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

[condorlover1]

Typing this up while watching the evening news on TV (I just got done simultaneously scanning the local news app and various sources through Apple News on the Pad ... must be a Monday), enjoying what has become a perennial favorite of mine for the cooler half of the north-midwestern year.

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Standard Tobacco Company’s War Horse Green! I don’t jar this stuff, I just leave it in the opened tin. The cake is smokeable as is when you pop the tin, but remains smokable even when stored carelessly. I was worried, though ... I opened this tin months ago.

Remember Terence Fisher’s adaptation of Dracula from 1958 with Christopher Lee? Remember the scene at the end when his hand hits the sunlight and crumples to ash? I thought that was going to happen here. I dug out the chef’s knife dedicated to plugs and ropes and gave it a good sharpen. Even fresh, this stuff doesn’t cut easily.

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Is that the old stuff that says Manufactured under license from the Standard Tobacco Company of PA? If so thats stuff is like smoking a bottle of anisette. I think they have changed to composition since we owned the blend as we just talked about that a few threads ago. I am really happy you like the stuff. It puts a smile on my face.

Not as dried out Is I expected ... I even had to break it up a bit afterward. It was dry enough, though, that I snapped the above picture, then quickly gave the pipe a gravity fill and barely a flattening tamp, and lit ‘er up. This is a great smoke, at least to my taste. (This Peterson Premier System 313 is getting the workout today.)

Typing this up while watching the evening news on TV (I just got done simultaneously scanning the local news app and various sources through Apple News on the Pad ... must be a Monday), enjoying what has become a perennial favorite of mine for the cooler half of the north-midwestern year.

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Standard Tobacco Company’s War Horse Green! I don’t jar this stuff, I just leave it in the opened tin. The cake is smokeable as is when you pop the tin, but remains smokable even when stored carelessly. I was worried, though ... I opened this tin months ago.

Remember Terence Fisher’s adaptation of Dracula from 1958 with Christopher Lee? Remember the scene at the end when his hand hits the sunlight and crumples to ash? I thought that was going to happen here. I dug out the chef’s knife dedicated to plugs and ropes and gave it a good sharpen. Even fresh, this stuff doesn’t cut easily.

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Not as dried out Is I expected ... I even had to break it up a bit afterward. It was dry enough, though, that I snapped the above picture, then quickly gave the pipe a gravity fill and barely a flattening tamp, and lit ‘er up. This is a great smoke, at least to my taste. (This Peterson Premier System 313 is getting the workout today.)

 

[condorlover1]

Smoking a turd in a 19th century meerschaum 'cutty' pipe as I finish up for the day.

 

[samuelgawith01]

HU Director's Cut in a Svend Bang.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Smoking Uhle's Bishop's Move in a bent basket pipe. Coffee is my drink, as I wait on philly cheesesteaks.

 

[hairvise]

Now smoking a pre-dinner pipe of Newminster 400 in my Dr. Grabow Westbrook.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Smoking some Star of the East in an inexpensive Rossi Zulu, with a cup of tea.

 

[PipesRock]

Some Christmas Cheer in a MM Mark Twain with black coffee.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking the very dry year 2015 D&R A.P. Rimboche in a smooth dark brown, medium bend late 1950s Parker Super Bruyere 45 with a “4” in a circle billiard with a black vulcanite tapered stem. This should get me to dinner time. Watching the Yankees-Rays game.

 

[craig61a]

WCC Old Dominion in a Jeantet Jean Bart 73-3 Rhodesian.

 

[tfdickson]

Uhle no. 300 in my Howell zulu.

 

[trubka2]

Wow that pipe had got to be one of the nicest I've seen, that's my style right there, gorgeous.

Thank you! It was a very lucky find when I was just starting to buy estate pipes.

 

[ashdigger]

Watch City 556 in a Ryan Alden Stout Billiard.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Snuck a martini right before the chicken is done. A Morgan Arbutus 102 nose warmer filled with some Edward G Robinson blend. Ahhhh yes listening to some Al Stewart

 

[weezell]

Mac Baren: HH Old Dark Fired in a Meer...

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and sugar snap green peas dinner with neapolitan ice cream for dessert. Now smoking KBV The Endless Void (Hellstar) in a 2003 medium bent Ural meer with a lined and etched egg shaped bowl with a silver band and a brown pearl acrylic stem. Getting ready to clean a few pipes as I watch the ball game.

 

[trubka2]

Just finishing up HU Director's Cut in a Lane era Charatan 47X and contemplating what to smoke next.

 

[shikano53]

4noggins Three Blind Moose in a homemade Churchwarden

 

[F4RM3R]

Whole leaf blend. Medium english.

-70% stoved red virginia
-20% latakia
-10% Kentucky

Topped with some tonka bean soaked in bourbon and pressed into a crumble cake. Through a tavern style clay.

 

[btwes7]

Sillems Black in a Kaywoodie.

 

[B_Rock]

Going back to the Fillmore in the Savinelli Octavia.