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

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty Jazz apple, and am smoking year 2012 Anniversary Kake in a smooth burgundy medium bend 1979 Chippendale (Charatan second) Rhodesian 49 with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Smokes as well as a first and worth the $19.95 I paid for it all those years ago. This'll do it for me today. Reading baseball box scores.

 

[dino]

Tuesday was International Tennessee Whiskey Day, and I poured some Jack Daniel's the Sinatra 3-2-1 way (three bergs, two fingers of Jack and one splash of water), went out to the gazebo on a beautiful, sunny and breezy day, and smoked a Dreams of Cuba Limited Edition 7/54 Gran Piramide, that my wife bought me seven years ago at the Tarpon Springs shop.
Great tipple, fabulously delicious cigar (I smoked it 'til it singed my moustache), and an all-round magnificent afternoon.

 

[BingBong]

The moment of truth for an unsmoked pipe - genuine old Dunhill Elizabethan in a virgin estate Hardcastle Crescent 112.

 

[sparker69]

Opening Night in the Parker zulu downtown before the thunderstorm.

 

[Cloozoe]

Haddo's

 

[newbroom]

Match Burma Road in a small straight apple meer. (re used pic)

 

[Roach1]

Macbaren Navy Flake in a Irish Seconds Dracula 306.

 

[PaulRVA]

C&D Exclusive in a Castello 31 with Peet’s Coffee on the side

 

[Cloozoe]

Hal O' the Wynd

 

[BingBong]

Having a second smoke in the Hardcastle with Cabbies, got racy and didn't rub the coins out. Then it goes "virginia, virginia, virginia, PERIQUE!! ohmigod, virginia virginia...". That'll larn me.

 

[dingdong]

A dingdong blend of S&G Plum Cake, Ashton Artisan, Reiner Flake and ES 4th Gen.. on Jean Lacroix Biarritz

 

[Sobrbiker]

Simple goodness to start the day-NM400 in the Briarlee Illustrious made for a nice commute.
Have an awesome day, unless you’ve made other plans!

 

[Sigmund]

Time for some HU Delight in an il Ceppo with an after lunch cup of tea. Not having the best day but it will have to do. Perhaps this will help.

 

[Ben.R.C]

Chenet’s cake in a Poul Ilsted apple

 

[alwayslit]

Margate in a E Markle with ice coffee

 

[dingdong]

I wonder what Capt. Haddock smoke, and on what pipe.. look like a billiard..GBD?

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Butera Dark Stoved in the Musico Club army mount w/silver.

 

[B.Lew]

Bosun Plug in a Caminetto

 

[onepyrotec]

Ravenwood Midnight Dreary in a Cevher meerschaum

 

[Skippy B. Coyote]

As I was pondering on my smoke of Mac Baren's Three Nuns last night I couldn't help but feel that it reminded me of another blend I hadn't smoked in quite awhile: Presbyterian Mixture!




Religious naming similarities aside there's also a definite similarity in tin note, as I'm inclined to think that Mac Baren uses the same selection of Virginias for the base of both Presbyterian and Three Nuns, and the overall flavor profile of a bready, grassy Virginia accentuated by a touch of sweetness and an ample portion of spice is much the same in both blends as well. In the case of Three Nuns the spice comes from Dark Fired Kentucky, whereas with Presbyterian the spice is coming from the Orientals and an almost imperceptible amount of Latakia, but they're both very much variations on the same theme.

When I first started my pipe journey Presbyterian Mixture was the second blend I remember ever buying a tin of, and I don't think I appreciated it very much back then, but as time as gone on and my palate has grown I think it's something I really enjoy now. An honest Virginia with a good bit of spice and a touch of sweetness seems to be just the thing for me at the moment, so I imagine I'll have no trouble smoking through both my recently acquired tin of Three Nuns and this tin of Presbyterian Mixture with a couple years of age on it.