***What Are You Smoking, Sept. 2020?

[bigbeard]

I like your beard and think the pipe goes very well with it!

Much appreciated. It's about 50% longer if I straighten it.

I enjoyed the Mac Baren pipe tobacco I've smoked in my clay pipe

This fascinates me. I've only tried Briar so far but have heard that clay, morta and meerschaum all smoke "dryer".

I think all their blends are delicious and they definitely went down well!

MacBaren has treated me VERY well as a new pipe smoker. Especially their Amphora line. Good moisture, easy to smoke, great flavour. Amphora Rich (Green) and Virginia (Yellow) are ones I will buy again and again.

The Virginia No. 1 and Vanilla Cream both came too wet but a few hours of dry time spread out on a plate helped. This past week, I nearly smoked my entire jar of Vanilla Cream. Lovely!

I had great difficulty lighting it

The 3 tobaccos I've had from sister-company Samuel Gawith were nearly drowned. Delicious taste but annoying (and painful) to smoke.

St. James Flake would have been a contender to replace DNR as my favourite except for this.

I must have gone back in time when I was wearing my Cavalier / Redcoat uniform and smoking a clay pipe of twist, as this is the stuff they smoked back then!

It's neat how pipes fit into history, isn't it? Across nations, battles and the political spectrum, the pipe was there.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking AcesFour’s Red Queen V in a slight bend 1970's Caminetto 102 Business KS billiard with a fumed rim with a pearl gold acrylic stem.

 

[bullet08]

A bit of Bengal Slices in Peterson SH Squire. Was a good smoke. But the weather was bit on the humid side.

 

[cshubhra]

Cornell & Deihl Havana Daydream ? with a tin date May-2017 in a Sasieni Claret Bulldog

 

[tomatamot]

TAK - Black Twist a rope in a Turkish Block Meerschaum billiard.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2010 STG Schippers in a 1977 straight black rusticated Sir Brent 253 billiard with a silver band repair and a brown pearl grey acrylic tapered stem. Time to do some walking.

 

[jaytex1969]

St James Flake in a Stanwell 185.

 

[dcrguns]

C&D Espresso in a Castillo Old Antiquari Bent Billiard

 

[prndl]

Solani 633/ Castello "Collection" billiard w/saddle stem.

 

[JimInks]

Not far from finishing this bowl of Sutliff Prince Andrew in a 1980s straight smooth Big Ben pot with a nickel band and a black vulcanite saddle stem.

 

[Paul lec]

MB Black Ambrosia in a Crown pipe.

 

[Simmerdown☕️]

Haunted Bookshop.️

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am now smoking year 2015 John Aylesbury Sir John’s Curly Cut in a 1970s medium bend brown Caminetto 205 Business egg with a long black acrylic saddle stem. Have enough for one more bowl.

 

[Plutz]

Really quite excited, returned home from work today to a new cob waiting for me..

MM Mark Twain, fitted her with a amber danish bit (ordered a couple in amber and black, but reckon I like the amber)

About to have our first smoke, loaded up with Germain's Special Latakia Flake ?

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Rare for me to have a pipe midday on a weekday.
Hearth & Home Sweet and Savory in the Radice Silk Cut bent.

 

[Perique]

Wilke No.5 in a Grand Duke

 

[jaytex1969]

Tabac Manil La Brumeuse in a Tinder Box/Charatan Huntsman.

 

[cigrmaster]

2007 Esoterica Stonehaven in a Jack Howell LB Billiard.

 

[cshubhra]

Peterson’s Perfect Plug (3P) in a Sasieni Two Dot Author

 

[mikefu]

Aged Wessex Classic Virginia in a Nording Extra Partially Sandblasted Bent Dublin