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

[Ben.R.C]

You must be sitting on a good amount of Chenet's Cake. I have a few 1 year old tins in the deep cellar. Trying my best to wait it out as the blend notes suggest a decade for best results, but I think I'll probably pry one open way early to give it a shot.

I can’t keep enough around to age, I doubt anyone tested that 10 year mark.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2012 Stonehaven in a 2002 medium bend smooth brown Rinaldo EGEA 03 Silver line spigot 10 with a black acrylic saddle stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[dunnyboy]

Solani VF in a Castello great line.

 

[dunnyboy]

Flake Medallions in a Rainer Barbi bent dublin.

 

[BlueRidge]

Good evening. Bosun Plug in a meer

 

[dunnyboy]

Geometrie in a Castello great line.

 

[atwaterville]

Sutliff Maple & Rum in a Molina billiard.

 

[PaulRVA]

Another Nuttens Bing and more HU Director’s Cut.

 

[VDL_Piper]

This morning I’m smoking Geometre’ in a little Castello with some hot coffee. Busy day ahead with builders and architects which is always interesting to say the least.

 

[das3353]

GH Brown Flake Unscented in a Castello Old Antiquari 65

 

[Manawydan]

Smoking some Esoterica Pembroke, thanks to the generosity of @telescopes, in my Peterson Dublin 150 Bulldog, while I try to order some Firebird Flake.

 

[Carol]

The last of the Mixture 79 in my MM Hardwood. It was an interesting blend, but I won't be getting anymore.

 

[warren99]

GLP Telegraph Hill in a Karlheinz Joura “A” volcano.

 

[spearheadbill]

My morning pipe was dockworker in the PPN 309 166/175 9mm

 

[JimInks]

Earlier, I smoked a bowl of year 2014 Dan Tobacco Hamborger Veermaster in a smooth straight brown 1950 Dunhill 48 bulldog group 4 root briar with a black vulcanite fish tail saddle stem.


Currently, I have about a third of a bowl left of year 2012 Dunhill Royal Yacht in a 1970s smooth brown slight bend GBD International 9665 dublin rough top sitter with a flat bottom and a black vulcanite saddle stem.

 

[troutface]

Peretti D-333 in a Phillip Trypis with a Margarita on the side.

 

[dottlejockey]

I just finished a pipe of Rattray's Exotic Passion, normally a fantastic blend, but this was from a tin I purchased some time ago and forgot to jar up (which is a must because they're not sealed) and it was nearly awful. It was quite dry. I will have to try to rehydrate it, which amazingly I've never had to attempt before.

EZPZ, put in a jar, moisten a paper towel and drape it over the top. Screw on lid and wait. This can take 1-3 days w/ a little stirring or flipping every day. Remoisten towel as it dries. Voila.

Finally back to the smoking lounge after a long day in Seattle. Happy to be back to the variety on the shelves...

St. Bruno in a Tekin squashed tomato.

 

[renfield]

McClelland's 40th Anniversary Flake in a GBD Virgin grade billiard.

 

[BenMN]

Good ole Pegasus

 

[Lucro]

A little bowl of Dark Holler ‘25 in my Nording 506 tonight while it snows. I was out in the muck earlier but the plows and salt trucks must be off today. Nearly nothing had been treated. This seems a better choice.