***What Are You Smoking, May 2024?***

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and sugar snap peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm near the last quarter of this bowl of year 2010 Mac Baren Burley London Blend in a 2017 smooth, straight medium brown made in France Comoy’s Riband 298 Canadian with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.

 

[Pappy Coon]

SV Peach and Mellow mixed 50/50. Aired both big bags out separately for three days stirring occasionally, then put an ounce of each in a zip lock to marry. Came together quite nicely.

 

[PaulRVA]

49 or 50 Ford?

Good Catch! 1950

 

[PaulRVA]

HH Latakia Flake in a Peterson Deluxe System 12.5

 

[ThomasS]

Nice Pipe there, how is the taste compared to briar?

Briar has a sweet fragrance that the olive doesn’t. It’s very neutral IMO, with only the very faintest vinegary overtone when fully warm. Not as strong as walnut, but noticeable.

It doesn’t seem to get any warmer than briar, but I do my best to smoke slowly so that is probably a bigger factor.

It is a bit lighter than a briar of the same size.

 

[tmcg81]

Pegasus in a no name Italian basket pipe. When I first started really smoking burley, this was the pipe that I used, and then 90% of my pipes became burley pipes and I kinda forgot I even owned it. This thing smokes everything I put in it extremely well. It gets a little warm sometimes, but it's always dry. I'm not really a smoker that can pick out flavors, I just love smoking, but this pipe really brings out the chocolatey notes in burley blends. At least enough for me to notice.

 

[tfdickson]

Pipes, Pours, & Perique in my Castello shape 215.

 

[FurCoat]

Good Catch! 1950

I love old cars. I like the refinements of new cars but they lack a soul.

 

[cshubhra]

Sutliff Crème Brûlée spiked with shredded whole leaf wild Rustica (50:50) in a Falcon with Meerschaum Bowl

 

[telescopes]

Smoking Captain Bob, thanks to a sample from @onepyrotec. More of a Concord wine in my opinion than a jar of grape jelly.

 

[Pappy Coon]

Arango BS in a Nording. Watching a replay of a USA vs Bangladesh Cricket match.

 

[telescopes]

Captain Bob in a Stanwell 91.

 

[fishmansf]

This IMP meerschaum full of GL Pease Gaslight. I’ve never liked how this colored and wish it still looked new. But the good news is I call this my pipe my work horse. If I am ever reluctant to smoke a blend in any of my briars I’ll pull this out before a cob.

Now this gas light reminds me of how an aromatic can withstand the test of time because it’s been in the original tin and open for about a year lol.

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Enjoy it, I would kill for my meer to color like this

 

[JimInks]

About a third of a bowl left of year 2015 Mac Baren Modern Virginia in a medium bend, smooth dark brown 1950s Peterson 999 Shamrock chubby Rhodesian with a tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem. Stuff burns slow even after eight years in a jar. Watching the Dodgers-D-Backs game.

 

[JimInks]

A third of the way through this bowl of year 2014 Esoterica And So To Bed in a straight post-1981 GBD Prehistoric 133 billiard with brass accents, the letter K stamped on the shank with a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[Steddy]

Rattray’s Marlin Flake in a Peterson 338 for the ride home from work. Burning Spear on the radio.

 

[Wbryant454]

I've got some of that but cannot seem to get it dry enough. What's the secret?

I put about an oz in a plate and dry in my oven for about 10 minutes at 170 degrees. Steam will rise off it and then let cool.

 

[Bbailey324]

RLP-6 in a Peterson Dracula 80s. Hopefully the last pipe of the day then bed.

 

[Wbryant454]

I've got some of that but cannot seem to get it dry enough. What's the secret?

It’s also best smoked in a Meerschaum I think. I smoke most aromatics in meer.

 

[Skippy B. Coyote]

It's Orlik Golden Sliced in the Rattray's Blower's Daughter for me tonight, as I celebrate the completion of an art project.