***What Are You Smoking, October 2021?***
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Good afternoon. We started smoking with. Capstan Gold, in a MM Diplomat, and a mug red wine........................I wish you a happy weekend, folks............
First pipe this morning: C&D Morning Drive in an Israeli Alpha Dublin
Good morning All.
Starting my day with Presbyterian in a GBD Colossus Minaret and a double shot of espresso
Starting my day with Presbyterian in a GBD Colossus Minaret and a double shot of espresso
Anglers Dream in a no name stashed in the console of my car pipe for the morning commute. Not a huge fan of aros and hated this one out of the gate. But, as I dip back through stash to make sure I don’t like it - I’m finding jury is still out on this one.
Three bowls.
1. An experiment turning Bayou Morning into an English, at 30% each Bayou, Star of the East, and Izmir, plus an extra dash of Latakia. It burns exceptionally well, but only tastes like an average Balkan with a hint of Perique. Needs more Bayou.
Smoked in a James Barber Billiard (re-drilled wide open).
2. Penny Farthing in a Missouri Meerschaum Freehand (re-drilled stem), packed top to bottom.
Penny Farthing has to be the best burning tobacco that isn't Five Brothers, unfortunately I'm not sure which tastes better, the Perique was never discernible and the Kentucky only seemed to peek out in the smell. It seems that young C&D Virginias have a characteristic bite and I don't know if I've found a C&D VA blend that I like yet, at least not without a few years age.
While my other tin ages this one will get blended with some hearty flake to give it flavor.
3. A bowl of Presbyterian to break in my freshly drilled Chinese made Bamboo Volcano. Presbyterian is always an enjoyable no nonsense smoke.
1. An experiment turning Bayou Morning into an English, at 30% each Bayou, Star of the East, and Izmir, plus an extra dash of Latakia. It burns exceptionally well, but only tastes like an average Balkan with a hint of Perique. Needs more Bayou.
Smoked in a James Barber Billiard (re-drilled wide open).
2. Penny Farthing in a Missouri Meerschaum Freehand (re-drilled stem), packed top to bottom.
Penny Farthing has to be the best burning tobacco that isn't Five Brothers, unfortunately I'm not sure which tastes better, the Perique was never discernible and the Kentucky only seemed to peek out in the smell. It seems that young C&D Virginias have a characteristic bite and I don't know if I've found a C&D VA blend that I like yet, at least not without a few years age.
While my other tin ages this one will get blended with some hearty flake to give it flavor.
3. A bowl of Presbyterian to break in my freshly drilled Chinese made Bamboo Volcano. Presbyterian is always an enjoyable no nonsense smoke.
a small afternoon bowl of Peterson HydePark in an Ashton X Old Chruch prince from 2020
McConnell Red VA in a Viking dublin.
965 in a GBD Sablee Billiard for my drive
Wessex Gold Virginia Flake in a Paulsson.
Having some 2021 c&d red flake in a 2013 mark Tinsky Christmas pipe one star sunrise finish. I’m very excited to try the new red flake with perique offering for this year! Happy smokes! 
Starting the day with Red Rapparee in a Ferndown Dublin with a side of Bolivian coffee.
Good day all! Starting with C&D Bayou Morning in a Savinelli Autograph flame grain Billiard with flattened shank and stem.
Good morning all. The Amphora Burley in a cob.
Half bowl of 2 year old Union Square in my new Savinelli, with coffee on the side.
I didn’t care for this tobacco at all when it was fresh, but 2 years in a jar has done wonders. It’s still no Capstan Blue, but now I understand why folks like it.
I didn’t care for this tobacco at all when it was fresh, but 2 years in a jar has done wonders. It’s still no Capstan Blue, but now I understand why folks like it.
Starting off the day with a bowl from a first production tin (2013) of Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
2012 Wessex Gold Virginia Flake in a Jack Howell Paneled Billiard.
Forget that half bowl shit, it is crap and people who do it are wasting their time. Fill it to the top and smoke it to the bottom and just be careful about the temp your pipe gets. You want a nice even hard cake? Load it up with a Virginia flake and keep smoking that till you see a nice hard cake.
Smoking SWR in what was a Peterson Ebony Killarney but blistered on me, I stripped it and am just leaving it natural, nice smoker,good fishing pipe.
Snuck away from a conference to share some Samuel Gawith's Squadron Leader in a Dunhill billiard with my wife. Ha!