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

[FurCoat]

Garden work while smoking WCC ACP in spme yard cobs

 

[didimauw]

Tinsky sighting! Nice Dublin. Stay cool and dry.

Hahaha nope I sold my Tinsky for personal reasons. That's my new Ropp billiard! Smokes just as good as the Tinsky, for 1/6 of the price!

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Newminster 400 in an Altinay.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking and reviewing Per G. Jensen Blender’s Collection Burley in a straight smooth brown 2012 Paul Perri billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[PaulRVA]

I just want to say, Ser Jacobo managed to overcome my distaste for Hawkbills with that apple bowl and fine blast there. I'll bet the pic doesn't do it justice.

Thanks @mpjetset. Ive been real happy with SJ’s over the years.

 

[ThermionicScott]

SJF in my Medico pot.



Great smoke, and the bowl lasted just over two hours.

 

[das3353]

2021 HH Burley Flake in a Pete Spigot 999

 

[rsshreck32]

It took a fair bit of conviction to finish that bowl of War Horse Bar I was smoking earlier, since the chemically mothball taste got pretty overwhelming by the halfway point, but finish it I did and now that I have I don't think I want to smoke War Horse Bar ever again!

With that out of the way though it's on to the next blend on my "to try" list, Gawith Hoggarth Kendal Dark. I'm sampling it in a Dr. Grabow Lark.

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I had never smoked a shag cut tobacco in a pipe before, but I really like how easy Kendal Dark is to pack, light, and keep lit outdoors on a blustery day. I can definitely see how this could be a favorite of fishermen. Being shag cut the tobacco does burn quite quickly, but stays cool and exceptionally smooth with no sinus irritation on the retrohale. In a little pipe like this Dr. Grabow Lark you'll only get a 15 or 20 minute smoke from it, but with how impressively strong Kendal Dark is in the Vitamin N department I think 15 or 20 minutes is about all I'd want.

The dark fired Virginia flavor is pleasant, but a little dirty tasting (as in, it tastes like there's a little dirt mixed in with the Virginias) and less woody or barbeque smokey than something like Old Dark Fired. I really like the mechanics and strength of this blend, but the flavor doesn't seem to be quite what I'm looking for. I'll have to give Dark Bird's Eye a go instead the next time I place a tobacco order, since it seems to be a similar blend with a somewhat different flavor.

I've never had War Horse Bar, but Dark Bird's Eye is awesome if you enjoy DFK.

 

[rsshreck32]

Five Brothers in a Boswell this evening.

 

[keith929]

Drexel and 507C Virginia Slices in a 2011 Rad Davis bent billiard.

 

[estate_cob]

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Bought an ounce of perique that I mixed unscientifically with the MacBaren VA1. Third pipe tobacco I've tried. I'll let you know if I survive the experience.

Enjoying with a homebrew NEIPA.

Little wobbly in the knees but I made it.

Is it supposed to make you grow hair in weird places, though?

 

[VDL_Piper]

Cold and wet here today with 19.5mm in the gauge, had a Castello Pi filled with McConnell’s Red Virginia as I did the check. Now to sit out of the wind and enjoy this tasty blend.

 

[PaulRVA]

Capt Earle’s Ten Russians in a Peterson 12.5

 

[TN Jed]

Louisiana Flake in an Altinay. Happy Friday Good People!

 

[Hillcrest]

This morning Sutliffe 507-C in the Vauen Olaf bent egg. This afternoon the same in the Pete Pub. An interesting day today, a new neighbor, who allegedly hails from a large southeastern Asian country, wanted to clear some brush and wet grass, (the back half of his backyard) and decided to introduce the neighborhood to the technique of 'slash and burn' without the slash ... after several downwind neighbors were smoked out of their homes ... the 'not pleased' local volunteer fire department loudly and politely explained that we don't do that here in suburbia. It used to be such a quiet neighborhood !!
P.S. Not a sweet hay flavor ... more robust English blend !

 

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking year 2016 Peter Heinrichs Special Curly in a straight smooth brown 1950s The Saint James London Pipe (Comoy’s second) 185M billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

First smoke out of this grainy Big Ben Barbados bent tomato…Newminster round slices and espresso,

 

[estate_cob]

This thing in this thing. Two more B&M scores. When I was in there, a dad was explaining pipes to his kid.

Scottish 60 shilling homebrew on the side.

What the hell? It's Friday.

(Me Googling: "how to open tin pipe tobacco.")

 

[Bbailey324]

MB HH Pure Va in a Peterson Dracula 80s.

 

[JimInks]

A third of the way through this bowl of Per G. Jensen Blender’s Collection Virginia in a 2002 smooth natural straight silver banded Ardor Venere Extra Fatta A Mano Maigret billiard, signed by Dorelio Rovera with a tapered black acrylic stem. Reviewing and watch the Braves-Pirates game.