Now smoking Wilke beta test in a 1960s Austrian meerschaum bent apple with a tapered yellow stem.
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Mississippi Mud in a Stanwell. This pipe seems to make everything taste better.
More evil tobacco in a Bullmoose second generation five pointed three star Lee. It’s a Beast of a tobacco. Thanks to @fightnhampster . Only issues I have with it are with being a follower of Christ. Not sure how to reconcile this.
GH&Co. Scotch Mixture in a MM and C&D collaborative cob straight nose warmer with a tomato red stem. Planning a Thanksgiving with friends from church, a scaled down feast with good conversation and a new cat to meet. Tonight just paying some bills and getting down ingredients for my wife to make some rolls to take to Thanksgiving. Among my long list of things to be thankful for will be the good people on Forums. Happy Thanksgiving to all, those who celebrate this holiday and everyone else as well.
1Q in a Kaywoodie 93b. Haven't smoked this blend or pipe in well over a year. There's something about the weather this time of year that makes this blend extra delicious.
Golden Triangle Paulina in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard
Enjoyed a tasty Jazz apple, and am half way through this bowl of Mac Baren Scottish Mixture in a straight, smooth brown 1960s Lane era Charatan Special 38 bulldog with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. Off to work now.
Wrap it with the paper in the package, and then place it in the pottery pot. Cover it without sealing, but do not put it together with other smelly things (especially tobacco). Do not use porcelain pot or mason jar. It should be placed in a place where the air can circulate but there is no direct sunlight. The air humidity should not exceed 75%. It should be checked every six months.i really had no idea what all this pu'erh tea talk was all about, then remembered a box of tea a friend gave us a few years ago after returning from a trip to china. Turns out we have some! Now what do i need to do to store it correctly!?
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Opened up this 2015 tin tonight. Never had this one before, but smells great in the tin.
Sorry to cause a crisis of faith
Reiner Long Golden Flake in a Ruthenberg.
Close to finishing this bowl of Wilke No. 222 in an undated straight, smooth light brown unbranded short shank Bing-ish billiard with a long, tapered black vulcanite stem. Touching up pages on this Archie story. Two more to go, and it'll be finished.
we call that: 洗茶 wash tea.
Pu'er tea exists because the compressed tea is convenient for international transportation. Before the 20th century, most Chinese people did not like this kind of tea. Since the 5th century AD, the nomads on the Mongolian Plateau mainly consumed Pu'er tea. They smashed the tea bricks with a hammer and boiled it with milk. They usually used horses and other products to exchange tea as a vitamin supplement.
Pu'er tea belongs to big leaf trees. We (the Han people in the plain area, more than 93% of the Chinese population) prefer black tea and green tea with small leaf shrubs as raw materials, as well as some semi fermented tea. The price of Hi-End products is very scary (10000usd/100g). For us, Pu'er tea or other tea bricks are cheap foreign trade products. This view did not change until decades ago.
Not only Yunnan, but also central China also produces tea bricks similar to Pu'er. In a small town more than 2 hours drive from Wuhan, I once saw a quite expensive old tea brick, which was customized from China shortly after Twinings was founded. At that time, the British had not introduced tea to India. That factory is still producing. Twinings Company customized 2000 tea bricks from this factory for the 200th anniversary celebration in 1981.
After finished the above introduction in my poor English, I decided to smoke a bowl of newminster 400
Smoked some 5-year-old Hal o' the Wynd in my brand new (to me) estate smooth Savinelli Punto Oro Gold (701) lovat with a vulcanite stem. Packed this on Saturday. I've gotten in the habit of packing a few pipes and leaving them inside my jacket pocket in case the opportunity strikes. This is my first bowl in this pipe. Seems like a great smoker and this tobacco is tasting SUPERB. Fine white ash. You know the rest. I'm more of an Old Gowrie kind of guy, but this HOTW is tasting amazing now at 5 years. They didn't lie.
Just finished this Archie story, and this bowl of D&R Raccoon’s Friend in a pre-1980s straight dark brown Comoy's Sandblast 186 billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
Now smoking Wilke No. 515 in a smooth dark medium bend 2021 Peterson Heritage Brown POTY 4AB No. 45/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. This was the blend Basil Rathbone smoked.
Enjoying some Monks (RLP-6) in an 8 inch French Made Footed Meer from the 1800’s. This pipe was restored and restemmed by Ryan Alden.
This pipe lived an interesting existence. At some point it was converted into a stage or movie prop.
The last photos show the yellow fake stem. Barely drilled.
This pipe lived an interesting existence. At some point it was converted into a stage or movie prop.
The last photos show the yellow fake stem. Barely drilled.
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