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

[Ben.R.C]

Haddo’s in a Manz. If I had to pick one blend, this is it. Second to ODF and Exclusive.

 

[BenMN]

Pegasus
Happy Christmas to you all

 

[JSPiper71]

Tried smoking several blends. Trying to get over Covid. Loss of smell is truly toubling. I cant tell the difference between an Aero, Malin Flake, and an English. I guess I hope for the best and will probably smoke a lot less. It doesnt taste bad just not great. I suppose its time to break out the tins Im not super fond of.

Same thing happened to me a couple years ago. I finally just stopped smoking for a couple weeks because everything just tasted blah. Hopefully you‘re better soon.

 

[Tom Sawtooth]

G.L Pease - Windjammer in a Radice and a Cup of Joe.

Reading Blackmailers Don't Shoot by Raymond Chandler while the bowl lasts.

 

[Carol]

Merry Christmas to all here! Have a wonderful day!

 

[Singed]

My niece and nephew still get physical gifts but my family agreed to donate in each others names to various causes because we have more than enough crap! Others are without, so in the spirit of giving, that we should really have every day, this feels right. Happy Holidays, whatever you celebrate or not.
Haddo’s in a Satou
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That's a wonderful idea, thanks for sharing it!

 

[bluegrassbrian]

View attachment 273637View attachment 273642View attachment 273643Bowl three in the calabash meer, 2021 Wessex Campaign Dark Flake. Going through many VA blends right now to find what I’d like to cellar heavily in the future. This isn’t bad in anyway, but when I’m done with my jar that has but a few dried and brittle-oil scraps, I won’t find myself searching it out again. Stoved VA’s are my favourite, and I see little point in going deep in something that I find just a hair above okay, at least for now and the foreseeable future. Happy Holidays, All!

Good lookin meer!
Regarding the Wessex CBDF, at some point in the last few years something changed. Familiar story among many euro blends..
Pre-'18 or '17 CBDF is worth keeping an eye out for I think.

 

[AroEnglish]

Capt. Earles Ten Russians in a Peterson Deluxe System B42View attachment 273600

A saddle B42?

 

[bluegrassbrian]

2015 Mcclelland Tudor Castle (no Christmas Cheer left in my cellar) in the Il Duca D Saxaphone.

 

[Kingsley]

Good lookin meer!
Regarding the Wessex CBDF, at some point in the last few years something changed. Familiar story among many euro blends..
Pre-'18 or '17 CBDF is worth keeping an eye out for I think.

Thanks! And I’ve been thinking the same for a long while with newer Rattray’s and Esoterica since Covid. Either way, I’d likely never be able to cellar tins from before present production time due to ever-raising prices on vintages.

 

[PaulRVA]

A saddle B42?

Yeah, its a close cousin of the DS-2s when you haven’t had enough coffee.

 

[PaulRVA]

Is that a matching sandblasted magnetic stand cut from the same piece of briar as the pipe? The stain seems too close a match to be a lucky pairing.

Yes it is.
Merry Christmas @TheIronMonkey

 

[Brewfan]

Golden Virginia Flake in my Pfeifen Huber 2024 Nobleman (pic not loading).

 

[Friendly Piper]

Merry Christmas, all! I hope you are with loved ones today—and, for those who find the holidays difficult, I wish you strength and comfort.

My family and I are enjoying a traditional Jewish Christmas: Chinese food and a movie. And we’ve had the classic “A Christmas Story” on all day.

Smoking Cornell & Diehl’s Hebraica Series in my three Israeli pipes this morning:

• Shalom Pipes little prince with “Boker Or”(Morning Light)
• Alpha Rex freehand poker with “Or Olam” (Light of the Universe)
• Shalom Pipes squashed Rhodesian with “Sha’are Orah” (Gates of Light)

It’s a gorgeous day in northern Virginia. I hope it is where you are, too.

—Friendly Piper

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Sir John's Flake Virginia in an Altinok.

 

[telescopes]

Stanwell 91with Elizabethan Mixture on this find Christmas Morning.

 

[BlueRidge]

it's 55 degrees warmer at my house as compared to last Christmas (at -7 degrees). a nice overcast drizzly day to drink coffee and smoke Dark Plug in an 80s. Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!

 

[Scottmi]

Good morning. Smoking a bowl of mb Navy Flake, in a Stanwell Calabash. Merry Christmas. View attachment 273592

And to you, John!
Christmas Tree Ship

 

[The Clay King]

Did that really happen??

@samuelgawith01 Yes! I think "Clay King" sounds like a pipe baccy; I imagine it being a golden coloured Virginia / Cavendish blend. Here is the closest real life "Clay King":

Samuel Gawith Black Forest Mixture Pipe Tobacco (50g Tin)

Samuel Gawith Black Forest Mixture Pipe Tobacco (50g Tin), available at Black Swan Shoppe

www.thebackyshop.co.uk

 

[Tate]

Merry Christmas! First bowl of the day is some JackKnife Plug! I got the rest processed and in a jar. Don't know how long it will last though lol!