What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

[Alligator Gar]

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?

Marlin Flake and Best Brown Flake.

[JimInks]

SG Skiff in a medium bend 2001 Ural lattice Rhodesian with a yellow stem with white swirls. Have enough left for a couple bowls.

[Alligator Gar]

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.

I'm smoking some of that Stokkybe Cube Cut Burley you gave me mixed with some 2012 Red Ribbon in a Sav Prince. Very savory.

[Alligator Gar]

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.

Replaced the cube cut with Five Brothers and Red Ribbon, the 5B is smoother and more well mannered, probably due to its age. Stuffed it in a Sav 606 Brown Gator I recently picked up.

[JimInks]

Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem.

[JimInks]

Tilbury in a 1990s smooth briar calabash shaped Butz-Choquin Maitre Pipier JR Fait Main with a horn ferrule.

[cpmcdill]

Rattray's Hal O' The Wynd in a MM cob

[JimInks]

Listing this early: 2012 Rolando’s Own in a slight bent 1970's Caminetto 103 Business KS billiard with a fumed rim.

[JimInks]

MacBaren Symphony in a very ugly reddish color 1980 medium bend Lorenzo Leganza Sigma 8635 etched rough top.

[JimInks]

Almost finished smoking Jim's Evolving Work Blend in a smooth 1976 Canadian GBD Seventy Six 256.