***What Are You Smoking, July 2022?***
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Granger in Castello apple billiard petite
Hal O The Wynd in a 1914 Peterson Patent System Pipe
A well earned afternoon break. The Dublin Meer with a personal mixture:
C&D - 2013 Yorktown 37.5%
C&D - 2021 Izmir Turkish 37.5 %
C&D - 2021 Rbn cut Perique minced in 25%
Glass of sweetened ice tea mixed with Kombucha
C&D - 2013 Yorktown 37.5%
C&D - 2021 Izmir Turkish 37.5 %
C&D - 2021 Rbn cut Perique minced in 25%
Glass of sweetened ice tea mixed with Kombucha
Painting my kitchen. Whew, what a job! About 3/4 done. Taking a break outside in the shade. Country Squire Rivendell in a MM Cobbit. Good day everyone, and happy smokes.
Captain Black Royal in a morgan Cob. Trying another non-alcoholic whiskey, really enjoying this one. Gonna pair it with a Balkan blend next time
I’m smoking Windjammer in a cob, as I lounge on the porch with a glass of iced tea and wind down after work. Trying to decide where to order take-out, between the same 4-5 restaurants we’ve ordered from for the last 10 years…sigh.
Cheers!
Cheers!
2012 Mac Baren Old Dark Fired in a Rad Davis Zulu.
Before I hit the sack Solani - ABF in a Country Gentleman Cob and some Iced Water on the side.
Watch City Simply Red in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard
Salmorejo is good too. Sounds like your friends want a Bloody Mary.
Savinelli Jupiter/ Elizabethan scraps in a 9mm Savinelli Billiard.
A bowl of C&D Derringer in my smooth stubby Sir Douglas pipe by Mike Billington of Blakemar Briars. Sir Douglas Bader was a Spitfire ace in WW2 who flew with two artificial aluminum legs. He commissioned these small pipes from Mike's uncle who taught him to make pipes. I wanted to have one of these pipes to honor my mother and aunt who were in the WAAFs throughout the war.
Capstan Blue Flake in a Dunhill Cumberland
This afternoon, slow sipped Country Squire Green Dragon in a Savinelli Erica fiamma 128 billiard with 6mm filter in a vulcanite stem. I bought it with a tin of Capstan Blue which it tried awhile ago and noted the tea and honey flavor. Green Dragon when i first tried it was more tea than honey. It must have dried out some and I slow sipped it so today it was much harder to pick out the many flavors I was tasting besides the tea and honey, mainly hay, sweet grass, some acidity ...Citrus?
To be honest I am trying to quite cigarettes, trying different tobaccos, and after reading this forum for 7 months, trying to smoke slower, and trying to discern subtle flavors like JimInks ! Bless him, I still can't figure out how he can pick out 10-20 flavors per tobacco but I am working on it ! He could have been a tea taster or sommalier ! Maybe I'm trying to do too much.
This evening I had 1/2 a bowl of Country Squire Northwest Trek in the Vauen Olaf bent egg with 9mm filter. I slow sipped it and nursed it for a much longer time. I tasted what I thought must be the vanilla topping which seemed more like sweet bread to me, I definitely tasted the molasses, I also tasted something sweet like a berry or raisin or plum but so subtle it kept changing: first like plum wine, then raisin, then back to molasses. I didn't taste some of the other flavors the reviewers mention like alcohol but I noticed it is much sweeter slow smoked then fast. I thought that its sweetness, to compare to other tobaccos I have tried, is like Maker's Mark bourbon is sweeter to me than Bullitt bourbon ...not that I am much of a drinker but that was the comparison that came to mind. I even looked up the reviews to figure out if I tasted anything like the reviewers !
I think I am going to have to smoke slower more often as its more enjoyable and like trying to figure out a puzzle. Great for clearing the mind of work clutter ! Sorry for the long post. I guess I'm progressing slowly somewhere ... hopefully I'll know when I get there !
Meanwhile the titmice are devouring the first of the wild raspberries ...there not even ripe yet ...slow down ! Listen to me now ... !
To be honest I am trying to quite cigarettes, trying different tobaccos, and after reading this forum for 7 months, trying to smoke slower, and trying to discern subtle flavors like JimInks ! Bless him, I still can't figure out how he can pick out 10-20 flavors per tobacco but I am working on it ! He could have been a tea taster or sommalier ! Maybe I'm trying to do too much.
This evening I had 1/2 a bowl of Country Squire Northwest Trek in the Vauen Olaf bent egg with 9mm filter. I slow sipped it and nursed it for a much longer time. I tasted what I thought must be the vanilla topping which seemed more like sweet bread to me, I definitely tasted the molasses, I also tasted something sweet like a berry or raisin or plum but so subtle it kept changing: first like plum wine, then raisin, then back to molasses. I didn't taste some of the other flavors the reviewers mention like alcohol but I noticed it is much sweeter slow smoked then fast. I thought that its sweetness, to compare to other tobaccos I have tried, is like Maker's Mark bourbon is sweeter to me than Bullitt bourbon ...not that I am much of a drinker but that was the comparison that came to mind. I even looked up the reviews to figure out if I tasted anything like the reviewers !
I think I am going to have to smoke slower more often as its more enjoyable and like trying to figure out a puzzle. Great for clearing the mind of work clutter ! Sorry for the long post. I guess I'm progressing slowly somewhere ... hopefully I'll know when I get there !
Meanwhile the titmice are devouring the first of the wild raspberries ...there not even ripe yet ...slow down ! Listen to me now ... !
In between a nap, walking reps, and running an errand, I smoked:
First release Watch City Rouxgaroux in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Natural 4AB No. 6/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem.
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.
Year 2012 Rolando’s Own in a smooth straight early ‘60s Lane era “William Conrad” Charatan Executive Extra Large stretch apple with diagonal channel cuts on the lower right and left of the bowl along with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem.
And I just finished smoking year 2014 Astley’s No. 109 Medium Flake in a straight black 1963 Dunhill LB Shell 4S billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem.
First release Watch City Rouxgaroux in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Natural 4AB No. 6/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem.
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.
Year 2012 Rolando’s Own in a smooth straight early ‘60s Lane era “William Conrad” Charatan Executive Extra Large stretch apple with diagonal channel cuts on the lower right and left of the bowl along with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem.
And I just finished smoking year 2014 Astley’s No. 109 Medium Flake in a straight black 1963 Dunhill LB Shell 4S billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem.
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