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

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am smoking Robert McConnell’s Scottish Blend in a 2002 black pebble finish straight Cavicchi C. Fatto A Mano lovat with a black acrylic saddle stem. I may end the day with this smoke.

 

[lkwttwkl]

Mac Baren - Amphora Special Reserve in a Tsuge KAGA 902.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Morning smoke of Mc Barens HH Burley flake rubbed out in an Ashton XX Old Church Long canadian

 

[Jwebb90]

Yorktown in a cob while I study Bulgarian.

 

[UB 40]

Deep in the heart of Germany with my CAO Lattice Meerschaum and a bowl full of Artisans. View attachment 220854

I am not sure where the heart of Germany officially is situated, if there is any at all. If you goggle the term some tourist information on Facebook tells you it might be in Saxony-Thuringia.

So my dear telescope you might be sailing the Elbe in bad weather up to Dresden, and maybe you’re gonna meet there „Pudels Kern“ (Mephistopheles). Welcome in Germany.

 

[DanWil84]

DTM Patriot Flake in the one year meer

 

[pipenschmoeker123]

Smoked yesterday evening Sutliff Balkan Sobranie in a Savinelli Autograph

 

[UB 40]

DTM Patriot Flake in the one year meer

I just ordered that Virginia recently, I like it.

 

[PipeIT]

John Cotton’s Double Pressed Virginia in a Radice Rind Straight.

Be well, everyone!

 

[haebar]

After a good night's sleep, smoking some Five Brothers in an E.A. Carey billiard.

 

[mossdoug]

More sun bear for the ride back to Columbus

 

[DanWil84]

I just ordered that Virginia recently, I like it.

I think its decent for what it is, but I think the flake packaging of DTM is a bit weird. Its like a crumble cake without really crumbling, its like a plug without needing a knife. You can forget to be able to pull out a flake, fold it twice and stuff it. I'm more used to Mac Barren or Kohlhase und Kopp flakes which are neat, lose, uniform and easy to pull out.

Also smoked Presbyterian in the one year meer.

 

[judcole]

Golden Extra in a Mark Twain.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Yoshimi's Out Shine

 

[captpat]

Cuban Mixture in a BC Rhodesian

 

[Chalaw87]

Putting down my pipe with Best Brown Flake long enough to eat the Sammich my lovely wife made for me. Trying some ketchup Doritos for the first time.
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Did the Dortios "bag note" remind you of a McClelland blend?

 

[dPero]

Amfora virginia in Radice and coffee

 

[The Clay King]

I don't smoke clay pipes very often, but I'll take your word on that. Do you smoke clays exclusively? I only have a clay churchwarden, a Williamsburg, Virginia Tavern pipe, that I bought on eBay. The reason that I don't smoke it very often is that it seems to take two hands to smoke it. I'd like to explore the smaller clays; where do you buy yours?

We're having thunderstorms here in East Tennessee currently. Just finished some ribs left over from my lunch at Applebee's. Won't be getting ribs there in the future; they weren't very good for what I paid for them. Smoking some Boswell's Pennsylvania Dutch Treat that they sent me when I bought a pipe from them a few weeks ago. Smoking it in a Peterson's Shamrock Dublin.

@haebar Yes I smoke clays exclusively. Mine tend to be from eBay or Smokingpipes.com; I like the Old Dominion clays and imagine they'd suit living history re-enactment. Some of my clays were picked up at flea markets and antiques / collectibles shops as well.

 

[AJL67]

2023 Simply Red in the Paykoc.

 

[timt]

Did the Dortios "bag note" remind you of a McClelland blend?

I suppose anytime tobacco and ketchup are in the same zip code McClelland might come to mind. Regarding the ketchup Doritos though, I like them better than the ketchup Lays. They’re a lot more vinegary than the Lays.

This morning I’m starting the day with some WCC Old Dominion in a cob.