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

[dottlejockey]

Did a little tasting and relative conversation tonight with a couple interested parties visiting for brisket dinner.



Left to right: red/bright VA, VAper, oriental, burley and light latakia blend.

Fun times in the smoking lounge!

 

[Sobrbiker]

Kendal Plug/Black XX in the Color Duke finished up the chores.
Gotta load up the lunchbox tins and prepare for Monday.
Impending thunderstorms collapsed into just widespread lightning, light rain and breezes, typical AZ stuff-just enough to make the windshields ugly for the morning commute probably.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Watch City American Cut Plug Mixture in a smooth medium bend terracotta Peterson POY 2023 X160 464/1100 military mount egg with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem.

 

[PrivatePiping]

Watch City Stardust in another levitating pipe, an Altinay meer.

 

[BenMN]

'16 Union Square in a little Kai Nielsen

 

[JimInks]

Half way through this bowl of year 2010 Full Virginia Flake in a slight bend 1968 group 4S Dunhill Shell 475 cherrywood with a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

CVP in an Altinay.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

McClelland 40th Anniversary in a Howell.

 

[telescopes]

Mac Baren Virginia Flake all in a Second Generation Three Star Lee Bullmoose with a short bent salddle stem. This pipe has excellent grain.

 

[DesertDan]

Indeed, that grain is fantastic!

 

[samuelgawith01]

Smoking Two Friends Redwood in this Wally Frank Walrus.

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and have passed the first quarter of this bowl of Wilke Little Round Top in an undated straight smooth brown pre-Republic Peterson’s Sterling bulldog 150 with a sterling silver band and a black vulcanite saddle p-lip stem. It's time to check on the ferals.

 

[DesertDan]

Tonight, I opened my recently received tin of GLP Key Largo and packed it in my Falcon.
This is a blend I have been curious about for some time now and I was very pleased with it.
It had a very creamy smoke that was very pleasant. I noticed a bright, dry hay undertone and an earthy sweetness much like a good maduro with hints of leather and black coffee. At the end a slight bit of nicotine became apparent, just enough to let you know it was there.
The only negative was I noticed a slight bitter aftertaste, but I think that as this has a chance to "breathe" a bit that will dissipate.
It took readily to flame and developed a perfect ember very quickly, burned perfectly and stayed relatively cool throughout. Just past the halfway point I dumped a bit of the accumulated ash and touched up the edges a bit but that was all the correction it needed.
I have a wide-chambered bulldog that I think I will try this in next.

On a side note, I think this would pair very well with a good quality sipping rum.

 

[Douglas]

Can’t sleep so it’s Carter Hall in a cob.

 

[Scottmi]

Ye Olde Signe in ye olde birthyear dunnie shell

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Smoking D&R Ryback in a Dr. Grabow Crown Duke.

 

[gord]

Well, a class act for my evening smoke. My prize Savenelli, coupled with one of the finest Oriental blends I know, a blend that I liked from the first, and still is in my top 3 of this category, Amphora Absolute, or in the States, known as Amphora Rich, I believe. The Sav is not entirely broken in, but I enjoyed a long, flavourful smoke with so many notes it's hard to believe. An extremely responsive pipe with more notes to come when it reaches a real cake stage. The best smoke I've had so far from this striking pipe.

Gonna take a break from everything but Pirate Kake and a cigar or two for two or three days and give my beleagured tongue a rest from all this bowl breaking.

Don't know what pipe I'll be smoking tomorrow, but I assume it'll be one of the well broken in miniatures.

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[JimInks]

Did a little low calorie snacking, and am half way through this bowl of 2018 Sutliff Walnut Match in a 1990s smooth brown medium bend briar calabash shaped Butz-Choquin Maitre Pipier JR Fait Main with a horn ferrule and a black vulcanite stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Daisy the Feral Princess wouldn't come to me when I went outside to get her, but when I walked to the driveway to see what turned on the motion light, she was right with me. I didn't see anything, so I took the opportunity to pick up her over weight self, and brought her inside to eat. She ate plenty before going to the sofa to snooze. She kept staring at me because her blanket wasn't there, so I had to get it out of dryer. Once I set it down, she jumped on to it, and immediately went to sleep. Harry the Hairy was nasty to Tomato the Brave when I put him back outside. Tomato did stand his ground until I got between them, and he ran off. Harry's been laying on the doormat since then as if to advertise his dominance. Harry's not smart, but he is fiercely loyal to me. For his own sake, I wish he had a home where he could share and receive affection in a single cat home.


Harry:


Daisy:


Tomato:

 

[Roach1]

Starting the week with my favorite morning smoke. Haunted Bookshop Cake in a Jirsa Nosewarmer. Also listening to Coast to Coast AM.

 

[JimInks]

Half way through this bowl of year 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a very much appreciated 1979 brown, slight bend grain etched flat front Stanwell Rego 969-48 (09) with a black vulcanite saddle stem.