***What Are You Smoking, November 2023?***

[cshubhra]

Lane 1-Q from May 2017 in a MM Legend Cob

This pipe is ghosted with Crème Brûlée and the smoke is extremely complex; much more complex than Lane 1-Q ever hoped to be. This ghosting actually improved Lane 1-Q in my opinion

 

[FurCoat]

SG Brown #4 in the yard cobs while changing the oil and rotating the tires on my car.

 

[Bbailey324]

GH Black Cherry Twist in a Peterson Dracula bulldog.

 

[FoggyMorning]

CRF with Perique in a Savinelli.

 

[JSPiper71]

Got caught up in a moral panic over in the General Pipe section. Fear mongering about square tins going south early, so I popped a 2013 St. James Flake. It’s a thing of beauty! Wasn’t going to smoke a pipe tonight, but give me a break! How do I say no to this???

 

[Ben.R.C]

A little of the last bit of 1995 XMas Cheer I have in a Satou. I have to smoke this stuff carefully or it will bite.

 

[redglow]

Elizabethan Mixture in a Savinelli Rusticated 315 EX. And Hot tea.

 

[Sidehatch]

Bummer.

Your story filled me with resolve to buy a pipe I have been dithering on for a month. It was there yesterday.
Logged in today and...

gone.
My misery

Ugggggg. . . .was a beauty. Maybe leaving window open for the next beauty. That’s what I’m telling myself . .

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and green beans dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm a third of the way through this bowl of year 2010 Amphora Original (Brown) in a full bend barley sandblast Peterson Anniversary 1898-2023 No. 172/330 302 brandy military mount with a silver band and a black vulcanite p-lip saddle stem. Going to work as soon as this bowl is smoked. See you folks tomorrow.

 

[HRPufnstuf]

May it pass quickly.
Lotsa crud going around these parts this fall too.

Sorry to hear you're afflicted, Sobrbiker. Chicken soup and swift recovery, my best.

 

[HRPufnstuf]

About to light up some Presbyterian Reformation in my Ser Jacopo Insanus.

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That's intentional? Not a ruin?

 

[Winnipeger]

Pegasus in my Sandblasted Savinelli Punto Oro Gold. Watching the night sky overhead.

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Weird I scrolled up on this post and at first I thought the button shining on your jacket was a different shot of the moon. Enjoy the night there @didimauw.

 

[HRPufnstuf]

If you haven't watched it yet, All is Quiet on the Western Front is phenomenal.

!00% agreement. I still remember the television mini-series from the '70s. I've also seen the original from 1934(?). All of them groundbreaking in their day.

 

[Winnipeger]

Followed up that Plum Pudding with some well-aged Old Joe Krantz in my Ropp sandblasted churchwarden. Better.

 

[Tate]

Followed up that Plum Pudding with some well-aged Old Joe Krantz in my Ropp sandblasted churchwarden. Better.
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I have Plum Pudding on my to buy list. Are just not a fan of the topping? Just curious. I get that everyone's miles will vary.

 

[rsshreck32]

Burley Flake #2 in a Rossi Mezzanotte Bent Brandy tonight. Getting a little low on this blend!

 

[ravkesef]

Wilkes BestMake in a Peterson Wicklow Bent Bulldog

 

[Winnipeger]

1999 Old Gowrie in my new Nuttens/Ropp oval shanked saddle billiard.

Damnit!

I was like...what's a Nuttens/Ropp?

So I Googled it.

Then I bought one.

The last cutty he had for sale on the site.

Damn you PAD!

 

[rsshreck32]

Earlier it was a Watch City head to head English shootout of English Earnie-Ental and Persian Slipper from the WCC English Sampler. A big fan of all the WCC Virginia based blends so time to explore more of their English blends.

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I'll be interested to here your take on the two flakes you got there.

 

[Winnipeger]

I have Plum Pudding on my to buy list. Are just not a fan of the topping? Just curious. I get that everyone's miles will vary.

Actually it tastes very good, but it doesn't have a lot of balls for my liking. If I compare it to a lot of other Balkans, it's not my favourite. Fusilier's Ration has a stronger topping, which I like. I'm not averse to any toppings per se (except maybe whatever's on Haddo's Delight...but it ages well.) Abingdon has more complexity and more flavour. So does Charring Cross, Black House, Magnum Opus, Red Rapparee...I could go on. When the Plum Pudding was fresh I found it kind of dry, and not huge on flavour. Now with a good deal of age on it, I find it more flavourful. FWIW. YMMV.