***What Are You Smoking, October 2021?***

[hoosierpipeguy]

Last night, Old Gowrie in a Ryan Alden

 

[pip01]

Sillems Copenhagen in a BBB Tortoise 653.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Smoking a bowl of Vauen No 14 in a Cermak.

 

[simong]

Good evening. Kicking off the weekend with Condor in a Barber & a welcome drop of Guiness.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2015 Seattle Pipe Club Deception Pass in a smooth straight brown late 1930s Linkman’s Dr. Grabow Deluxe Bruyere 9708B pot with a nickel accent and a black tapered vulcanite stem.

 

[simong]

Good afternoon folks Early Morning Pipe in a CPW Meerschaum Billiard with a silver band . Had a few bowls today visiting the local papists priest this morning and the local Anglican vicar this afternoon
& went to the poshest cafe in Liverpool for tea and cake.

Which cafe was that whacker?

 

[cigrmaster]

2006 Samuel Gawith Best Brown Flake in a Jack Howell Rhodesian,

 

[shikano53]

C&D Big N' Burley in a Dave Neeb custom Dublin

 

[bullet08]

Balkan Supreme in Peterson SH Lestrade. Always good.

 

[lukasstrifeson]

Was going to head inside from the garage, but it sounds like it's raining. So I might as well have another. Ryback in my meer apple.
This one's starting to color very strangely.

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Meers color with the "grain" on the block piece and they're kind of like white of white cauliflower text. My smooth prince by Nate King is starting to color with some very interesting marks on the stem:

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Whole leaf blend. Dark stoved full va per.

Dark stoved red Virginia and black stoved bright Virginia and a full helping of perique(25%). No bright notes here, just deep stoved goodness with lots of fruitiness and an almost graham cracker thing going on. And of course lots of spice! Just for the first half bowl, then it settles down into a nice full Virginia smoke. Then the black stoved bright va, pokes its head out sometimes and it’s a real creamy smoke. Maybe I should add more next time?

65% dark stoved red virginia(about 6 hours, dark brown with some black patches)
10% black stoved bright Virginia
25% perique

Ribbon cut and it still burns nice and cool. Through a beat up(or well used) Altinay lattice billiard. Got it for like 10$ on eBay cause it was missing the stem and there was slight cracks in the mortise. Just wrapped it with some waxed thread and got a stem and was good to go. Has been a good one I don’t smoke often enough. It’s starting to colour a bit more, but it had most of its patina there when I got it.

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Would love to see pics of your blends next time. So curious how your home grown stuff may/may not differ from OTC stuff.

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Balkan Supreme in Peterson SH Lestrade. Always good.

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Love this shape, reminiscent of an Ardor I once had.

 

[Gus]

waiting for dinner time, GLP Cumberland in a Le Nuvole ZED

 

[JOHN72]

We started smoking with. C&D: Pirate Kake, in a MM General...............................

 

[WildTurkeySurprise]

Boswell Northwoods in a Rossi bent bulldog while taking in this not-so-mundane view. Not a Pats fan, by any stretch, but I’m happy to survey their stadium over a post lunch pipe. Cheers!

 

[Verdant]

Sutliff Victorian Match from a no name straight canted egg.

 

[The Clay King]

Survived the first week of Stoptober!

 

[JimK]

Afternoon bowl of Rattray Bagpiper's Dream in a Wilke smooth Billiard with long shank and pinch-waist tapered stem.

 

[stogie37]

Still trying to reach a verdict on Captain Earle’s Reflections… Pete Aran smooth pot.

 

[Paul lec]

MB Black Ambrosia in a Peterson XL02, cup of espresso on a gloomy, muggy day. Go Rays️

 

[prndl]

Out riding the back roads in the pickup with the windows down today with a beater 673 full of H&H Acadian Perique.

Beautiful autumn day.

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am smoking Kohlhase, Kopp und Co. KG Meistermischung No. 66 in a 1975 medium bend sandblasted looking, smooth on the sides yellow Pioneer meer billiard with a black ferrule and vulcanite stem in the military mount style. Community Coffee,neat, is my drink. Watching the White Sox-Astros game as I work on a review of this blend.