Happy Birthday. I wish all goes well on the visit to the dermatologist. May God bless and protect you.
***What Are You Smoking, May 2024?***
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Mac Baren Vanilla Roll Cake in a Savinelli Canadian
McQuaid Square Cut in the Rad Davis squashed tomater.
Good afternoon. Smoking the first third of glp, Spark Plug, in a MM General. Last night, a few kilometers from home, burned a fruit and vegetable cooperative, only 4 years old, I think. It was totally razed to the ground. A cloud for kilometers, releasing ashes over the town. Many jobs went to hell. It is the first time that such a misfortune has occurred. There were no injuries, no deaths. May God bless you.
Black Cherry Twist is awesome,but don’t expect an American aromatic cherry…
Passing the half way mark of this bowl of year 2016 D&R Two Timer Gold in a smooth straight late 1970s Charatan Special 4148DC Reg. No. 203573 pot with a black double comfort vulcanite stem. Been busy traffic copping hungry cats.
Chopped up some GLP Quiet Nights flake this morning for today’s adventures. Bowl No. 300 in the little meer is more of the same. 
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Rather late in the day for my appearance here, Sutliff Virginia Slices in a little Castello Sea Rock saddle stem billiard.
Happy birthday Newbroom! I always enjoy your post.
2016 Christmas cheer in an Eltang AJ.
Sail Aromatic in a new to me Nording signature. First time trying this blend.
Miscoipipe Blast pipe decorated with fossilized and stabilized Whale spine extension & Cornell & Diehl - Old Joe Krantz
GH- Bosun Cut Plug in a Falcon Meer
I haven't posted the last few days since all I've been smoking is Sutliff 507C Virginia Slices, and it wouldn't have been too interesting to read me just saying, "Sutliff Virginia Slices" 6 times in a row, but this afternoon I'm mixing it up with some Orlik Golden Sliced! I'm sipping it in the Morgan Bones Milan, which really is my favorite Virginia pipe.
It was a really neat experience going back and smoking my old favorite Orlik Golden Sliced again after smoking the Sutliff Virginia Slices the past few days, because it led me to notice a couple things about Orlik Golden Sliced that I had never noticed before.
They're extremely similar bright Virginia flakes with all the usual grass, hay, lemon, citrus, floral, and occasional tea or honey notes you find in a bright Virginia; but the Sutliff's primary note you taste the most is lemon whereas with the Orlik the main note is floral. It almost tastes like a really mild Lakeland at times. There's also a tiny bit of stewed fruit and peppercorn flavor from the Perique in the Orlik that I honestly never noticed at all before in the hundred times I've smoked it, until I directly compared it to the Sutliff Virginia Slices by smoking them back to back. Nifty stuff!
I truly love them both and Orlik Golden Sliced will always have a special place in my heart (and my pipe), but when it really comes down to it I think I prefer the Sutliff 507C Virginia Slices for my everyday rotation bright Virginia! I never thought Orlik Golden Sliced would be dethroned in my rotation, but I just can't get enough of the Sutliff's naturally lemony flavor!
It was a really neat experience going back and smoking my old favorite Orlik Golden Sliced again after smoking the Sutliff Virginia Slices the past few days, because it led me to notice a couple things about Orlik Golden Sliced that I had never noticed before.
They're extremely similar bright Virginia flakes with all the usual grass, hay, lemon, citrus, floral, and occasional tea or honey notes you find in a bright Virginia; but the Sutliff's primary note you taste the most is lemon whereas with the Orlik the main note is floral. It almost tastes like a really mild Lakeland at times. There's also a tiny bit of stewed fruit and peppercorn flavor from the Perique in the Orlik that I honestly never noticed at all before in the hundred times I've smoked it, until I directly compared it to the Sutliff Virginia Slices by smoking them back to back. Nifty stuff!
I truly love them both and Orlik Golden Sliced will always have a special place in my heart (and my pipe), but when it really comes down to it I think I prefer the Sutliff 507C Virginia Slices for my everyday rotation bright Virginia! I never thought Orlik Golden Sliced would be dethroned in my rotation, but I just can't get enough of the Sutliff's naturally lemony flavor!
@S.A. DeVault Congratulations!
Having some Esoterica Tobacciana Scarborough (2016) in a Savinelli Autograph 000 E with fluted bowl and rounded hexagonal shank and swirled yellow acrylic stem—I believe this designation stands for “000 Eccezionale” to represent a higher grade than the Autograph 000 and comes after the handful of 0000 pipes that were sold through Pipe Pub in Texas in the ’80s and before the highest Autograph grade came to just be called Eccezionale (Extraordinare in the US) and stamped with a single “E.” Based on today’s production numbers, about one in every 250,000 Savinelli pipes is an Eccezionale, although I suspect in recent years there have been more. I recall seeing four on the Savinelli website in 2022 and two in 2024 so far.
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