Trying to relax after a disappointing 49er loss with a bowl of Match 20 in a Peterson Aran 80s.
***What Are You Smoking, Sept. 2020?
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Good pipe, tobacco, scenery.
More Christmas Cheer this time in the Medley Lumberman with black coffee on the back porch.
First smoke of Rustica in a Peterson Aran 05.
Macbaren Navy Flake in a Moretti Morta stack . About to grill Thai peanut/ Szechuan spicy shrimp, potstickers and sunomono. Pan Asian theme.
And? Good so far?
3+ Years Aged Samuel Gawith Balkan Flake in a La Savinelli Giubleo d’Oro Dublin
Esoterica And so to Bed in a Peterson 80s.
Watch City Slices in a Rossi Otranto.
Cheating with frozen potstickers.
RDB 3 Stars is my favorite!!!!!
Relaxing after a wonderful salad, rainbow trout, and green peas dinner with Dutch chocolate ice cream for dessert. I'm close to finishing this bowl of Prince Albert in a medium bend black sandblasted IPSD 2016 Mark Tinsky book keeper 5 with a square shank and a black acrylic saddle stem with a cream colored accent. Been packing up "hate mail" for an unsuspecting friend.
Presbyterian in a Rossi billiard. This one is a real mellow smoke with a little tiny bit of age on it. Glad I got a couple tins to sit on. Might need a few more.
2010 FVF in a Petey 303 spigot, fishtail. Cold German lager, deckside. Just wishing I could eat like Jiminks.
It was only my first go but my assessment thus far is that, though the tin note is reminiscent of wet hay on a cattle farm, none of that essence translates to the smoke which is rich and creamy in feel, full in body, and very high in nicotine. I'm a big fan of HH Bold Kentucky and ODF, Irish Flake, OJK, Haunted Bookshop and other strong blends but I had to put this down mid bowl and take a break. The flavor was unexpectedly mild and overall the smoke was very smooth - the word 'round' kept coming to mind as I thought of how to describe it. About midway through the bowl and before I put it down for a break, I started to pick up a feint background sweetness that I didn't detect again until after smoking the second half for a while and only towards the end of the bowl. It didn't bite even in the least bit. I'm looking forward to getting to know Rustica better and forming a more solid opinion. For now, I'd place ODF ahead of this in terms of flavor as I think ODF has a bit more nuance and depth.
Now smoking aged Japan Tobacco Momoyama in a 1980s White Pipe straight, smooth octagonal paneled billiard meerschaum with an acrylic yellow cream colored saddle stem. Working on a review of this blend. Community Coffee is brewing.
Evening y’all.
I’m smoking some 2016 Revor Plug in the Kaywoodie Meerschaum
By chance, are any of you having issues with this site running extremely slow on your phone? It can take up to 30 seconds from the time I click the thumbs up icon to it actually submitting the thumbs up. Pages take forever to load, and reply posts are taking a long time for the text I am quoting to appear, basically this sight has significantly slowed down as of late. I’ve cleared my chache and cookies, restarted my phone and still this site is painfully slow. Maybe it just has something to do with the software used for this forum as I have run into this problem on other forums where it appears that they are using the same platform as this site or maybe it’s the browser I’m using? I’ll have to try another browser but I’m a huge fan of Chrome so that would be really inconvenient. In short, it’s starting to drive me away from this forum, it can be like pulling teeth just to like someone’s post or just simply responding to a post. I’m hoping it’s just a hiccup and things will get better soon. Just curious if anyone else has experienced this?
I’m smoking some 2016 Revor Plug in the Kaywoodie Meerschaum
By chance, are any of you having issues with this site running extremely slow on your phone? It can take up to 30 seconds from the time I click the thumbs up icon to it actually submitting the thumbs up. Pages take forever to load, and reply posts are taking a long time for the text I am quoting to appear, basically this sight has significantly slowed down as of late. I’ve cleared my chache and cookies, restarted my phone and still this site is painfully slow. Maybe it just has something to do with the software used for this forum as I have run into this problem on other forums where it appears that they are using the same platform as this site or maybe it’s the browser I’m using? I’ll have to try another browser but I’m a huge fan of Chrome so that would be really inconvenient. In short, it’s starting to drive me away from this forum, it can be like pulling teeth just to like someone’s post or just simply responding to a post. I’m hoping it’s just a hiccup and things will get better soon. Just curious if anyone else has experienced this?
Enjoying a bowl of Sutliff Elizabethan Match. I’m not sure if I’m just getting old, but lately I’ve been enjoying this (and 515 RC) no fuss, easy packing, easy smoking and consistent from bowl to bowl. I have spent years smoking/chasing the more exotic blends, fighting with flakes, drying blends for hours etc. if someone told me a few years ago I would be cellaring and smoking Sutliff bulk blends I would have laughed at them. Maybe it’s just a phase after all these years of smoking, but when I grabbed one of my unsmoked Dunhills and decided to dedicate it to 515 RC, I knew something was up. Maybe those codgers were right about smoking simple, no fuss easy-going blends.
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