***What Are You Smoking, September, 2023?***

[ThermionicScott]

Smoking some more Telegraph Hill and enjoying some milky Russian Caravan Tea, ever present Castello is my pipe.

I had to look up "Russian Caravan tea", but I think it would be right up my alley, since I've enjoyed Lapsang Souchong for a long time.

 

[dublinpiper90]

I’m re

Getting to the bottom of this tin of SG&Co Squadron Leader special edition with Perique, in a Peterson B11 bent brandy sitter with a smooth finish and grain that has deepened in contrast and visibility over the twelve or so years I've owned it. This was a modestly priced version of this excellent sitter shape and the grain looks far better now than it did when I bought it. Anyone else had that experience with a pipe?

I'm tempted to seek to order another tin of this blend, but I have so many others waiting in the wings, a great selection of really choice blends, that it may be a while to repeat this experience -- maybe for next summer.

It's still hot, pushing 100 F here in central N.C. I'm running my wife's little Toyota manual shift around town after jump starting it, to get the computer re-set so I can get the car inspected to pay the registration fee and property tax. It takes about 200 miles to reset. It's a chore, but I'm enjoying driving manual shift again, which I did for more than thirty years

Hello my fellow north carolinian Im ready to find that S.Leader with perique !

 

[Ben.R.C]

ODF in an Abe Herbaugh

 

[Scottmi]

Haunted Woods (50/50 Haunted Bookshop/Northern Woods) in my Savinelli 316KS.

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, lemon glazed salmon and sugar snap peas dinner with a bowl of freshly made chocolate pudding for dessert. I'm nearing the last quarter of this bowl of Erik Stokkebye 4th Generation Evening Flake in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson Ebony POTY 4AB No. 422/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Watching the Braves lose to the Cardinals.

 

[alwayslit]

Hot and muggy. Enjoying some WCCSO in a Rad.

 

[tfdickson]

Louisiana Broken in my Berggreen bamboo billiard.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Oldest just let us know of the chosen wedding venue (might have to sell a couple pipes, haha) and possible dates - so I dumped the other bowl and having a festive ‘23 St. Patrick’s Day Reserve in the Peterson ‘23 POTY - temp dropped a bunch! Lots of reasons to enjoy what’s left of today!

 

[Hutch Piper]

G&H Rum Flake in a MM Country Gentleman.

 

[JimInks]

KBV Van Gogh in the Pete Walnut Spigot.
Anyone know what this blend is comprised of? I swear I get a coconut flavor on first light.

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The topping is European absinthe. There's no coconut in the mix.

 

[cshubhra]

Gawith Hoggarth and Company Dark Birds Eye in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard

 

[TN Jed]

WCC #558 in a Castello

 

[tnfan]

Capstan Blue RR in a BST.

 

[VDL_Piper]

I had to look up "Russian Caravan tea", but I think it would be right up my alley, since I've enjoyed Lapsang Souchong for a long time.

Back in the day when this tea was transported by Yak across the Silk Road and the Himalayas the journey was long and the tea was packed in hessian sacks. Tea is very hydroscopic and this slow trip (up to a year), plus all the stops, camps, dung fires et al, plus the elevation gained and lost through out the journey gave it a very unique quality as it took on all the flavours and smells of the trip. I get mine from a master tea blender here in Tasmania who also has very small and bespoke tea house and she blends a tea that is very close to the original, strong with campfire notes and a deep underlying sweetness. It's supposed to be consumed with Yak milk which also adds to the overall experience. I've had the real thing when visiting the Steppes of Mongolia out near the Gobi Desert. Here is what it looks like.

 

[JimInks]

A third of the way through the last of this tin of Dan Tobacco The Mallard Flake Plus Perique in a straight smooth brown 2017 unbranded Upshall Canadian with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Going to work soon.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

The topping is European absinthe. There's no coconut in the mix.

That actually makes more sense..

 

[Carol]

Bayou Morning x BriarWorks billiard
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That is a beautiful pipe!

 

[alaskanpiper]

Erinmore flake in a Ropp. Picked up a hitchhiker on my commute home today. Turns out we actually met two years ago in Texas when I shot him to death. Small world!

 

[PennyStonks]

Prince Albert in a Leonessa. This was my first briar pipe but I haven’t smoked it in a while because it had too much cake built up. I finally got a pipe reamer so I could bring it back to life

 

[dsturg369]

Good Googly!! ... All these beautiful pipes have me near drooling!