***What Are You Smoking, November 2022?***

[isaac liu]

And people wonder why they went extinct! Bloody cavemen accenting their pipes

They became extinct during the Ice Age, which can be interpreted as a fossil. But as a Chinese, I hate my compatriots' crazy love for rhinoceros horn and ivory. It's really sick

 

[cigrmaster]

2012 Rotary Navy Cut in a Jack Howell Paneled Billiard.

 

[tmcg81]

Cobblestone Hiking in a Peterson System Standard B42. I feel like I've reached the point where I know if a blend is something I'm going to need to have quite a bit of it stashed away and this is for sure one of them.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

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Cool! I have a Xikar cigar cutter with mammoth ivory—I loved the idea of having something 10,000+ years old.

 

[isaac liu]

Cool! I have a Xikar cigar cutter with mammoth ivory—I loved the idea of having something 10,000+ years old.

Xikar xi3？In my shopping cart for a long time.

 

[Fralphog]

Pu'erh tea？raw or cooked？aged raw is my favorite

I prefer the raw aged also. I like to put a few cardamon seeds in sometimes.
I buy it loose but really like the pressed cakes.

 

[isaac liu]

I prefer the raw aged also. I like to put a few cardamon seeds in sometimes.
I buy it loose but really like the pressed cakes.

I guess it's very similar to Virginia. Tight pressing has a great influence on the degree of fermentation. Pu'er raw tea, which has been stored for more than 30 years (correctly and appropriately), will no longer be green and astringent, but will be more gentle. After taking a sip, the sweet taste in the mouth will be more rapid and strong, and the color of the tea soup will also change from gold to reddish brown, close to the cooked Pu'er tea.
Therefore, hoard some raw Pu'er tea like hoarding tobacco. You won't regret it.

 

[UB 40]

C&D Morning Drive Time in a Cevher Meershaum

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funky pipe

 

[Sidehatch]

Took a rare day off From work. Wasn’t feeling the usual this morning. Mixed it up with BCA in a S Liskey Squat Tomato. Getting ready to crack some Crinkle 2020 for the holiday season. I’m giddy.

 

[JimK]

Good day all! Starting with GLP Cairo in a Savinelli Autograph straight grain burl Freehand with plateau rim and undercut saddle stem.

 

[Chaukisch]

Airing out some of the Virginia Gold Lemon that I soaked with lemon peel infused mead, with a pinch of English style Black Cavendish. Maybe this will give the soaked VA a better chance to stand out.
It needs a few more minutes before it's ready to be packed down the clay.

Sounds good to me; hope it turns out like you hope it will. Did you enjoy it in the clay pipe?
The only sort of pipe to smoke "Clay King " in
I think that "Clay King " would be a very good name for a pipe baccy!

I hope so too. So far the soaked Virginia is a terrific smoke by itself. Just too light on the sauce.

Cool! I have a Xikar cigar cutter with mammoth ivory—I loved the idea of having something 10,000+ years old.

I often think about how old the clay of my pipe is. Gotta be pretty old dirt, some of it.

 

[MattRVA]

Smoking 3 Sails in a Savinelli Roma 704, drinking Community Coffee black.

 

[Carol]

Good day all. Feeling some better, although not up to smoke yet. Got tested. I am neg for covid, so this is another of those nasty viruses that fly around, causing havoc. Just wanted to let y'all know I'm alive and kickin. Enjoying reading all the posts. Have a smoke for me.

 

[UB 40]

I guess it's very similar to Virginia. Tight pressing has a great influence on the degree of fermentation. Pu'er raw tea, which has been stored for more than 30 years (correctly and appropriately), will no longer be green and astringent, but will be more gentle. After taking a sip, the sweet taste in the mouth will be more rapid and strong, and the color of the tea soup will also change from gold to reddish brown, close to the cooked Pu'er tea.
Therefore, hoard some raw Pu'er tea like hoarding tobacco. You won't regret it.

To put some cardamom seeds into tea is a good idea, as mentioned earlier.

To be honest, Isaac, I don’t like Pu-er tea at all, kind of Hyperhidrosis Plantaris to me.

But the idea of maturing it the right way in approximately 30 years really gets me now. Unfortunately I doubt to reach that age.

 

[isaac liu]

Good day all. Feeling some better, although not up to smoke yet. Got tested. I am neg for covid, so this is another of those nasty viruses that fly around, causing havoc. Just wanted to let y'all know I'm alive and kickin. Enjoying reading all the posts. Have a smoke for me.

That's good news! get well soon!

 

[davidsaulmarshall]

Germain's Rich Dark Flake in my favourite pipe, a Castello NV Shape 23

 

[UB 40]

They became extinct during the Ice Age, which can be interpreted as a fossil. But as a Chinese, I hate my compatriots' crazy love for rhinoceros horn and ivory. It's really sick

There had been a rhino campaign in South Africa a few years ago. You could spend some money and get a red soft plastic horn, which I glued to the front grill of my red german Polo. For half a year I had a lot of fun with laughing girls at traffic lights. Also i got some complaints the horn might hurt people, if it would have come to an accident.

As I observed a climate demonstration against coal mining for the newspaper, the police confiscated or better stole the red horn from the car. I was parking between their police cars.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Xikar xi3？In my shopping cart for a long time.

Yes. I'll post a pic or two this weekend.

 

[isaac liu]

To put some cardamom seeds into tea is a good idea, as mentioned earlier.

To be honest, Isaac, I don’t like Pu-er tea at all, kind of Hyperhidrosis Plantaris to me.

But the idea of maturing it the right way in approximately 30 years really gets me now. Unfortunately I doubt to reach that age.

cardamom seeds? I don't konw.……
I now understand the Italian people's feelings about pineapples on pizza. Of course, 30 years of cellaring is very good, 5 years have begun to change, 10 years or so has been satisfactory. And my friend, I believe your age will exceed three figures, Trust me, I know the Eight Diagrams of Yin and Yang.
After smoking a hand rolled cigarette(mixture 79 inside) it's time to go to bed. Good night, everyone.

 

[Scottmi]

A comforting bowl of Union Square in a Savinelli Fantasia 111KS.

I need to buy more and leave it for long term ageing - as well as try more GL Pease's blends of course.

GLP on sale at 4noggins right now.. just sayin'