How would you compare aged to fresh with Burley Flake #2? Does the time improve it?
***What Are You Smoking, October 2024?***
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Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am a third of the way through this bowl of year 2019 C&D Yorktown in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Terracotta 4AB No.108/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem.
Hey, that operation is “per bowl”.
Country Squire 50th Anniv blend in a smooth globe meer.
I really should open a fresh tin to properly answer that- I haven't smoked one since last year.
This has mellowed and melded but still has plenty of (Burley) punch. The virginias are not as sweetened up as I thought they might be. Good- yes, definitely. Improved- dunno, maybe.
For reference I believe Pegasus improves significantly with age. I attribute this to the Virginias becoming punchier
2024 CRF in my Big Ben Ranger. It could also be the still, dry air, but I’ve having a great smoke of it in this pipe. I’ve even caught a few of those “salted melon” notes that Jeremy talks about at the halfway point!
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Fresh Pegasus in a Nording
Quality check on the pound I just jarred, I always set aside about 3oz to "smoke now"
Quality check on the pound I just jarred, I always set aside about 3oz to "smoke now"
Just finished smoking Almost a third of the way through this bowl of year 2018 Solani 633 in a straight 1954 patent Dunhill 148 Group 3 black shell bulldog made for the France market with a black saddle vulcanite stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Spent a little time with Molly Danger. Fed all the ferals, too.
Starting as usual with Haunted Bookshop Cake in a Pete SPD 2011 69.
Enjoyed some low calorie snacking, and am smoking Seattle Pipe Club Give Me Liberty in a straight smooth medium brown pre-1920 straight Marechal Ruchon & Cie. Royale apple with a sterling silver band and a tapered black vulcanite stem.
Enjoyed a rather small, but tasty Snap Dragon apple, and have a third of a bowl left of Watch City American Cut Plug Mixture in a smooth medium bend terracotta Peterson POY 2023 X160 464/1100 military mount egg with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Sleepy Suzy is by my side. Everybody else is snoozin'.
I don't normally like flavored cigars, but something about the combination of a Toscano and Anis sounds really intriguing to me.
H&H White Knight in a Peterson Newgrange Spigot. I very much enjoy this blend.
Well, well. What’s this? A bright, sunny morning here in east central Scotland, with a bit of warmth, and no wind? Rare. So heading out for a brisk walk along the waterfront. Filled up with Pipe Force Episode IV (the one with the stoved Katerini & Rustica, Latakia, and red Virginia). In a Brigham straight Rhodesian.
A third of a bowl left of year 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a very much appreciated 1979 brown, slight bend grain etched flat front Stanwell Rego 969-48 (09) with a black vulcanite saddle stem.
KBV Burley Morning Pipe in a Stanwell Plateau 62B
Last smoke of the day is year 2022 KBV Mr. Christian's Haunted Virginia 2022 in a straight, black sandblasted 1980s Comoy’s Mark-2 G * 6 (4) bulldog with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Reading while this bowl lasts.
Match 965 in my MM Hardwood pot. They don't make these anymore.
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