***What Are You Smoking, January 2021?***

[PipeDad33]

Sutliff 20 Match in my Roma bent apple.

First impression on it is a pretty tasty English. Might be an everyday budget friendly smoke.

 

[edger]

Granger in a cob. So far I taste essence of cheap jelly and ons . The burleys are weak. I wanted to like this stuff since so many members swear by it. My go to burley has become Sutliff Edgeworth match. Granger just doesn't do it for me. I've smoked it moist and dry and I find it boring. What gives?

 

[JimInks]

About a quarter of a bowl left of year 2014 HU Directors Cut in a smooth straight Lane era Charatan Executive Extra Large stretch apple with diagonal channel cuts on the lower right and left of the bowl along with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem. This pipe was formerly owned by actor William Conrad. Have enough for one more bowl. I'm trying to decide on what to smoke in this pipe after I smoke that last bowl.

 

[edger]

Granger in a cob. So far I taste essence of cheap jelly and ons . The burleys are weak. I wanted to like this stuff since so many members swear by it. My go to burley has become Sutliff Edgeworth match. Granger just doesn't do it for me. I've smoked it moist and dry and I find it boring. What gives?

If you try to write the word for those waxy things that we used to color with you get ons. Freaking weird!!

 

[cshubhra]

GL Pease 20 years Samarra in a Falcon with Meerschaum Bowl

 

[JimInks]

A quarter of the way through this bowl D&R Windsail in a 2018 full bend smooth Peterson Sherlock Holmes Lestrade with a silver band and a black vulcanite saddle p-lip stem. This will get me to dinner time.

 

[B_Rock]

Mission Pipe Shop Second Breakfast in a Peterson Aran 80s. Finally some measurable rain in San Jose!

 

[greeneyes]

TAK Ralf's Burley Cup in a Barling lovat. This is fairly sweet but the burley peeks through toward the bottom of the bowl.

 

[virkia]

Early-mid 20th cent. unknown maker with base metal ferrule and horn stem / bowl and shank carved in deep relief with leaves and flowers
+ Dunhill BB1938:-



When I bought this tobacco in the 1970s the tin art was (unsurprisingly) very different:-




Watching A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS

 

[Cotton1]

Enjoyed a dry aged Sirloin cut 1in.. grilled to medium, side salad and baked potato this evening. For desert I'm having a 50/50 bowl of Boswell's Chocolate Cream and Granger in my 26s Brigham.
Drink is a slowly poured pint of ambient Guinness Stout.

 

[wayoutwest]

Solani 660 Silver Flake in a Rossi Piccolo with a local hazy IPA on the side.

 

[warren99]

Pease Charing Cross in a Frank Axmacher apple

 

[ashdigger]

GH&Co. Dark Bird’s Eye in a Sasieni Patent Eight Dot Marlborough. This stuff is fantastic. The shag cut is a bit odd, and it packs a punch, but boy is it tasty

 

[tfdickson]

Prince Albert in the new Castello.

 

[cshubhra]

GH&Co. Dark Bird’s Eye in a Sasieni Patent Eight Dot Marlborough. This stuff is fantastic. The shag cut is a bit odd, and it packs a punch, but boy is it tasty

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It has become an almost everyday evening smoke. I love the easy prep of the shag cut, and this is effectively the best Vitamin N for me

 

[tschiraldi]

Still working my way through that 2oz of G&H Broken Flake #7. Tonight in a Comoy's Sandblast Billiard. This blend has barged it's way in to my top 3! I just ordered 500g of the stuff!

 

[virkia]

Doesn’t that translate to Horse shit?

Always sounds better in a foreign language, don't you think?

Anyway, remember this 'work of art' (90 cans courtesy Piero Manzoni 1961)?

BTW the highest price paid for one of these cans - in August 2016 - was €275,000, including auction fees.

Everything I’ve read says CM registered hallmarks at London, Chester and Sheffield but mine and most others I’ve seen (mainly on eBay) have the Birmingham anchor. Mine is a ‘09. Great movie by the way, Terry Thomas was an incredibly generous chap, not at all the cad he portrayed in the movies.

I've only got one CM with a silver band and that's London 1901 but interesting to hear about the Birmingham connection.
Terry-Thomas always added something extra special to everything he was in and what a particular delight he was in HOW TO MURDER YOUR WIFE playing Jack Lemmon's butler.

 

[Humblepipe]

Haddo's Delight in a square shanked GBD Collector Prestige Billiard. It's Friday, gents!

 

[PipeIT]

Holy Cow!!! That is a stunning pipe, man!

When I saw the word ‘Former’, well you can certainly image what I was thinking! LOL

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Wilke 911 in Wilmer large rusticated bulldog, the pipe in the middle. Next will be the Mac Baren Vanilla roll cake in the Randy Wiley on the right side of the Willmer. A strong Denogginzer, IPA. listening to Country Squire Radio.