***What Are You Smoking, February 2023?***

[JimInks]

While tolerating the 10:00 news and catching Steven Colbert's monologue, I enjoyed a couple of pinches of seven-year-old Sutliff 1849 in my old, well-smoked Markus Fohr straight billiard clay. A dram of Mr. Daniel's Old No. 7 went well with the smoke.

Do you like the blend?

 

[JimInks]

A quarter of the way through this bowl of year 2022 unreleased Sutliff Brown Virginia Flake in a 2014 smooth medium bend Basil Meadows egg with an aluminum band and a tapered "root beer swirl" acrylic stem. This should end my smoking day. Haven't smoked this pipe in a while, but it's an excellent smoker, and a good test pipe.

 

[Briar Tuck]

Are those holes used to install some accessories? Such as windshield or silver ring? Or is it a decoration?

Just for decoration as far as I know. Interestingly, I have two other pipes from the same estate lot, all from different makers, that have similar holes across the rim. I'll be smoking those over the next week or so.

 

[JimInks]

When you do your reviews (thank you for your diligence and hard work), is there a certain amount of bowls you’ll smoke of a blend?

It varies widely. Sometimes, I can get the blend with one or two bowls. Other times, it takes much longer. The more complex a blend is, the more bowls I have to smoke. Toppings are often hard to figure out, especially if there are several there, and that can take a bit of my time.

Here's one example for you. I was smoking Middleton's Walnut, and the Match in an attempt to figure out how close the match was to the original. It was so close, it took 14 bowls of each to find the slight variances. With seven varietals in each one, it was not easy. I often followed up one version with another, and used at least six different pipes, maybe more.

Molto Dulce took one bowl, although I believe I smoked three before I was sure of myself.

Mac Baren Rustica was one of the toughest to figure out because I had no experience with Rustica. So were the two Warhorse bars, Red and Green, for similar reasons.

Thank you for compliment and support.

 

[BCF]

GLP's Windjammer in the sawed-off Savinelli bulldog. Enjoy the day!!

 

[chilllucky]

Country Squire Meriwether in a 4th Generation bent brandy with black coffee and a book I've been waiting to start since xmas.

Florida vacation starts right now!

 

[BCF]

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Country Squire Meriwether in a 4th Generation bent brandy with black coffee and a book I've been waiting to start since xmas.

Florida vacation starts right now!

Stay as long as you can! The damn rat saw his shadow - six more weeks of winter!

 

[judcole]

Lane RR in an MM Boone.

 

[chilllucky]

Stay as long as you can! The damn rat saw his shadow - six more weeks of winter!

It was 7 when I left Chicago in the morning, 70 when I landed in Tampa.

 

[UncleRasta]

Good morning all. Starting my smoking day with Eight State Burley in an MM Charlestowne Cobbler.

 

[captpat]

HH Burley Flake in a Ben Wade Ambassador Dublin.

 

[happy_lunter]

Lane’s LL-7

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Sir John's Flake Virginia in an Altinok. Bowl 39.

 

[Fralphog]

A quarter of the way through this bowl of year 2022 unreleased Sutliff Brown Virginia Flake in a 2014 smooth medium bend Basil Meadows egg with an aluminum band and a tapered "root beer swirl" acrylic stem. This should end my smoking day. Haven't smoked this pipe in a while, but it's an excellent smoker, and a good test pipe.
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Jim,
Are you working on a review for the “unreleased Sutliff BVF”?

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Burley Morning in a Savinelli with coffee

 

[AJL67]

2008 SJF in a Pete’s African Meer while watching Drunken Master.

 

[MCJ]

Peterson's Standard Mixture in a 1963 Dunhill 47 F/T Bruyere Bulldog. Trusty Rodgers of Sheffield Pipe Tool and 1950's Nimrod Commander lighter accompanying...

 

[onepyrotec]

Smoker's Haven In-B-Tween in a Dunhill County 4103

 

[Deano]

Lane Very Cherry this morning. It is well, very cherry indeed.

 

[dunnyboy]

Ye Olde Signe in a Castello great line.