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I just opened a 1 yo tin of Patriot Flake (Dan Tobacco, Germany). A blend of domestic and tropically grown Virginias that have been press fermented. No added flavoring, but LOTS of good tobacco flavor.
Like all Dan Tobacco flakes that I know of, there’s a single stack of somewhat irregular rectangular flakes that tend to be hard to separate — sometimes impossible. In the latter case, I just gouge a hunk out with my thumbnail and cut it up.
SPC Narrow Bridge on a Tuesday morning just because I can while on vaca.
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SG Navy Flake in a Savinelli prince.
This has got to be one of the nicest blends I've ever smoked.
Escudo in an old Kaywoodie Supergrain bulldog.
Peter Stokkebye, Navy Flake in a Barling Canadian.
This has got some age on it now and it's mellowing nicely. Starting to taste like candy :)
I find it a bit on the sharp side when fresh.
MOAR PS Navy Flake from 2013. This time in the Peterson spigot. Good stuff fo sho.
Thinking of a small pour of Sapphire gin to see if it pairs at all...
Puffing Dunhill Navy Rolls with some age on it in my Tinsky billiard. This is good tobacco.
I added a little bit of Solani 639, Tropical Mango Flake, to my fill of Dunhill Navy Rolls. TMF is too intensely aromatic for me to enjoy straight, but 20% in the DNR makes for a tasty smoke.
Smoking a bowl of GH Bosun Cut Plug in a Savinelli Champagne billiard. Cooking some fish in the oven.
Smokin ‘n’ smokin. Meatloaf on the grill and Peterson Wild Atlantic in the cob
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Puffing Dunhill Navy Rolls mixed with 20% Solani ABF in my old Kirsten. Quite good!
And I just ordered some Wessex Classic Virginia from SmokingPipes. It’s been out of stock for months. The last two times it was in stock, orders were limited to two 50g tins per day, and it was out of stock again the next day. Same this time. :( But I also ordered five 100g tins of Solani 660, Silver Flake, to get free shipping.
Burned a small sample of G&H Brown Flake Vanilla in a Savinelli prince last night.
Nice size pipe for when you don't want to sit there very long.
Couple years old PS luxury bullseye flake in the homemade pickaxe
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Puffing Wessex Classic Virginia with a couple of years on it in my old Kirsten. This red Virginia VaPer is just excellent. Mostly rubbed out, with a few clumps. Hard to find in stock though.
Getting ready for Kaiserhof German restaurant. Hoping that stuffed peppers, a Saturday evening offering, will still be available. My waitress usually saves an order for me. Covered with melted cheese and drenched with delish sauce. Good!
How was it? I like it better without the cav plug in the center. That's like the toilet paper core, you toss that.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluenoser
I really enjoyed the stuff rott but it seems to have sweetened/smoothed out some more with jar time. Just a week shy of 2 years in the jar. Just rubbed it out and stuffed it, thinking about trying to master fold and stuff with it to see what difference that will make
Enjoying a bowl of C&D chocolate cavendish in a brindisi briar
I always shuck the cav plug out of the center, then fold the disks in half, straighten the strands somewhat and slide them into a pipe. If it's a short pipe, like a prince, 2 coins will do it easily but I have to fold them in half twice.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluenoser
I like Bullseye much better with a little age on it. Mine is around 5 yrs old. I have PS Navy flake of the same age. That's really nice with age on it too, and not very good fresh IMO. It's now starting to taste like candy.
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I’m not an aro guy, but about a year ago I bought five Solani ready-rubbed aros to try:
113 - Sweet Mystery
127 - Green Label
131 - Red Label
333 - Festival
369 - Blue Label
I tried them in numerical order. I didn’t like the first three, so was loathe to open the fourth, 333. But I finally did, and, by George, I liked it — the first aro that I’ve ever liked. Its “aro” component wasn’t too strong, and it had real tobacco flavor.
And yesterday, I opened the fifth, 369, and I like it too! SmokingPipes says of it:
“Solani Blue Label is a smooth, sweet, and natural blend with bright and red Virginias, burley, mellow black Cavendish, and Perique. Wild Cut.”
Smoking some now in my Tinsky billiard. It’s zippier than the 333. I’ll certainly be buying more, but haven’t yet decided if it’ll be 333 or 369. Or both.
Smoking a bowl of over-dried Bulkseye flake mixed with an equal amount of Sam Gawith, Navy flake while it rains on the clothes I just hung out to dry. This mixture sucks and my clothes are getting soaked. The only thing good are these castelvetrano olives I'm eating.
Weather is starting to chill here in Upstate NY so my cigar output decreases and pipe output increases. Scotty's Butternut Burley in the Stanwell.
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Puffing a 50/50 mixture of F&T Blackjack and The Mallard (Dan Tobacco) in my old Kirsten. Both are tasty Virginias. Blackjack is rather zippy, while TM is very mild. A nice blend.
I opened a 5 yo tin of Capstan Medium (blue tin label) yesterday. Puffing that now in my old Kirsten. Good stuff, and fairly zippy for a dark Virginia.
Puffing Patriot Flake (Dan Tobacco) in my old Kirsten. A blend of tropical and US Virginias that have been press fermented. Perique is also press fermented, but uses a variety of Burley.
Puffing Solani 660, Silver Flake, in my Mark Tinsky billiard. I discovered the 660 a few months ago, and regret that I didn’t discover it years ago. I guess that it’s the “dark fired Kentucky” that sets it apart. I now have quite a stash of it on hand.
BTW – here’s a very unusual Dunhill bulldog — I’ve never seen the like of it before:
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It ought to be cool in hand.
Had some Rattray's Hal o the Wynd in a cob earlier today.
Now enjoying a bowl of SG Full Virginia Flake in a Peterson Donegal Rocky.
Dunhill Nightcap in briars the last couple evenings. Haven't had this in a long time. My open tin went empty and I didn't want to open a new one. Finally caved and opened one... now to jar it up...
Mmmmm... MOAR Nightcap. So buttery and rich...
I just received five 50g tins of Solani 333, Festival. Puffing a fill of it now in my Tinsky billiard. Festival is the only aromatic I’ve found that I really like. Good tobacco, and the flavoring isn’t too intense. At first I thought that I liked Solani 369, Blue Label, too, but changed my mind.
I also received five 100g tins of Solani 660, Silver Flake. Maybe my favorite tobacco, ever. Surprising that such a good tobacco is usually in stock. I suspect that the fact that it’s only available in 100g tins puts people off. That put me off for a long time.
Smoke, smoke, smoke my pipe has no bottom, enjoy your weekend!
McClelland 2015 in a Barling Canadian.
I like this pipe for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that it's a sitter. It's just a plain Canadian with a flat on the bottom... which makes it sit upright, as a pipe should, instead of tipping over and dumping ash all over the place the minute you set it down. I've a good mind to take all my other straight pipes to the belt sander to make them behave nicely on a flat surface like this one does. I like pokers and cherrywoods too. Because they sit. What kind of a damn fool designs a pipe that dumps over when you set it down anyway?!? Yep, think I will. I'll get a garnet belt and make every pipe a sitter.
Hand some H&H Chatham Manor in a London made Ben Wade apple earlier today.
Now on the patio enjoying some Esoterica Dorchester in an old banded Dr. Grabow billiard.
Officially a Stanwell whore, breaking in another one with some Watch City Simply Red.https://i.imgur.com/xhsuNRsl.jpg
I like the pipe AND the lighter. I have several JetLine Pipe-G lighters in my drawer. They don’t last forever, but neither do the expensive electric lighters. The JetLine Pipe-G lighters are inexpensive, and ergonomic.Quote:
Originally Posted by restomod
Pipe-G — Jetline Lighters
Yeah I really like it too! It's my go to now because the tamper is built in, I didn't realize I would like that part as much as I do.Quote:
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I think I have the same pipe. Not totally sure, I'll have to look but I think it's a Stanwell Rhodesian with brushed finish.Quote:
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Whatcha need a tamper for? You got fat pinkeys or something? Chapstick tube works too.
Puffing Solani 333, Festival, in my ancient Mariner. The only aromatic I’ve found that I like. And I like it a lot. Plenty of good tobacco flavor, and the lightly applied plum flavoring is tasty.
That is a very handsome pipe!Quote:
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Puffing Solani 660, Silver Flake, in my Tinsky billiard. I LOVE this tobacco! Maybe it’s the “dark-fired Kentucky”. I didn’t know what “dark-fired” meant, so I asked Kay at SmokingPipes, who directed me to this info:
“Kentucky fire-cured tobacco is Stalk-Cured under controlled humidity in barns with a series of gentle smoldering hardwood fires throughout. Considerable care is taken to achieve proper yellowing; firing requires considerable skill so as not to "burn" the tobacco or cause tobacco rot through too high humidity. The resulting tobacco possesses a powerful smoky note reminiscent of smoked meats and provides a rich "smoky & sweet note" in tobacco products. Fire-Cured Tobacco is much less pungent than Latakia, a sun-cured & smoke-cured tobacco produced in the mid-east with a unique fuel source.”
I’m not a big fan of Latakia, but I sure like dark-fired Kentucky.
Good morning y'all, happy Saturday. Haven't had a pipe in a while so I thought I'd fire one up as I work up the motivation to do Saturday things, which is to say honey-dos mainly :)
Enough of that - working on 2nd cobful of Penzance.