Decided the Red Hunt was too wet & getting a little sour, so I'll dry it more before hitting again. Went to an old favorite courtesy of Sandollers, Maltese Falcon in an old (very!) SON freehand. Real comfort smoke for a Latakia buff!
***What Are You Smoking, May 2020?***
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Now smoking Wessex Campaign Dark Flake in this Mastro Beraldi bent Dublin. I have to focus on sipping right now. 
F-It type of day... University Flake in a recent birthday present.
Just came back inside from trying out Lane 1-Q for the first time in a matte black Big Ben Barbados 648. It wasn't what I was expecting at all, and I quite like it!
I was expecting it to be one of those cloying sugarbomb aromatics that smells like burning potpourri and tastes vaguely like sugary steam, but it's not. The aromatic components are more prominent in the room note than they are in the taste, and they accentuate the tobacco notes quite nicely.
I'm particularly fond of how the Kentucky fried burley plays a bit of lightly spicy peekaboo with what I assume to be a light, neutral Virginia, and how the vanilla/caramel elements are a subtle garnish. It doesn't really bite, but it can make your tongue feel a bit spicy if you smoke too fast. I actually sort of enjoy that sensation, and sipping a nice, strong coffee while smoking it cancels out most of that tongue spiciness (coffee is acidic, acids and bases neutralize each other).
It's a bit like Prince Albert and Carter Hall in that it's not particularly complex, is easy to get along with for beginners, and the smell won't clear a room like someone accidentally kicked over a basket of live scorpions.
I was expecting it to be one of those cloying sugarbomb aromatics that smells like burning potpourri and tastes vaguely like sugary steam, but it's not. The aromatic components are more prominent in the room note than they are in the taste, and they accentuate the tobacco notes quite nicely.
I'm particularly fond of how the Kentucky fried burley plays a bit of lightly spicy peekaboo with what I assume to be a light, neutral Virginia, and how the vanilla/caramel elements are a subtle garnish. It doesn't really bite, but it can make your tongue feel a bit spicy if you smoke too fast. I actually sort of enjoy that sensation, and sipping a nice, strong coffee while smoking it cancels out most of that tongue spiciness (coffee is acidic, acids and bases neutralize each other).
It's a bit like Prince Albert and Carter Hall in that it's not particularly complex, is easy to get along with for beginners, and the smell won't clear a room like someone accidentally kicked over a basket of live scorpions.
Enjoying a cellared Skiff Mixture in my late 50’s early 60’s Barling Dublin with a quarter bent vulcanite mouthpiece.
Now smoking Wilke No.13 in a 1980 black rusticated rough top Jobey E27 Stromboli extra ball-shaped poker with a pearl green acrylic stem.
Amphora Burley Blend in a BriarWorks Poker.
Finished Amphora Virginia in a Gigi Intermezzo pipe & next a Home Mix in a Blakemar Billiard pipe.
G&H Best Brown No. 2 in Castello Sea Rock stack. My second smoke in it and it is a flake champ.
Wessex Brigade Campaign Dark Flake in a Savinelli Zulu
Dunhill Shell Briar - Shape 32, from '46 & SMM. 
I enjoy 1-Q as well, though I rarely engage it. It's a good one. Something of a recommendation I think you might really enjoy from this experience is to take a try at a tin of Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend. A favorited Aromatic on my list that is not so much a sugar bomb, but packs some great deeper flavors.
Ah, gotcha. Good choice also . I go so far back I remember when Tucker's shop was still upstairs in Oxmoor!
Now smoking Wilke Chocolate in a 1979 no name French briar smooth full bend egg with a black vulcanite stem.
A Home Mix in a Savinelli Dry System 621 pipe.
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