Thank you, sir! Makes for a great short smoke.
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Home mix, mostly 5 Brothers with sencha tea.
love that pipe every time you post it.
GLP Jackknife plug in a Castello Vergin Billiard
Started off today with a lightly packed bowl of Backwoods in the meer-lined bowl, dedicated to rums. Will do a repeat with the same combo in about an hour. Later on this afternoon, I'll clean the pipe out and start smoking the now broken in briar bowl between the pipe and the can of tobacco, and find out what it likes over the next week or so.
C&D Exclusive in a Suhr Dublin and Diet Coke on the side.
"Can't answer the question directly, because I have the same "problem" with my Ropps and a couple of my McQueen miniatures. They just smoke longer and better than they should, Happy conundrum. I'm a retired professional symphony violinist. Even though fiddles look the same, they sure as heck don't play the same. And price isn't a factor in the game. I've just started turning my brain off about such things and simply enjoy.
That can be tough.
First taste of Sam Gamgee's famed 792, the very same unchanged pipeweed blend King Offa of Mercia used to smoke back in the 8th century, or something like that. Too dark for a photo. Too many things today got in the way of a pipe in daylight, as a precaution I lit up this one well away from the house. I don't care much to smoke in the dark - and when it's as cold as it is here this evening it's hard to tell what's breath, and what's smoke, so you go by taste and smell, or absence thereof. Seriously, Sam Gawith's 1792 has had so many extreme reviews I almost felt I should have eaten a 5-course meal first and had a defibrillator to hand. I'd rubbed a flake out and dried it on a paper towel for 2 hours, packed it in a sacrificial small basket billiard and left it for another couple of hours before lighting up...
I now call this blend The Tobacco Of A Thousand Lights And One Light. It might smoke best on a charcoal block in a hookah... having finished a bowl, I'll concede that you know you've had a smoke afterwards, but I hardly know what all the fuss is about and it can't hold a match to Petertson's Irish Flake. Potent yes, but Sham Harga's 79 BC Black Ogre Boogieman Flake seems to me to have none of the complexity that I like, and I find I am indifferent to the savour of the Tonka bean. If anything, it might be getting in the way of other flavours in the tobacco itself. Well, I have another half dozen smokes in the sample pack I bought, and further experiential mileage may vary from my initial impressions.
I now call this blend The Tobacco Of A Thousand Lights And One Light. It might smoke best on a charcoal block in a hookah... having finished a bowl, I'll concede that you know you've had a smoke afterwards, but I hardly know what all the fuss is about and it can't hold a match to Petertson's Irish Flake. Potent yes, but Sham Harga's 79 BC Black Ogre Boogieman Flake seems to me to have none of the complexity that I like, and I find I am indifferent to the savour of the Tonka bean. If anything, it might be getting in the way of other flavours in the tobacco itself. Well, I have another half dozen smokes in the sample pack I bought, and further experiential mileage may vary from my initial impressions.
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Cigar Time: San Lotano Requiem Habano
Smoked a deep bowl of what I now see is 2-year old Fox Cake, a Swiss house mixture from the Roman Peter pipe shop, reviewed here. It was great when bought, it's even better now. Of course, I thought to buy some more but it's no more listed on the shop's page, so when it's gone it's gone.
Who could have made pressed rope VaPers, I wonder...
Who could have made pressed rope VaPers, I wonder...
Chenet’s cake in a Manduela prince
Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am almost half way through this bowl of year 2020 Watch City Rouxgaroux in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Natural 4AB No. 6/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Gold Star Hawaiian Kona Extra Fancy Dark Roast, neat, is my drink. It's been raining all day, so no walks for me. Daisy the Feral Princess is snoozin' in the bed room. The other ferals are outside keeping dry somewhere.
Billy Budd in a Rattrey’s Brownie #8
This pipe went missing last fall. Put on a jacket this morning that hadn’t been worn since then…..in the pocket.
This pipe went missing last fall. Put on a jacket this morning that hadn’t been worn since then…..in the pocket.
Thank you. It was made for me, and is one of my favorite, most special pipes. That pipe will stay with me as long as I live.love that pipe every time you post it.
At my house, the coming of cooler weather is almost like an early Christmas!
Meanwhile…
More Hamborger Veermaster in a Stanwell Queen.
Sutliff 507-C in the MM Mark Twain with long forever stem and 6mm filter while my four regular rotation pipes are getting a much deserved salt/alcohol cleaning for 24+ hours. I will probably need to break out two other Petersons in the meantime as well.
Now smoking and finishing the review of Watch City SEPC Transvaal Express 2.0 in a 2003 medium bent Ural meer with a lined and etched egg shaped bowl with a silver band and a pearl brown acrylic saddle stem.
Radice Ring Pure with my father’s old blend, Lazy Bones.