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

[Briarcutter]

Smoking some Blatter & Blatter Balkan house blend in the Parker downtown.View attachment 353187

And for a minute I thought you were smoking a bubble pipe

 

[Revnatorade C.P.G.]

Smoking some Blatter & Blatter Balkan house blend in the Parker downtown.View attachment 353187

I'll be in Montreal soon. Looking forward to visiting Blatter and Blatter again.

 

[DesertDan]

Fusilier's Ration Special Reserve stuffed in a Boswell rusticated bent apple (I love this pipe!)

Slightly sweet with woody, earthy and floral complexity. The smoke is creamy with a slightly oat-like flavor in the retrohale. The after taste is sweet with a very slight bread and baking spice flavor. A very pleasant blend.

I purchased 6oz which came in a single dense brick. I sliced off a 1/8th inch thick flake and rubbed it out, it crumbled into a pile that filled the large bowl with a fair amount left over. Perfect moisture content.
The density required a bit of work to establish a good ember, but it then burned perfectly thereafter.

 

[Ben.R.C]

Last one for the evening, Chenet’s in a Tine

 

[JimInks]

Off to work on a new Sabrina story with a bowl of year 2020 D&R Penhooker Silver in a straight smooth brown undated pre-Republic Peterson Shamrock 263 Canadian with a nickel band and a tapered black p-lip stem.

 

[renfield]

7 year old WCC 558 in a lattice globe meer.

 

[JSPiper71]

Smoking some HH Burley Flake in a Barling Poker. Christmas lights are up! I want you all to pick up something real nice from me for Christmas this year.

 

[telescopes]

Rattrays Marlin and Whiskey Twist.

 

[BenMN]

View attachment 353195Rattrays Marlin and Whiskey Twist.

Aren't bent bulldogs great?

Burley Flake #2

 

[rsshreck32]

Having some dried out Dark Bird's Eye Vintage Cut. I'm surprised at how moist this cut is in comparison to the traditional shag cut. Just as tasty though!

 

[Pappy Coon]

Chenet's Cake in a Savinelli Nonpareil.

 

[PrivatePiping]

Rouxgaroux in a Mark Tinsky Christmas '24. Sipping some gluhwein.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Wilke Hearth of Galway in an undated smooth straight medium brown made in France Saillard Lord Clerit lumberman with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Listening to The Lone Ranger as I work.

 

[hazemofegypt]

Comoy's VA blend, cant remember the no of Cask, but couple of years of aging made it superb.

 

[telescopes]

Aren't bent bulldogs great?

Burley Flake #2

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One of my favorites.

 

[Sandblast]

Happy Dec to all (!!!).
Sun (Dec 1), no smoking -- did errands, cleaning, cooking, had a good workout.
Today (Dec 2) going to try something. Got a jar with a pouch of Captain Black (white), jarred '07. Not sure if this actually ages (???) but the section of label I cut off & added is certainly saturated. So ... I'm going to pick a pipe, probably one of my treasured Canadians, and purposely smoke couple bowls of the Black straight, no parfait, no mixing into a Home Blend. Why? I want to see if I can purposely create a GHOST. Then, since several here have commented they actually enjoy GHOSTS, I will return the Canadian to "yeoman's duty". Since I don't do "dedicating" ... (sorry, Jimlnks) ... will I enjoy the Captain Black GHOST with whatever I then smoke? Thinking, at this point, that whatever "sweetness" comes through might be nice. Plus, what longevity will the GHOST have?

NOTE: Skippy Coyote's extensive, very interesting commentary on Captain Black (white) is awesome! I'll be going back & forth to his writing throughout my GHOSTING experiment.

 

[dottlejockey]

Last one for me tonight, early meetings in Seattle. I'm counting on this bowl of Kentucky in a nice, deep Ascorti to put me to bed like mama used to.

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am smoking Hearth & Home AJ’s Vaper in a pre-1952 Sutliff Falcon 372 (made by Comoy’s) smooth light brown straight bulldog with a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Vauen No 14 in an Altinay.

 

[username]

Regents flake in a pete dracula