Zach
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First Name: Zach
Favorite Pipe: Too many currently, bound to change
Favorite Tobacco: Haunted Bookshop, Big 'N' Burley, Pegasus, Habana Daydream, OJK, Rum Twist, FVF, Escudo, Orlik Golden Sliced, Kendal Flake, Ennerdale
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Post by Zach on Aug 14, 2024 20:00:06 GMT -5
Fróstika 1800 in a clay bulldog. so what's the verdict on that blend? That's a whole lot of rustica in it. It does not stay lit for more than a minute or two at a time and it’s just like smoking a Mentos. Half way through you start to get a tad bit of chocolate note from the rustica and it tastes a bit like very minty Thin Mints. It’s in no way a mild mint. To clarify a bit more, it’s like crumbling a Kool cigarette into your pipe, and then taking out a Camel Crush menthol bead and crushing that up into it as well. |
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Post by Silver on Aug 14, 2024 20:10:44 GMT -5
so what's the verdict on that blend? That's a whole lot of rustica in it. It does not stay lit for more than a minute or two at a time and it’s just like smoking a Mentos. Half way through you start to get a tad bit of chocolate note from the rustica and it tastes a bit like very minty Thin Mints. It’s in no way a mild mint. To clarify a bit more, it’s like crumbling a Kool cigarette into your pipe, and then taking out a Camel Crush menthol bead and crushing that up into it as well.  YMMV. |
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Post by Silver on Aug 14, 2024 20:18:05 GMT -5
Barking Road in a self-made freehand Dublin. Celebrating an eBay victory. News at 11.
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Post by johnlawitzke on Aug 14, 2024 20:21:03 GMT -5
2015 McC Old Dog in my Robert Amundson blasted Billiard.  Nice brandy lovat!  🤪 I’m going with what the maker called it. |
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Post by johnlawitzke on Aug 14, 2024 20:21:39 GMT -5
Palmetto Balkan 2022 in my Kaywoodie Relief Grain Canadian.  |
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cerealpiper
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Favorite Pipe: Pauls Cayuga nose warmer
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Post by cerealpiper on Aug 14, 2024 20:23:03 GMT -5
so what's the verdict on that blend? That's a whole lot of rustica in it. It does not stay lit for more than a minute or two at a time and it’s just like smoking a Mentos. Half way through you start to get a tad bit of chocolate note from the rustica and it tastes a bit like very minty Thin Mints. It’s in no way a mild mint. To clarify a bit more, it’s like crumbling a Kool cigarette into your pipe, and then taking out a Camel Crush menthol bead and crushing that up into it as well. wow that does not sound appealing at all. How was the room note? I always got complaints on the smell of menthol cigarettes. I had to smoke them outside becasue even I couldn't stand the smell that lingered from them compared to a non menthol like a Marlboro red. After starting smoking pipe though I don't like the smell of cigarettes at all any more lol. |
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Post by Silver on Aug 14, 2024 20:26:22 GMT -5
Palmetto Balkan 2022 in my Kaywoodie Relief Grain Canadian. Is that a Viking helmet on the stem? |
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Post by Ronv69 on Aug 14, 2024 20:40:21 GMT -5
so what's the verdict on that blend? That's a whole lot of rustica in it. It does not stay lit for more than a minute or two at a time and it’s just like smoking a Mentos. Half way through you start to get a tad bit of chocolate note from the rustica and it tastes a bit like very minty Thin Mints. It’s in no way a mild mint. To clarify a bit more, it’s like crumbling a Kool cigarette into your pipe, and then taking out a Camel Crush menthol bead and crushing that up into it as well. It sounds like you would like Russ O's Candy Cane Cocoa from P&C. It tastes great and it's a cool summer smoke. And, it stays lit. Use a cob. |
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Zach
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If you can't send money, send tobacco.
Posts: 4,365
First Name: Zach
Favorite Pipe: Too many currently, bound to change
Favorite Tobacco: Haunted Bookshop, Big 'N' Burley, Pegasus, Habana Daydream, OJK, Rum Twist, FVF, Escudo, Orlik Golden Sliced, Kendal Flake, Ennerdale
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Post by Zach on Aug 14, 2024 20:40:45 GMT -5
It does not stay lit for more than a minute or two at a time and it’s just like smoking a Mentos. Half way through you start to get a tad bit of chocolate note from the rustica and it tastes a bit like very minty Thin Mints. It’s in no way a mild mint. To clarify a bit more, it’s like crumbling a Kool cigarette into your pipe, and then taking out a Camel Crush menthol bead and crushing that up into it as well. wow that does not sound appealing at all. How was the room note? I always got complaints on the smell of menthol cigarettes. I had to smoke them outside becasue even I couldn't stand the smell that lingered from them compared to a non menthol like a Marlboro red. After starting smoking pipe though I don't like the smell of cigarettes at all any more lol. All that being said, it’s still oddly and surprisingly tasty in a small clay pipe. I would certainly never smoke it in a good briar pipe, but it settles down into a minty & chocolatey, totally unique oddity. Nathan suggests using it as a palate cleanser, short in between smokes when your tongue is fatigued or tobacco flavors seem muted. Kind of more a tiny puff or two for a couple minutes and sit the pipe back down. I used the Kool reference to drive home just how powerfully minty it is but it’s not like a cigarette. It’s minty rustica leaf, which is a flavor chameleon. A bit like burley, a bit like grassy underripe Virginia at times. Rustica leaf is all colors from yellow to orange, red to grey to green to brown. It smokes like South American Mapacho, pure rustica leaf. |
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Post by relight on Aug 14, 2024 21:38:13 GMT -5
I smoked some the other day and it was very excellent. Damned good burley broken flake. I actually picked up this blend because of you smoking it the other day and saying how much you enjoyed it also Goldbrick saying it was a great blend too. In this case it should work out. But I'd strongly caution against following my advice as a matter of practice. 😂 |
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Post by turbocat on Aug 14, 2024 21:40:37 GMT -5
2023 Steamworks in a BC Calabash.
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Post by Silver on Aug 14, 2024 21:45:44 GMT -5
Having a bowl of Mad Fiddler Flake in the self-made crunchy meatball.
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Post by urbino on Aug 14, 2024 22:05:14 GMT -5
Just finished off some Old Gowrie in the Eder Mathias blowfish:
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Post by Silver on Aug 14, 2024 22:12:28 GMT -5
Just finished off some Old Gowrie in the Eder Mathias blowfish:
Helluva pipe, urb. Love the birdseye! |
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Post by urbino on Aug 14, 2024 22:17:25 GMT -5
Just finished off some Old Gowrie in the Eder Mathias blowfish:
Helluva pipe, urb. Love the birdseye! Thanks! Me, too. And the contrast of the morta shank ring. |
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cerealpiper
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First Name: Brad
Favorite Pipe: Pauls Cayuga nose warmer
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Post by cerealpiper on Aug 14, 2024 22:20:26 GMT -5
Finishing up some captain black original mixed with sutliff hot chocolate in my bings favorite. Gonna smoke some haunted bookshop in my cob while I read the haunted bookshop for a chapter or 2 then off to bed. Hope yall have a good night.
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Post by johnlawitzke on Aug 14, 2024 22:41:32 GMT -5
Palmetto Balkan 2022 in my Kaywoodie Relief Grain Canadian. Is that a Viking helmet on the stem? Heh heh… when I picked this pipe up from the table, I looked at Nathan and asked him what was with the different logo. Then I looked closer. It is the standard Kaywoodie clover, but on the side of the oval stem, it didn’t impress well around the curve. It’s a light stamp at the top of the clover which didn’t hold any ink and excess ink stayed inside the bottom of the clover. But, yes, at first it looks like horned helmet or a crab. |
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Post by Silver on Aug 14, 2024 22:43:06 GMT -5
Is that a Viking helmet on the stem? Heh heh… when I picked this pipe up from the table, I looked at Nathan and asked him what was with the different logo. Then I looked closer. It is the standard Kaywoodie clover, but on the side of the oval stem, it didn’t impress well around the curve. It’s a light stamp at the top of the clover which didn’t hold any ink and excess ink stayed inside the bottom of the clover. But, yes, at first it looks like horned helmet or a crab. Oh yeah, I see it now. Sorta. |
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Post by johnlawitzke on Aug 14, 2024 22:45:21 GMT -5
Heh heh… when I picked this pipe up from the table, I looked at Nathan and asked him what was with the different logo. Then I looked closer. It is the standard Kaywoodie clover, but on the side of the oval stem, it didn’t impress well around the curve. It’s a light stamp at the top of the clover which didn’t hold any ink and excess ink stayed inside the bottom of the clover. But, yes, at first it looks like horned helmet or a crab. Oh yeah, I see it now. Sorta. Obvious in person when you can rotate it. |
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Post by Silver on Aug 14, 2024 23:00:50 GMT -5
Haunted Bookshop in the Wednesday cob on the back deck. Maybe the last one of the day. Or not. Kinda nice out here.
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Post by Silver on Aug 14, 2024 23:37:16 GMT -5
I guess the night's not over yet. Having a bowl of Riverboat Gambler in a sandblasted Savinelli Nonpareil bent Dublin on the back deck.
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Post by coalsmoke on Aug 15, 2024 3:25:18 GMT -5
Good Morning! It's 57° here with a clear sky. I couldn't sleep, so I decided to start my usual routine and nap later on. This afternoon I have to make a supermarket run because (oh no!) we're almost out of coffee. Getting the smoking day going with a bowl of fresh HH Pure VA Flake in the Savinelli Venere 128 rusticated billiard and there's a fresh travel mugga coffee on the workshop tobacco table. Have a good one everybody!
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Post by urbino on Aug 15, 2024 3:44:27 GMT -5
Good Morning! It's 57° here with a clear sky. I couldn't sleep, so I decided to start my usual routine and nap later on. This afternoon I have to make a supermarket run because (oh no!) we're almost out of coffee. Getting the smoking day going with a bowl of fresh HH Pure VA Flake in the Savinelli Venere 128 rusticated billiard and there's a fresh travel mugga coffee on the workshop tobacco table. Have a good one everybody! A shame about the sleep. The 128 is a good billiard shape. Very classic and un-Italian.  |
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Post by coalsmoke on Aug 15, 2024 4:30:53 GMT -5
Good Morning! It's 57° here with a clear sky. I couldn't sleep, so I decided to start my usual routine and nap later on. This afternoon I have to make a supermarket run because (oh no!) we're almost out of coffee. Getting the smoking day going with a bowl of fresh HH Pure VA Flake in the Savinelli Venere 128 rusticated billiard and there's a fresh travel mugga coffee on the workshop tobacco table. Have a good one everybody! A shame about the sleep. The 128 is a good billiard shape. Very classic and un-Italian. I never thought about the 128 shape in that way and you're right. It's a classic billiard shape with non of the styling that we associate with Italian pipes. |
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Post by coalsmoke on Aug 15, 2024 4:32:20 GMT -5
Currently smoking a bowl of Bayou Morning Flake in the MM General cobwarden while slowly sipping my coffee. Time to check the headline news and then head back to the house to get some more sleep.
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Post by urbino on Aug 15, 2024 4:32:45 GMT -5
A shame about the sleep. The 128 is a good billiard shape. Very classic and un-Italian. I never thought about the 128 shape in that way and you're right. It's a classic billiard shape with non of the styling that we associate with Italian pipes. I always enjoy smoking mine. |
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Post by sidstavros on Aug 15, 2024 4:52:05 GMT -5
Hello Ladies & Gentlemen, we have sun and 96 'F here in Athens.   McLintock Creme de Cassis. |
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Post by Darin on Aug 15, 2024 6:23:28 GMT -5
Mornin' ... Revor Plug in a Castello Sea Rock Billiard with coffee to drink.
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Post by NJDan on Aug 15, 2024 6:28:11 GMT -5
DeLuxe Navy Rolls in the new to me Comoy's Tradition 337c:
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Post by NJDan on Aug 15, 2024 6:33:51 GMT -5
Good morning, Inns of Court in my Ser Jacopo Calabash. Clear and a comfortable 68 here. I have work to do today that’ll keep me indoors but am savoring a couple minutes outside before I go back in and work through the inbox. I hope you all have a good one.
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YMMV.
