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

[BenMN]

Couple year old Kajun Kake in this Nording 2021 hunting pipe, the "Grouse."

 

[jaytex1969]

A huge flake of 1792 folded and stuffed into a Tilshead Bulldog.

Going for the head spin tonight!

 

[JimInks]

Close to finishing the last of this healthy sample of year 2016 WarHorse Ready Cut in an undated straight sandblasted black Ropp Crystal billiard with a clear acrylic perspex saddle stem. One of these days, I'll pop open a first release tin. It's time to clean a few pipes.

 

[Scottmi]

a little earlier Vintage Enriched Prince Albert+ (my tinbits jar with a base of old PA) in the Mountbatten #9

 

[VA_Red]

ew to me blend, SG Brown No 4 Twist in Yiannos Kokkinos. These SG ropes are a treat. The XX from earlier was the oddest, most puzzling but ultimately an amazing bowl of tangy, Smokey, fatty,, slab of barbeque in a bowl.

 

[alwayslit]

Some WCC 558 in a Dunhill

 

[JimInks]

Half way through this bowl of year 2014 Orlik Golden Sliced in an early 20th century Gordon Special Bruyere 49 apple with a triangular shank and tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[happy_lunter]

Rattray’s Exotic Passion.

 

[cshubhra]

Cigar Time- San Lotano Requiem Habano

The drink is Rose Syrup with ginger ale - Kind of an Indian take on Shirley Temple

 

[UncleRasta]

So, our friend John’s birthday was last week on September 2nd. We weren’t able to get together until today, which worked out for the best—today is UFC 293 PPV and John is visiting us to watch it; John and I have been watching UFC together for over ten years. The UFC mixed martial arts matches take place in an octagon shaped ring. When I saw that Savinelli was releasing their Ottagono Due (Octagon II) limited edition, numbered pipe, I knew it would be the perfect gift. John was born in 1976 and I was born in 1963. As luck would have it, Smoking Pipes had numbers 76/600 and 63/600 available for sale and I was able to snag both when the pipes dropped.

I’m having Savinelli Brunello Flake in a Savinelli Ottagono Due Sandblasted, Eight-sided, Paneled Dublin (number 63/600). John is having Savinelli 140th Anniversary (2022 release) in his Ottagono Due (number 76/600) while we watch UFC.

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Excellent. Great gift.

 

[Sobrbiker]

2016 WarHorse Ready Cut ….. One of these days, I'll pop open a first release tin.

A neophyte can only imagine. I’d be thrilled to come across the old STC.

 

[Sobrbiker]

First bowl of Phantom Privateer straight out of a fresh tin I was thrilled to find in stock recently.
I think it may like a little air and more generous bowl than a WWII era Kaywoodie 04 FlameGrain Meer.
Pretty tasty nonetheless.

 

[Nevaditude]

The wife & I went for a late afternoon/early evening drive up to Lake Tahoe. This is a Peterson 301 System Standard with WTC Peanut Butter at an overlook.

 

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking year 2014 Sutliff 1849 in a medium bend smooth dark brown 1968 Barling 5631 London England TVF billiard silver spigot with a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[JimInks]

Off to the studio to finish this story with a bowl of Wilke No. 72 in a pre-1974 dark brown straight Larus & Brother Co. Signature billiard with a nickel band and a tapered black vulcanite stem with the initials LCR on the top of the stem. This blend was smoked by Walter Cronkite.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Vauen No 14 in a Rubio.

 

[Scottmi]

I went looking for my "Newminster 400 Superior Navy Flakes" tonight as I have it on good authority it is darn good stuff (I agree). Alas I had packed it away for further aging, so 4th Gen Evening Flake in the Big Bent Lattice Meer is tonight's fare whilst perusing the next confection we will ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY have to make (Miso and Maple Pecan-Butter Mochi Cake, Bon Appetit Aug 2023).

 

[FoggyMorning]

Yorktown in a Savinelli Capri.

 

[OzPiper]

I attended an all day seminar yesterday on a university campus.
It is now a smoke-free zone, where dons and students roamed freely with their pipes
When did universities become a target for the fun police ?

Taking out a couple of Danish horns today.
First a Royal Danish (Stanwell second) Shape 157

And a bowl of Erinmore Flake

 

[dino]

The Saturday ZOOM gang got together again this afternoon for some smoke, BS and camaraderie. I was in the mood for some aromatic, instead of my usual English, and dug into a jar of 20-year-old McClelland 2000 Fragrant Matured Cake (talk about matured and fragrant after two decades!).
I filled my 1980s Hayim Pinhas lattice meerschaum, poured some Peach/Mango Green Tea over a fistful of bergs in a tall tumbler and spent a few hours with my buds.