***What Are You Smoking, June 2020?***
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Smoking some 5-year aged C&D Red Carpet I received as a sample from a friend...drinking a hazy IPA and plotting the next additions to my flake hoard 
I’m going to go against the grain and say no.
Its pretty high, that alone has kept me ran off..
I dunno I just didn’t think it was that good really. It’s fine but nothing I’d buy.
Marlin Flake in a Peterson Rosslare Royal Irish XL02. 
Smoking some Peter Stokkebye virginia 701 out of a MM Missouri Meerschaum (country gentleman) cob and trying to stay cool with a tall glass of iced tea. Good Evening everyone !
Some old and crispy St. James Flake in a Ben Wade Tankard/Barrel thing.
Smoking my own Va-Bur-Cav processed from whole leaf, with Brown Cavendish I cooked myself, in a cheap-ass Barlow & Dorr billiard, drinking a homebrewed all-grain Cream Ale I tapped tonight after lagering 4 weeks. Smooove, all around.
About a third of bowl left of Sutliff Prince Andrew in a 2020 smooth light brown, slight bent J. Everett straight grain chubby author with a spalted birch ferrule and a black saddle vulcanite stem in the military mount style.
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Incendiary Device: Missouri Meerschaum bent Twain, blk/wht swirl "Regal" Forever Stem
Quenching Device: Garage Brewing - Belgian Tripel
Adventuring Device: Guild Wars 2
Sonic Device: Goddess of Bagpipes Snake Charmer
Incendiary Device: Missouri Meerschaum bent Twain, blk/wht swirl "Regal" Forever Stem
Quenching Device: Garage Brewing - Belgian Tripel
Adventuring Device: Guild Wars 2
Sonic Device: Goddess of Bagpipes Snake Charmer
Samuel Gawith Balkan Flake (3+ years aged) in a Dunhill Tanshell Diplomat from 1977. The Virginia’s in this tobacco has matured very well to a beautiful complexity
The price is high, but the blocks are incredibly dense and no matter how you slice it, you'll get a long, cool smoke. Not only that, if you like
Also, the price isn't as high as it seems when you compare its weight to what you would pay for the weight of the Navy Rolls. In fact, an equal amount of Navy Rolls ($16.95 a tin) would cost you more than Curly Block ($16.10 per 50 grams).
Here's my review if it'll help you decide:
The Virginias are very earthy and woody with a fair amount and variety of sweet fermented flavors: brown sugar, tangy dried and ripe dark fruits, light tart and tangy citrus, some floralness as well as a little grass. The perique is spicy, raisiny, figgy, and plumy with date overtones. The fermentation process enhances the inherent properties of the tobaccos and creates a harmonious smoking experience that tastes the same from the first puff to the last. The strength, nic-hit and taste levels are medium. No chance of bite or harshness, though it does have a light roughness. No dull or weak spots. Curly Block reminds me very much of the Murray’s version of Dunhill Deluxe Navy Rolls, except that this is sweeter and just a little smoother, with a shade less perique, and slightly higher floral note. Both have a touch of licorice, prune and plum toppings, too. The block (not plug) of tobacco will take some time to slice and prepare to your personal specifications. It’s moist and some may want to dry it first, though I find it works fine as it is, providing it’s packed a little loosely in the bowl. Burns cool, clean and very slow, requires some relights, and leaves very little moisture in the bowl if packed with care, so I suggest a little patience for the full experience of what it has to offer. Though you may have to stir the bottom ten percent just a little if you don’t use a wide bowl, you can smoke it to a fine ash. Has a very smooth, well balanced, deeply rich sweet, floral, spicy flavor from start to finish. The after taste will pleasantly linger as will the lightly stronger room note. Not an all day smoke, but it is repeatable.
thank god for people like you, reading this made my day.
Just finished smoking C&D Burley Ribbon Cut in a 1970s slight bend black sandblasted Comoy's Silver Cloud 624 sitter with a silver pearl gray acrylic saddle stem.
Elizabethan in a Mauro Armellini bent billiard. Just got my GL Pease order in from smokingpipes.com, excited to drop off some tins and have a smoke or three with my buddy on Friday.
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