Wilke 191 in a Chris Morgan Tankard, tea and honey
***What Are You Smoking, March 2023?***
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C&D Carolina Red Flake (2018) in a Ryan Alden Tomato.
About a third of a bowl left of year 2016 Sutliff Revelation Match in a straight smooth brown post-WWII Kingsway (Comoy’s) London Made 61 Canadian with a tapered black vulcanite stem.
Reiner Long Golden Flake in a Savinelli Punto Oro Gold 701
Hooray! taxes e-filed and sched k-1s distributed. Now to some stoved MB Vanilla Flake in the Gefapip 'Giant' lumberman, with water and some red...and more book!
Now smoking Uhle’s Blend 71 in a smooth straight brown family era Sasieni Mayfair 64 N Canadian with a black tapered vulcanite stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Just fed Sleepy Suzy and the ferals.
Part way through this bowl of Wilke No. 524 in an undated, unbranded, slight bend smooth darker brown made in France Los Alton VBF zulu with a black vulcanite saddle stem.
You've been keeping secrets from me. You didn't clue me into Hal O' The Wynd. Lovely tobacco. Been smoking it all day. Might well do the same tomorrow. All is forgiven 
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Not far from finishing this bowl of Wilke No. 222 in an undated straight, smooth light brown unbranded short shank Bing-ish billiard with a long, tapered black vulcanite stem.
Sir, I'm just curious, why do you use daughter-in-law in Chinese as your tattoo?
Morning smoke of Amphora Regular brown in a Dunhill shell 3109 short canadian
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For me no vaste of money. Didn’t like it at allAre the Peterson Navy Rolls worth the high price tag? Considering buying some
Work's done for the day, and I've a quarter of a bowl left of Wilke Coronado Oriental in a straight black sandblasted undated, unbranded Made in France short shank billiard with a long black vulcanite tapered stem. Molly Danger was yowling for more wet food, so she got more. Sleepy Suzy is living up to her name.
Hopefully, my last smoke of the day will be year 2012 Carter Hall in a black rusticated medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY 4AB No. 437/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. If it isn't, I'll have another smoke.
Unexpectedly found a pipe that had been lost for several years.
My new integrated amplifier arrived today, so when I rearranged the speaker cable behind the cabinet, I found this pipe. According to my guess, the culprit is the domestic beast, but I have no evidence.
My new integrated amplifier arrived today, so when I rearranged the speaker cable behind the cabinet, I found this pipe. According to my guess, the culprit is the domestic beast, but I have no evidence.
Close to finishing this bowl of Angler's Dream in a 2018 natural smooth medium bend Peterson 03 apple silver spigot military mount with a tapered black acrylic fish tail stem. Then, bed.
Now Smoking: Some wonderfully rich and flavorful JAN 2021 EGR which has been composting under intense pressure in a 64oz Ball jar - ala' the processing of Perique - where Wifey and I jammed nearly a pound and a half into that jar a couple of years ago, with great difficulty, she held the jar by the base, as I crammed and jammed as much as I could force into that jar with the aid of a make-shift rounded wooden type of hand plunger, laying all my 200 lbs of body weight into the compression of those beautiful EGR ribbons - and now, liberated and being smoked this morning in a one-dot 5.75" rusticated Brigham Voyageur-Series 09 apple with straight Vulcanite stem.
EGR certainly needs no "help" on it's own right out of the tin - being a flavored aromatic type Burley blend, which imho preforms better right out of tin when the strength of EGR's Secret-Sauce it at it's most potent; rather than after some aging.
In fact, I'd say EGR is better off without composting, as composting definitely alters it's profile - still excellent, but it comes out different.
Unlike the unflavored and untopped Straight Burleys and Burley Blends I enjoy, we did not choose to compost EGR with the idea to enhance it; but rather, Wifey and I were involved in a big move at the time, and space was at a premium, so I had to break-down all my plastic round tubs of EGR into something more compact.
That's the only reason we got into - and accidentally discovered - the benefits and joys of composting Burley under pressure and over time.
I believe, the intense compression of the tabak is the key, along with the natural heat with is generated during the process of natural decomposition. This, over time, greatly amplifies and deepens what is already there in unflavored Burley and unflavored/untopped Burley Blends.
This is wholly different than how I jar Virginia for gentle longer-term aging, where I try not to compress or crush the ribbons.
Gentle with Virginia - like a Virginia Gentleman - and, Brutal with the Burley - like a Burly Brute... That's basically the thinking I am working with.
I don't know if that is "Right"; but it definitely is working for me... so far.
I think - and I really have no clue - the trick with composting Burley in this method is not to do it too long, and over-shoot the smoking window of decomposition.
Besides, it really the bottom half or bottom third of your jar which will blow you away when you finally dig in there.
After all, at what point does a wonderfully aged piece of beef become rancid, or a wine which has aged too long become spoiled and "turn" by exceeding it's drinking window?
As I understand (?) things... those Professionals who use high pressure to accelerate the composting of Red Burley to create Perique, do so with not only within a specific limited time overall frame; but also, on strict schedule, rotate the aging tabaks within the barrels, mixing it all up again before re-applying the high-pressure jack-screws, a few different times within over time to complete the processing.
I guess what we are now playing around with and trying to achieve with Composting Burley tabaks, is the same as when the beef left-overs from Monday night's dinner taste even better on Wednesday, but not so much by Friday.
So far, 2 years undisturbed has yielded me some astounding results at the bottom 1/3 of these jars. I wish I could share with you all, the savory effect this process had on some - at the time - $10 a Pound of RYO store-bought Burley shag in a plastic bag; you would never believe it was the same tabak - not by smell, not by texture, not by taste. An unbelievable transformation occurred.
As an experiment, I would encourage every "Burley Man" to take of those little 4 oz ball jars, and literally cram and jam as much of OJK or Granger, or Haunted Bookshop, or whatever Burley you like best into there - as much and as compressed as humanly possible - so it should be well over 1oz of tabak; and close that little guy up with a DO NOT OPEN UNTIL _____ DATE at least 1 year into the future... And, experience the results composting for yourself.
On Brigham Pipes:
The Brigham Voyageur Series - or the even lower-cost Sandblast line - makes for either a wonderful low-cost entry into the world of Brigham pipes; or, as in my case, wonderful back-line of pipes which smoke without compromise for when my other more high-end Brighams are out-of-rotation while drying on the pipe rack.
My word, pardon me, I am VERY chatty in my posting this morning!
I hope some of that extra info was helpful and/or of interest to some of the Brotherhood out there.
I remain, your - apparently highly-verbose - friend and humble narrator - Sherm 'bald, blah, blah' Natman.
EGR certainly needs no "help" on it's own right out of the tin - being a flavored aromatic type Burley blend, which imho preforms better right out of tin when the strength of EGR's Secret-Sauce it at it's most potent; rather than after some aging.
In fact, I'd say EGR is better off without composting, as composting definitely alters it's profile - still excellent, but it comes out different.
Unlike the unflavored and untopped Straight Burleys and Burley Blends I enjoy, we did not choose to compost EGR with the idea to enhance it; but rather, Wifey and I were involved in a big move at the time, and space was at a premium, so I had to break-down all my plastic round tubs of EGR into something more compact.
That's the only reason we got into - and accidentally discovered - the benefits and joys of composting Burley under pressure and over time.
I believe, the intense compression of the tabak is the key, along with the natural heat with is generated during the process of natural decomposition. This, over time, greatly amplifies and deepens what is already there in unflavored Burley and unflavored/untopped Burley Blends.
This is wholly different than how I jar Virginia for gentle longer-term aging, where I try not to compress or crush the ribbons.
Gentle with Virginia - like a Virginia Gentleman - and, Brutal with the Burley - like a Burly Brute... That's basically the thinking I am working with.
I don't know if that is "Right"; but it definitely is working for me... so far.
I think - and I really have no clue - the trick with composting Burley in this method is not to do it too long, and over-shoot the smoking window of decomposition.
Besides, it really the bottom half or bottom third of your jar which will blow you away when you finally dig in there.
After all, at what point does a wonderfully aged piece of beef become rancid, or a wine which has aged too long become spoiled and "turn" by exceeding it's drinking window?
As I understand (?) things... those Professionals who use high pressure to accelerate the composting of Red Burley to create Perique, do so with not only within a specific limited time overall frame; but also, on strict schedule, rotate the aging tabaks within the barrels, mixing it all up again before re-applying the high-pressure jack-screws, a few different times within over time to complete the processing.
I guess what we are now playing around with and trying to achieve with Composting Burley tabaks, is the same as when the beef left-overs from Monday night's dinner taste even better on Wednesday, but not so much by Friday.
So far, 2 years undisturbed has yielded me some astounding results at the bottom 1/3 of these jars. I wish I could share with you all, the savory effect this process had on some - at the time - $10 a Pound of RYO store-bought Burley shag in a plastic bag; you would never believe it was the same tabak - not by smell, not by texture, not by taste. An unbelievable transformation occurred.
As an experiment, I would encourage every "Burley Man" to take of those little 4 oz ball jars, and literally cram and jam as much of OJK or Granger, or Haunted Bookshop, or whatever Burley you like best into there - as much and as compressed as humanly possible - so it should be well over 1oz of tabak; and close that little guy up with a DO NOT OPEN UNTIL _____ DATE at least 1 year into the future... And, experience the results composting for yourself.
On Brigham Pipes:
The Brigham Voyageur Series - or the even lower-cost Sandblast line - makes for either a wonderful low-cost entry into the world of Brigham pipes; or, as in my case, wonderful back-line of pipes which smoke without compromise for when my other more high-end Brighams are out-of-rotation while drying on the pipe rack.
My word, pardon me, I am VERY chatty in my posting this morning!
I hope some of that extra info was helpful and/or of interest to some of the Brotherhood out there.
I remain, your - apparently highly-verbose - friend and humble narrator - Sherm 'bald, blah, blah' Natman.
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