***What Are You Smoking, July 2024?***

[telescopes]

Pipe Maker with Orientals. Sometimes, a smoke with these older American "drug store" pipes is just the thing. My old Pipe Maker pipe pipes, probably made by Whitehall, smoke almost as well as anything in my collection. They are reminiscent of that time when men reached for a handsome briar and enjoyed a morning smoke while reading the paper.

 

[dingdong]

Well, off to work I go. Going to take my time on the way and enjoy a little C&D Carolina Red Flake with Perique in a BBB Turnberry.

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That is one beautiful pipe !!!! must be pre-war..?

 

[Scottmi]

Peretti 111 in a 1940s Brulor Hecht Optime billiard and first mug o' jo

 

[Scottmi]

Finally trying out the last pure Virginia blend in my cellar that I hadn't smoked yet, Peter Stokkebye PS402 Luxury Twist Flake! I'm giving it a try in a Dr. Grabow Royalton.

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I had put off trying this one for a long while since the tin note absolutely reeks of artificial popcorn butter and coconut oil, but much to my surprise it tastes nothing like it smells! It's a really smooth medium bodied pure Virginia blend without much in the way of grassy high notes or earthy low notes, it's just a very middle of the road slightly bready Virginia with a fairly subtle topping that's a little caramely tasting but not particularly sweet.

This really is an excellent Virginia flake that's much less aromatic than the tin note would lead you to believe. The square cut spiral patterned flakes are quite beautiful to look at too!

Home stoving LTF is very rewarding, in my humble experience.

 

[Scottmi]

In the gentle rain (so far) from Beryl, smoking Solani 633 in a smallishView attachment 322839 Bondarev billiard.

That is a gorgeous, elegant little billiard! Not heard of Bondarev, how did you come across it?

 

[Speak Easy]

Sun Bear Tupelo in the Ropp J07.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Good morning, I’m still playing hooky with the time I put in for, not knowing for sure what our coverage for midget care would entail

Starting the day off with a mini meer filled with Sample 3 from @Mrs. Pickles’ Red Va project.

 

[Skippy B. Coyote]

Having some Gawith Hoggarth Dark Bird's Eye in a Dr. Grabow Lark at the moment.




I've been working on cutting down on my cigarette smoking lately and the nicotine cravings can be a real bear sometimes, but Dark Bird's Eye is great help! The shag cut makes it really quick and easy to pack and light in pretty much any weather condition with no rubbing out or dry time required, and it'll definitely scratch the nicotine itch after about 10 minutes or so of gentle sipping. The smoke is smooth as silk on the retrohale and has a really pleasant dark fired chocolatey flavor. For anyone that could use some help with cigarette smoking cessation, Gawith's Dark Bird's Eye is an excellent blend for it!

 

[john19]

Mac Baren HH Burley Flake in Stanwell pipe.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Good morning…Sir Walter Raleigh in a Morgan blackjack

 

[buroak]

Watch City Cigar’s American Cut Plug in a Missouri Meerschaum Rob Roy. Thanks @JimInks for working with Mr. Ernie to bring us such a fine tobacco. It is my smoke of choice when working in the yard. It seldom needs a relight, so I don’t have to hose the caked dirt off my hands more than a couple times in a mid-sized bowl.

 

[dottlejockey]

1st pipe of the morning today was some 4th Gen 1931 in the Armellini Calumet, which was intended for my last smoke of the night last night. However, i passed out before i reached for it and woke to find my Rad Davis, still half filled with Cobblestone Hiking, laying beside me. So now i shall finish that half bowl and get off to making eggs and sausage.

 

[PaulRVA]

C&D Exclusive in a commissioned J Mouton Short Liverpool with Antler

 

[JimInks]

Starting off my smoking day with a bowl of pre-2014 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style. I thought I'd do something new for once.

 

[LotusEater]

2015 Firestorm in a G. Boyadjiev NomaD

 

[newbroom]

HH ODF Bulk (broken flake) in an estate cob.

 

[Sobrbiker]

#4 of the blind tasting.
Frickin’ woodpecker showed up, but of course made himself scarce now…

 

[Tongue-Fried]

Smoking the last of my LTF sample in my Brebbia Root Briar acorn (straight soldier-mount stem, quarter bent stummel). It works well with the wider bowl at around .81”, the different flavors/notes can explore themselves a little better. I still think this blend is a “No” for me… it’s too “casing forward” for my taste (I think Jim Inks would use the phrase: “The casing subliminates the tobacco”). As far as I venture into the aromatic/cased pipe tobaccos is when I smoke Navy Flake

 

[Tongue-Fried]

1st pipe of the morning today was some 4th Gen 1931 in the Armellini Calumet, which was intended for my last smoke of the night last night. However, i passed out before i reached for it and woke to find my Rad Davis, still half filled with Cobblestone Hiking, laying beside me. So now i shall finish that half bowl and get off to making eggs and sausage.

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I’m glad I wasn’t the pipe maker drilling THAT draft hole

 

[cshubhra]

Cigar Time: Oliva Serie V Melanio