What Are You Smoking, October 2022?

[Chasing Embers]

KBV Sakura in a Radice Rind Straight.

When I first saw this one, it really sounded great, but there was that word CHERRY, a goblin of the past. LOL

Well, somewhere in the very beginnings of my pipe youth, and smoking one of those nasty, makes you want to gag, so bloody sweet, overkill cherry flavored blends, my brain was Ghosted for life! LOL

I swear, anything with that word, I ran the other way, until I saw this, I just had to try it.

And oh my, am I glad I jumped at this, and I better run back and grab some more before they are gone.

This one is a winner folks! @JimInks are you getting some of this 2022 batch? I’d love to read a review...

Be well everyone!

The Cherry Ghost has been Exorcised, I’m free! ⛓

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Yeah baby, look out, I’m on my way back to KBV in a flash! LOL

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That one's technically not a cherry aromatic.

 

[judcole]

Lane RR in an MM Scarecrow.

 

[UncleRasta]

Earlier tonight, we went to the Wooden Match in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for the monthly Lehigh Valley Pipe Club.

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Our friend, John, came along:

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I had Esoterica Margate (2021) in a Savinelli Series III 320 KS Author.

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I was glad to see @lestrout again and pleased to finally meet @woodsroad . By this time, towards the end of the evening, I was smoking an Hoyo de Monterrey Amistad Gold by AJ Fernandez (in my right hand), but, we had to pose for the photo with pipes:

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I was very pleasantly surprised to meet @Copernicuslyrun ! I had no idea he’d be there.

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It was 60 plus degrees out and very comfortable outside. It was fun to hear some other details about how woodsroad and @condorlover1 raised War Horse from the dead that I didn’t hear at the last meeting attended.

Seems like a great hangout.

 

[onepyrotec]

2013 West Coast pipe show El Nino in a Moonshine nose warmer

 

[JimK]

Good day all! Starting with Wilke Lizzie Blood Red English in an Upshall P Lovatt.

 

[MattRVA]

Smoking 3 Sails in a Briarworks billiard, drinking butter coffee.

 

[Steddy]

C&D Pegasus in the Savinelli prince.

 

[cigrmaster]

2012 Rotary Navy Cut in a Jack Howell Dublin.

 

[mso489]

John Bull Royal English in a Johs Lovat semi-rusticated, on a beautiful autumn day in North Carolina.

 

[edger]

Starting the day with, what else, Coniston/Derringer in an old Peterson Standard System smooth 313. Strong Punjana tea with a splash of milk. I’m going to clean up a Pentax K1000 camera that I found at a charity shop for $15 bucks. Everything seems to work, but I think the former owner was a slob. Happy Wednesday all!

 

[Skink]

First smoke of Arango Balkan Supreme in my just arrived Moretti Morta Sandblasted Freehand.

Gorgeous!

Thank you. I'd definitely buy another Moretti directly from them even if it smoked horribly. Marco is single handedly bringing back customer service to what it should be.

 

[Skink]

MM Missouri Pride in a Moonshine Leather Sandblasted Devil Anse, along with a black coffee.

 

[condorlover1]

Earlier tonight, we went to the Wooden Match in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, for the monthly Lehigh Valley Pipe Club.

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Our friend, John, came along:

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I had Esoterica Margate (2021) in a Savinelli Series III 320 KS Author.

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I was glad to see @lestrout again and pleased to finally meet @woodsroad . By this time, towards the end of the evening, I was smoking an Hoyo de Monterrey Amistad Gold by AJ Fernandez (in my right hand), but, we had to pose for the photo with pipes:

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I was very pleasantly surprised to meet @Copernicuslyrun ! I had no idea he’d be there.

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It was 60 plus degrees out and very comfortable outside. It was fun to hear some other details about how woodsroad and @condorlover1 raised War Horse from the dead that I didn’t hear at the last meeting attended.

@woodsroad: In the trade he is known as the 'resurrection man' and probably one of the most fun associates you could ever ask for - you don't get many Dan's to the pound!

 

[canucklehead]

2022 Carolina Red Flake in a meer lined Denicotea billiard.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Wilke 191 in a old Peterson Shamrock, some Peets dark roast, looking for some new blends to try.

 

[JimInks]

A quarter of the way through this bowl of ear 2014 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. Watching Mad Dog Russo.

 

[ChonkyTonks]

The three pipes I have had today:

PS LTF in my SMS Meer
HU White Horses in my Cobbit
HU Janneman Flake in my Peterson Emerald 03

 

[woodsroad]

2022 Carolina Red Flake in a meer lined Denicotea billiard.

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I have that same mug, stolen from a Tim Horton's in Ontario some time in the early 90's.

 

[craig61a]

Home pressed VaBurPer plug in a Kolding Old Briar 36.

 

[ThermionicScott]

Smoking conditions are most favorable on my back steps today, so that's where I'm enjoying a bowl of cube-cut 2019 Escudo in my Kaywoodie 42 apple. As expected, some Lakeland ghosts are raising their heads, but they're behaving for the most part. I haven't tried a lot of Gawith Virginia blends yet, but I imagine this experience is not too far off from some of them.



Only downside is, it's somewhat awkward to work from this spot, so I'll be doling this bowl out in "smoke breaks" throughout the day...