@KA9FFJ Looking 20’s-30’s retro with those cool aviator sunglasses. It reminds me of the Sheriff in the movie “O Brother Where Art Thou.” If you have not seen it, I highly recommend it. Glad to see you up and about, get well soon.
Middleton's Kentucky Club Mixture in a MM Diplomat, I bought several Middleton tubs about a year before they stopped making some of what I thought was some pretty good blends, just my thoughts though.
I'm having brain freeze right now...I'm fu...ing stumped! Hmmm, "envy another man's pipe", you puff on them, you blow through them to 'clear them out', you ream them...god, there's got to be something there to work with!
We had our three granddaughters overnight, so I haven't had a bowl since yesterday. I got to go to their house and let my buddy Maverick out. I think I'll have a bowl on the way.
After an extensive walk, I'm now relaxing with some John Dengler's Pirate's Chest In a Fulushou. I know the pipe doesn't have orange or black, but the bowl is shaped kinda like a pumpkin.?.?😏 Sidenote: John Dengler Tobacconist was established in 1917 and still resides in the same location in old historic St. Charles, Mo.
Married my daughter off Friday, it was the best wedding I've been to since my own 30+ years ago.
Incredible venue along the Fox river in Geneva IL, The river literally runs against the side of the building and there was a nice outdoor veranda / patio over the river.
Knowing this I brought 50 of my best cigars along with some Padrones for the wedding party and a few select friends plus a few bottles of high end whiskey and and cognac.
Figured I was only going to get one shot at this and well, figured a little overboard was ok.
Haven't had that much fun in a very long time, cheers brothers.
@mapletop; Sounds like you did it right. When my son got married I had hip replacement surgery pending and was taking Oxycodone for the pain. I visited the bar a little more than I should. The combination of Oxy. and alcohol wasn't a good idea. I got so drunk I passed out. To this day my son's in-laws won't have much to do with me. Sure and its their loss, by God.
@opipeman Weddings in general certainly have strange dynamics, I have may put my foot in it with my new son in laws mother who over heard me commenting on her 14 year old nephew's piss poor attitude / culture; another victim of bad parenting.
However you would need a very high resolution time keeping device to calculate the amount of sleep I have lost over it:)
@Londy3 I have noted your beer choices over time and see that voodoo ranger is one of your go to choices, I mention this only because I for the first time yesterday saw a commercial on TV for the brand.
Finishing the day with some Cornell and Diehl Autumn Evening in a reworked Paronelli... For a change of pace, this is a very good blend (IMHO). Not every day you experience a blend with a light casing of maple...
I fired up another bowl of the GH “Dark Flake-unscented” for @mfresa this evening 🙂. This tobacco is definitely smokey, but not in a sweet BBQ way like SG “Black XX”. It’s more of a railroad tie creosote smokey. It’s kinda sharp and burns my nose on retrohale. I wonder if the Malawi is smoked over old railroad ties? It’s all tobacco..whew. I smoked this in a larger MM rubbed out yesterday and it was strong, but not overly. Tonight “I had a feeling”, so I loaded this little Pete straight System 31 with a folded and stuffed partial flake. I’m glad I did, the nic snuck up on me right away and I had to crunch a couple of hard candy mints to stave off any unfortunate spewing by me. I get a very slight hint of molasses, and no Lakeland at all. I think some of the reviews on tobacco reviews.com that tasted the Lakeland must have been smoking the scented type? The flakes are pretty dense, mine were at about the right moisture, but the fold-n-stuff is a bitch to keep lit. It may be the reason the nic hit got me, I had to pull much harder to keep it lit. I would recommend rubbing these flakes out. It is nowhere near as strong as SG “Black XX”, and no real sweetness like the “Black XX” has. It does have something I have not tasted before, probably the Malawi dark fired and/or the Indian Dark air-cured? Some say it’s cigar like, but I don’t get that either, but I have not smoked a wide variety of cigars. I’m about half way through, and it has settled down markedly and is getting smoother. Like all GH and SG tobaccos I have tried, this is going to smoke to a nice dry ash. There is some slight moisture in the system well of the little Pete. There is no bite whatsoever. There is a bit of “floral-ness”/“green-ness”? but not like “old lady perfume” and definitely not hay. Maybe a very slight hint of eucalyptus? There is a touch of a sour note as well. It’s not something I could smoke very often, lucky I bough a full 9 ounces…not. A Damn sucker for freebies I am. I’m pretty sure some of this will be left in my cellar when I’m gone, unless I get some friends over to help me smoke it. Too bad I don’t have any friends here that smoke pipes. I think I’m going to empty my full butane lighter keeping this flake lit. I really don’t want to pull hard or often enough to keep it lit. I will persevere however.
I just looked up the type of wood used to fire cure the Malawi tobacco. It’s a type of Beechwood, also used is green banana stalks, and another fruit tree wood. Green banana stalks may be the “floral/green” aroma/flavor I am detecting?
@vtgrad2003, @RockyMountainBriar; Banana stalks, pine cones? OMG that is primitive. Why don't you become civilized and use corncobs like normal people?
Bought a tin of Sillem's Commodore Flake (Kohlhase & Kopp) at our pipe club meeting last Saturday and decided to give it a try this morning.
It was rated 3.7 on tobacco reviews and is purportedly composed of Black Cavendish, Kentucky, Latakia.
Its not a Lat-bomb but it is smoky, the black cavendish works to smooth it out some and the Kentucky gives it some nuttyness. Need to try it more to really give it a chance, though from today's experience I would rate it a 2.9.
This blend is not for the faint of heart and I would recommend smoking it in a smaller pipe as the nicotine level is quite high as pipe tobacco goes. Smoked in a smaller Peterson bulldog.
While 60f may be shirt sleeve weather for some of you, it’s break out the sweater weather in SE Louisiana. Smoking some The Untouchables in my Ascorti.
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Looking 20’s-30’s retro with those cool aviator sunglasses. It reminds me of the Sheriff in the movie
“O Brother Where Art Thou.”
If you have not seen it, I highly recommend it. Glad to see you up and about, get well soon.
Looking good man. Nice to see you burning one.
I know of the bent egg of which you speak...
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Keep thinking. I have the upmost confidence in you.
Sidenote: John Dengler Tobacconist was established in 1917 and still resides in the same location in old historic St. Charles, Mo.
Mac Baren Virginia
Sounds like you did it right. When my son got married I had hip replacement surgery pending and was taking Oxycodone for the pain. I visited the bar a little more than I should. The combination of Oxy. and alcohol wasn't a good idea. I got so drunk I passed out. To this day my son's in-laws won't have much to do with me. Sure and its their loss, by God.
For a change of pace, this is a very good blend (IMHO). Not every day you experience a blend with a light casing of maple...
Congratulations 🎉
Yes, I definitely enjoy some Voodoo 😎
Who knows buddy, cellar it for 5 / 10 years and it may wind up being a super mellow experience... or not...
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Green banana stalks may be the “floral/green” aroma/flavor I am detecting?
Hopefully not the same ones😳
Up here it’s pinecones😬. We’re tough…..and maybe not that bright😉
Banana stalks, pine cones? OMG that is primitive. Why don't you become civilized and use corncobs like normal people?