Thanks Gord. It's one of my favorites.
***What Are You Smoking, July 2025?***
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Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and green beans dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm smoking year 2014 Full Virginia Flake in a straight 1968 Dunhill Shell bulldog with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. Recording baseball games while I watch part one of the HBO Max documentary on Billy Joel. Abner the Eager finally went outside a while ago. The others were in and out, but Harry the Hairy is still inside. As bad as the humidity is, I'm sure it affects him the most with all that hair he has.
Dunhill Flake in this Savinelli Eleganza 315. Earl Grey.
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Cobs are excellent smokers. What bang for the buck! I love mine!Rare Double Afternoon Smoke: I took my main travel pipe, my Straight Falcon, with the Bantam bowl, and had a very nice smoke with Brigham's English Mix. It was the driest tobacco I had handy, not bone dry but dry.
I did an immediate repeat of this tobacco in my new MM Meerschaum Original, with the previously posted clear stem, for a condensation observation with a dry tobacco.
Both pipes have fairly small capacities, so I figured that having two consecutive smokes with the same tobacco in two smallish bowled pipes, would be like my usual favoured hour long English smoke in a larger pipe, in the afternoon. Figured right, about 30 minutes in each.
Observations in Skippable Drivel after the snap.
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Skippable Drivel: It was nice to use the Falcon again, which has wasted away in it's travel pack for an outdoor excursion. So much rain lately that it has languished. I very much enjoyed the smoke. Brigham's English Mix is sturdy fare, full and with a floral component that gives it a complexity I could actually taste much of, today. (It's called Mr. B's English Mix in Canada, for those of you up here who'd like to give this tobacco a whirl).
The smoke in the Cob was revealing - there was almost no condensation build up at all - just three or four droplets close to the stem. It was fun to watch the smoke in the stem rising as I drew, and fall back into the pipe when I took it out of my mouth and held it on a slight cant. No ash or residue at the end, either. Smoked clean throughout.The pipe cleaner came out almost clean and dry in both pipes. This is one Lat that doesn't get messy, but it does burn faster and a bit hotter than say, Presbyterian Mixture or TobaccoBarn's Traditional English.
I'm constantly amazed at how good just about anything tastes in a cob. Think I'll keep this one, and take it out along with the Falcon for a two pipe outing, maybe at the range.
Pretty sure I'll be a bit more meticulous about drying out very moist aromatics like any of the Smoker's Pride products. Some tobaccos come much drier in the packets, like SWR. Still a big learning curve ahead.
I'm also thinking about many of you who have noted the travails associated with hot, muggy and humid weather. Could be a factor - it's been very wet up here, alternating with periods of intense sun. I get it!
I was wondering about a fresh tin. Thanks for adding it to my list. I’ve never tried it.More Wessex Classic Virginia.....with Perique, in a Rad Davis Smokers Forums POY 2008.
Even though this tin is from 2025, the other tin I have isn't going to last long. This is perfect right from the fresh tin. My favorite tin pop in 2025 so far.
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XXV Reserve Dusk in my Castello bent bulldog.
Now smoking several years old Dunhill Elizabethan in a straight smooth, dark brown patent era 1952 Dunhill Bruyere ODA apple 806 B124 with a black vulcanite tapered stem.
St Bruno Flake in a Kaywoodie Silhouette shape 07 billiard. A few years ago, I got super into St Bruno. I bought a few pouches of the ready rubbed and some tins of Flake. It's all I wanted to smoke. I blew through that and made a couple decent sized purchases and upon opening a tin, something was for sure different. I got frustrated and I dont think ive smoked it in a couple years. I'm smoking it now, and while it seems better than it did when I put it away, something is still off. I'm gonna do a deep clean on this pipe and try again.
Had a great show and I'm finally getting to that Cumberland.
Briarworks Country Lawyer in a Savinelli 114KS.
Relaxing in the cool twilight with Erik Stokkebye 4th Generation Evening Flake in my BriarWorks Classic sandblasted billiard. Finally smoking this for the first time. I jarred it up immediately up receiving it last October. I’m getting lots of citrus and muted hay, but barely detectable fig and spice from the perique. I’d rate this above Luxury Navy Flake and Peterson’s Flake, but not above HU Janneman Flake. Very different from Carolina Red Flake and Luxury Bullseye Flake. A truly pleasant VaPer smoke for the evening in any case!
Well, once you asked that question, *everything* started looking like a "hiding black & white cat!" LOL. . .
But where is the black and white cat?
Ohhhhh, she's hiding.
. . .
My guesses ... Ha ha
Old Joe Krantz in a Pete Irish Harp Lovat.
A third of a bowl left of 2017 Watch City Deluxe Crumb Cut in a 2016 Peretti's M.T. Natural made in Holland straight smooth brown Algerian briar billiard with a tapered black acrylic stem.
First smoke in a new to me Kaywoodie 8751S, half a pack of Ryback+P.
Hardly smoked it looks, and is a head scratcher for the usual KW dating info: four digit number is usually mid thirties, 87 for the first two numbers should be a screw in Drinkless fitment and this has a push tenon, Kaywoodie over Imported Briar is after 36.
The 51S in the four digit number at least matches what it is.
The only rule in dating Kaywoodies is that the rules don’t always apply
Hardly smoked it looks, and is a head scratcher for the usual KW dating info: four digit number is usually mid thirties, 87 for the first two numbers should be a screw in Drinkless fitment and this has a push tenon, Kaywoodie over Imported Briar is after 36.
The 51S in the four digit number at least matches what it is.
The only rule in dating Kaywoodies is that the rules don’t always apply
Now smoking Wilke Surbrug’s Crystal Palace in a dark brown smooth straight post-WW2 LHS Certified Purex 79 bulldog with a nickel ferrule and tenon with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. As soon as Harry the Hairy finishes eating, I'll see if Daisy the Feral Princess and Tomato the Brave want to eat. Abner the Eager, too, if he's around. Watching the Braves-Yankees game that I recorded.
Wilke Crystal Palace in a Poul Winslow from his Classic Line. 
Briar Fox, this time in the Country Gentleman. On a muggy but breezy Texas night.
Due to extensive peer pressure on this thread (LOL), drink is coconut water over miniature icebergs.
It's the BAI kind, because I don't want any sugar, but tastes the same. So far so good! Cheers!
Due to extensive peer pressure on this thread (LOL), drink is coconut water over miniature icebergs.
It's the BAI kind, because I don't want any sugar, but tastes the same. So far so good! Cheers!
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