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

[Skippy Piper]

Trying out Five Brothers for the first time, in a Morgan Bones Milan.




Based on everything I had heard about Five Brothers I was expecting it to be foul tasting and harsh, but that doesn't seem to be the case at all. It's very mild, nutty, and woody tasting with a just slightly sour edge and a softly peppery aftertaste, but it's shockingly smooth and doesn't bother my sinuses at all on the retrohale (unlike Cornell & Diehl's burleys which just tear my sinuses a new one). I actually really like the flavor and smoothness of this blend!

The nicotine content is... well, staggering. Thankfully I'm no stranger to high nicotine blends and am a regular enjoyer of 1792 Flake and Coniston Cut Plug, so I can definitely handle what Five Brothers is offering, but for the uninitiated I wouldn't recommend smoking this one for more than 10 or 15 minutes if you don't want to end up on the bathroom floor. It's some profoundly strong stuff!

Yet, it's also profoundly tasty and definitely one of the smoothest unadulterated Burleys I've ever smoked. I'm surprised to say I actually really like Five Brothers quite a lot! I think it'll be bedtime for me after I finish this pipe, but tomorrow morning I'll try mixing in a pinch of Five Brothers with my usual morning RLP-6 to give it a little kick. I think it should work out pretty darn well!

 

[Speak Easy]

Beautiful backdrop!

Thank you!

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

2020 MB Virginia Flake in an Altinay.

 

[cshubhra]

Gawith Hoggarth’s Bob’s Chocolate Flake in the PCI Horn Meerschaum carved by Ahmet Govem

I typed the wrong pipe originally by habit , so I had to edit the post

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and sugar snap peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm close to finishing this bowl of year 2018 Sutliff Dunhill Elizabethan Match in a 1982 smooth straight Dunhill Root Briar 31051 dublin with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.

 

[renfield]

Some 11 year old McClelland Bombay Court in a Baglan claw and egg meer.

 

[PrivatePiping]

GLP Gaslight in a Radice strawberry wood Silk Cut squashed tomato. Guinness on the side.

 

[gkunkel]

Casey Jones Beyond Brave in my Pete at the piano

 

[Sobrbiker]

WCC Rougaroux in the Pete 701

 

[infectedpsyche]

Just rubbed out some Peterson Flake to pack in the Shannon for a quick before-bed relaxation.

Thanks again @Servant King for both helping me aquire this stellar pipe and introducing me to this tasty treat!

 

[PaulRVA]

Keeping on with the Bob’s Chocolate Flake in a Savinelli 320 Standing.

 

[metalheadycigarguy]

About to light up my Thompson African Meer with some Mac Baren HH Highland Blend from 2013.

 

[Pipesandbourbon]

Sutliff Field and Stream Match in this itty-bitty Boswell bent pot.
Beer. Beautiful day here.
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I bet that beautiful pipe would smoke a beautiful Virginia! Yum

 

[Bbailey324]

C&D Kajun Kake in a Peterson Derry 69.

 

[BurleyVonPuffington]

Had work on a car to do today. Continued with the $5 cob destruction using MM Missouri Pride VaBur (you are spared more pics), and also smoked MM Country Gentleman KDF/BurPer in the Balandis XL Devil Anse while outside.

 

[BriaronBoerum]

Try Gentlemen Caller as well, another great Tongue blend!

Yup, it's on my list!

 

[wyfbane]

2015 Squadron Leader w/ Perique in that fun basket pipe i got some years ago doing an SPC slow smoke.

 

[JimInks]

Close to finishing this bowl of year 2013 Rotary Navy Cut in a post-1938 Pre-Republic Peterson Dublin straight smooth X155 bulldog with a sterling silver band and a tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem. Nigel Bruce smoked this model in two Sherlock Holmes movies. Please consider asking Shane Ireland at Smoking Pipes and Peterson to bring the pipe back into production. Have enough left for most of a bowl.

 

[MisterDearly]

Some Lagonda in my Boswells. I’m hoping to take a trip up there for my birthday in a week or 2!

 

[tfdickson]

2007 Tudor Castle in my Former paneled lovat.