What are You Smoking? June 2024

“Pipe Force, a series that celebrates pipe smoking by showing innovation isn’t a thing of the past, there are still frontiers to explore.”

I have to agree and say that ever since I got early access to all of them, I’ve thought they all push the envelope and do several things never done before in pipe tobacco. 5 is one of my favorites the way they get that melange of BBQ/fruity/woodsy range by hot pressing then stoving rustica leaf, stoved VA, and cavendished Katerini. 


I sure hope they re-release all these this fall and do huge runs. Did you see the new Sutliff bulk Per Jensen blends just released last week? I haven’t tried those yet.

The Birds of a Feather series pushed the envelope as well. I still have to get to many of them but really thought Uno was great.

I’ve heard good things about the Per Jensen Blender’s series and have some of each on the way as well as Pipe Force Episode II. None of these or the Birds series have been “just another blend” being sold as a “new or modern” version. They have been truly unique in fantastic ways.

Where's the early morning crew, yo?

Good Morning! It's 68° with a partly cloudy sky here as the sun rises from behind the neighborhood trees. I managed to get almost a full night's sleep, so I'm running later than usual. This afternoon I have to make a supermarket run. Starting off the smoking day with a bowl of HH Pure VA Flake in the Savinelli Venere 128 smooth billiard and there's a fresh travel mugga coffee on the workshop tobacco table. Have a good one everybody!

Derby Club Aromatic in a lovely bent bulldog from Jursa, coffee on the side.

Good morning, it’s hot and humid here again this morning. After keeping the dogs at bay, I’m smoking a bowl of Old Gowry in a Sasieni “Olde England” straight Prince. I just fired up my coffee bean roaster to roast up this month’s batch of beans (while drinking coffee made from last month’s batch). I hope you all have a good one!

good morning to ya. That sounds like a great morning! I have always wanted to learn to roast my own coffee. I enjoy black dark roasted coffees very much it pairs well with most tobaccos I am finding. My family prefers coffee over tea since 1773 and my father and grand father made it a point lol. Anywho keep on keeping on.

I'll second Sweet Maria's for green beans. It's gotten much more expensive but still a fun hobby. My roaster is from Behmor and will do a pound at a time.

Happy Wednesday! Started the day with a couple bowls of Haunted Bookshop in the Wednesday cob and coffee on the front porch. 78, humid and overcast, expecting some rain this afternoon.

Good day! I got an early bent start on cutting the grass this morning before the temps get up to near 100. Right before I finished I hit a tree root and bent one of the blades really bad. Call into the mower guy. I hope he can get to it before I need it again. Luckily the grass is growing pretty slowly right now. Got showered up and made it back outside before the heat to get a nice smoke in. Today it is Loch Ness in my Peterson Donegal Rocky 80s. Nice smoke! Hope everyone is having a good day. 

The rain skirted past us. Still predicting light rain within half hour. We'll see. I'm on the front porch with some Friar's Bayou in the barrel-shaped meerschaum.

It’s a hot and humid afternoon here in the Garden State, mid 90’s according to the temp on my truck. I got all my chores done early so I’m settling in with some Inns of Court in a 1952 Dunhill billiard. Supposed to be some rough weather later as this heat breaks ahead of a cold front. Sunday night’s storms knocked out power to a bunch of homes just north of here, so it’s times like these I’m thankful for the Generac.

After-dinner smoke time. Haunted Bookshop in the Wednesday cob on the back porch.