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

[hikeoflife]

Having a bowl of 21 CRF in a Pete to start my weekend.

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tall sack of cinnamon raisin French toast with a peach and unsalted peanuts on the side. I've a third of a bowl left of C&D Carolina Red Flake with Perique 2023 (Small Batch) in a 2003 medium bent Ural meer with a lined and etched egg shaped bowl with a silver band and a pearl brown acrylic saddle stem. Not far from finishing the review.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Peterson ‘23 No. “Funk” 49 Rua and ‘23 SPD Reserve.

 

[PaulRVA]

Peterson ‘23 No. “Funk” 49 Rua and ‘23 SPD Reserve. View attachment 246776

Great looking Pete. I haven’t been able to snatch one in that finish.
Nice Joe Walsh plug too.

 

[Doctor Chopper]

G.L. Pease Bankside in a Castello sea rock panel

 

[JimInks]

Off to work with a bowl of year 2020 D&R Raccoon’s Friend in a pre-1980s straight dark brown Comoy's Sandblast 186 billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[Brewfan]

FVF in my J Mouton

 

[SmokerLawyer]

You have a real treasure there brother. I would love to have one of my grandfathers pipes.

Thank you! Actually I have a bunch of old briars from him but unfortunately this is the only one that is suitable for smoking. Although I'm thinking on renovating the others too, because I know a guy who can revive old pipes for a fair price.

 

[Ben.R.C]

HH Suicide in an Eltang

 

[daniel7]

Bayou Morning x BriarWorks billiard

 

[seanv]

2018 SG Navy Flake in an Al Pascia meer

 

[Doctor Chopper]

Sun Bear Tupelo in a Ranz.

 

[das3353]

Simply Orange in an Altinay

 

[JimInks]

Close to finishing this bowl of 2021 Watch City Simply VOriental in a straight smooth medium brown 1930s Wilshire 5 bulldog (Comoy’s second) made for John’s Pipe Shop in Los Angeles with a black vulcanite saddle stem.

 

[FurCoat]

LJP Cuban Mixture in a cob trimming the lawn before I mow it tomorrow

 

[PipeIT]

Aromatics are real tobacco and what keeps the pipe tobacco market alive. Just takes a long time to get the hang of them. I would never suggest them to beginners.

You certainly have a lot more experience than me. I’d have to say, when I was a new pipe smoker, and someone mentioned Aromatics, I assumed, they were all about the same, heavily topped, goopy, wet, super sweet, and hardly any tobacco taste, just the taste of toppings.

Now, I’d like to think, from what I’ve experienced, we have light, medium and heavy topped Aros.

I would think, if someone can get the same flavors I have in a 2022 tin of Grousemoor, which is like a VA, with lemon herbal tea notes, as long as someone likes lemon, it’s an extremely light easy smoke.

KBV Sakura, seems like another amazing Aro, for a beginner too.

I think as long as someone finds the nicer light/medium Aros, beginners should be ok, not something like Rattray’s Exotic Passion.

And I would think, if someone wants to keep it old school, more codger like, the original recipe of Wilke’s 515 is a really good classic choice for an Aro to start on.

hmm

P.S. I would of thought with the rum, GLP Windjammer would be classified too as an Aro.

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

Red VA Ribbon mixture from a Jason Patrick bent egg.

 

[Scottmi]

Phaser IPA and St. Bruno in the Schowa Selected, set to stun

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Wilke Hearth of Galway in an undated smooth straight medium brown made in France Saillard Lord Clerit lumberman with a black vulcanite saddle stem.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Mcclelland MV24 in the Northern Briars Premier silver prince.