***What Are You Smoking, December 2025?***

[cshubhra]

Cigar Time: Padron 1926 Serie Natural

 

[RL Bucktails]

Some KBV Goblin Bells in a meer today.

 

[JimInks]

Part way through this bowl of year 2024 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. Fed all the cats, and the ferals are outside now. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[Mikepiper]

No sooner had the ranch finally started to dry out that I found myself battening down the hatches once again. Therefore, I chose something special for what might have been my final smoke of the year, the last of a jar of Drew Estate Grand Central in my aromatic pipe, a Savinelli Miele 641 KS smooth bent apple. Got one more tin left (translation: TinBids here I come!), but I've got several other new-to-me aromatics to try first. 9/10

Bird report: Dark-eyed junco, California towhee, House finch, California scrub-jay, California quail, Chipping sparrow, Oak titmouse, White-crowned sparrow, Steller's jay, Common raven (got the mouse carcass I left for it!), Mountain chickadee, White-breasted nuthatch, Northern flicker, and Spotted towhee.

I know I joke around on here a lot, but in all seriousness, 2025 was a very mixed year for me, and weighted toward the side, for sure. Wishing everyone here a better and brighter 2026!

I hope your 2026 kicks butt and may the TinBids odds be ever in your favor!

 

[JimInks]

Love that pipe. I had to look up Basil Meadows. It looks like he's retired from the craft.

Basil retired due to health reasons, He does woodcraft items and making some great stuff.

 

[TubbyInTweed]

On the menu for my first smoke of the last day of the year is a blend I didn’t care for much in 2024. Thankfully, a few forum members suggested I jar it up and revisit it later. When I did earlier this year, OJK Brown Label finally clicked. That one moment sent me down a fun rabbit hole of trying other Burley-based blends, and along the way I found a deep appreciation for tobaccos I might have otherwise written off.

I bring this up because I truly value the collective knowledge this community shares. My pipe journey wouldn’t be where it is today without all of you. I’m looking forward to what 2026 brings, and I wish you all a very Happy New Year filled with satisfying smokes ️

 

[TubbyInTweed]

Celebrating the birth of my son a few days late. PA in a cob.

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Congratulations on the new addition to your family!

 

[krizzose]

GLP Silver Jubilee in a Savinelli 707

 

[JimInks]

Did a set of walking reps on this cold and windy day, and am not far from finishing this bowl of year 2016 D&R Three Sails in a slight bent black pattern etched 1977 Lorenzo Lorsan Sigma level top billiard with a gray swirl acrylic saddle stem. Tomato the Brave kept coming up to me when I got near the house and he got a quick head rub each time, He followed me to the house to eat again, and is now playing with a catnip sock. The others are still outside.

 

[das3353]

Just finished a walk with the last of a tin of Wessex Gold Virginia Flake in a Pete Short Army X105

 

[keith929]

2021 Cringle Flake in a Peterson Patent 12393 System.

 

[LiveAsALyon]

Pipe: Jeppesen Smooth Ida 3 Sitter
Blend: C&D Carolina Christmas (‘24)
Pairing: Yerba Mate w/ honey
Tunes: Manchester Orchestra

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am smoking year 2020 Watch City Rouxgaroux in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Natural 4AB No. 6/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Gold Star Hawaiian Kona Extra Fancy, neat, is my drink. Watching The American Masters episode of Dick Van Dyke.

 

[RavenBlack]

Top o' the mornin' and a Happy New Year to you all.

Took a nylon-bristled PC to the stem of the "Whistling Witch" to try to nudge any burrs out. It's a bit better. Did not attempt attaching the PC to a hand drill, as someone suggested elsewhere. Don't think that would have worked well with a curved stem.

I do enjoy this tobacco. Tried C&D's Berry Good yesterday. That one... not so much. Weird; "off." It was bulk. Some reviewers had the same interpretations and reactions that I did. Even a self-avowed Burley-lover did not enjoy it. Wonder if it's better in a can?

Have ordered a bunch of different Lakelands to try. Will see what they're like when compared to the Gawith Hoggarth Dark Flake 'A' I like so much. The descriptions from others vary so widely... I think it's just something I'll have to experience for myself.

Still looking for a Brigham Voyageur 165. Having exhausted my search of all US sources, am now checking around Canada.

Hope you enjoy this evening, and tomorrow, and I'm wishing you the best in 2026!

 

[RickyRecon]

And So To Bed in a Sea Rock Pot

 

[PaulRVA]

HU Janneman Flake in a Castello 31 Sea Rock Fume and Diet Coke on the side

 

[ashdigger]

Hal O The Wynd in a Peterson from Huber Tobac in Germany

 

[Briarcutter]

have you ever done a commission job for a horse??

Only for Mr. Ed

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Folklore in my Pete Regaire. Happy end of this damned year.

 

[Roach1]

Haunted Bookshop in a Radice Rind and an Espresso. Just got back from our New Years Eve dinner in town. It was very good. Two hours until 2026 here.