes, only 2 so far.
Pegasus in the DM Stanwell.

Kajun Kake on top of Five Brothers in the cost-ello

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

CVP in an Altinay.

 

[rsshreck32]

Sitting out in the workshop with a glass of E.H Taylor, some P.S Navy Flake and my 1979 Dunhill birthday pipe celebrating my 44th. Cheers! View attachment 269451

Happy birthday my good man! May the Lord bless you and keep you.

 

[FurCoat]

Briar Fox in a Sasieni Four DotView attachment 269479

That's a good looking pipe.

 

[rsshreck32]

Uzumaki from a Morgason danish lovat. View attachment 269474

Your Lovats are absolutely beautiful pipes!

 

[FurCoat]

Crooner in a Medico squat Rhodesian while removing a failed Thermalcouple/thermapile on my gas logs.

 

[FoggyMorning]

Sitting out in the workshop with a glass of E.H Taylor, some P.S Navy Flake and my 1979 Dunhill birthday pipe celebrating my 44th. Cheers! View attachment 269451

Happy birthday @Laurent
That's a handsome Dunhill!