What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

[NeverBend]

Nice to see you back !

Ditto Dan (@MisterMoo)

2015 Cromwell in a 1970s Caminetto Business #104 saddle billiard. Last of this. Warm, formerly hot, and soon to be cold tea. Willie and Lobo accompanies.

[JimInks]

Standard Tobacco Company of Pennsylvania Bengal Slices in a 1990s smooth Peterson Captain Pete XL80 bulldog.

[Bruck]

Continuing my VA flake journey, I'm smoking a bowl of FVF right now. Wow! This is wonderful stuff! Possibly my favorite so far in this genre.

VA flakes are what woke me up to "real" pipe smoking. Prior to that I had been smoking mostly goopers and wondering what all the fuss was about First time I broke a flake up into a bowl and lit it, it was, okay, I get it now.

[Bruck]

Some of us were born to blend.

It's my personal compulsion that I just can't leave well enough alone

As it happens, I probably should have in this case. The silver river's pretty good by itself but so far I haven't been able to improve on it.

And on a side note, I just chased a possum off the deck. Dang, those thing are ugly!

[Bruck]

Having a bowl of Five Brothers, part of a cluster bomb from our friend @Alligator Gar . Not sure how old it is, but it's definitely got some vintage on it. I had to rehydrate it a bit; think it's about right now.

Pipe is a no-name unfinished briar.

[JimInks]

Now smoking a bowl of delicious Standard Tobacco Company of Pennsylvania War Horse in a 2015 smooth unfinished Savinelli 320KS author.

[Lostmason]

It's my personal compulsion that I just can't leave well enough alone

As it happens, I probably should have in this case. The silver river's pretty good by itself but so far I haven't been able to improve on it.

And on a side note, I just chased a possum off the deck. Dang, those thing are ugly!

Have you tried layering the tobaccos rather than blending them, JohnnyFlake told me about this and it makes the bowl more interesting.
As to opossums, I took one on a ride over forty miles away in a sealed bucket and 100 degree weather, little peckerhead was
home before I was. Only thing I can figure is he crawled into the undercarriage of my truck and caught a ride.Now I just kill em
and go on to the next rat.

I just finished a bowl of PS Black Coffee in a Swiss BBK 3/4 bent

[c.ortiz108]

VA flakes are what woke me up to "real" pipe smoking. Prior to that I had been smoking mostly goopers and wondering what all the fuss was about First time I broke a flake up into a bowl and lit it, it was, okay, I get it now.

I've mostly been enjoying latakia blends. The first few VAs I tried, I thought "meh." But these flakes are really making me "get" it - and especially that FVF.

What are your top VA flakes?

[Bruck]

Have you tried layering the tobaccos rather than blending them, JohnnyFlake told me about this and it makes the bowl more interesting.
As to opossums, I took one on a ride over forty miles away in a sealed bucket and 100 degree weather, little peckerhead was
home before I was. Only thing I can figure is he crawled into the undercarriage of my truck and caught a ride.Now I just kill em
and go on to the next rat.

I just finished a bowl of PS Black Coffee in a Swiss BBK 3/4 bent

Layering - no, I haven't tried that, good idea! For my next trick, I'm going to try pressing it in a flake with some bright and burley, maybe with a little molasses or rum.

& if I see the possum again I'm going to have to introduce it to a shovel. I'm just glad Mrs. Bruck wasn't here to see it - she'd never set foot on the deck again!

[Bruck]

I've mostly been enjoying latakia blends. The first few VAs I tried, I thought "meh." But these flakes are really making me "get" it - and especially that FVF.

What are your top VA flakes?

Big fan of English/Balkans here as well. Re VA flakes, I'm not exactly in the high-rent district. I dig Marlin, pretty much all the Stokkebye flakes, and Newminster 400. Plus I have cold-pressed a few decent ones IIDSSM.