***What Are You Smoking, March 2024?***
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Beautiful pipe sir. Love the shaping on this one, and gorgeous grain orientation. I'll hope you're enjoying
Capstan Blue in a D. Miscoi Canadian With Fossilized Whale Bone
Smoking CS Cowboy Coffee in a SMS Bent Rhodesian meer with black coffee. Beautiful day!
PS Evening Flake in my 8711 Kaywoodie drinkless.
GLP Windjammer in a Radice rind billiard
HU Joschis Oriental Sunrise in the '34 Barlings Make S-M.
in a Satou
Did a set of walking reps, and smoked a bowl of year 2016 D&R Three Sails in an undated straight brush etched black Molina apple with a nickel band and a tapered black vulcanite stem. Just finished a tasty lunch, too.
Now smoking year 2000 VaPer Three Nuns in a 1938 straight black grain relief Dunhill OX Shell bulldog with a silver band repair with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Have enough for one more bowl. Gold Star Cafe 645, neat, is my drink.
To begin, the differences were very subtle; I likely wouldn't have noticed were I not comparing them side by side as well as being in an analytical mode as opposed to just smoking my pipe mode.
The hydrated batch took a little edge/roughness off, particularly during the light and just after.
The base note of barnyard funk was ever so slightly more in the forefront in the "wet" batch (I'm tired of typing "hydrated"; it was actually about the perceived moisture level of, say, Three Sails.)
However the funk (which if you dislike you won't enjoy this tobacco wet or dry) was probably accentuated because the top note--floral-- was slightly suppressed. The dry batch was overall a bit brighter, the wet batch darker.
Additionally, there was sort of a chest-nutty middle note in the dry batch I didn't notice in the wet. Interesting and pleasant, perhaps the biggest plus for the dry.
On balance I've got to go with Sammy Hagar; it's better bone dry. More complex, better balanced...at least provisionally, based on one casual experiment. And you can't roll a decent cigarette out of it and it's a tobacco that works great as a cigarette. Think Gauloise.
This, of course, begs the question: is there something specific about Semois, or would everything taste better dry? There are people who think so, but in any case I won't be taking on that experiment.
To close non sequiturially:
Triple Play in a small pipe.
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Earlier I smoked Daughters & Ryan Three Sails in a MM Eaton Cob
Now it’s cigar time: La Aroma de Cuba Antano Connecticut
Now it’s cigar time: La Aroma de Cuba Antano Connecticut
Semois with pinch of StBernard in DonCarlos
Clearly a fake and defective. You can throw it in with the the Wicklow 53 and mail it to me.
One day I want to be as happy as you look. Enjoy, my friend!
Relaxing after lunch smoke . The Altinay Rusticated Dublin with Peretti #8 Slice. A glass of 50/50 homemade kombucha and black ice tea.
Sample of this baccy provided by @PrivatePiping
First impressions, very good, balanced VaPer. Subtle sweetness, some citrus and a hint of spice from Perique.
Sample of this baccy provided by @PrivatePiping
First impressions, very good, balanced VaPer. Subtle sweetness, some citrus and a hint of spice from Perique.
Thanks for your kind words. It is a perfect smoker. I'm a big fan of your collection as well (including the guitars and records!).
Edward G Robinson's Pipe Blend in a Peterson Spigot. This pipe used to be green, but over a few years on my back porch, sun exposure changed the coloration, and I like it better this way. When I first noticed the effect of having left it out in the sun for days, I simply rotated it over time to get even coverage.
Dunhill 3 yr Matured in a Castello 33.
A third of a bowl left of year 2020 Watch City Rouxgaroux in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Natural 4AB No. 6/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Enjoyed a chat with my friend Pete, who owns over 2,000 pipes.
I got a spam call from “James Taylor” today. I picked up the phone and started singing:
In my mind I’ve always hated spammers
I’m from Alabamar
On your face I’ll use a hammer…
The person on the other line started laughing and hung up.
I got a spam call from “James Taylor” today. I picked up the phone and started singing:
In my mind I’ve always hated spammers
I’m from Alabamar
On your face I’ll use a hammer…
The person on the other line started laughing and hung up.
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