What will you be smoking on IPSD?

ocpunk714

I’m going with the St. Patrick’s 2018 Blend by Peterson, hopefully my Orlik Golden sliced tin will be here in time and I was counting on a half pound of Second Breakfast, but that is being re-stocked

ghostsofpompeii

@ocpunk714 Haven't smoked it in a while, but since it's my ultimate creation I'm going with Mrs. Hudson's 221B Bakery Blend. And since it's a special occasion I'll smoke it in my Nording Harmony Freehand.

Woodsman

I'm taking Newminster Superior Round Slices, Holger Danske Mild Orange, and my Old King Cole to the club.

TaylorJDutton

Probably one aromatic and one English blend, yet to be decided

ocpunk714

Picked up a bag of Tobacco Barn custom blend, “Rum & Maple Match” and a tin of Eileen’s Dream. Gave each a little taste today and am quite satisfied with my choices.

Londy3

I may smoke something different. I have a new tin of  Ole Shenandoah Appalachian Berry. I never had it. I may try it in my cobbit Shire as I don't want a ghost in my Brier. 

Corey562

Think I will start with a nice Balkan and just run with it all day.

motie2

@ocpunk714 -- Give us a review of that Rum and Maple match, please? Thanks. I'm always looking for good rum flavored blends.

motie2

@ghostsofpompeii -- Wow is the only word for that pipe you posted, above, with the postage stamps on the stummel.

ocpunk714

@motie2 The Rum and Maple Match is a hit for me. Fragrance is definitely maple, but more subtle in taste. The Rum brings a bit of a Caribbean fruityness that rolls off the tongue. Smoothest retrohale I’ve had so far in my collection. A good smoke. Pretty sweet rum after taste.

Woobie

I'll probably have some Captain Earle's Reflections tomorrow evening. Sometime through the day I'll sneak in a bowl of Elizabeathan Mixture, or maybe Escudo instead. Recently I've been smoking a lot of Dark Fired Kentucky, and it's time for a change of pace.

 Had some White Knight this evening on the way home, but that's about my limit for Latakia. Any more, and it gets hard for me to taste anything else. The Reflections is really balanced and complex, though. A good tobacco for a good day.

ghostsofpompeii

@Woobie I don't know why everyone is so concerned about Dunhill getting out of the tobacco business, especially when I continue to see so many blends mentioned here that I never heard of before ... Captain Earle's Reflection being one of them. Mind giving a mini-review of it.

Woobie

@ghostsofpompeii

The Captain Earle's are a line from Hermit Tobacco Works manufactured by Cornell and Diehl. I've only had Reflections and Private Stock, both of which are some of my very favorite tobaccos of all.

Reflections is what I call a "kitchen sink" tobacco. It is a cake comprised of 12 separate components. The only ones we are told about are stoved red Virginias and Latakia. I tasted Burley, a cavendish which I almost thought for a second had a honey flavor, and possibly some Dark Fired Kentucky. I'm sure there is some Perique in there, but I didn't have that in my notes. But I wouldn't swear to any of that. It comes together so smoothly it gets hard, for me at least, to really nail down the various leaves they used. 

Ok, so how is it? Somehow, they bring that motley collection of components together in such a way that the complexity is evident in every puff, but the combination is seamless. You almost can't tell where one ends and another begins. If you don't mind a bit of Latakia, I find it to be an amazing smoke.

https://www.laudisi.com/moreinfo.cfm/captain-earles-pipe-tobaccos/reflections-2oz/155842

Country Squire has it in stock right now.

motie2

White Knight? A stand-in for the Balkan Sobranie, of blessed memory.

Woobie

Yessir, @motie2

I never had the original, unfortunately. With about a year of age, White Knight is really good. But it runs the ragged edge of too much Latakia for my taste. Maybe a few more years in the cellar would change that, though.

ocpunk714

I got a few more things...lol

BlueCollarBastard

@ocpunk714 love Eileen's dream. I got it in one of the "battles" on P&C. Eileen's vs. Stanwell Extra Fine. 

judandhispipe

I have three year old Capstan Blue RR, 10 year old Penzance, and 10 year old MacB Mixture all lined up for today. Pipes will include a Joao Ries  bent Dublin and an old (late 1970s) Comoy bent billiard.

PappyJoe

@ghostsofpompeii - C&D actually makes the blends for Hermit Tobacco Works and are still selling the Captain Earle's blends. I haven't tried Reflections but in January I stumbled upon an unopened, dusty tin of Captain's Earle's Mystic Blend at Mayan Imports (the tobacco shop where we hold our pipe club meetings.). They were going through boxes from the move to the new location and found one with tins from a previous location move. My tin is date stamped Feb. 2015 so it was almost 3 years old.

It's a good English and I'm down to about 3 or 4 bowls worth.

motie2

@Woobie -- Try aromatics with some Latakia in the blend
Edward G. Robinson blend (Sutliff tin) or Revolution blend from EA Carey, which has a bit more Latakia than the EGR.

Woobie

@PappyJoe I wouldn't mind trying some Mystic Blend sometime. It sounds more similar to Private Stock than Reflections. Reflections is fairly light on Latakia, while Private Stock is more straight down the middle as English blends go. And actually, it tastes very traditional, since the Virginias are so prominent. But again, it is better than almost any English Blend I've had, due to the quality of components and how well executed it is. I'll have to try Mystic, but my guess it is similar, but different components are highlighted.

Maybe I should start a Captain Earle's thread instead of highjacking the IPSD discussion.

Woobie

@motie2 I'm going to have to try your suggestion. I had the Latakia aromatic discussion with my brother Saturday night. My mind doesn't like the idea, so I'm just going to have to give my taste buds the chance to overrule. Latakia often this this resin-y, smoking pine or cedar log sort of flavor. And that is amazing with Virginias and Orientals. But it doesn't fit with sweet (in my mind).

 On the other hand, Dark Fired Kentucky can get sort of an American hardwood sort of taste that seems like it would be great with certain aromatics. Like a maple bacon doughnut. Mmmm

Anyway, the proof is in the bowl. I'll have to give it a shot.

Oddjob27

@ocpunk714 Those VHS tapes though!!! YES!

piperdave

I think I will be enjoying a bit of this and some of that. Ha. Most likely a VaPer in one of my E A Carey pipes.

jfreedy

John Cotton’s Sweet English. Just cracked open the tin today and boy is it tasty. I’ll be getting more of this for sure!

mfresa

I'm breaking out the Old Toby, followed by some Pirate's Alley.

Woodsman

@ocpunk714 looks as if you have been busy.

ocpunk714

@Woodsman It’s been a productive IPSD. My dad and I just got our EWA pipes today in the mail. I also got a 3oz bag of Balkan Supreme and a 3oz of Peter Stokkebye Proper English.

Winton

I decided to save money for the Pipe Show. 

This afternoon, I enjoyed a bowl of a discontinued C&D blend Mocha Cavendish,in a Savenelli. 

tigermoth64

Escudo in my Stanwell Vario Poker

Jayhawk422

I was planning on my Penzance. Due to the weather, had to salt the drive way from the ice we got all day; I slept and threw out my back. I will have to enjoy this when I got back into the garage and can stand up for awhile.