***What Are You Smoking, October 2024?***

[hoosierpipeguy]

2018 SG BBF in a Rubio.

 

[BenMN]

Fillmore in a Stanwell DM


First pipe today and it's after midnight, hmm...

 

[BenMN]

Burley Flake #1 in a Radice Rind Lovat. C&D Burley Flake #'s 1 and 2 are phenomenal, and from my perspective they are two highly underrated blends. For those who like to know they smoked a bowl of tobacco when finished, give these a go! View attachment 339756

Strongly (no pun intended) seconded

Just received a new pipe that will be dedicated to No.s 1 and 2.

Stay tuned...

 

[JimInks]

Close to finishing this bowl of year 2014 Astley’s No. 55 in a 1915-1920 straight smooth dark brown BBB Own Make 150 apple with a silver band and a tapered black vulcanite stem. After Tomato the Brave ate, he jumped up on my chair for attention and a snooze and a snore. Daisy the Feral Princess is snoozin' by my feet with her head laying on my right one.

 

[spearheadbill]

My new favorite tobacco maybe! This stuff checks all the boxes. LHS Rhodesian bullmoose. A terrific smoker

 

[BenMN]

It's all the same batch. No company is going to go to the added expense of separate runs. The reason that there is a difference between bulk and tin versions is because the bulk is exposed to more oxygen than a sealed tin.

That goes for ready rubbed versions of flake blends as well. The cut offs from the flakes fall into a vat, and are packaged, but they are exposed to more oxygen, too.

Yes, it's air

I can also add, as someone who smokes through probably 5# of Pegasus annually, and samples (at least 3oz) from another 5# worth (if that makes sense).. that I do sometimes notice differences between batches. Without fail, less tasty pounds are the ones that arrive dryer than average. Not knowing anything about their leaf stash inputs, I am left to assume that the slightly dryer pounds got more air time, somewhere in the production process

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2010 Amphora Original (Brown) in a full bend barley sandblast Peterson 125th Anniversary 1898-2023 No. 172/330 302 brandy military mount with a silver band and a black vulcanite p-lip saddle stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[hoipolloiglasgow]

16’ Charing Cross. Alway’s nice.

 

[JimInks]

Yes, it's air

I can also add, as someone who smokes through probably 5# of Pegasus annually, and samples (at least 3oz) from another 5# worth (if that makes sense).. that I do sometimes notice differences between batches. Without fail, less tasty pounds are the ones that arrive dryer than average. Not knowing anything about their leaf stash inputs, I am left to assume that the slightly dryer pounds got more air time, somewhere in the production process

You're probably right.

 

[BenMN]

If you find a blend you love as is, cellar, because you never know how things will change.

Truth

 

[BenMN]

Half a Stanwell of Pegasus as I take these hounds out one last time before bed.

51°F feels chilly... probably time to put away that straw hat

 

[Roach1]

Haunted Bookshop Cake in a Pete SPD 2011 69.

 

[JimInks]

Half way through this bowl of 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.

 

[JimInks]

Now 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.

 

[Sigmund]

Deep cleaned some pipes a yesterday. This morning its some Nyala in a Ser jacopo custom finish.

 

[The Clay King]

Clan in a clay. Got my new work boots now; looking forward to scrap with Merrylegs today & litter pick / axe throwing this weekend. Lee says he's got me 2 cans of beer he found unopened while litter picking.

 

[JoburgB2]

Deep cleaned some pipes a yesterday. This morning its some Nyala in a Ser jacopo custom finish.

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That’s a beauty! And, from the appearance of the chamber, looks unsmoked?

 

[JimInks]

A quarter of the way through this bowl of year 2020 D&R Raccoon’s Delight in my very reliable smooth straight post-1938 pre-Republic Peterson Sterling Canadian 263 with a sterling silver band and a tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem. I'll probably end the day with this smoke. Fed all the ferals, and am reading while this bowl lasts with Sleepy Suzy by my side. Molly Danger is snoozin' in bed with m'lady.

 

[The Clay King]

Been looking up train ticket prices for Nottingham Pipe Show next week.
Thought of this:

 

[newbroom]

Match Revelation in my original MM Legend using a P lip stem from my Pete Barrel.