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

[PaulRVA]

Capt. Earles Ten Russians in a Peterson 264 while smoking another Boston Butt in the rain.
I Marinated them for 24 hrs in a sauce of sea salt, ghost peppers, artisan vinegar and grape-leaf olive oil. This is the first one after shredding.

 

[alwayslit]

Dear friend. Fantastic photos. I'm fascinated by that photo of the iced coffee, next to the beautiful pipe. On those roads of the United States. And those brand new trucks, like that red one in the photo. I only see that in amazon prime movies.

Thank you for the kind words, sir! The ice coffee went down rather well this morning since it was warm.

 

[AroEnglish]

H+H Magnum Opus in a Radice silk cut
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This pipe is gorgeous! Do you have pics of when it was unsmoked?

I’ve been looking for a pure silk cut but haven’t found the right one yet.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Last bits of a tin of HU Soraya, topped off with some Fox Campanile in the Radice Silk Cut bent...

 

[TN Jed]

Brown Sugar Flake in the Altinay Translucent. Got my chores done poured a cold local brew settled in to watch the Titans and they’re playing tomorrow night. My hope of avoiding the Christmas festival in town is dwindling fast. Happy Sunday!

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

Finishing off a jar of 2020 HH Pure VA from a L'Anatra lovat while checkin on the girls with little man.

 

[rsshreck32]

This pipe is gorgeous! Do you have pics of when it was unsmoked?

I’ve been looking for a pure silk cut but haven’t found the right one yet.

I recently made the mistake of looking at Radice pipes! There are some beautiful ones out there!

 

[TN Jed]

Capt. Earles Ten Russians in a Peterson 264 while smoking another Boston Butt in the rain.
I Marinated them for 24 hrs in a sauce of sea salt, ghost peppers, artisan vinegar and grape-leaf olive oil. This is the first one after shredding.View attachment 268832View attachment 268835

I've never marinated my butt (my 6th grade humor gets me every time). Is there a noticeable difference in flavor?

 

[JimInks]

Almost finished smoking early 2000s 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. It's been raining for hours so no walks for me today.

 

[JimRoseLV]

Smoking my favorite Watch City blend Rhythm & Blues.

 

[cshubhra]

Thats a great smoke man!

Thank you

 

[JimInks]

A third of the way through this bowl of year 2012 Rolando’s Own in a smooth straight early ‘60s Lane era “William Conrad” Charatan Executive Extra Large stretch apple with diagonal channel cuts on the lower right and left of the bowl along with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[Brewfan]

Cringle Flake in the Santa Claus Meer, which is in the daily rotation for the next two weeks.

 

[BenMN]

2017 Haunted Bookshop in the Ben Wade.

This old pipe and spooky tobacco seem to get along very well.

 

[alwayslit]

Waiting for the storm to roll in while smoking KBV Spaghetti Western the English villain in a IMP

 

[sardonicus87]

Maple Shadows.

 

[Sidehatch]

Sweet burley love. WCC Old North Church in a GBD Rainbow poker.

 

[Tate]

Some Exclusive in the Marxman Bulldog.
Prepping some Rouxgaroux!

 

[onestrangeone]

Warped the Red Hunt in a Tinsky Acorn

 

[Friendly Piper]

I started today’s smokes a bit late and set the following line-up:

(1) Cornell & Diehl Hebraica—Morning Light / “Boker Or” in a Shalom Pipes squat Rhodesian (the briar was discolored by a friend’s ill-advised OxyClean bath, but I had Matthew Hayes of John B. Hayes Tobacconist restore it to smoking order).

(2) Peterson/Dunhill—Elizabethan Mixture in a Missouri Meerschaum / C&D Kingston Judge that I’ve made my dedicated cob for this blend (I also have dedicated a briar and a maple to it).

(3) Mac Baren—Royal Twist Deluxe in a Missouri Meerschaum Spindle Hardwood so I can see how this blend performs in a different medium than the briar, cob, and morta.

Update on last night’s smokes: I ran three bowls of tobacco through the Mr. Brog 112 morta for its inaugural smoke and nothing fazed it. Those three were: Peterson Nightcap, Warped Kings Stride, and Mac Baren Royal Twist Deluxe (I wanted to see if the more delicate flavors of the last blend were affected by the strength of the first two—they were not.)