***What Are You Smoking, October 2024?***
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I’m wondering now if I messed up by multiplying each component by .3 instead of .4, or if it even matters. My grasp of math has always been minimal.
Chilly out there with the morning fog. Warming up with a bowl of 2012 Tilbury in a Tekin. Maybe 20-25 bowls in on this one. Shank is thick, so just now starting to show some even tanning. 
HH Old Dark Fired in a Castello 55 Old Antiquari with Army Mount and Diet Coke on the side
Drying my first ever bowl of HU Dockworker smoking it in a Savinelli Dolimiti 311KS. 
OJK in a 1987 Dunhill Cumberland panel.
Peterson's Irish Cask (again) in a Stanwell 232 bent sandblasted brandy bowl briar... I am finding that, just as a tobacco blend requires time to get to understand it, so does a pipe itself. Thus, currently, I am smoking the same weed in every pipe I have. This was a pleasant smoke, but strangely bettered by others, such as my first encounter with it in an unmarked estate Meerschaum prince, or yesterday's, in the Ropp-stemmed unmarked smooth bent briar Dublin mule.
Lunch pipe, Chenet's cake in a Manduela
Starting off my smoking day with a bowl of pre-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.
Math can be problematic for sure, especially when you are trying to convert the parts for each tobacco so that end up with exactly a pound. I have developed a few tricks to simplify this over time - the type of tricks bartenders use when making drinks for more than one person. Good luck with the blending. It's the best way to learn how tobacco tastes and interacts with other types of tobaccos.
Peter Stokkebye PS2 Whiskey in Savinelli Bianca Rusticated #703 KS Lovat with a cup of black coffee.
Home mix with Fancy Darjeeling tea with milk and honey.
Smoking quiet nights in a Castro de paja i bought used from a member here. Thanks @lordnantwich it is a keeper
Hope it smoked well in that pipe. This is a great blend!
MdP makes a great pipe. You have inspired me to pull out mine as well. Enjoy it!
Semois time, before lunch, in a large Mastro de Paja rusticated dublin.
I have to mention here that i think the 2024 version of Semois is not quite as flavorful as the 2022 release. It seems a bit milder, both on the nose and the palate. Still good, but i preferred the former iteration.
Scottish autumn flake in an imp.
A last bowl Eight State Burley (no more in cellar) in Nording Hold’em spigot.
2024 Penzance. I don’t believe that Germain’s/Esoterica is doing their tin aging anymore. Their paper doilies aren’t stained brown in any of the current iterations I’ve opened like they should be. This is a good blend that I feel would be better with age. The very mild casing doesn’t overpower the tobaccos in anyway. Overall, I feel like Margate is a better blend that is more to my liking.
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