***What Are You Smoking, October 2020?***

[cigrmaster]

2011 Dunhill Flake in a Jack Howell Lovat.

 

[Scottishgaucho]

Having some Condor not in the Sasieni One Dot but the black Falcon..... think it tastes better in the Falcon. A German dark stout to wash it down with.

 

[jerseysam]

Some Mix 79 in one of my Curvys.. thread about them earlier and grabbed one. These are usually my 'on-the-go' pipes, but they are plain great smokers.

 

[Sonorisis]

Had some Rimboché S.J. in a blasted Radice.

 

[JimInks]

Almost half way through this bowl of Wilke Rum and Maple in a medium bend egg 2017 Royal Meerschaum Dragon meer with a black and cream swirl amber colored acrylic tapered stem. This will get me to dinner time.

 

[jaytex1969]

C&D Odessa in a Savinelli 111KS Roma.

 

[JimInks]

How much control does Hans now have? Really a sad developer if it can not be reversed.

I have no answer for you on that. I told Hans last Fall about the change in Director's Cut, but he said he didn't notice a difference. But I am not the only one who has noticed the change. I'm curious what his response will be, and if he believes me, maybe he can do something about it. I certainly hope he can.

 

[oldgeezersmoker]

I see Oriental #14 back there. To my taste, it’s one of the greatest McC creations, and one that I miss - always unsung and available.
I’m smoking Dark Plug in a Castello.

Yes, from 1997. Always available, always priced less than McC Brown label Virginia’s of comparable vintage. But those who avoid the “secondary” market for ideological reasons should continue to do so lest either or both of those statements cease to be true.

Nice 65. NV?

 

[oldgeezersmoker]

I have no answer for you on that. I told Hans last Fall about the change in Director's Cut, but he said he didn't notice a difference. But I am not the only one who has noticed the change. I'm curious what his response will be, and if he believes me, maybe he can do something about it. I certainly hope he can.

Blenders are dependent on larger fish for their ingredients.

 

[JimInks]

Thanks for that input Jim, appreciated. I am decidedly *not* a pipe tobacco super-taster so am often quicker to point the finger at my taste buds than the blend......but that more recent tin-batch of Makhuwa was flat out lousy to me. I'm not sure if that blend was a big seller....but changing the taste profile on Directors Cut seems a bit bold. I can easily imagine boutique blends struggling to source high-quality leaf as demand ramps up....but squelching on Perique? Unless there's been some import/levy increases, don't think that is a source that's been drying up.

Get while the gettin' is good folks, you never know when your favorite blend will head south!

True. PH Curly Block and PH No.30, and many of the Astley's blends have changed, too.

 

[Perique]

Peretti 7485 in a Brebbia Brasil brandy.

 

[JimInks]

The pipe is a Ser Jacapo Jucunda.
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Only saw him once, but the experience was much like this.

IMNSHO, the best cover of what I will always consider the greatest song he wrote was the way Willie did it live as part of The Highwaymen.

That's a great song, but Arlo did not write City of New Orleans. Steve Goodman did. John Denver did a terrible version of it. He rewrote parts of it so he could list his name as a co-song writer, and collect some of Goodman's royalties. Shameful!

 

[das3353]

Old Gowrie in a Radice

 

[edger]

Having some Condor not in the Sasieni One Dot but the black Falcon..... think it tastes better in the Falcon. A German dark stout to wash it down with.

Huzzah! For the Condor,the Falcon and the stout!!

 

[jpberg]

Yes, from 1997. Always available, always priced less than McC Brown label Virginia’s of comparable vintage. But those who avoid the “secondary” market for ideological reasons should continue to do so lest either or both of those statements cease to be true.

Nice 65. NV?

Thank you. Yes.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Found this tin , never tried it before. having it in a baronet bruyere, and a little sumpin for an after work restoration.

 

[tnfan]

Mac Baren Navy Flake in a Radice.

 

[renfield]

Hearth and Home Fleet Commander in a Willmer AAA brandy shape.

 

[virkia]

PETERSON'S DUBLIN 4 CLUNE LIMERICK / K&P PETERSON'S PATENT on the electro-plated mount + Samuel Gawith SQUADRON LEADER:-

 

[Perique]

Breaking in an Old Dominion Shenandoah with some Carter Hall