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

[cosmicfolklore]

My own blend of my 2018 flu cured brightleaf, half and half with some Two Timer double toasted burley… in my 18k and sterling polka dot banded Northern Briar.

 

[cshubhra]

I had to leave early morning even today and smoked a quick bowl of Daughter’s & Ryan Three Sails in the Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard

Now it’s cigar time: Crowned Heads Juarez

 

[Skippy Piper]

Opening up a sealed box of 2020 Middleton's Cherry Blend tonight as a belated birthday present to myself, and smoking it in a Country Gentleman cob.





Long, long ago in the late 90's the very first pipe tobacco I ever smoked was Middleton's Cherry Blend, and ever since I really got into pipe smoking 3 years or so ago I had been looking for a cherry pipe blend that tasted like the discontinued Middleton's Cherry I remembered. I never found one that quite measured up to my memories of what my first pipe experience tasted like, but I was successful in recently acquiring a sealed pouch of Middleton Cherry from one of the last production runs in 2020!

Smoking it again for the first time in 25+ years now I can safely say, "This is the cherry blend I was looking for all this time." The flavor is a touch muted compared to what I remember (5 years of age will do that to an aromatic), but the taste is definitely the same as I remember and what my brain has always thought of cherry pipe tobacco being supposed to taste like! The only difference is that with 3 years of pipe smoking experience under my belt it doesn't give me tongue bite now like it did when I was young lol

I do believe this will be the most cherished blend in my entire cellar.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Getting ready to watch UFC Fight Night 252, Henry Cejudo vs. Yadong Song, live from Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle. Having Cornell & Diehl Small Batch Folklore (2022, 805/1000) in an unbranded, unmarked, Magnum-sized Swan Neck LC (Large Curve) with a horn stem with an orific bit; this pipe is most likely French in origin, and may be from the late 19th or early 20th Century—it is curve/step drilled, has a bone tenon, and a cork mortise. I picked up five of these Muxiang Churchwarden pipe stands via AliExpress and they’re working out nicely with my gargantuan pipes.

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Today, I just received my complimentary copies of a book I designed (also did the cover illustration). Very happy with the production. The book is based on interviews my late friend, Paul Nelson, did with Leonard Cohen and Lucinda Williams, edited by my friend, Kevin Avery.

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Wow, very nice design!

 

[Sobrbiker]

‘18 CRF plus Sutliff TS20 perique in the Dr Grabow Color Duke.
Gonna be a long week or whatever, poor guy keeps looking for her.

 

[PrivatePiping]

WCC Waltham Broken Cake, courtesy @Fralphog, in a Chacom smooth brown reverse calabash. Mother Earth Heavy Cloud hazy IPA on the side.

 

[lika]

Bowl of St. Bruno and last glass of cider then off to bed . I'm cream crackers

 

[lika]

‘18 CRF plus Sutliff TS20 perique in the Dr Grabow Color Duke.
Gonna be a long week or whatever, poor guy keeps looking for her.
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Lovely looking grey.

 

[The Clay King]

Unusual late night pipe for me, but hey, IPSD! Peretti 150th in the little clay, before bed. Delightful smoke but i've said it before and it is still the case: the jar note on this 150th, for me, is KELP. Strangest thing.
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@Scottmi Nice pipe; I had one but it got broke:-(

 

[Scottmi]

2021 Mad Fiddler Flake in the WDC Royal Demuth "V for Victory" little apple (or prince?)

 

[Bbailey324]

C&D Chenet's Cake in a Peterson SPD 53. This bowl pretty much finishes the tin.

 

[sparker69]

Pulled out some PS luxury navy flake for the first time in a while. Yumm. Enjoying in a cob while walking Welly in another snow storm here in Toronto.

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That snow looks familiar. I'm sure it'll be down our way soon.

 

[dottlejockey]

Busy Saturday. Insurance paperwork is a pain. Finally done straightening out that mess. Now onto something a little more my speed: Regents Flake in an HS Studio wasp and then off to make a steak.

 

[tubbyninja1337]

Now there's a thing: me too. Sitting and smoking a pipe that's as old as a lifetime or longer, and pondering who else was smoking that same pipe and thinking about this or that war, scandal, depression, disaster or whatever, and finding comfort and consolation in his smoke despute it all, gives me an additional dimension of enjoyment and an added sense of tranquility.

I share the exact same sentiment. Thank you for putting it into words. As much as I enjoy cigars, the connection to history via a pipe is what really drew me to pipe smoking. I sincerely hope that once I've laid my pipe down for the last time there will be another to take my place and continue to enjoy and contemplate as I have

 

[tfdickson]

1999 Old Gowrie in my Yeti paneled egg.

 

[SSGT.]

1999 Old Gowrie in my Yeti paneled egg.

beautiful pipe. I'm a big fan of the egg shaped bowls. Yours with the color combo and grain is awesome

 

[wyfbane]

Going retro with some Black Russian in a Medico Jetstream

 

[Kingsley]

KBV Mr. Christian’s Brown Flek in some absolutely freezing wind for the first bowl in the new M. Cay meer. I think others have said it best that while this stuff might not be mind-blowing, it is still nice all the same. I feel quite alright knowing that I squirreled away a pound of it with the blend going away soon. It’ll be something nice and simple when I want it, and I’m sure when I crack into the stuff down the line that I certainly won’t be disappointed. May it be warmer wherever you all are smoking, gang.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

This morning, Sir John's Flake Virginia in an Altinok.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

This afternoon, 2020 MB Virginia Flake in an Altinay.