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SG Navy flake is goot stuff
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Doitdoitdoitdoit!Quote:
Originally Posted by Branzig
SG Navy flake is goot stuff
Oh. I did do it. While working in the garden.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
It was pretty excellent
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Yes sometimes perique will turn an aro around. If nothing else, it increases the vitamin N content.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
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"Stilton?"
"No."
Pease montgomery 11' in a square shank cob mod and some well dried granger in a smll kaywoodie military mount this morning. searching for land in the middle of nowhere. needed these smokes!
Puffing Solani 113, Sweet Mystery, in my Luciano squat bulldog. I can’t remember an aromatic that I liked as much as this one. In fact, I don’t like most of them at all. 113 actually tastes like its wonderful aroma. Not usually the case in my limited experience with aros.
And I still have four more Solani aros to open from my recent let’s-try-some-aros purchase.
The last out of a tin of Drew Estate 7th Ave Blonde - 'bout half of it was crumbs and shake.
This was good for an aro when it was fresh but this last bowl was bo...ring.
Tasted like a cob full of smoldering nothing. Smoking it was an exercise in pointlessness.
But at least it gurgled and left a mess of moisture in the bowl.
The weather finally cooled off here in NoVA and it's Saturday :) :) :)
Just finished off a lovely bowl of D&R Picayune on the back deck, paired with black coffee made with a percolator, the way I like it, and Mrs. Bruck is in the kitchen making huevos rancheros (the Mexican breakfast, not barfing :)). Doesn't get much better than this!
Smoking a bowl of Nording Hunter Series "Labrador" in a Dr. Grabow Grand Duke billiard.
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My first four fills today were solid fare: F&T Vintage, a straight Virginia flake. For my last fill, some dessert: Solani 113, Sweet Mystery, an aromatic.
After I clean my pipe I’m going to steam a big mess of red beets, which will be the main part of my supper.
Milan 250 Cavendish, which is a Vaper with unflavored cavendish, in my new Nording Canadian.
My jar of Solani ABF was nearly empty. I took what there was, then added enough Wessex Classic Virginia for a complete fill, and chopped both up a bit. About 1/3 ABF, 2/3 CV. Didn’t think this mix would be all that good, but wanted to use the last of the ABF. But by golly, it’s quite tasty. In my Luciano squat bulldog.
I opened a 2 yo tin of Solani 633, Virginia with Perique, a day or two ago. Puffing that now in my dear old Kirsten Mariner. Very fine tobacco, but I probably won’t buy more of it. One of its attractions for me was that it came in the compact-storing rectangular 50g tins. But now, like all STG flakes that I know of, it comes in the bulky round Escudo-sized tins. I’ll get Dunhill Navy Rolls instead. Also Escudo-sized tins, but a slightly better vaper than 633. But I still have LOTS of the 633 in rectangular tins in stock.
Had a bowl of a mixture of C&D Autumn Evening and Prince Albert with my morning coffee.
About to light up a pre-lunch bowl of 12 year old McClelland Guillotine Slices. I think I have enough for one more bowl. It's great stuff.
Last fill of the day: Solani 763, White & Black. The mildest tobacco that I know of, yet flavorful.
Esoterica Dorchester in a birch while awaiting the arrival of sister and brother in law of Bruck (SABILOB) from Detroit :)
I turn 40 today, so I'm opening something special!
I'll be smoking some soon!
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^^^^^^
Happy birthday! Let us know how that fill went.
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Puffing a fill of Hamborger Veermaster in my Caminetto red pot:
https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/n...duct_id=135687
This mild and tasty Virginia has been “Currently out of stock” FOR-EV-ER at SmokingPipes. I do have 4-7/8 tins remaining in my stock.
Tuning up for lunch, which will feature King Oscar “Tiny Tots” bristling sardines on German-baked pumpernickel with mustard, black pepper, and LOTS of raw onion.
Wow!
That 3 Oaks Syrian is amazing!
I wish I had so much more of it!
Puffing Solani 633, Virginia with Perique, in my trusty Kirsten Mariner. SmokingPipes says 633 is "the Champagne of Virginias". I don’t like Champagne (much prefer Hess Chardonnay for a white), but 633 is certainly good tobacco.
Sister and BIL are in town, going to take them for a drive in the mountains later on, but before that I'll cook up some bacon and eggs, and more importantly, prior to that I'm burning up some lovely Newminster #6 vanilla delight in a cheap briar.
Cobful of Carter Hall :)
Puffing 3 yo F&T Special Brown Flake in my Luciano stout bulldog. Good tobacco! SmokingPipes says that it’s flavored with rum. Could be. Whatever it’s flavored with is tasty. The fragile flakes rub out more easily than any other flake that I know of.
I'm having a cigar to finish the evening, but I had a few bowls today.
I had a bowl of SG Navy Flake, a bowl of Dunhill Ready Rubbed and a bowl out of a catch all jar that gets the remnants when a tin is nearly empty.
Smoking my Caminetto pot with silver spigot mount today. I started with F&T Special Brown Flake, one of my favorite tobaccos, but it was just so-so. Now puffing Solani 656, Aged Burley Flake. It’s going great!
BTW — despite the clowning, this is a very entertaining rendition of “The Orange Blossom Special”:
https://youtu.be/eCAFfX_va_I
burned a nice bowl of G&H Louisiana Flake yesterday on a boat trip
Puffing Solani 113, Sweet Mystery, in my Luciano squat bulldog. An aromatic that even I like. A delectable aroma, and it tastes like it smells.
McClelland 2015 Virgina/Perique flake in an unfinished Savinelli series III.
Mighty good.
Burned a MM Diplomat full of Peter Stokkebye Navy Flake today on another boat trip.
Good thing the Diplomat has thick walls, this is one of my first cobs and it's all wallered out from smoking it too fast. Makes for a rather large but shallow, pot type pipe though and the walls are still thick enough to smoke cool.
IMO, a cob isn't the best for smoking a virginia. Seems straight Va is more flavorful in a briar but hey, I'm not bringing a good pipe on a river trip.
I just opened a 2 yo tin of Escudo — now puffing a 2nd fill in my Luciano stout bulldog. I had kind of forgotten just how good this stuff is. Dunhill Navy Rolls is a more regal tobacco, but Escudo has its own appeal — more Perique than Navy Rolls.
Edit: I noticed this $900 pipe in SmokingPipes’ American estates last night:
https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/e...duct_id=280340
Not my kind of pipe, but it has the most impressive ring grain that I’ve ever seen.
peterson wild atlantic while waiting for the grill to heat up.
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Puffing Escudo in my Radice Rhodesian.
Radice Rubino Rhodesian | Buy Radice Tobacco Pipes at Smokingpipes
I haven’t smoked this pipe in years — probably because I prefer shallower chambers, and I’m not a big fan of Rhodesians. And it was stuck in the back of my pipe drawer. But it has pretty grain from all angles (the reason I bought it), and its finish is a match for either of my two bought-new Dunhills (Bruyere and Amber Root). The circumferential groves are crisp to the eyes, but smooth to the touch.
The Radice has a small defect, though. You can’t see it in the photos, but there’s a slight gap between the bottom of the shank and the bit. If I twist the bit 180°, the gap is still at the bottom of the shank, so the problem is certainly that the shank face isn’t quite perpendicular to the mortise axis. I just pretend that I don’t notice.
I wanted to pick up a pipe for the first time in months. I had a bag of something, definitely Gawith from the cut of it, but I had apparently lost the label.
Turns out it was some Bob's Chocolate Flake. Always a happy surprise.
Smoking my new Mark Tinsky Brandy for the first time today.
https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/n...duct_id=262439
I opened a 4 yo tin of Capstan Medium for the occasion. That’s going surprisingly well, considering that the pipe has had no break-in. The pipe handles nicely, and it’s a solid sitter.
Having bowl number 2 of Dunhill Elizabethan Mixture, this one in my rusticated Nording Canadian.
PA in a cob. I found I had a bit of it left kicking around and just want to finish the last few bowls off.
Happily puffing 4 yo Capstan Medium in my venerable Kirsten Mariner. Capstan is the only flake Virginia that I like that’s still available in the compact-storing rectangular 50g tins. I’ll be buying a lot more of it.
incinerated a bowl of G&H Rum Flake and a bowl of MacBaren vanilla flake, each in its respective cob whilst boating up, then back down the river. Upper 90s and muggy and blistering hot sun today - perfect day to be on the water. Kept having to stow the pipe to take a swim. I must say the rum flake puts up with the strain of intermittent smoking and subsequent relighting much better than the MacB vanilla flake.
SG Full Virginia Flake in my unfinished Savinelli Series III.
And my morning coffee.
PA in a Dr. Grabow Lark that my wife picked out as a surprise the other day.
A flake and a half of PS LTF. I do not like this as much as some of the other PS flakes. I think what I have jarred up may end up sitting for quite a while.