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

[BenMN]

Good prep on the twist, that’s about how mine looks in the jar

Thanks man

I've been working through this quarter pound since 2022. I do like it but it takes a bit of dry time, and some effort to get it going

We got some samples when those new twists came out a year or two ago. All of those burned (and lit) beautifully with zero dry time

Do you go through much of this? Do you you dry yours?

 

[PaulRVA]

Love your Castellos and Dunhills!

Thank you, I have @VDL_Piper to blame for the Castello affliction
I’ve been on the road seeing the Kids & Grandkids down in Townsend/Wears Valley/ Gatlinburg TN and the Castello's travel and pocket really well walking around so I took a handful with me.

 

[BenMN]

GL Pease Silver Jubilee in a Peterson Sherlock Holmes Professor. Wasn’t able to snag a tin, but was kindly gifted a sample bowl. View attachment 439700

Great picture and beautiful Pete

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Tilbury in the Dan/Knudsen “Spike”.
Marvelous.

 

[Mikepiper]

Tilbury in the Dan/Knudsen “Spike”.
Marvelous.

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Wow

 

[Roach1]

Haunted Bookshop in a Jirsa 210 and earlier a bowl of Nutty Irishman in an Irish Seconds System 302

 

[Sobrbiker]

Thanks man

I've been working through this quarter pound since 2022. I do like it but it takes a bit of dry time, and some effort to get it going

We got some samples when those new twists came out a year or two ago. All of those burned (and lit) beautifully with zero dry time

Do you go through much of this? Do you you dry yours?

I usually slice and rub out 2-4oz to about the same as your pic (or a touch thinner), then pile it on a paper plate like a bundt cake. I’ll let this dry until I like it (12-36hrs) then jar it. The black usually takes less drying.
I’ve now taken to buying the black and brown twists in their sliced versions, that’s the “easy button”

 

[BCF]

Staying out of the wind in my shop, giving C&D's Redburn a try for the first time in this itty-bitty Boswell.

 

[Peterson314]

First light with Kramer's Blend for Cary Grant. Not bad, but nothing spectacular. Reminds me a lot of Lane HGL.

2022 Savinelli Christmas 673

 

[type B]

Kajun Kake in a Michels

 

[filmguerilla]

Breaking in the new 160th Anniversary Pete.

 

[MidnightPuff]

Billy Budd in a cob. Forgot I had a nicotine pouch in so this is actually Billy Buddermint in a cob.

 

[cshubhra]

Cigar Time: Rocky Patel Black Label

 

[Mortar0341]

Good day, all! Exclusive in a Chheda billiard. This pipe is stamped 007, the 7th pipe Premal made. It is shown in his Pipedia profile. I have a small collection of his pipes that I will be smoking over the next couple of weeks.
A pot of Harney and Sons Lampsang Souchong on the side. 10° colder here in Ohio compared to yesterday but sunny. A warming trend is apparently on the way. Predicted high of 34° F.
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If Bond smoked a pipe, this would be a fitting pipe. 007 seems appropriate. It's definitely a cool and classy looking pipe.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Sir John's Flake Virginia in an Altinay.

 

[Deano]

Gorgeous coloring on that meer!

Thank you. Gets darker while smoking then fades a bit when not in use. It does retain a bit more with each use. With so many pipes I dont use it enough to color it much. I smoke more aros this time of year so it gets used more often.

 

[Mortar0341]

HB in a Savinelli Cumberland 806. I just popped this can open and the first bowl is never that great, give it a month and it'll be smoking perfect. I bought a couple 8oz cans and I'm going to continue to just stock pile this to Age and keep cellered. So eventually I'll just be smoking on properly couple year old aged Haunted Bookshop. And I'll also have just years of smoke saved up. That's the goal anyway. Haunted Bookshop is just about all I really like to smoke. There are a few others I enjoy a lot too but HB is definitely my go to everyday smoke.

 

[Scottmi]

Mallard Flake +P in a 1940s Schowa Selected Canted Dublin with morning coffee.

 

[The Hermit]

This morning I am enjoying G.L. Pease Odyssey in a Savinelli Punto Oro 616 KS.

 

[CPT]

If Bond smoked a pipe, this would be a fitting pipe. 007 seems appropriate. It's definitely a cool and classy looking pipe.

Mortar: I was waiting to see if anyone picked up on the 007 stamp! Good post!