***What Are You Smoking, March 2023?***

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[GatorElGato]

Caught a break in the all day rainfall to enjoy another bowl of The Royal Yacht Mixture. Listening to the Sox Astros game, while watching some minor league ball.

 

[shanez]

WCC Old Dominion Flake in a scallop by Tatsuo Tajima with a glass of Orval Trappist ale:

 

[WildTurkeySurprise]

The Country Squire’s Rivendell in a Savinelli Bing’s Favorite

 

[Sobrbiker]

Are all your pets called Kevin?

Dogs-Kevin, George, Lucy
Horses-Bob and Gracie

 

[jakesmokes]

 

[OzPiper]

It’s 1st April on our side of the pond

A tasting bowl of Sam Gawith’s blending Perique

In a double walled porcelain Royal Copenhagen quarter bent Dublin with vulcanite stem.
A Jorn Micke design


The Perique had some raisiny, figgy character with a foetid, if not faecal top note.
Peppery on the palate and retrohale.
Voluminous smoke, even when sipped.
Noticeable nic hit, even in this small group 1 bowl.
Smokeable on its own, but I will use it as a blending condiment

 

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking 2021 Watch City Simply Orange Virginia in a black sandblast medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY 4AB No. 182/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Time for an apple.

 

[canucklehead]

Sutliff bulk #600, aka the infamous Mixture 79, in a little cob because this is the first time I've smoked it. My wife says the bag (fresh out of the mail from Smokingpipes) smells like licorice and root beer.

 

[cshubhra]

Cornell & Diehl Sun Bear Black Locust from June 2021 in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard

Earlier in the evening it was cigar time - La Aroma de Cuba Mi Amor

 

[Carol]

It’s 1st April on our side of the pond

A tasting bowl of Sam Gawith’s blending Perique

In a double walled porcelain Royal Copenhagen quarter bent Dublin with vulcanite stem.
A Jorn Micke design
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The Perique had some raisiny, figgy character with a foetid, if not faecal top note.
Peppery on the palate and retrohale.
Voluminous smoke, even when sipped.
Noticeable nic hit, even in this small group 1 bowl.
Smokeable on its own, but I will use it as a blending condiment

That is a neat looking pipe!

 

[JimInks]

Off to work with a bowl of year 2018 Mac Baren Acadian Perique in a straight smooth brown 1933-36 KBB Yello-Bole Honey Cured Briar 2384 Acorn with a tapered yellow rock ambra stem.

 

[didimauw]

Having a post storm smoke. Pegasus in my Altinay.

 

[happy_lunter]

Mac Baren’s 7 Seas Black on this rainy evening while walking the dog.

 

[shermnatman]

Now Smoking: D&R's Cockstrong, in a 5.5" Brigham Klondike '09, smooth apple, with straight Acrylic stem.

- Sherm Natman

 

[OzPiper]

A second bowl in this Franken-clay - Cutty clay bowl, bamboo extension, acrylic tortoise shell stem with silver ferrule


A home blend of Edoterica Tilbury, C&D red Virginia and Sam Gawith’s blending Perique
Proportion: 40:40:20 %

Not quite the raisiny, figgy plummy profile I was after
Back to the drawing board

 

[shanez]

Round 2 is some DT Ascanian #2 in a speared fish by Sergey Senatorov with a glass of 1974 Vintage Château Pomès-Pébérère Bas Armagnac Ténarèze with my buddy Bingo whom my daughter thought needed to be in the pic:

 

[OzPiper]

A 3rd (small) bowl of Sam Gawith’s Black Forest

In a 1/8th unnamed bent billiard - block meerschaum lined Brylon bought in the early ‘70s



With a kookaburra for company in the front yard

 

[onepyrotec]

Finished March up with a pair of Austrian meers filled with Drucquer and Sons Red Lion

 

[BarrelProof]

Repeat of last night, minus the swans.

KBV BMP in an Altinay CF stemmed translucent poker/sitter followed by some KBV Yoshimi’s Sweet Muffin in a rusticated Pete 317.