***What Are You Smoking, December 2024?***

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am a quarter of the way through this bowl of year 2019 Seattle Pipe Club Deception Pass plug in a smooth straight brown late 1930s Linkman’s Dr. Grabow Deluxe Bruyere 9703B pot with a nickel accent and a black tapered vulcanite stem.

 

[PrivatePiping]

Brothers of the Leaf, literally!?!

Haha, yeah I can see that!

 

[DesertDan]

My Ravenwood order arrived today. They included a sample of their Swiftcurrent Lake blend. So, I figured 'why not?' and loaded up the MM Cobbit Shire and fired it up.
WOW! Seriously, this stuff tastes fantastic!
This is a burley forward blend, and it has a very distinct nutty/buttery note with a bit of tang and floral in the background. It is sweet to a pleasant degree and remains so throughout the bowl. As the bowl comes together there developed a bit of baking spices and a cake-like breadiness that is enhanced by the creaminess of the black cavandish. No bite to it at all.
Retrohaling this stuff is glorious! Thick clouds of smoke and the nuances of the blend really come out.
It burned cool and consistently and has a pleasant aftertaste. This could easily be an all-day smoke.
I'm going to buy this stuff by the pound. If the other blends turn out to be this good, I might be in trouble!

 

[redglow]

Peter Stokkebye Luxury Bullseye Flake. 2 Coins in a Savinelli

 

[dunnyboy]

GLP Westminster in a large Castello great line.

 

[BenMN]

The last of the Peretti 333

 

[Peterson314]

Took the dog and the forever cob around the neighborhood. It's been a while since I've had an aromatic, and it paired nicely with my crisp, clear evening.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking 1970s Heine's Blend in a cheap, undated, unbranded slight bent smooth dark brown short shank Made in France Los Alton VBF billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Fed all the ferals.

 

[Peterson314]

Now smoking 1970s Heine's Blend in a cheap, undated, unbranded slight bent smooth dark brown short shank Made in France Los Alton VBF billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Fed all the ferals.

I love your poetry, Jim. This one hits.

Is the shank split and almost glued back together, or is that a crack and a massive fill? What's this pipe's story?

 

[hoipolloiglasgow]

17’ Skiff. This era Skiff is one of the best Oriental forward blends I have in my arsenal. There is a cognac topping on it that is just perfect. I wish they still did that, but the new stuff is awesome as well.

 

[Zamora]

Didn't get a picture but I had a bowl of Lane BLWB in my MM Country Gentleman. I usually smoke stuff with Latakia and / or Perique but there's a satisfying simplicity in BLWB that's hard to beat.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Vauen No 14 in a Cermak.

 

[Skippy B. Coyote]

G.L. Pease Union Square in an AKB meerschaum for me tonight. I've been on the hunt for a solid readily available red Virginia dominant blend this year, and while I still need to try C&D Opening Night and Interlude, I am pretty darn happy with Union Square!

 

[Roach1]

Haunted Bookshop Cake in a Pete SPD 2011 69. I now this is the same every morning.

 

[Steddy]

Love this Pete! What is the shape # / line?

Thanks! The shape is an 80s. The line is Army (Irish Made?). It is not the Army line with a filter. I haven’t seen them online lately.

 

[JimInks]

Passing the first third of this bowl of year 2016 Wilke #10 in a smooth straight brown 1949 Yello-Bole KBB Century Model Lovat with a nickel band accent on the black vulcanite saddle stem. Haven't smoked his pipe lately, but it'll host this blend for a while.

 

[JimInks]

I love your poetry, Jim. This one hits.

Is the shank split and almost glued back together, or is that a crack and a massive fill? What's this pipe's story?

It's a fill. A friend gave me a few unsmoked, mostly unbranded French pipes, and that is one of them. While I haven't smoked all of them, the ones in use have been pretty good smokers.

 

[Roach1]

HU Nyala in a Georg Jensen.

 

[Skippy B. Coyote]

For my last smoke of the night tonight I'm having Gawith Hoggarth Dark Flake Aromatic in my trusty old Dr. Grabow Lark.

 

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking year 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a late '80s, early 90s small bend medium brown smooth, unbranded Nording pot with a couple of small rusticated spots, an amber colored acrylic ferrule and tapered stem in the military mount style. Tomato the Brave is by my side.