***What Are You Smoking, July 2020?***

[J.Henry845]

Hit me up if you want to sell or trade your leftovers. I missed that one and want to try it. Missed the Stockton reissue last week too, damnit.

I have a few tins I would part with.

 

[JimInks]

I have only smoked the discontinued Burley London Blend with 10+ years on it, never "fresh." I assume the aging has caused fading of the casing.

The topping seems much more prominent in the reissue.

The cocoa topping was undetectable in the discontinued version to my tastes. I get more of the nutty/oat notes and with occasional hints of natural cocoa Burley can impart in a blend. Not a blend I would call an "aromatic." I get the impression of a light casing as opposed to a noticeable topping.

The topping in the reissue is a much stronger cocoa with vanilla in the background, enough to leave a ghost for the next bowl. This version is OK, but the topping overtakes the flavors of the tobacco's natural flavors a bit too much for my liking. Not something that scratches the Burley itch for me.

Older version I give a 4 out of 5.
Reissue is a 2.5.

Thanks for the information!

I did get cocoa in the old version, but I was smoking it fresh. I still have some jarred. I missed out on the new version, and would have loved to compare them since I probably smoked three or four pounds of the old stuff.

 

[jaytex1969]

Sipping both the coffee and 3+ yr old LBF in a Twain MM with ... wait for it ... the original plastic stem lol.

Doesn't that make the tobacco soggy and hard to keep lit?

 

[trubka2]

I have a few tins I would part with.

Sounds like me and Jim can help you out with that.
PM incoming.

 

[MattRVA]

Smoking Peretti RCTR in a Ashton XX pebble grain canadian.

 

[cigrmaster]

For my last bowl of the night I am now smoking some 2011 Dunhilll Deluxe Navy Rolls in a Jack Howell Lovat.

 

[JimInks]

Did a little snacking and am now smoking Esoterica Dunbar in a smooth straight late ‘50s, early 1960s Lane era Charatan Selected 43 Dublin with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem. This pipe was formerly owned by actor William Conrad. Phone chatting with the fella who gifted me the pipe.

 

[trubka2]

Match Elizabethan for my first bowl in this funky Scandia I cleaned up tonight.

 

[craig61a]

My “SRV” VaPer in a Jeantet Reputation Canadian 54.

 

[MrTom]

Home Mix in a Parker Poker pipe.

 

[JimInks]

Half way through this bowl of year 2013 H&H Classic Burley Kake in a straight 2012 MM Pony Express cob with a yellow plastic stem.

 

[JimInks]

A quarter of the way through this bowl of D&R Raccoon’s Friend in a pre-1980s straight dark brown Comoy's Sandblast 186 billiard with a black vulcanite tapered stem.

 

[JimInks]

Just finishing this bowl of very dry year 2015 D&R A.P. Rimboche in a smooth medium brown, medium bend 1950s B.B.B. Own Make 307 apple with a sterling silver band and black vulcanite saddle stem.

 

[JimInks]

A third of the way through this bowl of Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a medium bend 2002 MM Legend cob with a yellow plastic stem. I'll likely end the day with this smoke.

 

[tomatamot]

My first smoke this morning:
TAK - Tom's Crumble Plug in one of my many M.M. corncob's. Almost finished, but still..............

 

[judcole]

Golden Extra in a Mark Twain.

 

[marconi]

smoking a bowl of Cabbies mixture in a rusticated savinelli qandale 315ks. Drinking a mug of tea.

 

[MrTom]

Makhuwa in a Molina bent Rhodesian pipe.

 

[Paul lec]

Sam's Blend in Peterson Ebony Killarney.

 

[tomatamot]

HU - Special FAYYUM Kake in a M.M. corncob.