What Did You Smoke Today? (Pipe Edition)

[cpmcdill]

Hearth & Home Frenchy's Sunzabitches in a Comoys bent bulldog

[Pugsley]

Well, the garage door repairman is here. One of the springs broke so I told him to just go ahead and replace them both. He did. Then when he tried to open it he found that my brother had stripped the gears in the motor trying to open it with the broken spring. So .... we're at $900 now and he's still working on it. I'm going to have to pop open a new tin of Bell's Three Nuns to recover when this is done.

[Pipe Smoker]

A couple of weeks ago I was on SmokingPipes to order more Solani 633, Virginia with Perique. I noticed Solani 639, Tropical Mango Flake. I'm not a fan of aromatics, but the other two Solani tobaccos that I've tried are so good that I took a flyer and ordered some 639 too.

Yesterday afternoon I smoked my first fill of it. Oof dah! Could scarcely endure it. Well, that was my last bowl of the day, which is sometimes not so good, so I resolved to try it again in the morning.

But this morning I couldn't bring myself to do that – so I opened a tin of DF with two years of age on it instead. Puffing that now – heaven! Back to basics!

Might try the 639 again – sometime. It had a bad effect on the taste of my coffee too. Might go better with grape soda, but I don't drink grape soda.

[Emperor Zurg]

...I noticed Solani 639, Tropical Mango Flake...

...Yesterday afternoon I smoked my first fill of it. Oof dah! Could scarcely endure it...

Might try the 639 again – sometime. It had a bad effect on the taste of my coffee too. Might go better with grape soda, but I don't drink grape soda.

Hahaha! That'll learn ya!

I find I don't care for most aromatics. It's usually not that the taste is revolting, it's that it is nonexistent. However, mango always tasted like soap to me so I'm thinking this Mango Flake probably tastes like a Lakeland?

Speaking of Lakeland soap, I smoked a bowl of G&H Louisiana Flake last evening. I prefer to let this sit out at room temp for a day or so to dissipate as much of the rose-ish grannystink as possible, then re-hydrate if necessary. God only knows why they put that crap on good tobacco. IMO, this blend would be so much better without it.

[Pipe Smoker]

It did learn me!
Durn me!

[Pugsley]

After fighting off the urge to pop a new tin, it's Royal Yacht in a straight, rusticated Mastro de Paja brandy with a Cumberland stem.

[GWBowman]

A sweet Virginia blend by @NeverBend in a meer

[Lostmason]

Decided on Nightcap in a Swiss BBK,still drinking coffee.

[Pugsley]

Sometimes, when you have a large pipe collection as I do, you come across one that you haven't smoked in a long, long time. You'll pick it up and it feels great in the hand, the draw is effortless, and it's just a beautiful piece of briar, and you'll think to yourself "Why haven't I smoked this lately?". So you fill it with a good tobacco, in this case Royal Yacht, do a charring light, then lightly tamp and take a few draws and settle back to enjoy it. Then, suddenly you want to run and get an oven mitt because the bowl is so hot it feels like holding a hot coal in your hand. Ahh ..... now I remember. That's what happened with my Mastro de Paja earlier this evening, so I've made a mental note to grab a thick, folded napkin and burn a few bowls of Carter Hall and try to put some serious cake on this one.

[cpmcdill]

Hearth & Home Fusilier's Ration in a MM cob