***What Are You Smoking, June 2020?***

[karam]

I'm trying a number of blends these days:

• GLP Jackknife plug: sadly find this one very dry for the throat and mouth, and overall lacking in flavour
• HU Director's cut: ok will be tarred and feathered for this, but it doesn't do much for me, I was expecting a VaPer, which it is not. There's an obvious sweetening topping on it, and overall very mild taste for me.
• HU Makhuwa: this is really something I can get my teeth in, love it! First puff made me think of Bob's Chocolate Flake, but better!

 

[danimalia]

Ordered 2 tins of Bold Kentucky and got sent 2 tins of ODF instead. Didn't notice untilI cracked one of them. I like ODF just fine but it doesn't provide the gas I need for a morning smoke. Need to replace the unopened tin. Anyway, I'm smoking ODF in a Peterson System Spigot 314.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Lane Black Raspberry in an HT XL Collector Shell Briar.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Wilke No. 13 in a 1980 black rusticated rough top Jobey E27 Stromboli extra ball-shaped poker with a pearl green acrylic stem. Cleaning a few pipes.

 

[jaytex1969]

Amphora Burley Blend in a Todd Harris Lovat Panel Morta.

 

[madox07]

Ashton Winding Road in a no name half bent St Claude Billiard.

 

[trubka2]

 

[desrtrat68]

Nightcap in my Digby 864

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking D&R Raccoon’s Delight in a smooth 1976 Canadian GBD Seventy Six 256 with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Watching a documentary about Abigail Adams.

 

[trubka2]

Hal o the Wynd in a Roberts Hand-Finished Algerian Briar.

 

[gamzultovah]

Is it 4:00 a.m. already? Let’s get the day started with some Watch City Rhythm & Blues in my trusty and ruggedly beautiful Francois Daal Lovat. This is my first time trying this blend, let’s see how it goes.

 

[gamzultovah]

I'm trying a number of blends these days:

• GLP Jackknife plug: sadly find this one very dry for the throat and mouth, and overall lacking in flavour
• HU Director's cut: ok will be tarred and feathered for this, but it doesn't do much for me, I was expecting a VaPer, which it is not. There's an obvious sweetening topping on it, and overall very mild taste for me.
• HU Makhuwa: this is really something I can get my teeth in, love it! First puff made me think of Bob's Chocolate Flake, but better!

Directors Cut made the same impression on me, so I traded it away. Dockworker, which I fully expected to dislike because of the high Burley content, knocked my socks off though. Go figure?

 

[gamzultovah]

Enjoyed a weekend with family camping and fishing. Had some KBV King’s Ransom, Mycroft, and Jupiter Slices, some McLelland Master Penman, SG 1792 Flake, and HU Fayyum Kake in a variety of pipes including a Boswell’s Fishing Pipe, Tsuge Stack, Brebbia Sun, Dagner/MM Poker Cob, and Nording Compass.

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What? No riots there??? What strange planet do you live on, friend?

 

[JimInks]

Last smoke of the day is Ken Byron Ventures Burlier Morning Pipe in a smooth three quarter bend 1979 made in Israel billiard with a black vulcanite tapered stem. Doing some research.

 

[karam]

Directors Cut made the same impression on me, so I traded it away. Dockworker, which I fully expected to dislike because of the high Burley content, knocked my socks off though. Go figure?

Thank you, I have Dockworker in the drawer, think I'll like it right off the bat.

Makhuwa REALLY impressed me by the way - I got some spicyness that I thought was from an exotic Burley, but then read it contains Perique in fact. It's strong, it has a mild chocolate taste which is not obtrusive.

This trying of blends reaffirms the concept that if a blend doesn't grab me by the balls from charring light it's probably not for me.

 

[Mis Pipas]

My first blend this morning is S.G. Golden Glow in Savinelli Otello. Full-bent, black rusticated, classic Billiard style with a little silver color ring

 

[MrTom]

It may. I don't know. I've never drank a straight cup of chicory.

 

[judcole]

MacB Golden Extra in a Country Gent to start my day.

 

[MrTom]

China's Heaven in a Peterson's Kerry 05 pipe.

 

[guylesss]

This morning I'm finishing off the last of the 2007 Caravan in a "well-smoked" 1925 Dunhill 36 Bruyere (with a replaced stem and a plain, non-AD silver-plate band). The question to now be faced is whether to continue with vintage Pease, or try my first tin of Spark Plug?