What are you smoking? February 2024

That’s a fine looking pipe, I hope you enjoy it in good health.

Enjoying a bowl of Stockton in a Peterson Zulu. My first pipe. My young pit bull rescue Hyacinth is nestled at my hip and a fire burns in the hearth. Enjoy your evening friends!

Another bowl of the same. Job is done and stopped and helped boss feed cows on the way home.

I’m smoking my Plum Krantz in my newest calabash. 

2018 Apertif & cobs, to the chats. Hope the baccy is dry enough

Ed

Evening at Sis/BILs house. Friar's Bayou in a Dagner Poker cob along for the ride. Finishing the bowl from the drive home, then it'll be Haunted Bookshop in the Saturday cob.

Good morning Patch.
Back in 2017 when I was still just starting out.
Everyone talked about Three Nuns. But it was gone.
Well it was reintroduced.
So of course I had to try int. I was excited to try this.
When it arrived. It went in to a mason jar. And a bowl full into
a pipe. Well after 3 bowls, it wasn’t for me.
But listening to everyone here. Saying give tobacco time.
Your palette will change. So it sat in its jar.
A year or so ago. I tried it again. Hey, this isn’t bad.
Last year. It was now one of my favorite morning coffee smokes.
After I finish this bowl, i have 1 left.
Wish I had bought 2!

So to all you newbies. Give your tobaccos time. (And your pipes)
You never know.
They may get better with age.
Like all the old timers here on the Patch. 😃

Crisp and clear on this President’s Day weekend. Starting out a little later than usual with a bowl of Three Friars in my Peterson Apple. Hope all have a good day.

TK-6 in a Dr Grabow Viking, coffee on the side.

A small excursion today, no good photo (no Kompoloi)



but as always a kitty show an interest for me.



Danske Club White Roses.

Trying out my newest to me calabash with St. Bernard.

Three Star Blue in my Hillson egg, Diet Mountain Dew on the side.

Wilke Best Make in a German clay. Ginger ale on the side

Had a couple more bowls of 2021 Gold Brick plug in the 620 Sav rusticated dry system, some 2016 Haunted Bookshop in a Mark Twain cob, and currently finishing some 2016 G.L. Pease Cumberland.

Cumberland is one of those smokes that’s fairly unbalanced and at odds when it’s too fresh, but once this blend has 5-15 years of age on it, it becomes absolutely wonderful. I smoked some samples back in 2016 of some of the first year release (I believe it was already about 10 years aged) and it was wonderful I then bought some tins and when fresh, the dark fired Kentucky is too bold and the white burley element and DFK overtake the whole profile and it’s very flat otherwise. Once I aged the first tin for at least five more years is when it started to get a cinnamon-sweet-tingly dark fired profile that has substantially melded and smoothed. Even 2-4 years was nothing special. A great example of longer aging a burley/VA blend to get the best out of it.

Next smoke is going to be 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match. The match blend by Sutliff in this case is easily better than the brand name Edgeworth was, but I won’t be restocking it once it’s gone. It falls squarely into the OTC “Sutliff rough chopped floor sweeping grade flavored burley” category. Cocoa, molasses, maybe a faint hint of annisette. Rough crimp cut and full of stem pieces and crumbly dust. Good for what it is but usually turns foul/sour/ashy around half way through each and every bowl. Smoking it in a Great Dane Egg cob.