What Pipe or Pipe Tobacco Did You Smoke Today? [pics]

[Sid.Stavros]

Good morning from Greece and the sunny Athens with 94 °F.

J M Boswell Raspberry Cream.

 

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Benjamin Hartwell Evening Stroll.

 

[Sid.Stavros]

Hello from Greece, i went to the tailor, to the bank, i bought from Aliexpress some items for my car and now it's time for relaxation with:

Borkum Riff mixture Special No 8.

 

[Sid.Stavros]

Samuel Gawith Squadron Leader.

 

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F & K Merde de Cheval.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Kasturi in a clay at work.

 

[Sid.Stavros]

Stanwell Guarana, double Greek coffee plus ice water beside me.

 

[Sid.Stavros]

While ''break-in'' my new Olive Wood Calabash in a local Cafe here in Greece.

Skandinavik Sungold.

 

[Sid.Stavros]

Tonight i raise my pipe with E.Hoffman Company Distinguished Gentleman and a glass of Metaxa brandy for an Australian soldier, it's Reginald Tresise (Signalman) of the 6th Australian Expeditionary Division in Greece.

The main German attack was on April 12 of 1941 where, with the help of light snowfall, the attackers managed to gain an advantage. Late in the afternoon allied administration realizing that it can not stop the Nazi power, gives the signal of retreat. The Australians who have received the main German attack so had the most of the dead on the battlefield.
The young Reginald Tresise, with some of his colleagues during the retreat, camped for a few hours at the Valtadoirio Gymnasium. As he says, the school is two-storey and bombed by the Nazis "the statue before the school entrance has been blown up. On the ground floor of the school between the dust and the stones of the small room there is a flag of silk with fringes and a cord." The soldier is impressed by the image that he faces, the shape and the colour of the flag. In order not to fall into the hands of the Nazis that head for the city, she decides to take her with him. He keeps this flag as an amulet, has it with him later in the Battle of Crete where he succeeds to survive while many of his fellow soldiers are injured or killed. As he said ''i came out from the Hell of Crete having only my life and this flag'' it passes to Egypt after Palestine and ends in the Syrian French sector still holding the flag. He is moving to the Pacific Ocean on New Guinea, where he survives after hard fighting with the Japanese while he is still has in his bag the Greek flag.
When he succeeded in returning to Australia one day in June 1959 he wrote a letter (thus we know the whole story), he sent the Greek flag back to the mayor with the case that he made, his military cap and some of its personal items.

 

[TigerTom]

WØ Larsen Port Billiard

WLT Prilep. Tasty, tasty smoke!

 

[TigerTom]

Don Carlos rusticated

WLT Katerini.

 

[Sid.Stavros]

I am smoking Paladin Black Cherry, ice tea beside me.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Goose Creek Red
Peterson

 

[Alpine]

What do you think about the GCR in a pipe ChinaV? It is still my favorite in cigs... and in the field.

Pier

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

At first, I didn't see what the big deal was. One month in the kiln wasn't very remarkable and made my beard smell like urea. This was my first smoke of it post 6 months of being in the kiln, and it was really really enjoyable. I'm glad I have a fair amount. It's like an air cured Virginia with an almost spicy tone in a Honduran cigar wrapper way.

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

Also, it was my best producer last year.

 

[TigerTom]

At first, I didn't see what the big deal was. One month in the kiln wasn't very remarkable and made my beard smell like urea. This was my first smoke of it post 6 months of being in the kiln, and it was really really enjoyable. I'm glad I have a fair amount. It's like an air cured Virginia with an almost spicy tone in a Honduran cigar wrapper way.

You had to kiln it for six months before it became enjoyable?

 

[ChinaVoodoo]

I can't say I had to. I only tried it at one month and it wasn't ready. This is perhaps off topic for this thread, but there's some things to mention. One, I only kilned at 118°, and the tobacco was all in smokable case. It therefore went much slower than it would have in most kilns which guys and gals run at high humidity. Two, I had a lot of life stress and since I was sampling various tobaccos out of the kiln along the way, and detected no ill consequences from kilning for a longer period of time, I thought, why not just leave it. At a couple months it became almost an experiment in my mind.

I smoked some KY17 yesterday and it was amazing. The best burley I've ever smoked. And to consider that this is only a year since planting, I'd call it a success.

 

[TigerTom]

I can't say I had to. I only tried it at one month and it wasn't ready. This is perhaps off topic for this thread, but there's some things to mention. One, I only kilned at 118°, and the tobacco was all in smokable case. It therefore went much slower than it would have in most kilns which guys run at high humidity. Two, I had a lot of life stress and since I was sampling various tobaccos out of the kiln along the way, and detected no ill consequences from kilning for a longer period of time, I thought, why not just leave it. At a couple months it became almost an experiment in my mind.

I smoked some KY17 yesterday and it was amazing. The best burley I've ever smoked. And to consider that this is only a year since planting, I'd call it a success.

Maybe a bit off-topic, but good news nontheless. I was afraid I'd have to scrap my GCR seeds.

But excellent news about KY17. According to Northwood Seeds, it has a yield of 6-8 oz per plant, since I have a few growing. Sounds to me like 6-8 oz of great tobacco.

 

[Sid.Stavros]

DTM Black Cavendish Danish Style.