What's in your pipe today?

[Pipe Smoker]

Just put a match to some PS Luxury Navy Flake in a Bjarne to keep me company while I wait for the charcoal to get hot on this beautiful spring
afternoon.

 

[vortex]

Two years ago I jarred a mixture of '99 McConnell Red VA with McConnell perique to make my own VaPer. I pressed it into the bottom of a wide mouth pint Ball jar to better mix flavors. Today I cracked it and packed the Hardcastle Royal Bruyere. It turned out fantastic! :thumbs:

 

[Pipe Smoker]

Two years ago I jarred a mixture of '99 McConnell Red VA with McConnell perique to make my own VaPer. I pressed it into the bottom of a wide mouth pint Ball jar to better mix flavors. Today I cracked it and packed the Hardcastle Royal Bruyere. It turned out fantastic! :thumbs:

Thank sounds fantastic.

 

[Pipe Smoker]

Smoked a little Old Dublin in a Sav not too long ago.

 

[j0z3r]

Greeting guys, new to CP here. Just finished up a bowl of GL Pease Charing Cross in my Erik Nording Signature rustic Freehand. Love that pipe and I'm really digging the Charing Cross.

 

[Pipe Smoker]

Finally got my hands on some Jackknife Plug. Not entirely what I was expecting, but certainly not bad. I'll have to make my way through the rest of the tin before I decide where on the shelf this one belongs.

 

[vortex]

Cracked some '09 McClelland Beacon and packed the GBD Brunette. Another wonderful VaPer but not much different than bulk McC Vaper.

Very tasty, though. :thumbs:

 

[{tpc}]

New to all this but I was gifted a couple different tobaccos to try, along with the cob pipe. They are probably what you would call custom blends but they are as follows:

Arrowhead - A blend of Burley, Virginia and World famous Green River Black Cavendish, Virginia Flake, Perique And Latakia Expertly Blended for the utmost taste then topped with a secret vanilla flavoring recipe to achieve outstanding flavor. Mild is but satisfying.

Post Office - This blend has just the right proportion of Golden Virginia and Burleys, with Toasted Cavendish tobaccos is similar to Captain Black.

I would have to say that I like the Arrowhead a little better but they are both pretty similiar to me. If the rain holds out and it doesn't get too cold again tonight, I may fire up some Arrowhead. I really need to find another pipe and pickup some tins of new stuff to try though!

 

[LilBastage]

I wonder why they would add a vanilla flavoring to a blend with latakia and perique? ???

Just finished off some 8 year old Escudo. :love:

 

[kensg]

Red Rapparee in a Dunhill Bulldog

 

[{tpc}]

I wonder why they would add a vanilla flavoring to a blend with latakia and perique? ???

Just finished off some 8 year old Escudo. :love:

Good question I suppose. If I ever make it up to the place where he gets it, I will try and remember to ask. The rain didn't hold out for me, unfortunately. May try again tonight or at lunch. Weather been pretty spotty lately.

 

[Pipe Smoker]

I wonder why they would add a vanilla flavoring to a blend with latakia and perique? ???

I suppose its not for the benefit of the smoker, but for the those around him.

 

[LilBastage]

I wonder why they would add a vanilla flavoring to a blend with latakia and perique? ???

I suppose its not for the benefit of the smoker, but for the those around him.

I've added latakia to a couple of vanilla aros and the resulting room note was far more unpleasant than I could imagine.

 

[vortex]

I wonder why they would add a vanilla flavoring to a blend with latakia and perique? ???

Deer Tongue? Still, an eclectic mix. ???

Just finished off some 8 year old Escudo. :love:

Nice! Old VaPers are the best.:thumbs:

Last night was beautiful! Sat on the porch with some '99 McC #24

 

[{tpc}]

I wonder why they would add a vanilla flavoring to a blend with latakia and perique? ???

I suppose its not for the benefit of the smoker, but for the those around him.

I've added latakia to a couple of vanilla aros and the resulting room note was far more unpleasant than I could imagine.

I am assuming by room note you mean aroma or smell? lol...though not as elegantly put. At any rate, it actually isn't unpleasant to smell. So I could only guess that if the two combined typically doesn't have the same unpleasantness, then there must be only a small amount of either added.

That said, what the hell do I know lol, I'll have to pick up some different stuff if just for comparisions sake!

 

[Pipe Smoker]

Yup, room note refers to the smell of the smoke in the room. Get your hands on some VaPer - you won't be disappointed. One of my favorites is Peter Stokkebye's Luxury Navy Flake. It's readily available and its pretty cheap.

I last smoked a little bowl of Margate, in a bit of an English sort of mood lately.

 

[{tpc}]

I just smoked some "post office" tonight. While similar to the Arrowhead, I am unsure if its just my newbness in the difference or what, but I enjoyed it more than before. I think I smoked 3 bowls...my first 3 of the post office. Then I think I am up to 4 or maybe 5 of the arrowhead. Probably 4, lol. My latest, just tonight was the post office, which was after abowl of arrowhead at lunch.

I am not disappointed by any means, other than I need to wait until payday to pick up something new to expand the horizons. I am becoming torn between my cigars and the pipe though. This weather, being so damn rainy and so damn often, is easily making the pipe a go to over cigars. For whatever reason, I feel more comfortable with the pipe, on the the front porch, watching the sun of the day fade away...at least for right now anyways. Though I should say the cloud of the day....i'm well over this rain...I will opt for 100 degree 100% humidity over this rain at this point...bring it! lol!

 

[cigarsarge]

FVF in my Grabow Viking...

 

[Pipe Smoker]

A little C&D Founding Fathers in a cob before folks started rolling in for the BBQ this afternoon.

 

[Pipe Smoker]

Working my way through a tin of Margate. Its definitely starting to grown on me.