***What Are You Smoking, November 2021?***

[Charlie718]

Happy Veterans Day and to all the Vets here Thank you for your service and sacrifices. Started my day with a MM Great Dane Spool cob full of Crooner with a mug of black coffee.

 

[LotusEater]

Enjoying a bowl of Presbyterian in a GBD Conquest Minaret on this day of Remembrance

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Vauen No 14 in an Altinay.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Loaded and next in line, Sir John's Flake Virginia in an IMP.

 

[Windknot]

Happy Veteran's Day to all my Fellow Vets out there. This morning I'm smoking a churchwarden styled old Ropp that belonged to my granddad that I did a light restoration on. In the bowl is my personal "mornin mix" of latakia, dark fired Kentucky, with a little Mixture No. 79 mixed in. Today is that one specific day of the year I allow myself to reflect on 22 years plus of service in the US Army...the good and the bad. I hit that "sweet spot" and got to serve in Desert Storm, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Seems like yesterday...and there's nothing like puffing on a pipe and sitting quietly in ones own head to get those memories right back up front in the mind's eye. A small bonus is my spousal unit refrains from commenting about my pipe "upsetting her allergies". Hey, I'll take what I can get.

~Harris (Don't thank me, thank my recruiter. Hooah)

 

[DanWil84]

Allthough its no veterans day overhere, thanks to all (ex) military! My grandpa and grandma lived through the years of WW2 with my Grandpa being deported twice to germany for labour, escaped both times and the years after the war.

Smoked this;

 

[LotusEater]

MacB Navy Flake from 2008 in a 2016 Stanwell DM competition lovat

 

[Swede74]

Rattray’s a good deal and som rasmusen blue label!

 

[JimK]

Good day all! Starting with Wilke Lizzie Blood Red Virgina in a small Savinelli Autograph sandblast Burl/Fan.

 

[Kal]

I was gifted a pound of low country natural virginia and oriental for Veterans Day, by my son.
So that's what I've been smoking in a good cob.

Have a safe Veterans day y'all.

 

[jaytex1969]

Stonehenge Flake in the Non-Barling Barling.

 

[JimInks]

Not far from finishing this bowl from a first production tin (2013) of Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

First bowl is Frog Morton's Cellar in a Chinese made Bamboo Volcano.
FMC is still sweet and savory as ever.

Second bowl, smoked in a Lorenzo Titano, is a home blend of 1/2 Star of the East, 1/4 Sutliff Red Virginia, 1/8 MacBaren Old Dark Fired, and 1/16 Blending Latakia to reinforce the smokiness.
Even though I reinforced the Red and ODF with extra Latakia the Dark Fired almost overpowers the heavy dose of Latakia, or at least they're neck and neck, though as I like to point out Latakia doesn't really have as much "Taste" as it does "Smell" and the flavor I'm really looking for is more Orientals and not just stronger Latakia. I might add Byzantium next time (that blend is pure Orientals and Latakia, plus a pinch of Perique, so it's ideal for just lowering the percentage of Virginia in an English blend).

 

[tnfan]

Mac Baren Vanilla Flake in a IMP Lattice Acorn.

 

[UncleRasta]

Good morning all. Smoking Old Dark Fired in an unfinished Savinelli 644.

 

[didimauw]

Trying my damnedest to branch out more.

So far this blend is a success.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Watch City COE Beta Test Blend #1 in a 1978 BBB straight smooth brown Silver Mounted 522 pot with a silver band and a tapered black vulcanite stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[cigrmaster]

2013 Brigham Klondike Gold in a Brandon Brooks Dublin.

 

[Christos D. Tsatsaronis]

Rattray’s a good deal and som rasmusen blue label!View attachment 108372

Hey Swede74! Has anybody mentioned you look like a famous American crime author? (I think so)...

 

[LotusEater]

Seersucker in a GBD Tahiti Billiard with metal repair band