What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

[GWBowman]

Gah, I don't like the sounds of this. Jim is too good of a BOTL to be left picking through aros.

Packages certainly can't be address to freestoke c/o Rome, NY so we'll need a bit more info. Someone? Anyone?

Did I ever mention I was a student bus driver my senior year of High School?
Just sayin'...

[NeverBend]

Honestly, I won't! If things turned sour and I was only able to keep one tobacco, it would be Ennerdale.

I was speaking to @JimInks today about the continued high quality of the Gawith companies (Samuel and Hoggarth) products but if I had to choose my favorite tobacco manufacturer, it would be Gawith Hoggarth. I'm almost immune to the aroma of their top sauce until it hits a threshold where it's too much for me and Ennerdale and Best Brown fit into that category, so I smoke them rarely, but I admire the quality.

Gawith Hoggarth, Louisiana Flake, might well be my desert island flake (currently manufactured tobaccos). The differences over time (35 years in my experience) in the quality of the GH products is negligible, great then and now. Given the difficulty in sourcing quality leaf in an age of shrinking tobacco crops (and cigarette giants buying it all up), I am humbled at their feet (and thankful) for their skill and the exquisite pleasure of their tobaccos. (:sniffle


A friend who ordered some Balkan Sobranie White from Andy's (@AndyCayp) store website, received it today and is very happy with product, price and service. Andy, I forgot the URL, so please re-list it for the Bums with this testimonial.


Been smoking my blends to see what's what and made my notes in the Blending Experiment thread.

Earlier I smoked:
2015 Cromwell (last of an old batch) in a 1986 Ser Jacopo R1 Maxima canadian
2015 Cromwell (sampling batch) in a 1970s Caminetto Business #104 saddle billiard.

2015 Brave New World (sampling batch) in a 1986 Ser Jacopo S2 taper apple (should smoke this guy more).

now smoking...
2015 Blood Meridian from the first batch in a 1961 Barling's Make #5719 saddle billiard.

[AndyCAYP]

She's a looker!

[pdq_wizzard]

Enjoying a bowl of



sent from my bag phone

[JimInks]

Dunhill Elizabethan Match in a smooth 1977 Medley (GBD second) medium bend billiard with a flat underside.

[JimInks]

She's a looker!

Thank you, Andy. I've always wanted one, and now I have one. I'm on my second bowl and it already tastes like it's broken in. In fact, two people on another forum saw this pipe and what I had to say about it, and Basil Meadows got two orders for Bing pipes today. Isn't that something? Check out his website to see his other pipes. reddog.com I own five of Basil's pipes and I find them to be great smokers at very reasonable prices.

[JimInks]

A couple minutes away from smoking Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 1982 black sandblasted paneled slight bend Savinelli flat bottom sitter.

[JimInks]

Part way through this bowl of Smoker’s Pride Mellow in a black 1997 Brebbia Jubilee 925 silver banded grain sandblast briar calabash.

[NeverBend]

Thank you, Andy. I've always wanted one, and now I have one. I'm on my second bowl and it already tastes like it's broken in. In fact, two people on another forum saw this pipe and what I had to say about it, and Basil Meadows got two orders for Bing pipes today. Isn't that something? Check out his website to see his other pipes. reddog.com I own five of Basil's pipes and I find them to be great smokers at very reasonable prices.

Morning JIm,

Just to correct the URL, Reddog Pipes - Home. The URL that you listed however, Browser Fail: Icehouse is best looking error page that I've ever seen - you think it has to be a real site and keep clicking on it, wanting it to work.

I didn't get to see your beautiful Basil Meadows until this morning because when I was posting last night, CigarBum withheld the post from me. May it give you years of enjoyment.

[AndyCAYP]

I was speaking to @JimInks today about the continued high quality of the Gawith companies (Samuel and Hoggarth) products but if I had to choose my favorite tobacco manufacturer, it would be Gawith Hoggarth. I'm almost immune to the aroma of their top sauce until it hits a threshold where it's too much for me and Ennerdale and Best Brown fit into that category, so I smoke them rarely, but I admire the quality.

Gawith Hoggarth, Louisiana Flake, might well be my desert island flake (currently manufactured tobaccos). The differences over time (35 years in my experience) in the quality of the GH products is negligible, great then and now. Given the difficulty in sourcing quality leaf in an age of shrinking tobacco crops (and cigarette giants buying it all up), I am humbled at their feet (and thankful) for their skill and the exquisite pleasure of their tobaccos. (:sniffle

You hit the nail on the head, Pete. I've only been abusing (like a drug) Ennerdale for a few years but it is of the utmost quality, as is every other tobacco - pipe and nasal snuff - that I've tried from the House of G&H. By far my favorite producer - by far, as in miles ahead - which means nothing to anyone not named Andy, but considering my love affair with Germain and Sam Gawith and Pease it's something, right?

On that note, I had a big bowl of Ennerdale today during a two hour conference call. Stuffed my trusty and E-dedicated Hackert cob to the brim, a thoughtful gift from @Mister Moo a few years back, and puffed away. This pipe has served me well, very well, and every time I break it out I'm reminded of the NC-based bovine who sent it to me.