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GH Rum Flake was calling to me, I’m smoking it in a BC calabash.
Breaking in latest newly-refurbished pipe with G L Pease “Samarra”.
Very happy with “Princess Leah”. Wide open draft and meerschaum spacer/filter at bottom of bowl make this an excellent smoker - cool & dry.
Small-ish bowl, shallower than it is wide, is perfect for stronger, more complex English/Balkan/Scottish blends.
Took me 1/2 hour to get through a 1.5g bowl-full.
About my speed and dosage for such blends during the day.
I have some tins of Samarra, and also Caravan and Spark Plug aging and the wait is getting very long. I never smoked them before.
Every G.L. Pease Latakia blend I have tried was from excellent to exceptional. They share all I remember from the great blends of the Old Good Times (Before 1980). Odyssey provided me an emotion comparable to the one I felt when smoked Balkan Sobranie for the first time, a BS tin from 1976. I think they will maintain the tone of the Latakia blends of the brand. I have much expectation with Spark Plug and Samarra.
I´ll keep you updated.
Simply put, Samarra has been my #1 favorite English blend for 10 years. And, I have a lifetime supply aging - such that when I open each tin, it’s already aged 8-10 years. I like it best mellowed and complex. IMO, none better. But, there’s no accounting for personal taste, so, I don’t want to get your hopes up that you will love it as much as I do. It’s merely a distinct medium English that became my comfortable “home base” that I will always have.
After some trials I found that Oriental tobacco lightly sprayed with died apricot essence (according @Ted method) works very well with the aged Virginias of Best Brown Flake and a pinch of pure Cyprus Latakia. I love the result so much that I´m going to incorporate it into my summer rotation. I have named it "Ted´s Oriental Wet Dream".
Wet is because it is necessary to wet the orientals a bit with the dried Apricot essence made according Ted´s recipe.
Smoking my personal "Mischione Inglese", the mélange af all the ends of my english mixtures.
Started good, a bit more strong at the end, the sky is grey but it doesn't rain; not bad...
In my nice Armellini dublin 😊
Strange finale of this mixture: a light flavor of beer within the woody perfumes 🤨
Finishing my tin of Mac Baren Vanilla Flake. What a good baccy.
There are some stripes and small chunks of tobacco that I´ll add to my Frankenstein jar
I throw all my scraps in a jar. I smoke a bowl when I'm bored. Usually pretty good despite being burley, several VAs, Latakia, dark fired, orientals, and often a few crumbs of an oddball aromatic
I'm going to do that too! I do it with whisky already with surprisingly good results hope it turns out the same with tobacco. Time will tel.
Bari potiard again. This time it's Sutliff Stoved VA, Red Mature VA and toasted burley about 1/3 each. Splash of perique. Zeroing in on something pretty darned good.
This stoved VA is special.
Smoking some Bosun Cut Plug. This came in pretty darn dry. Not as sweet as the plug I got from Ted. I'm thinking Ted's been aged quite a bit. Lol
Still very nice. Oh it's in my Ukrainian. And I shaved my beard for summer. Lol
Hey! Yeah, off the top of my head, the Bosun I sent you had four or five years in the jar.
This morning I mixed
40% CB Royal
40% Scotty's Bass Pond
10% Visions of Celephais
It was a very pleasing smoke.
Always good when Zig and Ron check in. Howdy, fellas.
I'm enjoying some old Star Of The East in the new morta. I'm a believer. I love this pipe so far. So light. As reported it does real justice to Latakia. I've had no strange tastes. And it's a good smoker. Stays lit.
It’s been a long, busy day. 1792 Flake in a BC Origine is helping with unwinding.
Presbyterian Ordained flake, folded and stuffed in GBD Cutty.
(Btw, swapped out the wire cage that used to be this pipe’s moisture trap with a meerschaum spacer - noticeable improvement).
Havent been able to get on the last few days. Having a bowl of one of my customs blends from a few months ago. Bright VA blend and dark fired Kentucky that favors Mac Baren Dark Twist.
Waiting on my wholeleaftobacco.com order to come in a day or 2. Only getting the Canadian lemon and bright leaf for now. I've had the bright leaf before and it's very Samuel Gawith-like.
Returned to McConnell Oriental.
One from yesterday - My Mixture 965 in my Vauen New York Rhodesian
I'm very fond of it, and this line is especially affordable. One of my favorite pipes under $100 that wasn't an estate.
Third morning in in a row with the Bari and homebrewed Burley base with Sutliff stoved VA. I'm starting to crave this stuff. I'm also a little pissed I listened to all the "Catsup" hate about McClelland and didn't smoke their VAs back then.
C&D Bayou Morning Flake in this awfully bad balanced but funny Peterson.
I'm still not being so satisfied by this flake 🤔
Today i started smoking Cascadia Downwind and now I´m smoking Peterson Flake.
It´s holiday here today so there are at least 2 more bowls to be smoked during the day! 😎 🤠
Mac Baren Virginia No. 1 in my trusty TV churchwarden. Sweet, fruity light Virginia was sounding really good today. It’s been a little while since I smoked this and I may stick with it for a while.
It’s way beyond time to re-organize my cellar as well, it took me fifteen minutes to find my jar of Virginia No. 1. That was 15 minutes I could have been smoking.
I remember the picture of your cellar and 15 minutes is not that long considering that incredible amount of tobaccos, and to be honest, that cellar is really well organized bro.
Order has broken down since I took those photos 🙂. That was just after a reorganization. Plus new whole leaf acquisitions ended up taking up much of the floor space since then.
DGTing a bowl of Stirling Flake in the Mario Grandi poker from last night.
This pipe has lost its job as primary Lancer's slices smoker and is being repurposed as a general flake pipe. Damned mortas out here stealing briar jobs! 😂
Having some mac baren golden in a cob. This blend is growing on me.
The one you are smoking is this blend here?
https://www.tobaccoreviews.com/blend/701/mac-baren-golden-blend/
Yes, that's it, It's called golden extra in america for some reason. It's really smooth and burns very well. Does wonders in a cob so I think you'll enjoy it
Decided to stick with lighter Virginias, but I’ve moved on to Watch City’s Christmas 2022 blend, Mistletoe Jam.
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