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

[rsshreck32]

2019 Burley Flake #2 in the Bulldog

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How would you compare aged to fresh with Burley Flake #2? Does the time improve it?

 

[JimInks]

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.

 

[Ben.R.C]

Looks like the sweet and spicy allure of CC thwarted the operation against it.

Hey, that operation is “per bowl”.

 

[renfield]

Country Squire 50th Anniv blend in a smooth globe meer.

 

[BenMN]

How would you compare aged to fresh with Burley Flake #2? Does the time improve it?

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

 

[dottlejockey]

Steamworks in a Pierluigi fishtail.

 

[ThermionicScott]

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!

 

[BenMN]

Fresh Pegasus in a Nording
Quality check on the pound I just jarred, I always set aside about 3oz to "smoke now"

 

[JimInks]

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.

 

[Roach1]

Starting as usual with Haunted Bookshop Cake in a Pete SPD 2011 69.

 

[JimInks]

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.

 

[Roach1]

OJK in an Irish Seconds Calabash 05

 

[JimInks]

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'.

 

[danimalia]

After dinner I enjoyed a Toscano Anis CherootView attachment 342769

I don't normally like flavored cigars, but something about the combination of a Toscano and Anis sounds really intriguing to me.

 

[danimalia]

H&H White Knight in a Peterson Newgrange Spigot. I very much enjoy this blend.

 

[JoburgB2]

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.

 

[JimInks]

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.

 

[pipeboy122]

KBV Burley Morning Pipe in a Stanwell Plateau 62B

 

[JimInks]

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.

 

[newbroom]

Match 965 in my MM Hardwood pot. They don't make these anymore.