***What Are You Smoking, September 2025?***

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and snow peas dinner with a small bowl of double chocolate ice cream for dessert. I'm a quarter of the way through this bowl of year 2021 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. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. Fed all the ferals and my cats a while ago, and the ferals are outside. They've been very quiet today.

 

[renfield]

6 year old Watch City Persian Slipper in a lattice globe meer.

 

[Goblin_Walrus]

Smoking 2024 Carolina Red Flake sans Perique in the Carrol of Carrollton in my torn-out kitchen

 

[Speak Easy]

FUSTG in a Gepetto.

 

[Mortar0341]

Its Nightcap for the final smoke of the day in the newer Peterson 05 cobble, didn’t really feel up to burning the SH Baskervilles bowl of it.

I love me some Nightcap, I don't smoke a lot of English Latakia stuff anymore but once in a blue moon. But there was a time when its all I wanted to smoke was English. Nightcaps one I really enjoyed.

 

[Steddy]

This is the pipe! Truly, this here is the pipe. That briar is absolutely beautiful. Hands down a Winner man.

Thanks man, I know you have put some miles on a 106 yourself, such a classic Savinelli shape.

 

[abecox]

More Carolina Red Flake with Perique this time in a Peterson Aran Rhodesian. An exemplary smoke, it's delightful fresh and I'm sure some age will do wonders. Cheers to a good weekend y'all!

 

[JimInks]

I'm passing the half way mark of this bowl of year 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a very much appreciated 1979 brown, slight bend grain etched flat front Stanwell Rego 969-48 (09) with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Watching the Orioles-Yankees game.

 

[Joe H]

I helped a couple of neighbors rake and haul off leaves so I decided my creaky old back needed a break and out came my biggest bowl. Dad used to call this (probably late 60s or early 70s) Yorkshire his “Big McArthur” and it’s an apt nickname. I can get an inch and a half of my thumb into the chamber of this guy. I mixed a couple of burly-based cherry blends together and finally called it quits after 90 minutes. I probably could have gotten two hours out of it, based on what I dumped out, but I had more leaves to rake.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

5/21 MB HH Pure Virginia in a Howell.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2020 Mac Baren Scottish Mixture in a straight, smooth brown 1960s Lane era Charatan Special 38 bulldog with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Tomato the Brave just came in to eat. Daisy the Feral Princess and Harry the Hairy are eating outside.

 

[Benedict Munsinger]

Stanislaw Irish Spring Flake is a classic Virginia flake with just a touch of Perique. The Perique is barely noticeable — more of a subtle spicy accent that highlights the natural sweetness of the Virginia rather than dominating it. The result is a smooth, balanced smoke without any heaviness. I’m smoking it now in a Gasparini, and the tobacco opens up calmly and predictably. Quite a pleasant everyday blend for those who enjoy “pure” Virginias with just a hint of spice.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Smoking the Fly Spray Special, which I loaded up with Kelly’s Coin about three hours ago to go tend to the horses.
On the way out back we found the laundry room flooded-the condensate line from AC plugged up. Had to break out the little compressor, MacGyver a hose/fitting to work as a stopper, pull apart the cinder block skirting on the house, find my coveralls (and a 22 w/snake shot), and shimmy my narrow frame in the crawl space and blow out the line. Of course, I had to clean up laundry room and air handler afterwards because the funk in the line blew up all over the place.
And here I thought I was gonna have a lazy Sunday…. Oh well, luxury problems. At least in six hours I get to get up and go to work to relax some

Oh yeah, no pipe pic but I did catch the Space X launch.

 

[Christos D. Tsatsaronis]

This morning, with coffee, to start the week: a random mix of scraps and leftovers in the mini-ature MM hardwood pipe.
I like MM hardwoods, I've 4 of them. They are pretty basic but elegant in their simplicity, extremely durable (like "forever" pipes) and smoke great, not to mention the price. Love them!
Have a nice week good people!

 

[JazzInAZ]

Smoking my larger Santambrogio on this beautiful TX night.

My previous experiment with 50/50 Sutliff Z50 Black Cordial & MB HH ODF was not so great,
so I switched it up to 80/20 Black Cordial to ODF and it's a huge improvement. Basically has all the creamy deliciousness of Black Cordial, but adds a tobacco tang (i.e., I can actually taste tobacco, compared with straight Cordial!). Next time I'll dial down to 90/10 and see what happens. But, really enjoying this!

Drinking Chinese Da Hong Pao oolong tea to complement watching Chinese Open tennis. Cheers!

 

[warren99]

HU Balkan Passion in a Rainer Barbi BB bent egg.

 

[Benedict Munsinger]

It’s funny you say that because this smoke was very mellow verse the previous which was quite peppery spicy.

Well, it looks like I was lucky. All the blends I tried were quite comfortable to smoke.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Starting the week with the Barens Golden Extra in a Dunhill Shell 3109 short group 3 Canadian

 

[Roach1]

Briar Fox in a Pete SPD 2011 69.

 

[JazzInAZ]

A.J. Fernandez New World Connecticut. Very, very nice.

Still rocking Chinese Da Hong Pao oolong tea.