***What Are You Smoking, July 2023?***

[BlueRidge]

Haunted Bookshop in the 80s a couple times while seeing to my expanding apple orchard

 

[PaulRVA]

Haunted Bookshop in the 80s a couple times while seeing to my expanding apple orchard
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I love the 80s & 999 with the square shanks & silver.

 

[seanv]

Earlier i enjoyed some SWR in an older Chacom Nobelese.
Just finishing a bowl of Sutliff Red Virginia Kake in a meer. I've rubbed out the rest of the tin and dried it a bit. That should make future packing easier. This blend is starting to click a bit more with me. I'll have some more tomorrow.

 

[Scottmi]

Match Victorian in a WDC Hesson Guard Zulu and iced decaf au lait

 

[huntertrw]

Some vintage Wessex Brigade (100 gram tin purchased circa 2000) in an estate Ehrlich rusticated vest-pocket briar. I did not care for this blend back then, as I found it to be bitey, sour, and difficult to keep lit. Discouraged after one bowl, I put it in a corner of my cellar and promptly forgot about it.

Today it resurfaced, and so I decided to give it another go. To my utter amazement the tobacco was not crispy. The biteyness had departed together with the sour flavor. leaving a gentle taste of apple cider. It is still difficult for me to keep it lit, but that may have been due to the oval bowl of the pipe

I purchased Brigade because I am a fan of Wessex's Premier Mixture. While not remotely in Premier's league, the 20-some-odd years of aging on the tin definitely helped; however, I won't be purchasing any more. Simply put, I cannot wait another 20-years for it to become smokable.

 

[mso489]

Esoterica Tilbury, Virginia with burley as a condiment, in a Johs slightly bent diplomat, sandblast finish, with a finished briar "band." SBC sent me this blend because he didn't care for the burley condiment and rightly assumed it would be right up my avenue.

I've never figured out why Johs doesn't have a bigger fan base on Forums. He does churn out the pipes, Morgan Johansen, but he does them with an artisan touch for a reasonable price and has never disappointed me. My wife got me my first Johs pipes for Christmas 2010, and I've bought a number since.

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

KBV Fairway Driver from a 1930s T.S.S. Bermuda BBB "Best Make"

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

'17 RO Firestorm in this little chin-tickler stamped "Bruyere Garantie". Not even 100% on the stem stamp... could be IRC or IRD.
Anyone? Bueller?

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Jeez I'm on an Oom Paul kick.

Iwan Ries & Co?
Edit: nevermind, saw you figured that out already.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Iwan Ries & Co?
Edit: nevermind, saw you figured that out already.

Yep I tried to edit but waited too long.

 

[FurCoat]

ES Evening Flake in a Neerup

 

[JimInks]

A third of a bowl left of year 2021 unreleased Sutliff Black Virginia Flake in a late 80's, early 90s James Upshall P DS Tilshead England Made By Hand L185 Canadian with a silver band and a tapered black vulcanite stem. Listening to the Braves-Brewers game.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Elizabethan Match for work.

 

[warren99]

Arango Balkan Supreme in a Radice Bark Hawkbill.

 

[Ben.R.C]

I forgot how much I loved these little Undercrown maduro coronets, my pipes are mad at me.

 

[onestrangeone]

Friar Tuck in a Lee Von Erck chimney

 

[alwayslit]

Enjoyed a couple of bowls with the Florida crew over at Edwards in Tampa.

WCC Son off the Beach in a Baki

WCC Deep Elem in a Adam Remington.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

KBV The Oriental Affair in the Radice Clear E.

 

[Doctor Chopper]

Magnum Opus in an Ashton.

Finally going to get some rain.

 

[The Clay King]

Earned 65p from online surveys; put it towards another tin of Sillem's Musketeer. The Clay King loves the taste & smell of this pipe baccy!

 

[happy_lunter]

A bowl of GH&Co.’s Ennerdale Mixture in The French Pipe #2 with a can of Hobgoblin Ruby. Filled up today my birthday gift Peterson stripped old boy lighter.