Started off cobb Tuesday with some PA.
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Then I had a bowl of Rattray's Hal o the Wynd in a bent Peterson Kildare.
Now I'm having a bowl of Orlik Golden Sliced in a Savinelli Champagne bulldog.
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Started off cobb Tuesday with some PA.
https://i.imgur.com/thgIgiE.jpg?1
Then I had a bowl of Rattray's Hal o the Wynd in a bent Peterson Kildare.
Now I'm having a bowl of Orlik Golden Sliced in a Savinelli Champagne bulldog.
Breaking in a new garage only pipe with some Lane RL-6
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Having a bowl of HH Old Dark Fired in a carved RealBriar pipe.
We have recently had to rearrange a lot of stuff in our house. I lost my office (got turned into a bedroom) and had to relocate my pipe stuff.
In moving it all, I found a box of pipes. It is cheap stuff I bought when I first started the piping hobby and I had forgotten about them.
Most are crap and not good smokers, but I found this one in the box. I forgot just how good this thing smokes. It is fantastic. It's the only pipe I have that was made in France, and I think it looks cool too.
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Garage-only pipe? Is there such a thing?Quote:
Originally Posted by restomod
Do yourself a favor and get a forever stem for that pipe and pitch the filter. If you're attached to the filter concept tho, the best ones IMO are the 6mm Savinelli. It's just a little triangle piece of balsa wood. They smoke pretty true, I.e. they don't alter or sap the flavor.
Smoked a bowl of Ennerdale on a walk yesterday. Smoked it in an old grubby cob with a forever stem.
Probably going to go on another walk today. Got some G&H Brown Flake Vanilla (I think) drying out to smoke in my freshly ghosted cob.
Looks like a sitter too. Sitters are great IMO. So practical.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cool Breeze
Good tobacco too. Haven't burned any ODF in ages. I need to hunt down my jar of it.
Having a bowl of C&D Carolina Red Flake with Perique in a Savinelli straight billiard (A Roma maybe? I forget the model).
Anyway, this tobacco is great.
It was a limited run of 10k tins. Smokingpipes still has some if anybody wants it.
I had never had it before so I only grabbed 2 tins. After having a couple bowls, I may snag a couple more to put away.
I picked up 5 tins of it. It's not here yet. Figure I'll mason jar one of them and stash the other 4 away to age. What I really want now is some of the Carolina flake without perique so I can compare the two but alas, that one was sold out. Also picked up a little of that Bayou Morning flake to see what that one is all about. Sometimes I like stinky, pungent and strong. Keeps the bugs at bay.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cool Breeze
I bought a couple ounces of Bayou Morning a couple years ago. I smoked a couple bowls and put the rests away. It's a Perique bomb, but you already knew that.
I should dig it out and see if a couple years has mellowed it any.
Yep. Sometimes I'm just looking to change things up. Sometimes a perique bomb is just the thing. SOMETIMES I'll even smoke burley!Quote:
Originally Posted by Cool Breeze
I get that.
I'm not in the mood for burley often, but a few weeks ago I opened a tin of Solani Aged Burley Flake and went through it in 2 weeks. That's quick for me because I usually have a dozen things opened at once.
Afternoon spent reclaiming the yard. OGS in the handmade to celebrate.
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Small bowl of Bayou Morning Flake last night in a Savinelli prince.
It's interesting. Lots of dry hay and pepper with a touch of dried fruit. That's my first bowl impression anyway. The nose burn on retro reminded me of a fine, freshly prepared horseradish; so good... but of course I wouldn't want it every meal.
I imagine the room note is probably awful :D
This bowl was dried quite a while. Want to try a bowl with a little more moisture soon.
Overall I like it for what I bought it for: an interesting change of pace.
Trying a small bowl of this Carolina Red Flake w/ Perique, just to see what it's about.
Pretty similar to the Bayou Morning Flake, actually. Very dry, grassy taste with a good amount of pepper. Not as much as the Bayou Morning tho by a long shot and not as earthy. I smoked this pretty moist. Need to let some dry out more and give that a shot. TBH, so far I like my stand-by VaPer better: PS Lux Bullseye with a few years on it and with the Cavendish centers removed. I'm always amazed how good that blend is, especially for the price. I think the Bullseye must be topped with a touch of vanilla, either that or it bleeds from the Cavendish center into the outer wraps. Whatever the case, the topping compliments the tobacco rather nicely. Need to burn a few more bowls of this Carolina Red. I'll call it 'research'.
Edit...
Tried a little more but dried it out more first. It's better IMO; more pronounced flavors with some dried fruit in the background. Pretty similar to the Bayou Morning actually but quite a bit ligter on the perique it would seem.
Having some HH Old Dark Fired in a Savinelli Champagne bulldog.
Been smoking a lot of this lately.
Little Bayou Morning Flake in a Savinelli prince.
Then a little Boswells Christmas Cookie in the same pipe since it was still dry. Blech. American aromatics, not my thing. I think it's picking up a little pepper toward the bottom here... but maybe that's just tongue bite.
Penny Farthing in the Stanwell Black Diamond. First I have had and it's great, have to sip it though or it will lash out.
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A GL Pease VaPer? That's got to be pretty good I'd think. Reviews say it's shag cut tho.Quote:
Originally Posted by restomod
Not a bug fan of shag cuts. Probably why it wants to misbehave; they just burn too darn fast.
I wonder if they have something similar in flake.
Not sure about the flake but I can't believe they don't have something similar. I kind of don't mind the shag once in awhile, especially with the kids and time constraints the faster burn isn't a horrible idea for me. It really was good though, just a good change of pace for once.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
Capstan Blue in a Peterson Donegal Rocky.
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Bayou Morning Flake in a glass bottomed, Country Gentleman with a churchwarden, Forever stem.
Red Rapparee in a Savelli prince.
Sipping a rum toddy
Mmmmm... PS Lux Bullseye (less) flake in a Peterson spigot.
My version should be called Luxury Doughnut flake...
Puffing a mixture of two Solani tobaccos in my venerable Kirsten Mariner.
656, ABF, brightened up with a bit of 333, Festival, an aromatic. A successful experiment.
Puffing a fill of Carter Hall in my old Kirsten. Going down quite nicely.
A mother's day bowl of Solani 660 in a Ser Jacopo cherrywood with a side of coffee
Cracked a tin of this today, original run of 2016 and the cans were numbered.
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Enjoying a MM Legend on cob Tuesday.
Having some Autumn Evening on this cool Spring morning.
A good looking pipe! A brandy? I like pipes with easy-to-clean smooth rims.Quote:
Originally Posted by restomod
I thought you didn’t like Solani 660.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
I didn't much like the first bowl but that is a given. I never like the first bowl of a new tobacco.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pipe Smoker
It's 656 - ABF that I generally don't like. 660 is pretty good. I'm not a huge fan of burley in my virginia - and that includes DFK. But the 660 doesn't seem to have much of that musty, wet cardboard taste that I usually get from burley and the spicyness (that must come) from the firing presents more like perique - at least to me anyway. I also enjoy the occasional bowl of Orlik Dark Strong Kentucky from time to time which, IMO anyway, is a similar blend albeit a little adulterated with toppings etc.
The 401 Stanwell is Rhodesian I think by label. I did not get it here but this link is the best one I see that has the specs in the details: https://www.cigarbid.com/a/stanwell-...pipes/3125678/Quote:
Originally Posted by Pipe Smoker
I like it too, as you can see however I don't do a good job of cleaning said rim after I use it even if it is easy.
Puffing Solani 779, English Luxury Mixture, in my old Kirsten.
Herr Will crafted this blend to recreate the legendary Balkan Sobranie 759. I’ve never smoked the Sobranie, so don’t know how close it is, but it can’t be an exact match nowadays because Syrian Latakia is no longer available. But it’s an excellent mild smoke in any case.
Puffing Gordon Pym (Dan Tobacco) in my Kirsten Mariner. My favorite English mixture.
And gazing at my new Ardor Urano Rhodesian:
https://www.cigarbum.com/forum/gener...tml#post203909
Small bowl (Sav prince) of Solani 660 this morning while shooting cowbirds off the bird feeder with my pellet rifle. Got 4 of the rotten things before heading in to work. Got a couple yesterday too.
@rodwha did you know that cowbirds are a notorious brood parasite of the Eastern Phoebe? They lay an egg in a phoebe nest and when it hatches, the cowbird chick demands so much of the feeding that the phoebe chicks starve to death. Winged rats that don't even bother to feed or raise their own young, I have no use for them.
I did not! Been thinking about a Hatsan .22 for a bit...Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
Sounds like fun!Quote:
Originally Posted by rodwha
I'm shooting a Beeman R1 in .177
Haven't seen one for sale in a long time. Used to be a popular airgun
Puffing Gordon Pym “for a cool and gentle smoke” in my Tinsky brandy. Very good tobacco.
SG Bracken Flake from 2010 from another BOTL elsewhere.
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I just opened a 5 yo tin of F&T Special Brown Flake. Puffing that now in my Kirsten. SBF is said to be rum flavored. I sense it as a light butterscotch taste.
Like all F&T flakes, there are two neat side-by-side rectangular stacks. The tin note is oddly tart, but that doesn’t come through in the smoke.
Probably going to be the last chance I get for a while so even though it was getting late I burned a small bowl of PS Lux Bullseye flake in a Sav prince last night.
In other news, I just shot 2 starlings with the pellet rifle.
Puffing The Mallard (Dan Tobacco) in my Tinsky Brandy.
And thinking about lunch, which will feature an instance of an egg dish I invented: an open-face cheese omelette. Three jumbo eggs with salt, fresh ground black pepper (lots), and Cholula Green Pepper hot sauce beaten in with my old egg beater. Topped with 7 slices (4 ounces) of Laura Chenel Garlic & Chive Goat Cheese.
It’s the tastiest egg dish that I’ve ever eaten, anywhere:
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