What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

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Originally Posted by Lostmason

Today was a fun one,for those of you who have any experience with trailers.Today I loaded and unloaded a 14'
dump trailer with landscaping and red bricks.Just a little sore,:thud:. I get home and the DIL has started SOS for
dinner.Not a bad thing,I like SOS.Then I found out she used a pre-made packet to make the gravy.Ok,I can live
with that,at least it will have flavor.So for an after dinner treat I settled back with LL Butternut Burley in a MM
CG.Might as well have loaded my mystery mix,not a puff of flavor.I was a bit disappointed.:censored: So in order
to salvage my evening I'm loading a bowl Germain's Plum Cake in my DG Savoy.

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I like SOS too!

You want burley with flavor? Solani 656! That'll be the next tin I open. Probably tomorrow.

Now puffing F&T Cut Virginia Plug.

C&D Tuskegee Airman in a MM Legend. This tin is dated 2011, though I believe it was opened two years later. Remarkably, it still has a fair bit of moisture. I remembered this being a fairly latakia forward blend but it seems to have mellowed somewhat with the lat slipping more into the background. Quite a pleasant smoke.

Came across a six year old tin of C&D Bayou Morning Flake with a slight bulge on the top and bottom, (a sure sign that it's ripe and ready to smoke :-) ), and I so wanted to open it. But after tossing six open tins last night that were dry beyond all hope of reviving, I promised myself I would finish off some of the partial tins in my cabinet before opening more. So it's Mac Baren HH Acadian Perique in a MM Diplomat.

Puffing a 50-50 mixture of F&T Cut Virginia Plug and Solani 633 VaPer. Lordy – good!

Having some homemade flake in a cheap no-name briar. This batch is from a year and a half ago and is mostly bright VA, but with some other stuff incl. something @Tobias Lutz sent me, but not Tobias' Surprise, topped with rum. Anyway, it's pretty good in case y'all were wondering.

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Originally Posted by Haebar

Jim, I have been on a cigar smoking jag the last few weeks so I haven't posted anything in this thread in a long time. Even when I am smoking the pipe on a regular basis, I only smoke three bowls a day at the most. Just this morning I read an article about you in Pipe Collector Magazine, an issue from earlier this year. You are a credit to your hobby, having reviewed 1561 tobaccos to date. Whenever I am considering a purchasing a new tobacco purchase, I seek out your review on it because I know that it will be an accurate one.

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I'm the same way as I'm smoking cigars at this time of year....

Damn ! I'm telling y'all,3 trailers,an 18',a 14',and a little 8'. Full of furniture.
Not a box in the mix.And this was all big real wood stuff,you know,the kind
that weighs a ton.And to top it off,a pool table.2x8 construction with a
true slate surface.Took four of us to lift one end at a time.We not only
loaded and unloaded but also,all but the pool table went upstairs into
storage.So tonight I'm doing mellow and easy,Carter Hall followed by
Prince Albert in my cobs.And if I'm still verticle I might just indulge myself
and fill a bowl of Dunhill Flake in one of my Meers.A couple of sandwiches,
turkey and colby on rye,with coffee and with my smokes scotch on the rocks !

Elizabethan Mixture in a 1/8 bent rusticated Mark Tinsky bulldog. Trying to power through some of these tins so I can open some new ones.

Little comparo between fresh FVF and 6.5 year aged FVF.
Both delicious in their own ways.

Escudo in an underused Eckhard Stohr with a dark Cumberland stem. Not exactly sure what to call this shape but it can be seen here on his site. It's the 5th pipe in album #1.

Eckhard Stöhr Pfeifen