What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

Just finishing this bowl of Jim's Va/Bur in a 2015 Basil Meadows Bing Crosby Merchant Service replica with a smooth straight thin shank, aluminum band and black ebonite stem.

Savinelli 140˚ in an unbranded undated (1980s?) straight smooth flat bottom apple with a black vulcanite stem.

D&R Raccoon’s Friend in a 1984 three quarter bend medium brown Ascorti KS Business Dublin with a black acrylic stem.

Heine's Blend in the third pipe I ever bought ($1.95), a 1974 smooth straight French briar Hadley Apple with a black vulcanite stem.

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Originally Posted by BryGuySC

Broke out some of @NeverBend 's The Professor, which has been resting for about a year or so.
Pete, this stuff is great!
It is rich, deep, leathery, with a smokey backing and a nip of spice on the tongue. I wish I had a pound of this in my cellar! It is like nothing else I smoke.

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I agree, Pete's aromatics are excellent and unique.. I haven't seen him around in ages. Tried emailing and got no reply... even looked up a phone number on teh innerwebs and tried a call but no answer. I hope he's ok.

Had a bowl of Bob's Chocolate Flake from 2012 in an old Grabow by the fire last night.

Puffing Solani 633, Virginia with Perique. After the first light, I let my pipe go out for awhile, then revel in the aroma wafting from the bowl. It's very fine indeed.

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Puffing my once-a-week treat: long-aged FVF. And sipping a medium-roast arabica-robusta espresso.

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Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg

I agree, Pete's aromatics are excellent and unique.. I haven't seen him around in ages. Tried emailing and got no reply... even looked up a phone number on teh innerwebs and tried a call but no answer. I hope he's ok.

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Yeah. Me too, short of calling.

Puffing Capstan Medium -- the best durned tobacco Mac Baren ever made.