What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

[JimInks]

Half way through this bowl of HU Aus Dem Krater No.4 in a 2003 straight grain Karl Erik Ekstravagant A medium bend freehand sitter and black acrylic stem. This will finish the sample.

[coffeecup]

This evening I am having a bowl of Drew Estate Gatsby Luxury Flake in an extra large Rossi freehand. Today I got my order from "Pipes and Cigars" including the "Gatsby Flake". I ordered this tobacco to round out my order to qualify for free shipping. I have not ordered any tobacco for more than a year; in the last year I have been primarily interested in cigars. When I first started back with cigars and the pipe in 2009 and joined the old "Puff Forum" there was an old timer who knew that I had retired an had a limited money source for tobacco and he suggested that I should concentrate on tobacco instead of cigars for the first few years because he felt that the bans on cigarettes that there would be restrictions on tobacco worst than cigars. So I did just that and it was a pleasure looking at my jars of Stonehaven and Penzance that I had gotten when it was still possible to order; but I will admit that in my early years of smoking cigars from "Thompsons Cigars" was not a great time, but it did allow me to eventually understand and enjoy good quality cigars. So this evening it was especially enjoyable to view my many jars of tobacco that I love. In reference to this evening my Gatsby Flake seems to be enjoyable and I am topping off this smoke with an ice cold mug of "Guinness Draught" brew and life is well.

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking St. Basil’s Peter the Great in a 1979 medium bend etch relief meerschaum lined TinderBox Arabesque with a black vulcanite stem.

[JimInks]

Now smoking STCoP Dobie’s Four Square Virginia in a 2014 Savinelli Gaius smooth brown slight bend black acrylic stem and ferrule 320KS author. Working and listening to The Jack Benny Program.

[JimInks]

Old Colonial in a medium bend beater 1979 Aalborg natural freehand made by Nording with a black vulcanite stem.

[Pipe Smoker]

I just opened a 50g tin of Fribourg & Treyer Special Brown Flake – 17 months of age on it. The tin note is tart, even sour, but the smoke is delicious. The judiciously-applied topping is quite unusual: said to be rum-flavored. Could be, but I'd never have guessed rum. Like all of the F&T Virginia flakes that I've tried, the tobacco is excellent. I recommend SBF as a nice change-of-pace Virginia.

When I was a college student on a tight budget, I used to buy "Rum Crook" cigars at the drugstore. They were inexpensive, and I found them to be tasty – they definitely had rum flavor! In those days, most Midwestern drugstores carried an assortment of pipes, pipe tobacco, cigars, snuff, etc. Those days are gone.

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking John Barrett Salad Bowl Mixture in a 2015 John Barrett slight bend smooth rock maple poker with a walnut shank and a black vulcanite stem.

[JimInks]

Now smoking STCoP Dobie’s Four Square Cavendish in a 2002 IMP smooth full bend egg shaped meer with a black acrylic stem. A bottle of Coke made with pure cane sugar is my drink.

[JimInks]

Half way through this bowl of STCoP Murray’s 1921 Cunningham in a 1984 three quarter bend medium brown Ascorti KS Business Dublin with a black acrylic stem.

[Lostmason]

Just finished a bowl of CB original in a Bruce Peters straight,
am fixing to load a Willard straight with CB Gold and then
follow up with a cob of CB Cherry.DANG,this turned into a
GOOD DAY! Thanks @GWBowman !!