Reiner Gold in my Graziano Tendi Dublin.
***What Are You Smoking, January 2022?***
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Samuel Gawith Chocolate Flake into a MM Mark Twain .
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More like the oddly enough priced tin to push a total to free shipping that you can put under a stack and make it look like you have more tins of something else. Then, when your get excited and take the top tin and see the Escudo below - you’re like…dammit. It’s really not something I’m very much into. I’m honestly surprised it’s sold out, it’s really just not that good. But, every time I see someone promote or trash it - I have to do the one coin A/B testing. ? still cannot determine the fuss over it. ?
an afternoon smoke of Mc Barens Golden extra in a Dunhill Tanshell 197 Long Billiard avec un aperitif
Dunbar in a cob this morning.
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Morning everyone. I don't usually smoke much Escudo, but I had about 1.5 - 2 bowls worth left in an jar. So I loaded it up in my Savinelli Autograph. It's probably from sometime around 2019. Great stuff, why don't I smoke more of it?
Dunhill Dark Flake in an Ed Burak Scoop.
Garbbed several tobaccos and these two…. My Nuttens Rhodo and my CosElliot dublin.
Thanks for sharing a great story, and pipe with us
It used to be really good and aged very well, but then STG took it over. I still have quite a few tins of the older stuff aging, but I was buying 20 tin lots when I stocked up on the new STG stuff also. The new Escudo just isn't the same. It's not horrible, passable as a VaPer, but the new stuff doesn't deserve the hype of the older recipe.
It is still being bought out by those who hear about how well the old Escudo ages.
See... pipesmokers are attracted to notions of antiquity... if someone put drenched mediocre tobacco in vinegar and branded it as McClelland Christmas Cheer, it would sell out in seconds. Their sinuses all burning and their tongue all coated in vinegar, saying... mmmmm... this is what McClellands was like in it's heyday.
Just like someone put a cherry aromatic out there with the brand "Hobbit's Weed" and it sold like crazy. Like it or not, pipesmokers are some of the easiest to market to. Very few actually smoke a tobacco in the here and now... they smoke in the hype of distant past or a fantasy world, or they smoke in what the tobacco might age to become one day with cellaring. Pipesmokers grasp the "Folklore" before they actually rely on their own tongues.
Sutliff Mixture 79 into a MM Morgan with Chai tea .
Haunted Bookshop in a 5th ave Diplomat.
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Mixing it up a bit... smoking some Solani 633 with a bit of Stokkebye's blending Latakia added... from my Georg Jensen signature pipe.
It's *really* good.
It's *really* good.
All you Alabamians better buckle up!
Why? Is going to get cold?
Early morning along the Colorado. My old yet trusty CAO meerschaum with Cult Red. Soon a morning coffee as well.
Boswell's Imperial English in a Peterson XL315 Premier System pipe w/ a cup of Iron Bean Coffee Co. Drink From the Skull of Your Enemies roast.
Sitting in my truck and it’s warmed up nicely to -14F from -23F. Reloaded my cob with some frozen Pegasus I keep in the console. Ahhh refreshing.
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