***What Are You Smoking, March 2023?***
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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.
WCC Old Dominion Flake in a scallop by Tatsuo Tajima with a glass of Orval Trappist ale:
The Country Squire’s Rivendell in a Savinelli Bing’s Favorite
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
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
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.
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.
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
from June 2021 in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiardEarlier in the evening it was cigar time - La Aroma de Cuba Mi Amor
That is a neat looking pipe!
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.
Having a post storm smoke. Pegasus in my Altinay.
Mac Baren’s 7 Seas Black on this rainy evening while walking the dog.
Now Smoking: D&R's Cockstrong, in a 5.5" Brigham Klondike '09, smooth apple, with straight Acrylic stem.
- Sherm Natman
- Sherm Natman
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
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
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:
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
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
Finished March up with a pair of Austrian meers filled with Drucquer and Sons Red Lion
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.
KBV BMP in an Altinay CF stemmed translucent poker/sitter followed by some KBV Yoshimi’s Sweet Muffin in a rusticated Pete 317.
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