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"What The Puck?" in an Orlik Corona 36 billiard.
It's really good. I woke up thinking about it and. I'm gonna smoke a quick bowl before it gets stupid hot.
I’m still smoking my 90% PS81, 6% Perique and 4% DAC blend, but I felt like doing something different pipe wise, so I’m smoking it in an antique removable bowl meerschaum.
Got my order in of Per Jensen Blenders Collection Virginia and Dark Fired Kentucky. These are actually made by Mac Baren for Sutliff. The Virginia is very forward with Red Virginia. It's very balance. The Dark Fired Kentucky tastes like 1792 flake without tge tonquin. I'm very impressed with these. Having a bowl of the DFK in my Peterson Rocky 53.
I received a bulk order of Father Dempsey today. I snarfed my dinner and let wifey know I was heading outside to start a new novel and try the smoke. She loved the smell of the tin, and I thoroughly enjoyed the tobacco! 🙂
GL Pease “Sextant” in small Liverpool
SG Best Brown Flake in a Gilli 1/4 bent bulldog.
You have me thinking that it’s been at least five years since I’ve had a tin of Best Brown open and I can’t fully remember the smoke off hand. It’s time to pop one.
Haven't smoked any pipe tobacco last few days, today i decided fill my cob with Exhausted Rooster paired with coffee and cream.
This tobacco is growing on me in a splendid way, every time i back to it i feel it more complex and lot of new nuances. Today i could feel a sour-salty flavor than a sour-sweet appeared, than it become woody-leather and salty again, simply amazing. I feel like it was the perfect tobacco for that moment, so nice when we hit the bull eye.
Smoking a tobacco I forgot in a pipe I forgot. This for two reasons: G.L.Pease's Triple Play didn't blow my mind, so I just stopped smoking it, the pipe it's another story.
I bought this Charatan years ago, nice color, nice flame, not expensive and I understood then why: it was a french production with a really chunky stem. So I decided to ask a known artisan I really admired at the time if it was possible to replace the stem with a cumberland one. I send him the pipe and didn't know anything for months, wrote some mails asking gently how the work was proceeding, almost never received a response. After more than a year I just wrote "Ok give me back my pipe I don't care if you did the job or not". I received the pipe, without a word, it wasn't what I asked and some bruises were made on the wood.
He didn't ask for money.
I couldn't smoke the pipe without getting nervous and now everytime I see on internet pipes made by this artisan I scroll away in a petty way...
Now it's time to go on, so here I am, smoking again in my Charatan, it's not a nice smoke after years of rest, but eventually we will get in a good place again...
I received another pipe (from another artisan of course) that needed a replacement stem; it's good, but not the same: it's a bit chunky and plasticky, quite far from the vulcanite stem it had before...
So after two months I still didn't smoke it.
Am I developing a sort of idiosinchrasy for repaired pipes? What the hell ☹️
What The Puck? in the Orlik 36 Billiard. Sure is a nifty little pipe. And man do I dig this puck. It's truly delicious and complex/interesting. I'm definitely going to make up a few with measured components.
I’m really happy for you! I know the satisfaction I feel when I come up with some concoction that has me excited to smoke more of it. It adds another layer of fun to a smoke.
Austria 🇦🇹 just surprised me in the UEFA Euros winning their group.
still puzzled I smoke capstan blue out of a Rattrays AM 30. along some Orangina.
VAs on a beautiful summers evening. Thats the way to go.
Orangina is a great pairing with a Virginia. I’ve thought in the past it would make a great flavoring for one, if I could only figure out how to get that fizz to show up in the tobacco!
Hahaha, careful please! It might hold a little surprise when that fizz ends up being more of a boom 😉
Thank you. No filter. Smokes like a dream. It does like VAs and KY. I think I read they were made in France somewhere in the St Claude region. Good quality pipe. I don’t know if they still doing pipes though.
Went to Lake Michigan today for an office picnic and had my first bowl of Count Pulaski via a coworker who wasn’t sure when he bought the bagful. Even through the dubious storage it was flavorful and satisfying. I am now glad I have a pound on the way, given that I ordered it blind, based only on recommendations here on TR!
Now I’m sitting on the back patio having my first bowl ever of Sir Walter Raleigh, and really enjoying this as well. A red letter day for smokes.
Plum Extract cased Old Joe Krantz in a BC calabash.
It’s good stuff. That reminds me, I still have a bowl stashed in the fridge 😄 I must dig it out soon.
Still smoking SG Best Brown Flake. I have promised myself to change tomorrow.
Whatever blows your hair back, you know? Finish the tin, follow up with another tin!
back in the day the Oldtimers chose 1 Blend to smoke.
I guess I will start narrowing down to like 3-5 blends at some point….
First tasting of Sutliff Signature Series “Pipe Force - Episode II”
…in small 1959 Shell Briar Apple
…paired w water (it’s hot outside!)
Boswell’s Piper’s Pleasure in a Missouri Meerschaum with a cup of coffee and a view. Perfect start of the day. 🤗
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Smoking scottish blend mixed with capstan (35%) in my peterson system.
A lovely little Savinelli 802 with earthy rich Amphora VA. 26 •C around 9pm. A light Rosee accompanying the little bowl
A Savinelli 802 usually measures 14,5cm long, 4,6cm bowl height, inner bowl diameter 2cm and inner bowl depth 4cm. It´s the 802 pictured smaller?
I worried for a minute I got Ait all wrong.
It was an estate…
does it seem legit to you?
It is, the "Corallo" finishing of the briar is a Savinelli's trademark, like Castello's Searock.
Looks like a quality pipe, I don't think they made Corallo finishing of that quality nowadays 😉
Cabbies Mixture, first time. Nice VaPer. In a Savinelli bent Dublin.
Sutliff Barrel Aged Crumble Cake No. 4 in a vintage Stanwell HCA.
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