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

[Sigmund]

Got a shipment of HU goodies today. The standards I smoke plus some khartoum. Blends are better after being open a few days but Im doing a sample anyway in a Ser Jac. I wish HU would stop making difficult to spell names! I have to keep looking them up.

 

[PaulRVA]

C&D Exclusive in a Cavicchi Dublin and Peet’s Coffee on the side.

 

[alwayslit]

Finally a morning that's cool enough to enjoy a smoke.
Ice coffee pared with Stonehaven in a J Alan.

 

[judcole]

For a change of pace, instead of starting with burley in a cob, I am smoking Sutliff Virginia Slices in an ancient Iwan Ries Blackruf apple sitter.

 

[Bowlsmoker67]

C&D Winchester in a Peterson Sherlock Holmes

 

[didimauw]

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Man that thing got dark pretty fast!

You have been camping for a long time. What kind of camp do you have?

The camp of, I got divorced and had to sell my house lol. So I didn't have anywhere to go, with my two dogs. I was supposed to have paperwork from my lawyer 3 weeks ago, but it just came in. I just bought a manufactured home 2 days ago (they don't call em trailers anymore) but it's not ready till October 1st.

In Wisconsin you are allowed 2 weeks at a camp ground at a time. So this is week 3, today I leave for Notre dame for a week. ( NATIONALS) [Daughter is a competitive baton twirler] And when I get back I'll have to go back to the first camp ground I was at, for 2 weeks

If it gets too cold in September, I'll get an air bnb or something.

But I'll be camping all summer.

 

[KORNEY]

Miscoipipe Strawberry wood Blast pipe with L. J. Peretti No. 8 Slice

 

[JimInks]

Couldn't sleep, so I've been doing a few things, and am close to finishing this bowl of year 2016 D&R Two Timer Gold in a smooth straight late 1970s Charatan Special 4148DC Reg. No. 203573 pot with a black double comfort vulcanite stem. Fed Daisy the Feral Princess and Harry the Hairy. The others weren't around. Fed my cats, too.

 

[Sigmund]

Time for a bit of HU Delight in a Ser Jacopo.

 

[dublinpiper90]

Starting Saturday off with a bowl of EMP in a Pete

 

[tfdickson]

Was obviously a high quality blend with lots of interesting nuances to keep one intrigued. I can certainly see why you love it! Will get to know this a bit better in the coming days/weeks and decide whether or not to stock up.

On to the last pipe of the night and the last of the to-try's from today's arrival.

HU Cervantes in a Rad Davis squashed tomato. I've enjoyed HU Makhuwa, G&H Bob's Choc Flk and SG Choc Flk in this pipe, which is why i thought it was an obvious choice for this blend.

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If you do end up wanting to stock up, Esterval’s still has it in 250g bags. They used to sell 4 kilo slabs for something like $200, greatest deal of all time.

 

[Speak Easy]

Steamworks24 in a newly acquired Comoys Old Bruyere Prince.

 

[pipeboy122]

Carter Hall in a MM Diplomat Apple

 

[dingdong]

My friend's local blend..really tasty Forefather Blend#2 on Tinderbox Unique Zulu, then on 1983 Clairmont Tom Spanu, later on the Meer Ball

 

[dingdong]

Man that thing got dark pretty fast!

The camp of, I got divorced and had to sell my house lol. So I didn't have anywhere to go, with my two dogs. I was supposed to have paperwork from my lawyer 3 weeks ago, but it just came in. I just bought a manufactured home 2 days ago (they don't call em trailers anymore) but it's not ready till October 1st.

In Wisconsin you are allowed 2 weeks at a camp ground at a time. So this is week 3, today I leave for Notre dame for a week. ( NATIONALS) [Daughter is a competitive baton twirler] And when I get back I'll have to go back to the first camp ground I was at, for 2 weeks

If it gets too cold in September, I'll get an air bnb or something.

But I'll be camping all summer.

I wish well for you sir !!!

 

[PaulRVA]

Bosun Cut Plug in an IMP Reverse Calabash

 

[dublinpiper90]

Putting flame to a bowl of Germains 1820 in a Kaywoodie Supergrain

 

[BingBong]

Today's the day my "Ogden's Mixture" has reached maturity. Actually quite tasty, sweet, in my Hardcastle Crescent 112.

 

[Skippy B. Coyote]

Two pipes for me this morning! G.L. Pease Union Square in a Dr. Grabow Royalton followed immediately by Cornell & Diehl Yorktown in a Rattray's Blower's Daughter.





These two are such similar blends that I wanted to smoke them both back to back to do a comparison, and aside from Yorktown being in a convenient ribbon cut and pre-dried right out of the tin the only big difference to my palate is that Yorktown has noticably more bright Virginias. I don't know what the actual proportions are in the blends but my palate tastes Yorktown as about a 50/50 mix of bright and red Virginias, whereas Union Square is about 80% red and 20% bright to me.

They're both excellent blends and I can't complain about either, it just depends on what you're in the mood for flavor wise. Since my usual morning smoke is Sutliff 507C Virginia Slices, which is about as bright as the surface of the sun, I think Yorktown is a better morning smoke to wake up my taste buds with the extra bright leaf in there; but I can see myself really appreciating Union Square as the weather gets colder when the autumn comes in a couple months. They're both keepers in my book!

 

[Sobrbiker]

D&R Three sails in a Lee three star medium saddle stem pear, next to some freshly “ready rubbed” 1792 airing out before going in its jar.