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Smoking a mixture of "Hunt for Cherry" and my homemade Burley flake and it's a pleasant combination. The Cherry aromatic tames the bold nicotine level of the Burley flake and the aromatic gives the Burley flake a little something in the flavor aspect. Smoking it in a Sunrise Dublin.
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Cool, you found a way to make it good. I sometimes use strong tobaccos foor blenders too. G&H Black Cherry Twist is good with Peter Stokkebye's Cherry Bon Bon. Cherry Bon Bon is kinda 'meh' by itself... and goopy tooQuote:
Originally Posted by Haebar
Man that's a snazzy pipe. the bent bulldogs seem to have a bit more elegance to me, not that the clunky ones are ugly or anything, I like those too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Haebar
Yea, this cherry aromatic "Hunt for Cherry" has very little nicotine; to me undetectable. If I'm going to smoke, the smoke had better contain some nicotine, or it's not worth smoking.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
P&C Russ' Blend Kaleidoscope in a Canterbury lovat
Tried out some straight P.S. Dark Fired Kentucky blending tobacco.
Not bad, but didn't blow me away.
Well I went with Golden Glow and am finishing up the day with Chatham Manor
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MATCH Dunhill Elizabethan in a Grabow Golden Duke.
Pretty tasty right out of the bag. I can tell it will be great with age.
Smoked two bowls of my Burley flake/Cherry aromatic mixture in a MM CG this morning.
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Having a bowl of MB Virginia No. 1 in an old Hendon billiard.
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I don't mind having no nicotine. Having never been a cigarette smoker, I'm not a big fan of the effects of nicotine. What I don't like about most aromatics (especially Cavendish based ones) is the thin, weak flavor with absolutely no body to it whatsoever. Nothing like a powerful Virginia to fill them out. Apparently a powerful burley works too. Those strong blends seem to have flavor in spades for some reason. I bet the nutty burley goes quite nice with cherry. I know always like a little almond extract in a cherry pie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Haebar
Got a nice wood stove fire started in the barn. I'm thinking maybe a Grand Oriental of some kind tonight.
Some PS Luxury Twist Flake in a DH2 bent....
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Peterson Sunset Breeze with a cuppa Folgers.
You hit the nail on the head about body; that is what that cherry aromatic was missing as well as the N factor. The burley has plenty of body to spare and it has a monotonous, single-note flavor - very little depth. The cherry brought some more flavor into the mix.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
Just chopped up some scraps from my homemade Navy flake to smoke in my Willard rusticated pot:
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A little PS french vanilla in the abominable nose warmer
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Rattray's Black Mallory in a Hickok Premiere straight billiard
Good morning all, starting my weekend with SPS Black Swan in a MM cob.
Puffing F&T Vintage in my Il Duca Rhodesian. It’s going down especially well today. Perhaps because I’m so comfortable inside, while it’s rainy outside. I can smoke inside all year round in San Diego. I open an upstairs south window, and my downstairs north balcony door, and have a gentle draft through the whole house to clear smoke. With a wool sweater, I’m perfectly comfortable.
I think that the Rhodesian might have the loosest definition of all the standard pipe shapes. They’re generally said to have bulldog bowls with round shanks. But neither of my two Rhodesians fit that description. My Il Duca has a broad oval shank, and a single, extremely narrow, groove around the bowl:
Il Duca Smooth Rhodesian (D) | Buy Il Duca Tobacco Pipes at Smokingpipes
And Dunhill calls my 3117 a Rhodesian, but any piper would immediately identify it as a squat bulldog. It has all of the bulldog characteristics: a diamond shank and two parallel grooves around the bowl.
First bowl of Solani ABF. I liked it, but it's closer to the OTC burley flavor, ala lane/edgeworth ready rubbed, in flake format. smoked clean and a bit better presentation; just a little higher quality. I like my burley's more like C&D does them, but this was middling and quite nice. medium nicotine, didn't feel like I was teetering on the edge of queasiness which was nice.
Biggest thing I like about it is the flake form which lets me prepare it how I like. Usually I go with a very chunky rub-out with this one; not fold and stuff, more like crush and stuff, which is my default for medium strength blends, whereas strong blends get the fold and stuff and mild ones get fully rubbed out. That's the default anyway... but I've been known to mix things up a bit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Aguineapig
Hittin the aros lately, trying out the various blends from Tobias' inventory reduction. Had some Russ Ouellette (sp?) Snow Drift earlier while flushing the coolant in Maybelline, and now having a bowl of Kentucky Club Mild. I normally smoke English and VA flakes, but it's fun to try some different blends once in a while.
San Diego has a wonderful climate!Quote:
Originally Posted by Pipe Smoker
Having a bowl of Davidoff Royalty in a Savinelli 111 KS straight sandblast billiard while waiting for my Mexican leftovers to heat up slowly in the oven. Drinking Red Rose iced tea.
Having a bowl of SG Navy Flake that @Cool Breeze sent me many months ago. Smoking it in a Sunrise Amber Grain Dublin.
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Having Seattle Pipe Club Potlatch...my first bowl EVER! Huge thanks again to @pdq_wizzard
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Sutliff English Oriental in a Canterbury lovat
GH Revor Plug in my homemade pot/cherrywood hybrid pipe.
Went nearly 2 days without a smoke (rare for me), as we were out of town Friday and Saturday.
We pulled back in late last night.
I went on the balcony after midnight and enjoyed a bowl of McClelland No. 24 Matured Virginia in a Series III Savinelli. Really hit the spot.
Puffing my once-a-week fill from my jar of FVF. It was cellared Feb. '07, so almost exactly ten yo. I chopped it up first thing this morning, then let it sit while I smoked a fill of F&T Vintage, so it would be dry enough to burn.
And sipping a cup of Nespresso Roma, a medium roast Arabica-Robusta espresso. And the sun has come out too -- life is good!
Smoking my second bowl of Captain Black original in my reconditioned DG
Frog Morton's Cellar in a MM cob
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"G" by @NeverBend this time in a meer
Peterson Irish Flake (I think... or something similar) in my formerly evil tasting Rossi Lumberman. Seems like I've finally smoked all the nasty resins and whatnot out of this pipe.
Anyway, pairing this with a New Holland, Dragon's Milk.
Emperor - are you familiar with the salt method of pipe cleaning / did you try that on the Lumberman?Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
Smoking report from this afternoon - put a few racks of St. Louis cut ribs on the smoker after church today, and had a friend over to enjoy the unseasonably warm afternoon for a couple beers and a few of the aromatics from Tobias' bulk sell-off.
He brought over his suppressed 22 & I pulled out my pellet gun; I lit off a pack of firecrackers so we covered all the bases - alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives :)
Remember, its back to the Rubber Ramada tomorrow for you!:kicknuts:Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruck
I am, but afaik that's to restore an old pipe, i.e. to get rid of left over or rancid tobacco tars and flavors. This was a brand new, albeit inexpensive pipe. The horrid cast it was giving off was no doubt due to the finish being slopped down into the bowl and then covered over with an equally vile tasting, black, furnace cement-like substance posing as an artificial cake to supposedly make break-in easier. I didn't think a s/a treatment would have much effect against that so I just decided to smoke thru it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bruck
McClelland 5110 with 25% latkia added, while tossing the football and frisbee with the boys.
Sutliff South Seas in a Hickok Premiere straight bulldog
H&H Virginia Spice with an additional hit of perique.
G&H, Black Twist Sliced in a gourd calabash that just showed up in the mail.
Had to warm up and tweak the stem and then the standard disinfect with medical hand soap but it looks like it's been rarely smoked. The bowl is block meer and it's just starting to color :p
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The gourd sure cools and mellows this blend. Tastes almost sweet :)
Methinks ahmma like this pipe... :pipe: