What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

Solani 656, ABF rubbed out in my trusty, grubby cob. This is much, much better than the first time I tried this blend in that evil tasting, new Rossi. (The Rossi is doing much better now too btw…) Very nutty tasting… and when I say ‘nutty’ I mean nut shells, not the nut meats themselves… like smoking the broken shells of brazil nuts or something. There's also some kind of baking spice thing coming and going and if I puff too hard, a rather off putting solvent nuance. Smoked slowly though, it's quite nice.

H&H Ten to Midnight in a Savinelli 320.
Later, McClelland Holiday Spirit in a cob.

Full Virginia Flake in a Dr. G
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Originally Posted by Cool Breeze

I am definitely a fan of their blends.
Now, Dunhill Ready Rubbed is one of my favorites. It's a great Virginia/Oriental mixture.

I've also got unopened tins of Ye Ol' Sign and Dark Flake to try soon. lol

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Yessir, you got me on a few of the Dunhill blends. Can't remember exactly which ones you sent, but I have enjoyed the EMP, Nightcap, MM 965, Elizabethan, Aperitif and Dunhill Flake.....

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Originally Posted by Lostmason

Finally !!! Cult Blood Red Moon in a no-name briar.
Ice storm didn't quite pan out like expected, that's a good thing.
Still cold and wet though.

@Haebar , How about calling it "Pickling".
With the rum and vinegar, I thought it would fit.

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We got pretty lucky with the ice storm also. Hope all have as much luck as us. The trees looked pretty heavy Saturday morning, but melted during the day. How did you make out @Old Smokey ?.........

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Originally Posted by Haebar

Smoking my Guildhall billiard. Testing out a bowl of my latest blend, destined for the cake press. It's got:

22% Dark Fired Kentucky
11% Maryland
11% Oriental
11% Light Fire Cured Virginia
22% Green River Burley (unsweetened)
22% Latakia

I topped it with 1/4 cup of Myers's Rum, with 1.5 tsp sugar (to bind) and 1.5 tsp of vinegar.

Struggling to come up with a name for this blend. Please help with suggestions for a name for this blend.

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With the rum and Kentucky, how about "Drunken Daniel Boone"......

Some cherry and cigar leaf flake #33 in my Short Snorter. I think @Bruck sent this to me. If not, I'm sorry I can't remember exactly who, but I think it's his writing on the card.....
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We got pretty lucky with the ice storm also. Hope all have as much luck as us. The trees looked pretty heavy Saturday morning, but melted during the day. How did you make out @Old Smokey ?.........

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We did fine too. Ice on the trees and car windshields a couple of mornings but it was mostly rain. I think we got 2" of rain, which we needed.

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With the rum and Kentucky, how about "Drunken Daniel Boone"......

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Thanks for the suggestion; that's a good one. I decided to call it "Kentucky Navy Cake".

Topped off the weekend with Golden Glow in a Dunhill Canted Dublin.
I'm just north of OKC and Edmond, not much more than a glassing and rain.
Next week it's back to sheet rock again, and about 20 bottles of Tylenol.

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Originally Posted by Old Smokey

We did fine too. Ice on the trees and car windshields a couple of mornings but it was mostly rain. I think we got 2" of rain, which we needed.

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Good to hear. We needed rain like my wifey needs me. Errrrrr......well she could probably deal with a drought better than dealing with me, but we'll pretend like I'm still pertinent in the whole scheme of things......

SG Navy Flake (with an additional topping of Kraken rum a few months back) in a 1930s Kaywoodie Drinkless.
Tasty!

Some Kake in a Satin Grain......
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Some cherry and cigar leaf flake #33 in my Short Snorter. I think @Bruck sent this to me. If not, I'm sorry I can't remember exactly who, but I think it's his writing on the card.....
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Yep, I think I'm responsible for that one :)

Jobey Torino 160 with some Dunhill My Mixture 965.......
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A mix of around 40% each of D&R 3 Sails and Ryback Gold with 20% Nicotania Rustica in a Jost Supreme Pot........

A bowl of Davidoff Blue on the slow commute to work this morning.

McClelland 5110 in a Savinelli Trevi 320.

Some DE 7th ave blonde in the bamboo stemed country gent.

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Some Dunhill Early Morning Pipe in a Jost A1 Canadian, and a bowl of the same in a Kaywoodie Relief Grain. Also some Gattinburlier Sugar Lands Honey in a Short Snorter.....

Sutliff Trafalgar in a Grabow pot

Peterson Irish Flake in a straight silver (nickle) banded Dr. Grabow.

Popped a tin of Full Virginia Flake, been a while since I've had this and I almost forgot how good this is. After drying a flake for about an hour I did a fold and stuff in a no name French billiard. Johnnie Walker Black with a splash on the side and I'm in heaven. This will be in my dreams tonight.

Smoked a little straight Peter Stokkebye 311 perique then some straight Peter Stokkebye black latakia.

Ice storms have calmed down....but now it's rain and I'm sitting on anywhere from 3'-6' of snow in my swells....flood city here we come.

On the bright side, first day in 40 that we are above freezing and of those 40, 29 of them have been below 0! Got a lot of digging to do today, I'm guessing Carter Hall and PA will be my cheap smokes of choice while out and about working. Can't get too mad if I drop a cob of that stuff in the wet.

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Enjoying a bowl of SPC Mississippi River in a Kaywoodie while watching the festivities in Washington D.C. I'm hoping the next time my back is wet, it isn't someone pissing down it and telling me it's raining. Good luck to our soon to be new president.....
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Enjoying some 4noggin's double fantasy in the homemade freehand pickaxe.

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Had some Dunhill Elizabethan in a cob on my lunch break.
Some SPC Mississippi River in a Savinelli Bing's Favorite when I got home.
Also a bowl of PS Luxury Bullseye Flake in a Ben Wade straight apple.

Drew Estate Meat Pie in a MM Country Gentleman

Here in northern California we've been in a drought for 5 years. Trees have died from lack of rain, lawns turned brown because there was no water, rivers dried up, lakes became mud holes. But, you could go out and have a smoke nearly anytime you wanted without of fear of a rain out. No more. Biblical rains have been lashing Nor Cal for almost a month now and I'm sick of it. This afternoon, for the first time in a while, the sun shone, and I decided to go out on the deck and enjoy a leisurely bowl of Elizabethan Mixture in a MM General cob. Within ten minutes the sky turned dark and the heavens opened, chasing me back inside. Now certainly I realize that I'm being selfish and we really need all this rain, but for chrissake, can't we just get an hour or so between deluges? Rant over .....

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Here in northern California we've been in a drought for 5 years. Trees have died from lack of rain, lawns turned brown because there was no water, rivers dried up, lakes became mud holes. But, you could go out and have a smoke nearly anytime you wanted without of fear of a rain out. No more. Biblical rains have been lashing Nor Cal for almost a month now and I'm sick of it. This afternoon, for the first time in a while, the sun shone, and I decided to go out on the deck and enjoy a leisurely bowl of Elizabethan Mixture in a MM General cob. Within ten minutes the sky turned dark and the heavens opened, chasing me back inside. Now certainly I realize that I'm being selfish and we really need all this rain, but for chrissake, can't we just get an hour or so between deluges? Rant over .....

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I feel your pain...yesterday was my first bowl in over a month.

Where I live, smoking is directly related to what's going on outside. A long time ago I came to terms with the fact that 3 months out of the year I'll probably be putting my pipes away living here.

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Enjoying some 4noggin's double fantasy in the homemade freehand pickaxe.

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That's a sharp freehand you made.

Smoking some homemade Burley flake in this Country Gentleman:

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Lane BL/WB in a Grabow pot

Irish Oak in a Tsuge pot.

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That's a sharp freehand you made.

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Imagine what he could do if his finkers werent frozen!!:encouragement:

H&H Larry's Blend, for the first time. I was a little surprised. Based on the description, I thought it would be heavier on the Latakia. But it was much more oriental-forward than I thought.

GOOD MORNING Gentlemen!

Saturday has arrived and I am enjoying my second bowl of Maple Street
in a Wiley Rodesian tha Warren ( @Pugsley ) gifted me with just over a
year ago. Great pipe, great smoke makes for a GREAT day !!

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Originally Posted by Pugsley

Here in northern California we've been in a drought for 5 years. Trees have died from lack of rain, lawns turned brown because there was no water, rivers dried up, lakes became mud holes. But, you could go out and have a smoke nearly anytime you wanted without of fear of a rain out. No more. Biblical rains have been lashing Nor Cal for almost a month now and I'm sick of it. This afternoon, for the first time in a while, the sun shone, and I decided to go out on the deck and enjoy a leisurely bowl of Elizabethan Mixture in a MM General cob. Within ten minutes the sky turned dark and the heavens opened, chasing me back inside. Now certainly I realize that I'm being selfish and we really need all this rain, but for chrissake, can't we just get an hour or so between deluges? Rant over .....

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We went through the same here in Oklahoma in the last year or so. It was either no rain or a deluge that caused flooding from hell. Just some nice easy ground soaking rains over a few days would be nice. Having a bowl of SPC Mississippi River in a Kaywoodie (again) and it's off to the lake to sink brush off the dock for crappie fishing......

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Escudo in a smooth, bent Irish Second