***What Are You Smoking, January 2025?***
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Janus - the Doorkeeper of the Year. Most appropriate!
Cringle Flake 2024 in Radice Rind Pure
Cornell and Diehl Bayou Morning Flake in this Former Oversized Apple. It sits up by itself with no help from me.
C&D Exclusive in a Abe Herbaugh 
and Coffee 
️ on the side.
and Coffee ️ on the side.
Gawith Hoggarth Brown Bogie in a Rattray's Blower's Daughter again tonight.
I've only smoked this blend 4 times so far, but every time I have I've thought to myself, "I think this is the best tobacco I've ever smoked". It's astonishingly dark, rich, and robust for a pure Virginia without straying too far into dark fired territory flavor wise, has a very satisfying amount of nicotine, relights perfectly well without turning harsh if you set the pipe down for a few hours, and is impeccably smooth to the point that I can retrohale it with no sinus discomfort at all.
Honestly the only negative thing I could say about it is that my family hates the room note, since it's 100% pure tobacco smell similar to that of dark Burley and there's no mistaking the room note for bread baking in the oven like you might with other pure Virginias. It is unapologetically tobacco'y!
I've only smoked this blend 4 times so far, but every time I have I've thought to myself, "I think this is the best tobacco I've ever smoked". It's astonishingly dark, rich, and robust for a pure Virginia without straying too far into dark fired territory flavor wise, has a very satisfying amount of nicotine, relights perfectly well without turning harsh if you set the pipe down for a few hours, and is impeccably smooth to the point that I can retrohale it with no sinus discomfort at all.
Honestly the only negative thing I could say about it is that my family hates the room note, since it's 100% pure tobacco smell similar to that of dark Burley and there's no mistaking the room note for bread baking in the oven like you might with other pure Virginias. It is unapologetically tobacco'y!
Before lunch. With the second third of dt# Veermaster Hamborger, in this beautiful and magnificent Savinelli Fantasia pipe, gift from our good friend. TheironMonkey. 
Perhaps a piece of the shrink wrap electrical tubing?
Some Pete DNR in a Kai Rhodesian with a cup of hot tea on the side.
EMP in an LJ Peretti. Driving to Green Bay this morning
Just finished smoking Wilke Gentry Royal Blend No. 2 in a black sandblast quarter bend undated Briarcraft (Dr. Grabow made) Wimbledon 810 author with a tapered black vulcanite stem.
Half way through this bowl of year 2015 D&R A.B. Rimboche in an undated slight bend, smooth flame grain Wessex Standard egg with a brown accent on the black vulcanite saddle stem. Chatting with an old friend.
Match ready rub in a baronet, some dark roast
Having a bowl of MB Dark Twist in a Rattrays The Good Deal bent Dublin w/ filter (only use filters for MB non HH blends. Gets rid of that bite). With coffee. Black. 
Good morning everyone. I’m starting with a mix of 3 Sails/5 Brothers and drinking CC breakfast blend medium roast black. I hope everyone has a great day.
C&D Oak Alley in a Savinelli Luisa Fiammata Sandblasted Canadian shape. I drove by Oak Alley two weeks ago, so I dug a 4+ year old tin out of the deep recesses of the collection. I have a few more that I will let sit several more years, being of the "cellar collection". Age really does well for the flue cured components and makes it all a bit more robust. The burleys and Turkish are more forward when it is "young".
Steamworks in the BST full bent chimney, on this chilly morn.
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