***What Are You Smoking, May 2025?***

[quantumboy]

Tonight I dug out a home blend I made maybe six or seven years ago. I took 50% Full Virginia Flake and 50% Latakia from one of the online tobacco retailers. Put them in wax paper, then between two chunks of wood and clamped them in the vice in the garage, as tightly as I could crank it, and left it for a few days. Ended up a black block of smoky goodness. It's still holding together in chunks, but easily rubbed out. Smoky, rich, oily, a true Lat bomb but smoothed out very nicely by the FVF. Refuses to bite, burns nicely, lots of smoke. I think I may have to make more when this jar is gone...

 

[JimInks]

Near the last third of this bowl of year 2022 Watch City Blue Ridge Special in a straight smooth ebony post-WW2 LHS Sterncrest 91 bulldog with a sterling silver band, a diamond shank and a tapered black vulcanite stem. Harry the Hairy finally woke up, and ate. I put him out so I could let Daisy the Feral Princess and Tomato the Brave in to eat wet food. After they finish, I'll take care of Abner the Eager who is snoozin' on his outdoor chair. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[Roach1]

OJK in a Pete SPD 2011 69 and coffee to start Friday.

 

[JimInks]

Did a little low calorie snacking, and have a third of a bowl left of year 2020 D&R Penhooker Silver in a straight smooth brown undated pre-Republic Peterson Shamrock 263 Canadian with a nickel band and a tapered black p-lip stem. Not far from finishing work.

 

[JimInks]

Half way through this bowl of year 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a very much appreciated 1979 brown, slight bend grain etched flat front Stanwell Rego 969-48 (09) with a black vulcanite saddle stem. The art work is finished. Just let Harry the Hairy in to eat. Everybody else is outside.

 

[Roach1]

HU Makhuwa in an Irish Seconds System 302.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2019 Prince Albert in an undated, unbranded straight smooth brown made in France Los Alton VBF Canadian with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Reading baseball box scores.

 

[karam]

Smoking HU Khoisaan this morning with my black coffee. I slept a bit on this blend, when I first bought a tin (3-4 years ago) I found it good but very rough so I let it sit for ages and forgot about it. Interestingly the HU tin has kept a little bit of moisture despite the time, the tobacco is dry but not brittle.

Now the smoke I am close to finishing has been sublime, rich, complex, amazing. The Latakia is the key player of course, but the strong Virginia is close behind and consistently showing up at the end of the exhale, with subtle sweetness and some spice at the end of each puff. Really sublime smoke!

 

[craig61a]

2018 Esoterica Penzance in a 2018 Peterson Sandblast Spigot 69 w/amber stem.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Continuing the “every once in a while smoking of something I know I don’t like, just to be sure I don’t like it”.
This evening was some old Sutliff Match Dunhill’s London Mixture, in a Lee three star saddle stem pear.
A buddy gave me this a couple years ago, and said it’d been jarred for about ten years at that point, so it should be in the Cyprian lat zone.
Tastes very English to me, the Smokey creamy lat and Turk/Oriental contrast and complement simultaneously.
Totally not my jam though…

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2016 D&R Two Timer Gold in a 1982 smooth straight Sasieni Ivory 105 Apple with a black vulcanite saddle stem. This was my first Sasieni. Bought it at my local Tinderbox for $9.95. I'll try to end the day with this smoke. Tomato the Brave came in, ate, and left. That's a recurring theme for the ferals since it's Spring.

 

[PaulRVA]

C&D Exclusive in a Dunhill 5177 Bulldog and Coffee ️ on the side

 

[JOHN72]

I just put new lamps and mosquito netting on all the windows of the house, now that summer is coming. Smoking the first third of mb# virginia flake, in a Ser Jacopo calabash. I wish you a happy weekend, and God bless.

 

[Roach1]

OJK in a Jirsa 210.

 

[gervais]

Old dark fired in a 320ks

 

[JoburgB2]

HH Latakia Flake again. In a twenty-year old Stanwell 212 Sixtus. A nice flake pipe. Whatever that means.

 

[judcole]

Golden Extra in a Mark Twain.

 

[Mortar0341]

haven't got to smoke much this week. I been craving this bowl for a couple days. It's that HB in the Savinelli 806. Dunkin Black Coffee.

 

[Bbailey324]

Watch City American Cut Plug in a Falcon.

 

[Roach1]

Old dark fired in a 320ks

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That's really nice. Love the stem.