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

[BlueRidge]

Ennerdale Flake in a no name meer. The Spaniels are rowdy tonight so there’s this (AI slop)

 

[Speak Easy]

Pipe Force Episode III in the mesquite thing. Beautiful out this evening.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Ken Byron Ventures Mr. Christian’s Brown Flek 2021 in a smooth brown full bend 1984 Peterson Mark Twain military mount egg with a silver cap and tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem. It's time to feed the ferals.

 

[LiveAsALyon]

Pipe: Savinelli Roma Lucite (122)
Blend: C&D Star Of The East Flake (‘23)
Pairing: hot chai tea w/ honey
Creepypasta: I’m A Guard Stationed At A Secret Government Prison

 

[type B]

Rouxgaroux, Cristiano and coffee

 

[samuelgawith01]

Borkum Riff Whiskey in the Blatter and Blatter freehand.

 

[spearheadbill]

It’s beginning…. McC cheer up n a Rua 5 system

 

[PaulRVA]

HU Director’s Cut in a Nuttens Bing and an Americano ️ on the side

 

[IrishBadger]

Now smoking and still reviewing year 2025 STG Virginia No. 1 in a 1980s White Pipe straight, smooth octagonal paneled billiard meerschaum with an acrylic yellow cream colored saddle stem. Not a hard one to review.
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Can't wait. No. 1 is one of my staples.

 

[Lux]

My wife's a pip! Early Christmas gift!!



Taking a quick walk with Visions of Celephais.



Probably my last pipe until late Christmas day. We're traveling to visit various family, many of whom see smoking as a "particularly odious commodity."

I'll keep checking in to see what y'all are enjoying though!

 

[Scottmi]

Peretti D-7485 in the no-name wormy-carved "Imported Briar" billiard with tapered vulcanite stem.

 

[Sobrbiker]

@servant King’s weather front is moving across the Southwest.
Having some ‘23 WCC Santa’s Sack in a late republic 313 (@edger, wishing you and yours a blessed Christmas and a wonderful New Year)!

The Santa’s Sack has developed a dry floral (almost Lakeland-y) tone over a couple years repose in its jar…interesting.

 

[Scottmi]

The rain finally stopped- a record 24 hour rainfall for December.
I’m sitting on the west patio smoking some LC Carolina Christmas in a Tristan Cutty. A mug of Organic Earl Grey w/ cardamom.
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Gorgeous cutty @Fralphog !

 

[mah2325]

First smoke in this Estate Donegal Rocky 608, smoking a bowl of Saint Espresso. We just got home from our family trip to Disney for Christmas. Ready for some rest and relaxation.

 

[troutface]

H&H First Snow in a Wiley. Not a bad blend, but irrelevant at this point since it's gone.

 

[RavenBlack]

Halberg Red Label (Mac Baren) in a Stanwell churchwarden (with its short stem.)

And... it didn't taste like anything - not even like tobacco. I looked up some reviews, and one reviewer (2013) had the same experience.

The only thing I get - and it's very, very faint - is a whisper of the floral note that's so present in Rattray's Exotic Passion.

Couldn't even get a scent of anything from the embers that were still burning and smoking when I dumped out the bowl. Zero room note.

This was a gift and I'm sure it's from some time ago. Although the foil package was sealed, the tobacco did feel a bit dry. I've jarred it, and put in a humidifying disk, and will check it over the next couple of days. We'll see if it can be resuscitated.

I do get a mild scent of cherry or berries and/or whiskey in the jar... but once, lit... nothing. Has anyone else tried this?

 

[JoeW]

HU Nebari in a Falcon snifter



I should be smoking those seasonal blends some friends have sent me, but after yesterday's delicious bowl of Nebari, I wanted to try again to see whether I was dreaming it. First Bowl Effect can play tricks on the mind and memory. But today's bowl is equally delicious and fragrant: very pleasant!

It's been a long year, but as of 5PM today, I'm officially on vacation for the rest of 2025. Work anniversary was last Friday, annual review was positive, minimal raise, and I managed to meet my last deadline at 4:30 today; all the Christmas cards and gifts have been bought, sent, and received, all preparations are done, and I'm looking forward to a nice, quiet, relaxing time off. Who knows? Maybe it'll even happen!

 

[Tn Steve]

2024 WCC Bipolar Express . Loads of mesquite and bbq, strong all around. Good stuff

 

[RavenBlack]

Halberg Red Label (Mac Baren) in a Stanwell churchwarden (with its short stem.)

And... it didn't taste like anything - not even like tobacco. I looked up some reviews, and one reviewer (2013) had the same experience.

The only thing I get - and it's very, very faint - is a whisper of the floral note that's so present in Rattray's Exotic Passion.

Couldn't even get a scent of anything from the embers that were still burning and smoking when I dumped out the bowl. Zero room note.

This was a gift and I'm sure it's from some time ago. Although the foil package was sealed, the tobacco did feel a bit dry. I've jarred it, and put in a humidifying disk, and will check it over the next couple of days. We'll see if it can be resuscitated.

I do get a mild scent of cherry or berries and/or whiskey in the jar... but once, lit... nothing. Has anyone else tried this?

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Feeling rather let down from the Halberg experience, I packed half a bowl of seven-year-old Dunhill Standard Mixture to try. Tin says "Virginia and Turkish." I was a little wary of the tin (now jar) scent, but the flavor was not as wild as I expected. Got gentle notes of Russian Orthodox church incense on the retrohale. Interesting. Not something I would have tried on my own, so - again - grateful for my friend's gift so that I could experience it.

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, haddock and sugar snap peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm a quarter of the way through this bowl of first production Seattle Pipe Club Hogshead in a well appreciated medium bend, smooth brown 1950s Peterson 999 Dublin chubby Rhodesian with a tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. Fed all the cats, and the ferals went outside afterward.