***What Are You Smoking, October 2025?***

[Brendan]

Happy belated birthday @OzPiper




Finishing a bowl of Best Brown #2
Something 'extra' about these GH blends; I've been smoking Union Square, University Flake and some MacBaren stuff lately but nothing really hits the mark like GH does.

 

[OzPiper]

Continuing the Loewe theme today
Another pair of oldies


1st off a 1921 (bottom) army mount bent billiard, orific bit
With a bowl of cube-cut Paterson De Luxe Navy Rolls

 

[warren99]

Old Joe Krantz Red Label in a Peter Hedegaard bent brandy.

 

[Goblin_Walrus]

Continuing my travel notes from the Middle Kingdom.
I'll be trying a pack of local cigarettes from Guangxi China Tobacco Industrial Co., Ltd.—an unforgettable example of traditional flue-cured Virginias. The blend offers a clean, naturally sweet aroma with light wood and honey notes. The nicotine content is around 1.1 mg, which is quite rare in modern Western cigarettes. The leaf quality is surprisingly good: golden-brown in color, even cut, smooth burn, and a light, dry finish without a moderate harshness. Essentially, this is a simple, well-fermented Virginia with a light body—no artificial flavors, just pure tobacco. For a mass-market product, I was surprised by the quality of its execution—a 4 out of 5, in my opinion. Factories in Guangxi focus on flue-cured tobacco (flue-cured Virginia), primarily from varieties grown in the subtropical climates of Guangxi and Yunyang.
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I was working to help set up a factory here in the US, and the vendor technicians and engineers were all Chinese - I got a chance to try lots of different brands of Chinese cigarette (as judging by the packs themselves, I can’t read a single character of Mandarin). Boy those fellows were very generous with their cigarettes. Wonderful tobacco, and strong, lift you off your feet a little the first time strong. At that time I had no discerning tobacco vocabulary, and truly could not appreciate what I was smoking. But I knew they were good, and I enjoyed them, and wish I still had a couple.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2020 H&H Chatham Manor in a straight smooth 2023 Peterson Red Killarney 53 lovat with metal accents around the shank and a black acrylic p-lip saddle stem. Tomato the Brave ate well, and is snoozin' on a blanket. Just let Harry the Hairy in to eat. Daisy the Feral Princess is snoozin' by my feet. Sleepy Suzy is sleeping with one eye open. Molly Danger is in the bed room with m'lady.

 

[ashdigger]

Dark Plug in a late 1800’s Meer. The stem was destroyed crossing the Atlantic so I had Ryan Alden make me a stem. This thing is a great sit and watch hockey pipe. Really like it. It’s eight inches long

 

[OzPiper]

Onto the next of today’s pair of old Loewes


An 1897 tapered stem bent billiard with an orific bit (top)
With a bowl of freshly opened Davidoff Flake Medallions - cube cut

 

[PrivatePiping]

Looks like the hops cones are ready to harvest.

Do you want some? You could try to do a hopped kombucha...

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

7/18 CVP in an Altinay.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Ken Byron Ventures Jim’s Special Flake 2022 in a black rusticated full bend 1984 Peterson Mark Twain military mount egg with a silver cap and tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem. Watching Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

 

[Roach1]

Haunted Bookshop Cake in a Pete SPD 2011 69.

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty red delicious apple, and am smoking year 2018 D&R Windsail in a smooth straight dark brown family era “Canadian” by Sasieni with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Enjoyed a little quiet reading time though I'm getting ready to clean a few pipes.

 

[Mac289]

First time trying Autumn Evening, I enjoyed the smell off the pipe better than the taste but still quite nice. Smoked in the first pipe I ever purchased, a capri basket pipe that I pulled out today while doing some tidying. The sentry pup was on skunk spotting duty.

 

[JimInks]

Last smoke of the day is Wilke Pickett’s Charge in a post-WW2 straight smooth brown pre-Republic Peterson’s Dublin 3 bulldog with a nickel band and a tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem. Tomato the Brave ate plenty, played around, got attention, and then wanted out. I'm reading while this bowl lasts.

 

[Benedict Munsinger]

Drinking coffee with milk, smoking my Mario Pascucci – P Rust 2136 with RMC Marylebone — the only blend I took for the trip.
Just returned from a Buddhist temple far away from the city and its noise — feeling calm and clear-minded.

 

[PaulRVA]

C&D Exclusive in a Dunhill ODA 835
and Coffee ️ on the side

 

[samuelgawith01]

Germain’s Dorchester Mixture in this Castello Collection grade #55.

 

[judcole]

Golden Extra in a Mark Twain.

 

[Choatecav]

C&D Exclusive in a Dunhill ODA 835
and Coffee ️ on the side
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Well Paul, as I read the results of the Dodger's game last night, I thought about how happy your wife must be on the victory. Also, I'm sure that you and @JimInks were astounded to see Ohtani do something no one else has done in the majors..... pitch six scoreless innings and hit 3 homers. Simply amazing....

 

[Choatecav]

Post show puff of some Virginia Gentleman in a Savinelli 601. This pipe is breaking in nicely it might become a good Virginia smoker yet. Played real good tonight this is a nice nightcap and compliments the earlier smoke of Oriental Silk.

Abe, may I ask what it is that you play? I'm sure others may know, but I don't. Thx.