First ever bowl of C & D Carolina Red Flake with Perique (2020). I have it in a Kaywoodie billiard. It packed beautifully, and is smoking nearly perfectly. Only problem is I can't really taste anything. I burned my tongue pretty bad eating dinner last night and I'm starting to think that smoking isn't helping anything.
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Two bowls of Savinelli Jupiter this morning, and now, Union Square in an MM Hardwood Country Gentleman.
It’s a hot afternoon. Headed out to the shady side of the yard with some sweetened ice tea mixed with Kombucha and this Austrian made Dublin Meer packed with some 2013 GLP Jackknife Plug.
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As it’s been said before, you can smoke anything you want in a pipe.
But there seems to be a consensus that VAs in new pipes, especially uncoated is the best way to go, as VAs, seem to build carbon rather quickly/nicley.
On my own personal opinions and those of even Jose Rubio, you can get small cracks in an uncoated chamber if you smoke it to fast/hot, so go like an old lady, sipping very slow and easy, barely getting the pipe warm, until you can see a slight black carbon coat forming, and not just the chamber looking black, but actual sticky carbon.
Be sure to wipe out the chamber after smoking with a paper towel to keep the carbon nice and thin, it’s good to always wipe all pipes out like this after smoking.
Enjoy ?
P.S. Radice’s are great pipes, here’s mine.
Did a second set of walking reps, and smoked a 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. Watching the Braves-Reds game.
Now smoking a bowl from a freshly opened tin of Missouri Meerschaum Company Independence Day 2022 Special Edition in a 1975 medium bend sandblasted looking, smooth on the sides yellow Pioneer meer billiard with a black ferrule and vulcanite stem in the military mount style. Working on a review of this blend.
Watch City Rhythm and Blues in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard
A bowl of Seven Seas Black blend in a no-name bent billiard.
Some 2018 Six Pence while the storm blows through. Tasty smoke
2008 SG Full Virginia Flake in a MM This stuff is a cross between clay and black leather. Took forever to dry out. That’s my first try at a pipe holder ? 
Awesome, thank you for that!As it’s been said before, you can smoke anything you want in a pipe.
But there seems to be a consensus that VAs in new pipes, especially uncoated is the best way to go, as VAs, seem to build carbon rather quickly/nicley.
On my own personal opinions and those of even Jose Rubio, you can get small cracks in an uncoated chamber if you smoke it to fast/hot, so go like an old lady, sipping very slow and easy, barely getting the pipe warm, until you can see a slight black carbon coat forming, and not just the chamber looking black, but actual sticky carbon.
Be sure to wipe out the chamber after smoking with a paper towel to keep the carbon nice and thin, it’s good to always wipe all pipes out like this after smoking.
Enjoy ?
P.S. Radice’s are great pipes, here’s mine.
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Hmm don’t recall Bruce Peters... ?
Maybe time to drive Lee under the bus? ? LOL
And time for some new talk...
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Now smoking Cobblestone Hiking (Outdoors) in a straight black 1981 Ascorti Business Billiard military mount with a tapered pearl gray acrylic stem. Looking to finish the review with this smoke. Have enough for one more bowl.
I love the Hiking from Cobblestone. Doesn't get mentioned very often, which I guess is good for those of us who like it. Looking forward to your review
I have a 2102 tin, clay and leather, something isn’t right. Remember, all pipes don’t always bring out the best in tabac.
I get raisin/plum, grass, floral, bread, slight pepper at times.
For me the bread and floral are quite strong, the floral notes are what really keeps me going with FVF, it’s quite a wonderful taste.
I have Cobs, I won’t put them down, people love them, I think they have their place, each to his own. But I’d never smoke a fine aged blend in a Cob like FVF.
FVF is one of the finest VAs out there, my 2 cents worth, it deserves to be smoked in our finest pipes.
Gawith Best Brown No. 2 in a Briarworks Rhodesian, second time today.
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