Thanks! They are the style of pipe is smoke more than half of the time. Definitely my favorites.
What Pipes or Pipe Tobacco did you smoke today? (2024-2025)
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I had a disappointing start to my smoking today. In keeping with wanting to get out of my pipe rut, it crossed my mind that I haven’t been smoking any clays for at least three years and I had bought one just before I set them aside that looked really fun. So I decided to get that one out and fire it up.
I got it out of the box and set it down next to me while I put the box back and it slipped and fell about a foot, but that was all it took.
So I could have grabbed another clay, but I was annoyed, so I grabbed this Butz Choquin Chambord. Needs a bit of a polish on the silver and Cumberland stem (which I’ve always liked on a pipe) but otherwise it was ready to go. I’m smoking Royal Yacht in it.
I got it out of the box and set it down next to me while I put the box back and it slipped and fell about a foot, but that was all it took.
So I could have grabbed another clay, but I was annoyed, so I grabbed this Butz Choquin Chambord. Needs a bit of a polish on the silver and Cumberland stem (which I’ve always liked on a pipe) but otherwise it was ready to go. I’m smoking Royal Yacht in it.
Old Gasman
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Oh bugger! That's a shame.
Yeah, hadn’t even smoked it once. Breaking it did kind of put me in touch with virtually all smokers of a few centuries ago, I imagine they all knew this experience.
During the 17th Century, it was common for inns to provide clay pipes for their patrons to smoke (much like hookah lounges). In order to prepare the same pipe for the next patron, the very tip of the stem was broken off, for sanitary reasons.
from Billings: Tobacco; its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce, 1875.
Bob
EDIT: If you simply put a feather in your hat, then you can go ahead and smoke your shorter pipe.
from Billings: Tobacco; its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce, 1875.
Bob
EDIT: If you simply put a feather in your hat, then you can go ahead and smoke your shorter pipe.
BCgoatfarmer
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Another boat ride, the little hazel boat pipe filled with Drum original. Bottle of iced tea. Hauling the missus stuff from her old place up to ours. Good weather for it.
I would like to hear some details of your experience smoking drum in a pipe. When I was young I spent some time rolling it into ciggies. From time to time I consider grabbing a pouch for pipe use if I ever see it again.. nice otc tobacco is exceptionally difficult to come by around here though.
BCgoatfarmer
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It's the same here, quality otc tobacco hard to find. Drum is used in cigarettes by some out here so it is available, often even in small rural shops.
I like it, it's fine shag cut halfzware from Denmark. Lots of birds eye cut stem, goodly proportion of fire cured burley (I think), decent nicotine content.
pouch smells nice and smokey with a hint of barnyard funk. Not much throat bite for me, PH fairly balanced.
packs, lights, and burns good in a pipe (if you're into shag)
Sid.Stavros
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Greetings from Athens-Greece, we have sun with few clouds and 61 'F.
Stanwell vanilla.
Stanwell vanilla.
Nothing fancy, but an interesting blend today. About 60% my own VA flake from last year’s crop, mixed with about 40% Star of the East for some Latakia. It’s quite mild and not bad. The pipe is my old Jobey 450 octagon, I have an adapter to replace the filter.
Edit: Well… it was nice for the first half of the bowl, anyway. The VA will need another year or two, I think, before it’s really decent enough to smoke.
Edit: Well… it was nice for the first half of the bowl, anyway. The VA will need another year or two, I think, before it’s really decent enough to smoke.
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A few weeks ago when I was blending a batch of Exmoor, I glanced at a jar of Watch City 2021 Rougaroux and got an urge to try something. I mixed 60% Rougaroux, 20% Krumovgrad and 20% DAC. I’m smoking it right now in a vintage Stanwell Hans Christian Andersen. It turned out really good.
Thanks for that!
BCgoatfarmer
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Cheers. Hope you find some, and that it is an enjoyable smoke for you. If your looking for something with a smokey pouch aroma this might hit the spot.
Sid.Stavros
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Good morning from Athens-Greece.
We have sun here and 66 'F.
We have sun here and 66 'F.
Just smoked a bowl of Rustica leaf I got last week. My first time smoking plain leaf Rustica, I’ve smoked a number of different Mapacho and related tobaccos from South America before, but they’re always flavored and treated in some fashion. This leaf gave me flashbacks to really hard to get cigarettes from Eastern Europe in the 80’s.
Sid.Stavros
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Ladies and Gentlemen, yesterday was a big feast for us here in Greece, it's called ''Clean Monday" so we count 40 days till the Easter. According to the tradition we eat specific kind of food, here is a typical GR menu for this day:
1) Taramas (cod roe, missing from the photo, my wife's fault)
2) Lagana (bread without leaven, according to the custom is cut by hand)
3) Barley with seafood (sepia, cuttlefish, etc.)
4) Paper towels, salt and pepper
5) Wine (red here)
6) Beans with sauce
7) Fava beans
8) Dumplings
9) Halvas Chocolate
10) Ηalva Vanilla
11) Salad
12) Filtered water
I am smoking Peter Stokkebye - Luxury Twist Flake (No. 402)
1) Taramas (cod roe, missing from the photo, my wife's fault)
2) Lagana (bread without leaven, according to the custom is cut by hand)
3) Barley with seafood (sepia, cuttlefish, etc.)
4) Paper towels, salt and pepper
5) Wine (red here)
6) Beans with sauce
7) Fava beans
8) Dumplings
9) Halvas Chocolate
10) Ηalva Vanilla
11) Salad
12) Filtered water
I am smoking Peter Stokkebye - Luxury Twist Flake (No. 402)
I'll take a wild guess that you and your wife totally cleaned up that food.
Bob
Bob
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