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Post by Silver on Mar 28, 2024 13:49:59 GMT -5
Had a bite to eat. Now, time for some Friar's Bayou in the Thursday cob.
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Post by trailboss on Mar 28, 2024 14:11:33 GMT -5
Samuel Gawith Balkan Flake, (deliciously cool) in a GBD Lovat.
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Zach
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Post by Zach on Mar 28, 2024 14:52:44 GMT -5
Steamworks is SO good, but I’m hesitant to open my only other couple tins anytime soon after losing most my first tin to mold. Reading that sent chills down my spine! Now I’m thinking about letting my jarred tin air out a bit. I still have seven more, but I certainly don’t want to waste any. Someone I talk to elsewhere opened two cans of Anthology last week and both were moldy in the cans. C&D seems to be occasionally carried away with the fact that water is cheaper than tobacco. Adds weight, and mold. Well, that’s no good to hear, either. I’ve not opened any of my tins of either year of Anthology. With Steamworks, I opened a fresh tin on release and got to smoke about four bowls of it before the end of the week it was entirely overtaken by thick, white mold from the bottom flakes up. Usually I’d manage to salvage some, but wash and dry some of the flakes, but it was engulfed. I did receive a refund for the tin. Overall, I’ve not had hardly any mold issues but it has happened to some really choice stuff. Darin once sent me some 1944 George Washington flake. I smoked a bowl or two of it before the whole jar went up in green mold. It smelled like George Washington, as well. |
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Post by trailboss on Mar 28, 2024 14:57:30 GMT -5
I guess I have lived a charmed life.
I have held onto tins recalled because of mold issues, took my chances and aged them… no mold.
I have never experienced any mold, ever…common sense tells me that mold takes place in the sealed tins, but I wonder of living in the desert mitigates the possibility of mold?
I hope I did not jinx myself with this post.
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Post by Zach on Mar 28, 2024 14:59:09 GMT -5
Same. I held all my 2016 first release of Carolina Red Flake (so did Jeremy himself). It’s nothing you can manage or do. Either mold spores bloom, or they don’t. It’s based on how much MycoBan or vinegar is in the tobacco as an inhibitor.
Yes, living in the desert is also a mitigating factor. I believe that’s also how stuff sent from Arizona is able to arrive here in mid summer and explode. Have also lived in Florida briefly, during the first year of CRF release and I opened my first tin and breathed it for a day before jarring. No issues.
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Post by trailboss on Mar 28, 2024 15:04:11 GMT -5
“ I believe that’s also how stuff sent from Arizona is able to arrive here in mid summer and explode. “
I bear no responsibility!
Sounds like something Darin would do… that cat is shady.
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Post by Silver on Mar 28, 2024 15:09:49 GMT -5
C&D Five o'clock Shadow in the Thursday cob. Gonna watch the Tigers-White Sox game.
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Post by Zach on Mar 28, 2024 15:09:56 GMT -5
I really appreciate the things and samples that he’s sent! I just think it could be a factor where dormant spores can leap to life when they breathe in some humidity.
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Post by just ol ed on Mar 28, 2024 15:09:58 GMT -5
Abingdon in Don Mock longshank freehand, CokeOriginal by side. Snoozie on the way
48, clear
Ed-slowly dealing with..
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Post by coalsmoke on Mar 28, 2024 15:15:50 GMT -5
C&D Five o'clock Shadow in the Thursday cob. Gonna watch the Tigers-White Sox game. Opening Day! I have to check the listings and see when my teams are playing. |
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Post by turbocat on Mar 28, 2024 15:36:59 GMT -5
Billy Budd in a Mastro de Paja Rhodesian, it’s all I’ve been smoking since yesterday.
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Post by urbino on Mar 28, 2024 17:05:48 GMT -5
LBF in the Ron Powell morta bulldog:  |
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Post by trailboss on Mar 28, 2024 17:20:15 GMT -5
LBF in the Ron Powell morta bulldog: An excellent pipe maker that excels in putting out beauties. It is a shame that circumstances beyond his control prevented him from continuing on and getting a wider audience for his pipes. Ron is as good as the best out there. |
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Post by NJDan on Mar 28, 2024 17:23:59 GMT -5
I’m smoking some Union Square in a “Vox Pop” carved billiard held by my mid-mod crab. I suspect this is the kind of pipe you’d get if you had sent in your $1.95 on the matchbook cover turbocat posted. Complete with screw in stem, modern bowl engraving and imported briar. I don’t know much about the maker but suspect it would be from the 50’s or 60’s. It smokes well, due to good old fashioned American engineering, no doubt. Enjoy your evening friends.  |
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Post by trailboss on Mar 28, 2024 17:29:46 GMT -5
It looks like you live very close to the water, Dan.
Have you ever had any issues with scary storm surges?
Cool crab by the way, but it looks like he wants to snap your tenon.
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Post by NJDan on Mar 28, 2024 17:40:08 GMT -5
It looks like you live very close to the water, Dan. Have you ever had any issues with scary storm surges? Cool crab by the way, but it looks like he wants to snap your tenon.Thanks, that crab’s a favorite, a gift from my wife. She finds good stuff in thrift shops. We are behind a solid bulkhead and a fair elevation on pilings, but it still gets pretty scary when the moon and wind are right. Many times have had waves crashing on the bulkhead and spraying the house with water. I retreat to the mainland when they ask us to. Mainly I just stay very weather/tide aware and avoid the roads when they flood. You don’t want to drive through salt water if you want your truck frame, brake lines, et al. to have any kind of life. |
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Post by johnlawitzke on Mar 28, 2024 17:51:40 GMT -5
Partway through a bowl of 2012 Leo in my Ronny Thuner Horn.  |
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Post by trailboss on Mar 28, 2024 18:00:11 GMT -5
It looks like you live very close to the water, Dan. Have you ever had any issues with scary storm surges? Cool crab by the way, but it looks like he wants to snap your tenon.Thanks, that crab’s a favorite, a gift from my wife. She finds good stuff in thrift shops. We are behind a solid bulkhead and a fair elevation on pilings, but it still gets pretty scary when the moon and wind are right. Many times have had waves crashing on the bulkhead and spraying the house with water. I retreat to the mainland when they ask us to. Mainly I just stay very weather/tide aware and avoid the roads when they flood. You don’t want to drive through salt water if you want your truck frame, brake lines, et al. to have any kind of life. Glad you have a good sea barrier nearby! Yeah, the corrosive action of salt can really make short work of a vehicle. I recently saw a video by a mechanic showing the compromised suspension of an SUV, the owner was cheating death for awhile… the suspension was literally crumbling. |
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Post by Goldbrick on Mar 28, 2024 18:06:25 GMT -5
RL-PR in the Tinsky I loaded this morning, evening coffee on the side.
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Post by jonmc75 on Mar 28, 2024 18:18:57 GMT -5
Good evening to all of the Patch, we've had four seasons in one day here in the Irish North West, including a fairly heavy snow shower this afternoon; reminds me of the old Billy Connolly joke about Scottish weather, "if you don't like it, just wait for 20 minutes" 😂
Rounding the evening off with some OGS in a MM Country Gentleman.
Hope you all have a great rest-of-your evening, the weekend awaits!
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Post by urbino on Mar 28, 2024 18:31:53 GMT -5
Boswell's Sweet Tea in a 1965 Dunnie 104:  |
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 28, 2024 18:44:28 GMT -5
It looks like you live very close to the water, Dan. Have you ever had any issues with scary storm surges? Cool crab by the way, but it looks like he wants to snap your tenon.You Zoners are so afraid of a little water. 😁 |
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Post by johnlawitzke on Mar 28, 2024 18:52:38 GMT -5
Flying the 626 flag with some Smoker's Haven Cyrian Limited in my Savinelli Sun Set 626 bent Apple.  |
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Post by trailboss on Mar 28, 2024 19:28:20 GMT -5
It looks like you live very close to the water, Dan. Have you ever had any issues with scary storm surges? Cool crab by the way, but it looks like he wants to snap your tenon.You Zoners are so afraid of a little water. 😁 As long as it is in a bottle. |
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 28, 2024 19:50:03 GMT -5
You Zoners are so afraid of a little water. 😁 As long as it is in a bottle. We've had 7.8 inches of rain in the last 6 days. Think about that! 😜 |
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Post by Mrs. Zarnicky on Mar 28, 2024 20:26:46 GMT -5
I trying Country Squire's "Dark Holler" today. This tobacco used to be calling "Mirkwood". Is delicious aromatic and Zarnicky smoking it in Vauen Mokka.  |
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Post by Zach on Mar 28, 2024 20:45:03 GMT -5
2021 Miskatonic Mixture in an MMC Elite Cadel reverse calabash cob.
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Post by urbino on Mar 28, 2024 20:54:09 GMT -5
I trying Country Squire's "Dark Holler" today. This tobacco used to be calling "Mirkwood". Is delicious aromatic and Zarnicky smoking it in Vauen Mokka. Lovely lines to that pipe. |
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Post by Silver on Mar 28, 2024 21:28:20 GMT -5
Out and about this evening. Haunted Bookshop in the Thursday cob while driving. Having the same now.
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Post by trailboss on Mar 28, 2024 21:40:49 GMT -5
As long as it is in a bottle. We've had 7.8 inches of rain in the last 6 days. Think about that! 😜 Here I would be building an ark. |
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