What Are You Smoking, October 2022?

[Steddy]

C&D Burley Flake #5 in a Savinelli 673.
I love my pipe stand so much I married it.

 

[avail]

This is Paul’s Morning Smoke, in the Georg Jensen 9 mil…Eight O’clock coffee out of the percolator…

 

[UncleRasta]

Good Saturday morning all. Footie with a side of Savinelli Jupiter.

 

[cigrmaster]

2012 Dan Tobacco Hamborger Veermaster in a Jack Howell Brandy.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Hamborger Veermaster in a SRV.

 

[onestrangeone]

GH&Co Brown flake in a Ryan Alden four square panel

 

[Bwana Kiko]

...I had a second bowl in my cob and it got better. I guess it's the kind of blend that needs that briar taste to give it a little something more....

They do go in the same direction of flavor and the Mac Baren could really need more of it.

Interesting that you mention that -- I thought it was just me, but in my opinion, MacBaren Scottish Blend tastes better out of briar than it does out of meerschaum. I find that the deeper the bend in the pipe also affects (improves) the taste. I have compared it between a meerschaum tankard and a briar bent apple and sound the second is preferable.

 

[pipeboy122]

Captain Black Dark in a Sasieni Four Dot Natural Lancashire

 

[simong]

A satisfying result in the London derby, from an Arsenal perspective of course. It’s 12 years now since Spur’s last win at the emirates.
RB Plug in a Mastro Geppetto.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

2000 Haddos Delight in the 1916 BBB Belge/billiard guy. Yum.

 

[cigrmaster]

2012 Escudo in a Larrysson Dublin.

 

[weezell]

Samuel Gawith: 1792 Flake in a meer...​

 

[FurCoat]

Squadron Leader im a WDC Jumbo

 

[pipeboy122]

C&D Small Batch From Beyond in a SMS Smooth Bulldog Meerschaum

 

[JimInks]

About a third of a bowl left of year 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. Still raining. so I don't know if I'll get any walking in today. Certainly not right now.

 

[Chaukisch]

Interesting that you mention that -- I thought it was just me, but in my opinion, MacBaren Scottish Blend tastes better out of briar than it does out of meerschaum. I find that the deeper the bend in the pipe also affects (improves) the taste. I have compared it between a meerschaum tankard and a briar bent apple and sound the second is preferable.

It's same for many of my own blends, I find it's usually the mild ones that benefit from being smoked in a briar. The wood just gives it that certain extra flavor which also elevates what little the tobacco can offer by itself. I never considered the bent when it comes to taste, I'll have a closer look on that.

OT:
My first briar bowl of MacBaren's Scottish Blend, I can tell right off that the briar gives it a second chance to shine. It's still mild but has more to it. I'm just about done with the bowl and still happy, it gets sharper and better. Having a frosty tall blonde to cool down the hot short brunette.

 

[das3353]

WC Queequeg’s Blend in a Bones

 

[cshubhra]

Chopped up a Maduro cigar which was horrible. Trying to see it is salvageable in a pipe.

So far it is good. Tastes quite complex and occasionally like Semois and more often like Warped Cloud Hopper. Sometimes even like a cigar.

There is a spicy 🌶 hot aftertaste.

The pipe is an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard

 

[daytonsean]

Finished some From Beyond in a Rossi. This stuff has sweetened a little bit over the last year. Still a great blend.

 

[AJL67]

Switching it up for October, 2008 Sg FVF in an old K & P Peterson’s