Oh yes, among my top 10 of all time I'd say.
***What Are You Smoking, December 2024?***
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Parfait of Yuletide and ODF in the 2022 Sav St. Nick 602 with morning coffee
HU Makhuwa in a Gatlinburlier Christmas pipe from 2007.
That is one cool pipe!
My Christmas Present to Myself, and my morning smoke, a homemade cigar stuffed with Sir Walter Raleigh. He was crying to get out, so I lit him! Story below pictures if you so wish to read it.
Okay - my buddy Stu popped over a few nights ago, and he's the guy who had me try Sherlock Holmes and Plum Pudding. He also brought over his cigar making (actually cigarette making) machine and a few of his products including a few little cigars loaded with Plum Pudding and Sherlock Holmes. Of course, I lusted after the toy and bought one forthwith. Amazon got it to me in two days with the tubes.
Selling point was that he taught me to stuff the tubes, and I loaded up (under his excellent instruction) several brands of tobacco I had out that evening as well. As is often happens, Mike dropped by (he only lives a few blocks away) and we had pipes and some of my attempts at homemade little cigars. In addition to Stu's cigars, I made four or five each of Sir Walter, Sunday Picnic, Captain Black Cherry and a few others. They use a shade less tobacco than in my miniature pipes, but I get a full 20 minutes or so out of one of these little suckers, for less tobacco than a 12 to 14 minute smoke on the miniature pipes. Burning rate depends on the tobacco of course.
So the three of us smoked our brains out that night.
I got good buddies . . . another one, Ryan, has a 3D printer and has manufactured me a half dozen of the tip holders. He knows I like the tips because I smoke Colts outdoors at the range, and I like the way that little cigars smoke with tips - you can kind of treat it like a pipe, using slow smoking techniques, and it's easy on the tongue and lips. Win win.
So there it is. A new tool in my arsenal. I'll comment on the qualities of the tobaccos used as I smoke them At this point, SWR and Capt Black Cherry Cavendish are outstanding . . . .shut your eyes and they taste just like they're coming out of a pipe!
To be continued . . . . .
Selling point was that he taught me to stuff the tubes, and I loaded up (under his excellent instruction) several brands of tobacco I had out that evening as well. As is often happens, Mike dropped by (he only lives a few blocks away) and we had pipes and some of my attempts at homemade little cigars. In addition to Stu's cigars, I made four or five each of Sir Walter, Sunday Picnic, Captain Black Cherry and a few others. They use a shade less tobacco than in my miniature pipes, but I get a full 20 minutes or so out of one of these little suckers, for less tobacco than a 12 to 14 minute smoke on the miniature pipes. Burning rate depends on the tobacco of course.
So the three of us smoked our brains out that night.
I got good buddies . . . another one, Ryan, has a 3D printer and has manufactured me a half dozen of the tip holders. He knows I like the tips because I smoke Colts outdoors at the range, and I like the way that little cigars smoke with tips - you can kind of treat it like a pipe, using slow smoking techniques, and it's easy on the tongue and lips. Win win.
So there it is. A new tool in my arsenal. I'll comment on the qualities of the tobaccos used as I smoke them At this point, SWR and Capt Black Cherry Cavendish are outstanding . . . .shut your eyes and they taste just like they're coming out of a pipe!
To be continued . . . . .
Strikingly unique pipe!!
Indeed! I've tried a few of the Amrut offerings and the Kadhambam is the standout for me, so i always have a backup on reserve. Another intriguing one is called Rampur. I have the 'double cask' offering and it always reminds me of lychee. It's a mood malt, to be sure -- and not overly complex -- but very well-done if you like the fruitier stuff. That said, if you're a fan of the singles, Amrut should certainly be on your radar. Salante!
After breakfast bowl of relaxing burley in a Tekin squashed tomato.
Good afternoon, I’m smoking 5 Brothers today but I’ll probably have a bowl of something else later. I hope everyone has a good day.
The shortest day of the year... doing the last of the Christmas shopping (please God) and flowers and a card for Mrs Badger's birthday. Town rammed again. In the market square, the Mennonite Brethren huddled together singing Christmas carols, while just over the way in the Castle Square car park, people were screaming abuse at each other, because all the spaces are filled and folks sitting around in their vehicles, getting in the way, waiting for a space to be vacated. Joy. Daniele, the Roumanian refugee Big Issue seller, handed me a Christmas card. We stood and chatted for a bit as she told me about her childhood in Ceausescu's dictatorship, when they had very little but Christmases were more special with the effort they had to make. Home, with the South Park 'Christmas Time In Hell' earworm going round in my head, to recuperate with a bowl of Bold Kentucky and just a little Old Dark Fired in this Signature Dublin. Not a divine smoke, as the Burley is of the earth, earthy - but still a smoke close to The Earthly Paradise... as a reviewer once wrote, it could have the word 'SATISFACTION' stamped on every flake. A happy Winter Solstice to those who celebrate.
A happy Winter Solstice to those who celebrate.
Packing some Cult BRM in the Colonial Gent.
Oh you’re from that part of Idaho, I’m sorry lol
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G.L. Pease Charing Cross in a 2009 Rad Davis billiard.
