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We had the Knoxville pipe club meeting last night and I smoked:
- My homemade twist in a Dunhill Bruyere billiard
- McClelland 2020 Matured Cake in a McCranie billiard/pot
- Penzance in a Dunhill Shell billiard
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This morning I smoked a bowl of Capstan Blue flake in a Dunhill Shell billiard.
First fill this morning was F&T Special Brown Flake. It was delicious! I wondered: credit to the tobacco? Or maybe it’s one of those days when everything tastes really great? To find out, I was going to have a fill of Hamborger Veermaster next, but didn’t have the will power to switch away from SBF, so now smoking a second fill of it. Still delicious! Smoking my Kirsten Mariner, my most analytical pipe.
Later — Now puffing a fill of Hamborger Veermaster. It’s going great too.
I think you need to do an experiment. I'll send you a pouch of Mixture 79 to smoke next time you think everything is delicious :D :D :DQuote:
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Burning up the last of my Nightcap :(
Looks like I'll just have to figure out how to get by with the pounds of Penzance and Pirate Kake in my cabinet :)
Sixpence in a meer.
Gathering up equipment for a brew day on Sunday, with a friend.@[MENTION];[/MENTION]
Smoking some Peterson's Irish Oak in a MM Charles Towne Cobbler. Drinking Coke Zero.
I just opened a tin of Solani 763, White and Black — puffing that now in my Luciano squat bulldog. I like to always have some of this tobacco at hand, but don’t smoke a lot of it, so put it into a jar. Virginia, Cavendish, & Syrian Latakia, it’s the mildest tobacco in my inventory.
Smoking a bowl of Red Ox twist in a Dunhill Bruyere billiard.
First: Velvet, stanwell billiard
Second: ERR match, knotty lovat
Third: BB1938, DiMonte bent brandy
Starting off the day with a bowl of D&R Rimboche SJ in a Dr. Grabow billiard. Drinking Maxwell House Morning Boost coffee.
Captain Black Royal in a Stanwell Brushed Brown Dublin
Had a few bowls of very old (not quite sure how old but I estimate 30-40 years) Prince Albert. Very smooth but it burned pretty quickly. & the nicotine level was pretty much nonexistent.
Alternating fills of F&T Special Brown Flake and Hamborger Veermaster in my Kirsten Mariner. Both going very nicely.
And admiring my new Luciano stout bulldog:
Italian Estates Luciano Sandblasted Bulldog (Pease/Di Piazza) (2014) | Buy Italian Estates Tobacco Pipes at Smokingpipes
Which I have yet to smoke.
Burned half a Missouri Meerscham Generalful of G&H Brown Twist sliced while doing a bit of turkey hunting. Sure keeps the gnats away :p Still got enough in there for tomorrow morning's hunt. Bound to be pretty peppery by tomorrow.
Smoking some IRC slices this morning in a Dr. Grabow Royal Duke billiard.
Now smoking a bowl of GH Black Cherry Twist in a Dunhill Bruyere Canadian.
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Puffing F&T Special Brown Flake in my Kirsten — my second fill of it this morning. I was going to change tobaccos, but the first fill went down so nicely that I had to have another.
I’ll soon be leaving for Kaiserhof German restaurant, then a pistol range where I’ll shoot my Beretta 87 Target .22LR pistol. Target shooting is the only sport where I can still beat some of the young guys.
^ That sounds like a fun day.
I'm enjoying a bowl of this amazing stuff that I came across at my local shop yesterday. A 12 year old tin of McClelland BB Acadian Ribbon. They told me it was the first Vaper that Mcclelland ever came out with. When I saw the yellowed tin and the "06" at the end of the date stamp, my mouth started watering. No aging this one any longer. It will get enjoyed thoroughly over the next couple of weeks.
It is fantastic.
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The Brown Twist got a little nasty overnight. Swapped it out for a MM Freehand full of G&H Louisiana Flake
Gonna light up some SG Kendal Cream in a matter of moments.
Happy Sunday All.
I smoked my new Luciano stout bulldog for the first time today. I was prepared to endure an unpleasant break-in period, but had a happy surprise — even the first fill went down quite nicely. Now on my third fill — still good.
I spoke of “fills”, but, in fact, just half-fills so far. I chose Solani Aged Burley Flake for break-in. A good choice, in retrospect.
The pipe feels good in hand, has an easy draw, and takes pipe cleaners easily. Glad that I found this sturdy little fellow.
Yesterday was brew day with a friend.
Much beer and tobacco was consumed.
Voodoo Queen
MC 5110 with an additional 25% latakia
C&D Dark Chocolate
Elizabethan Match
I will say Voodoo Queen goes really nicely with Westbrook Mexican Cake!
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I've got a small pile of McClelland 2015 rubbed out and drying and the remains of a couple open bottles of chardonnay begging to go with it.
I have a # of that somewhere. Don't remember where I stashed it.Quote:
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Puffing F&T Special Brown Flake in my Kirsten Mariner. Sad to say that the 3 yo tin is nearly empty. With some flavored tobaccos the flavoring becomes tiresome near the end of the tin — not so with SBF. The rum flavoring (which tastes like butterscotch to me) isn’t overbearing. And the tobacco itself is excellent.
Quick Cobb of Stormfront while enjoying coffee this morning. Taking in the sun before having to head to work.
Golfed yesterday...hit mainly doubles but had 2 birdies mixed in to save me from shooting in the 100s....golf is so dumb.
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Smoking my Luciano squat bulldog today. First fill was F&T Special Brown Flake, now Hamborger Veermaster. Both excellent!
Is that John Patton Storm Front you were smoking? How do you like it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Branzig
Yep!Quote:
Originally Posted by Haebar
It's probably my fave burley blend. It has a nice, nutty flavor that mixes well with the more dark "fuller" notes of the cigar leaf.
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Burning some vintage 2010 C&D Burley Flake #4, which is part of a burley bomb our friend @Haebar sent me a few years ago, that I'm still burning thru. It's just lovely.
Burley in general isn't an every day smoke for me, but when I feel like a burley, a burley really hits the spot :)
Getting a jump on the weekend with some Captain Black Royal followed
by Captain Black Cherry in my doctor Grabow Savoy.
About to smoke a bowl of Rattray's Brown Clunee that @Lostmason sent me as my Secret Pipe Santa on another forum. Drinking some Constant Comment tea (cold). Going to use my Dr. Grabow Hillcrest pipe:
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My tin of F&T Special Brown Flake went empty yesterday, so I opened a 2 yo tin of Solani 633, Virginia with Perique. Puffing that now — a noble tobacco!
My new Luciano stout bulldog has a glossy finish. I like lustrous, but not glossy, so I’m rubbing the gloss off with my fingers and thumb as I smoke my Kirsten. That’s working.
Had a big cobful of SG Navy Flake in my MM Freehand while turkey hunting this morning.
Second day of smoking my new Luciano stout bulldog:
* Solani 633, Virginia with Perique
* Wessex Classic Virginia
* Hamborger Veermaster
All were just flat-out tasty. So pleased with this pipe, and it’ll only get better.
Alternating fills of two vapers in my Kirsten Mariner: Solani 633, Virginia with Perique, and Wessex Classic Virginia. Both are very fine tobaccos. And sipping Nespresso “Roma” espresso, a medium roast arabica - robusta blend.
I just opened my jar of Solani 779, English Luxury Mixture. I don’t smoke a lot of this tobacco, but it’s a tasty change-up for a mostly Virginia guy like me.
Had several bowls today. There was some Dunhill Navy Rolls, Presbyterian Mixture, 12 year old McClelland Acadian Ribbon, and now I'm ending the evening with something more simple.
Having some Prince Albert in a cob, and enjoying it so much, I think I'll have another.
Orlik Golden Sliced in a bent Molina.
One of my favorite light warm weather tobaccos.
Puffing Solani 763, White and Black, in my Kirsten Mariner. An interesting tobacco: dark Virginia, black Cavendish, and Syrian Latakia. Very soft smoking, with lots of flavor.