What Are You Smoking, October 2022?

[Chaukisch]

Got curious about my Virginia twists, it's been about a month.
Fresh out of the jar:



After some heating, untwisting, plucking, heating and rubbing it turned into this.


I decided to wake up my (so far) favorite briar pipe, I don't smoke a briar that often.
It's a 25€ Jean Claude that came out of a basket.



My nose is tired with disease and snuff but I can still smell a light hay aroma.
What can I say, it's not that Oriental spice I wanted to recreate but something else.
It has the sweetness of a Virginia but with another really sweet and nutty note, even a touch of chocolate.
It's probably the bug that messes up my senses but I could swear this was a lighter version of my first aromatic, which turned out to have a very strong chocolate note.

It's not at all what I expected and I don't know what to make of it but I'm not complaining either.
No failures, just "happy little accidents", as Bob Ross would say.
And I have plenty left so there's plenty of room for these happy little accidents. Bring it on!

 

[ThermionicScott]

I'm about halfway or two-thirds through a bowl of 2019 Escudo in my #1 cob. Plenty of ghosts in this old cob: some Epiphany, random Englishes, at times I feel like I'm detecting those past bowls of Sutliff Voodoo Queen in particular. Deliberately smoking the same Virginia blend in all of my pipes (whether dedicated to Virginias or not) has been an interesting experience so far!

 

[Akoni808]

Samuel Gawith Full Virginia Flake in a Punto oro

 

[LotusEater]

I found a tin of HH Latakia Flake that has been open for months. Currently have 2 flakes in a Georg Jensen and it is smoking quite well.

 

[Hillcrest]

Since I read of others, experimenting or blending their own tobaccos, I took some Lane 1-Q (Virginia and cavendish) and added a hefty pinch of Country Squire PS Blend (latakia, cavendish) and filled the Vauen Olaf bent egg (20mmx46mm chamber) to create a wonderful afternoon smoke ! Very tasty and enjoyable and lasted about an hour.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

a whole week has been busy with relocation to another renewed Apartamentos in the same condo building, nonetheless,I gotta say,as a whole, moving is an insane process, time for the second and final bowl of the day, Mc Barens HH ODF rubbed out finely in a Dunhill Root Briar 113 F/T (gr2)long billiard

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

After yesterday's screw up, I loaded the big Calabash Peterson original Sherlock Holmes original, with (this time the actual) Peterson Sherlock Holmes tobacco, lol. [I'm sure nobody here ever set out two tobaccos they'd never tried and got them mixed up, haha]. This is much more to my liking than the Peterson Irish Whiskey I was having yesterday and gets me a fair bit of the Virginia experience I've been enjoying in other blends lately - I'm too lazy to go dig out the tin I haven't opened since early Spring but the tin note to me is definitely citrus but almost grassy like Grousemoor, so that was a plus going in, but I'm not really getting a Grousemoor-ish flavor, for the most part. Will this replace Wilke No. 515 as my go to for two of my Sherlock Holmes pipes? No. Is it a good one to fit in from time to time? Yes! It's very easy going, sipping away as I've been browsing and now typing. So a good way to start an afternoon off!

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

That was lunchtime, now having some Wilke Vermont Maple in the IMP. Cool and damp fall afternoon.

 

[edger]

dunhill nightcap in a A.pen'kov mammuthus tooth Dublin

Beautiful tableau!

 

[daniel7]

Tsuge "The Tasting" 21 bent sandblasted billiard x HH Bold Kentucky

 

[nerdgirlpipes]

Breaking in my new Peterson Christmas with some RLP-6.

 

[Akoni808]

C&D Exclusive in a Savinelli Clark’s Favorite

 

[Winnipeger]

Going to start breaking in my new Foundation by Musicó sandblasted lumberman that arrived from Rome two days ago, with half a bowl of D&R Ramback.

This pipe weighs 30g on the nose.

 

[JimInks]

I've had a very busy day. Went to the dentist to get my fangs cleaned, and no cavities! M'lady and I celebrated by enjoying an off diet lunch at our favorite deli. I had a pastrami sub and an Italian sub with two pickles and potato salad. Dessert was two freshly baked oatmeal raisin cookies.

I did a set of walking reps, and smoked a bowl of year 2016 D&R Three Sails in an undated straight brush etched black Molina apple with a nickel band and a tapered black vulcanite stem.


Then, I smoked a bowl of GLP Bankside in a smooth straight late 1970s Charatan Special 4148DC Reg. No. 203573 pot with a black double comfort vulcanite stem. I'm close to finishing my review of this VaPerLatDFK blend. Eight O'Clock Coffee, neat, is my drink.

 

[BriarBrook]

End of the work day smoke in a Savinelli LA Corta. Sutliff Vanilla custard

 

[weezell]

Mac Baren: HH Burley Flake in a MM Cob...​

 

[Brewfan]

Old Dark Fired in a cob. Appropriate for the day I was commissioned a Kentucky Colonel.

 

[JimInks]

Did a set of walking reps, and smoked a bowl of Seattle Pipe Club Hogshead plug in a medium bend, smooth brown undated pre-Republic Peterson 999 Dublin chubby Rhodesian with a tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem.

 

[JimInks]

A minute or two away from smoking year 2018 Esoterica Dunbar in a smooth straight, dark brown early 1960s Lane era Charatan Selected 43 Dublin with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem. This pipe was formerly owned by actor William Conrad. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[cshubhra]

Rattray’s Old Gowrie purchased May 2020 in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard