***What Are You Smoking, December 2024?***
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2020 Cringle Flake in a Nuttens Bing.
After-breakfast bowl of Doblone in an IMP. 
Peterson's Irish Cake in the Colossus Pipe Factory's "Little English" mini-billiard. Sometimes, a 20-minute smoke is all one needs. And much black coffee. Never, while you live, have three glasses of Strega after dinner the night before.
Chenet’s cake in a Manduela, then taking my walk with 30# pack, up from 20#, we will see 
Classy pipe - bet it's a great smoker!Having a bowl of GL Pease Navigator in a Grabow with black coffee️ Gonna wrap some gifts today and do some light chores as the roads may be an icy mess today for traveling. I’ll be home for Christmas though, you can count on that
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Kristiansen Bulldog with a mix of Ready Rub and Whiskey Twist. I generally found G&H ropes way too strong on their own, but when added to codger blends they elevate the blend by providing a rich taste and depth.
Another pipe and home-rolled cigarillo pairing. This one, is Borkum Riff Black Cavendish, a recently added and I might say, rising star in my "cellar." Consistent, well behaved and even smoking throughout. And available at the Mohawk Reserve for a reasonable price, for Canada anyway. Becoming a go-to favourite.
My procedure has been the same for each pairing - smoke the tobacco in a miniature pipe, note time (burning rate) and taste in a dedicated or genre dedicated pipe.
Then take a 5 minute break and drink a bit of cold coffee, filtered water, or seltzer of some kind.
Then smoke the cigarillo with the same tobacco in it, comparing characteristics, taste, and burning rate.
As a trend is well established, I won't be doing much more of this (thankfully they said lol) Maybe a couple more pairings.
Results for BR Black? Yah, a keeper. Cigarillo tastes pretty much the same as the tobacco in the pipe, and the burn time was 14 minutes for the pipe and 18 minutes for the cigarillo, which uses about 75% of the tobacco as the pipe.
The taste is always going to be better in the pipe - after all, these are pipe tobaccos, and the cigars are just travel things when you want a taste of home, at least for me. But some of these cigars are surprisingly good and worth the occasional smoke when you're lazy. Which is often the case.
Btw, my tobacco plant is blooming again, so Jimchi Trout is on the Christmas Dinner menu as an appetizer. It'll give me a chance to print out the recipe properly from the illegible scrawl in my recipe binder.
Cheers.
My procedure has been the same for each pairing - smoke the tobacco in a miniature pipe, note time (burning rate) and taste in a dedicated or genre dedicated pipe.
Then take a 5 minute break and drink a bit of cold coffee, filtered water, or seltzer of some kind.
Then smoke the cigarillo with the same tobacco in it, comparing characteristics, taste, and burning rate.
As a trend is well established, I won't be doing much more of this (thankfully they said lol) Maybe a couple more pairings.
Results for BR Black? Yah, a keeper. Cigarillo tastes pretty much the same as the tobacco in the pipe, and the burn time was 14 minutes for the pipe and 18 minutes for the cigarillo, which uses about 75% of the tobacco as the pipe.
The taste is always going to be better in the pipe - after all, these are pipe tobaccos, and the cigars are just travel things when you want a taste of home, at least for me. But some of these cigars are surprisingly good and worth the occasional smoke when you're lazy. Which is often the case.
Btw, my tobacco plant is blooming again, so Jimchi Trout is on the Christmas Dinner menu as an appetizer. It'll give me a chance to print out the recipe properly from the illegible scrawl in my recipe binder.
Cheers.
Sometimes friend I think you are a reincarnation of a member that doesn't post anymore (Birddog66), I don't know why, the style of your writting, the photos, the fact that he was also in UK... strange. Don't get me wrong, I mean it in a good way, I liked his posts very much, I like yours also... Merry Christmas and all the best for your Lady's birthday!
GH Aniseed Twist in a New Castello KK 10 Sea Rock
Near the last quarter of this bowl of pre-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. Been busy feeding the ferals and my cats.
Smoking now the last of a sample that was given to me, the name is "Summit Crown", more info on this blend I couldn't find. In a Greek made, briar pipe from Pipex. Pipex is a traditional firm, based in southern Greece, active for decades in pipe making, family business, run now by the 2nd generation. Their portfolio includes many "basic" pipes, simple & economic pieces, ideal choice for the beginners that want to try, test and quickly build a rotation set. Many Greek smokers (including me) started with Pipex in their first steps and also many of them (including me) still smoke their Pipex every now and then, after years.
At the same time I prepare a self made cigar mix.
Enjoy your day and evening good people!
At the same time I prepare a self made cigar mix.
Enjoy your day and evening good people!
Interesting and informative post! Thanks!
I was trying to remember who that was the other day! I miss his post as well!
Evening, post meal smoke of new to me G&H Co Kendal dark in a Jeantet Distinction 701 lithe billiard, so far so good'pretty nice tobacco
GH Aniseed Twist - the tobacco intrigues me. NA up here but Sir Walter Raleigh is - it too is anise undertoned, which I love. How do they compare? Maybe one day when sanity rules . . . .
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