Smoking a blend called "Smoky's Flake and Perique" from a local smoke shop in a Sunrise Featherweight apple.
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Smoking a blend called "Smoky's Flake and Perique" from a local smoke shop in a Sunrise Featherweight apple.
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Smoking some GH Kendal Dark in a Dunhill billiard (the top one in the picture). The silver band is not original and was added to repair a crack in the shank.
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Burning a bowl McClelland 2015 and sipping a rum toddy.
GH Louisiana flake is in my top five favorite blends; almost ordered another pound of it yesterday from Mars Cigar, but I remembered how much tobacco I already have.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
Smoking some more GH Kendal Dark in a Dunhill Tanshell billiard; seems to be a group 3 or 4 but can't tell because all of the nomenclature has been buffed off. You can just barely see Dunhill and some other faint markings. It smokes okay if you don't let it get too hot. If the bowl gets too hot, you have to hold it by the shank.
I really like the non geranium G&H blends for the most part. They're pretty much my go-to blends most of the time... if I could say I actually have a go-to blend. Probably the reason being that while I don't like the papery taste of most burleys, whatever burley G&H uses doesn't seem to have much if any of that loathsome, wet newspaper taste. I'm not a fan of their perfumed blends. In fact, rum flake has too much of it when it's fresh - it's all I can taste. However, I've found that if I jar up a pound in a quart Mason with the lid disk upside down 'the essense' will have mostly escaped - at least down to a tolerable level - after a year or two.Quote:
Originally Posted by Haebar
Maybe I should take a minute to set out another bowl of Louisiana flake for later today...
I like most of the GH blends, even the English ones. The rose geranium is something we agree on, but I love Tonquin bean flavor. I don't recall experiencing the wet newspaper taste in burley; will keep an eye out for it now as I am now a burley lover. I remember you mentioning it years ago here, but doesn't turning the Mason jar lid upside down result in dried out tobacco?Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
Currently smoking John Patton Oriental Dusk in a Sunrise Natural Dublin.
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As do I. It's the reason I enjoy SG 1792 flake. Does G&H have any particularly tonquin-heavy blends that aren't too perfumey that you'd recomend?Quote:
Originally Posted by Haebar
Well I wouldn't suggest you do this as it will probably ruin your appreciation for burley but...Quote:
Originally Posted by Haebar
Put about a 1 square inch piece of plain corrugated cardboard in your mouth and chew on it for a while. You will get familiar with the wet soggy cardboard taste. Now - or maybe the next day - go smoke a bowl of... oh... Solani Aged Burley Flake. Which actually has a lot of nice sweetness and nutty flavor to it, but to me it tastes like all that sweetness and flavor is carried on a soggy piece of cardboard.
It can, you have to keep an eye on it. However, G&H blends tend to come pretty wet anyway and a quart jar of flake takes a long time to get too dry with the lid on, albeit upside down. Seems the perfume must be more volatile than the water, especially since most blends have at least a little PG added and that tends to hinder the drying-out process a bit. I really enjoy Rum Flake but fresh it was way too perfumey for me. I had it sitting with upside down lid for about a year and although it did dry out some it never got too dry. I can't even detect any Lakeland in it anymore. It's become (yet another) one of my favorites. :pipe:Quote:
Originally Posted by Haebar
1792 Flake and a glass of white wine
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Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
The Louisiana Perique Flake may have tonquin without the floral scent. I think St. Bruno and Condor have some tonquin in the topping. I just finished up a half-pint jar of some GH Kendal Dark and didn't detect much Lakeland scent or taste at all. And if I left it out longer than 30 minutes, it would get a little crispy, but it's almost a shag cut. Sounds like the lid trick provides a tool for slow-drying as well as off-gassing of unwanted scents.
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Smoking a bowl of Five Brothers in a Country Gentleman with a "forever" stem.
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Firing up some Haunted Bookshop in one of my Bones
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You pipe is coloring very nicely! Haunted Bookshop is one of my favorite burley blends.Quote:
Originally Posted by quo155
Smoking some Wessex Burley Slice in a Sunrise apple.
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Yes it is, thank you...I love these pipes, I have a few of his!Quote:
Originally Posted by Haebar
I've had a WILD HARE...in the office today.
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Had a bowl of PS Navy Flake in the little Grabow cutty this evening. Never have I smoked a more aromatic non-aro; this thing is REALLY ghosted. Not in a bad way mind you, I do enjoy the flavor of vanilla... however I wonder if this pipe will ever smoke true. Burned nice and dry right to the bottom tho.
Having some Peterson Elizabethan Mixture in a pre-Republic Peterson Shamrock billiard.
Burning a bowl of Boswell's Christmas Cookie in the newly found Grabow / Bucko cutty. Yes, I do have a good selection of aros that I almost never smoke. This thing is so vanilla polluted it seemed fitting; smokes this stuff nicely too.
Started off the morning with some Old Joe Krantz with my first cup of coffee.
Now I'm on cup of coffee #2 and a bowl of Autumn Evening.
Being stuck at home has made me go through a lot of tobacco lately. Good thing tobacco is one of those things I never let myself get low on.
A little L.J. Peretti Pride of LL today https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...d060eeaccc.jpg
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Now on to some local house blend matured Virginia. Really like this blend. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...f33db2b868.jpg
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About to fire up a bowl of Rattray's Red Rapparee in a handmade briar made by a friend of mine, Ron Smith of Knoxville, TN.
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Hey, Tab. Where have you been? Nice looking pipe. The grain on the side almost looks like a rose bush or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Haebar
Haven't smoked but 1 bowl myself in about a month. Thinking about firing up some Solani 660 in a cob.
Hey Emperor, speaking of cobs, do you still have that one that I sold you? The one in which you put in a hardwood plug? Why have you only smoked once in a month?Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
Ron's pipes are great smokers; I've got a sandblast Rhodesian of his that smokes incredibly dry, bowl after bowl. I'm finishing a bowl of Peterson's Irish Flake in a Charatan Canadian with a diamond shank.
I've just had other things to do. No time for a bowl.Quote:
Originally Posted by Haebar
What one was that? Seems I put hardwood plugs and spherical heels in most of them these days. Was it a MM Freehand or General by any chance?
It had an acrylic/lucite stem that was reddish and it was a bent. That's all I remember about it. Is it this bottom one in the picture?:Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
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I have a General that looks almost exactly like that, so I probably did get it from you. It's this one --> https://www.cigarbum.com/forum/the-d...-mod-6260.html Big monster. It's one of my turkey hunting pipes; fill that sucker with flake and you're set for the entire day. I also made another, even more custom turkey hunting pipe out of a Dagner poker. Check it out --> https://www.cigarbum.com/forum/the-d...mod-10644.htmlQuote:
Originally Posted by Haebar
Started the morning with a cup of coffee and a bowl of MacBaren HH Burley Flake in my camouflage Savinelli 310.
That is some excellent camouflage. I can't even see it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cool Breeze
Burned a bowl of G&H Bob's Chocolate Flake last night in a Rossi Canadian... I think... wait, it might be a lumberman. I'd have to go look at it.
Had a cobload of G&H, Bob's Square Cut this afternoon.
I've been smoking a mixture of C&D Autumn Evening and C&D Dark Burley.
I like the way the Dark Burley tones it down. I love the flavor and aroma of the Autumn Evening, but like it to be more subtle.
Mixing the two makes is perfect for my tastes.
Burning another bowl of G&H, Bob's Square Cut, this time in a Ser Jacopo cherrywood. Little Spanish red on the side...
Some Sutliff Vanilla Custard in my new to me Pete Christmas ‘19.
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Smoking some Five Brothers in an old beat-up Dunhill billiard.
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Yes, that General is the one. You did a great job with it; good photos of the process. The Dagner job is fine too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg
Got a little G&H plug parfait going in a gourd calabash; cube cut Dark Unscented on the bottom, rubbed out Kendall on top. Sure can taste where it made the transition.
Reisling on the side.
Smoking some Five Brothers in a very small pot-shaped briar pipe. I can't take much more than a small bowl of this burley at one time. The nicotine is very high in Five Brothers.
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Smoking some Five Brothers in a Dr. Grabow "Patriot" that I got in the mail Friday from eBay. Turns out the seller is Tobias Lutz and he is as generous as always - he included a barely used roll-up tobacco pouch and a Rockwell pipe tool. Old timers here will remember that Tobias found us a new home here when the Puff forum went down many years ago.
Well tell Tobias to stop in and say Hey once in a while. How's he been?Quote:
Originally Posted by Haebar
Had another plug parfait last evening just like the previous one but I put more Kendall on top this time. Dark plug is a very slow burner, a little lasts a long time.
I don't know how he's doing yet. I sent him a message via eBay but he hasn't responded. Maybe he'll pop in here to say hello.Quote:
Originally Posted by Emperor Zurg