What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

[Emperor Zurg]

Puffing a 50-50 mixture of Solani ABF and F&T Blackjack. Per my usual practice, I mixed the tobaccos, rather than layering. By George! It's good! Pretty, too, with the dark bits of ABF and the lighter Blackjack.

Some time ago I tried a 50-50 mixture of ABF and DF, with a disappointing result. Might have to try that again.

I often mix and match tobaccos. Mostly it's because I have a bit left over from something I left out to dry but didn't all fit in the bowl. So I just mix that with whatever sounded good to smoke next. Sometimes it's 'meh' and sometimes it's really good... and sometimes it's good or bad just because of the way the blend hits me on a given day. I know this because I've duplicated a mix that I thought was fantastic one day only to find that a couple days later it hit me as OK at best. I do know I generally don't like virginias mixed with burley but once in a while even that combo surprises me.

I might go for something mild later on. Haven't been feeling 100% lately and tobacco hasn't sounded good at all. We'll see I guess...

[Cool Breeze]

Having some McClelland 40th Anniversary in a Savinelli Champagne bulldog.

[Cool Breeze]

Having my first bowl of the evening.
Dunhill Navy Rolls in a series III Savinelli bent apple.

[Lostmason]

I'm going to finish the day and the month with Frog Morton Cellar in my DG Savoy.

[Haebar]

Last night I smoked Solani Aged Burley Flake in a Sunrise billiard. This morning I am having another bowl of it in a Comoy's Guildhall billiard. I finally found some G&H Dark Plug on the Mars Cigar website and bought a 500 g box. I've been looking for some for years!

[Haebar]

Earlier this evening I smoked a bowl of G&H Black Irish X in an Albert John billiard. Gotta remember to not do that when I'm sitting in the sun and it's 80 degrees out.

[Bruck]

Earlier this evening I smoked a bowl of G&H Black Irish X in an Albert John billiard. Gotta remember to not do that when I'm sitting in the sun and it's 80 degrees out.

A serious butt-kicking smoke!

[Bruck]

And for the record, I ribbon cut and mixed some "Dark Fire" (dark fire-cured VA) from KY and pseudo perique (bcs it's also from KY) a couple years ago and put it in a jar.

It wasn't that great to begin with, but I'm burning some now and it's quite nice.

[Pipe Smoker]

Puffing Solani 779, English Luxury Mixture. I'm really liking this stuff -- mellow, and VERY tasty.

For the past two or three months I've been smoking my venerable aluminum stem Kirsten Mariner exclusively. It's the least expensive pipe I own -- and the sweetest smoking pipe I own. Easy to clean to like-new condition, too. It came with a vulcanite bit, but I replaced that with an acrylic bit, for easier maintenance.

[Haebar]

Just finished a small bowl of G&H Black Irish X in a Dr. Grabow Royal Duke. A most satisfying smoke after a day of work! Today, in the mail, I got a ton of pipe tobacco coupons from Scandinavian Tobacco Group: SWR, SWRA, Half & Half, Captain Black, and others. I recommend you get on their mailing list so that you will receive these coupons in the mail - they are almost like getting a free pouch with each coupon. Today I went to the local Discount Tobacco store and got a pouch of SWR, SWRA, Half & Half, and Captain Black Original all for $4.19 total with tax included.