Having some Sutliff Black Cherry in clear-stemmed Paronelli bent. S L O W is the pace that needs to be set with this blend. The note is rich, but if your not careful, you can get hints of tongue bite from your initial charring! "Sipping" is definitely called for, but it stays lit, burns well, and carries a flavor and note that is worth the effort...
@motie2 ~ @RockyMountainBriar ~ if you really want to ghost a briar pipe try some "Gaslight" It will ghost it to one side as badly as "Cult Blood Red Moon" will ghost it to the other. Sort'a tastes like burning a old sofa. But then again "CBRM" is like burning a box of dryer sheets.
That's why I've dedicated.my least often smoked pipe to my visits to The Dark Side.
Gaslight REEKS (I thought of burning my clothes and taking a shower), but it's a great smoke. I didn't understand the appeal of Latakia then (late 1960's to mid 1980's), when I smoked mostly Balkan Sobranie....., and I understand it even less now that I'm an aro man.
But this I like. A guilty pleasure to be enjoyed when SWMBO is away
I just got finished with a project. I was gifted some Edgeworth Flake from the 1940's...not a lot, just a few flakes. They came to me from a Texan through another member of my pipe club. I don't know why he wanted me to have them, but along with them was a sample of Edgeworth Ready Rub from the mid 50's, and an unopened tin of Prince Albert from somewhere around the same time. Friday, as we were rolling into the weekend I decided to re-hydrate both samples of the Edgeworth and then reseal them to share them at the next pipe club meeting. In hydrating the flake one of them sort of fell apart...not completely, but somewhat and I stuffed it in a cob that was laying on my desk. Wanna know what Ole'Pops is smoking right now? I'ma choochin' on a Country Gentleman stuffed with Edgeworth Flake that's somewhere between 70' and 80 years old. I have one of the most fortunate tongues in the great state of Tennessee this morning, cause gentlemen...it's Lairp'n!
Smoking a bowl of Mahogany from Hayes tobacco in an apple shaped Sasieni 4 dot I picked up from a local pipe shop about 30 years ago.
Mahogany is a blend of black Cavendish, red Virginia and a touch of golden Virginia cased with what tastes like cask aged rum. There is some complexity beyond the just rum flavor of just rum.
@OlePops Yea, Gaslight and CBRM 😖. CBRM is like a nasty cherry scented candle or what I imagine a cherry urinal puck might be like if it was set alight. Gaslight...railroad ties and burning tires. I’m glad I used a cob the one time I smoked each of them.
Speaking of Gaslight, I had a bowl of the heavenly blend in my way home from work tonight. It is fantastic stuff that grows on me the more I smoke it. I just ordered some more to cellar. I'm not much of aro smoker but do enjoy some on occasion. While I like cherry blends, I'm just not a fan of CBRM. The best Cherry blend I've found is the tinned Captain Black Red Sky. Subtle cherry taste but not goopy. I have very few jarred aros and I'm confident they will outlast my latakia heavy cellar.
Currently smoking some C&D's Morley's Best in a Custombilt Author, which was sent to me by a good friend. This is a tough pipe, and I'm quite pleased with it.
@RockyMountainBriar ~ CBRM makes a darn nice mixer with Lane: Burley Lite Without a Bite. 50/50 we're talking good smoking! The light coconut casing on that Burley really tames the CBRM down. I found that out by accident one day.
Mrs. Hudson's during a lull in calls. Been extremely busy today on top of waiting for word on my grandmothers condition. Last I heard they were gonna bring in Hospice.
I'm sitting out back in a sweater in May enjoying a bowl of Carter Hall in my Dr. Grabow Grand Duke. Where do I apply for codger status? I've been sampling some many complex areos I needed a break.
Try either of those seperately mixed with either Scottys' Butternut Burley or Carter Hall......or maybe (?) both mixed with one of those burl;ey blends. One of my favorites. The burleys bring a nice bass tone to the smoke.
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This is one freaky amazing smoke.
S L O W is the pace that needs to be set with this blend. The note is rich, but if your not careful, you can get hints of tongue bite from your initial charring! "Sipping" is definitely called for, but it stays lit, burns well, and carries a flavor and note that is worth the effort...
You’re crossing over to the “dark side”....”Gaslight”?😖
You might as well grind up and rub-out some railroad ties and smoke them🙂
.....and yet..... It somehow just... works.
Bwahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
That's why I've dedicated.my least often smoked pipe to my visits to The Dark Side.
Gaslight REEKS (I thought of burning my clothes and taking a shower), but it's a great smoke. I didn't understand the appeal of Latakia then (late 1960's to mid 1980's), when I smoked mostly Balkan Sobranie....., and I understand it even less now that I'm an aro man.
But this I like. A guilty pleasure to be enjoyed when SWMBO is away
Mahogany is a blend of black Cavendish, red Virginia and a touch of golden Virginia cased with what tastes like cask aged rum. There is some complexity beyond the just rum flavor of just rum.
Yea, Gaslight and CBRM 😖. CBRM is like a nasty cherry scented candle or what I imagine a cherry urinal puck might be like if it was set alight. Gaslight...railroad ties and burning tires. I’m glad I used a cob the one time I smoked each of them.
I will have to try that combo. I like BLWB fine.
@jfreedy
I have been wanting to get one of those MM Freehands, I have not "pulled the trigger" though.
Try either of those seperately mixed with either Scottys' Butternut Burley or Carter Hall......or maybe (?) both mixed with one of those burl;ey blends. One of my favorites. The burleys bring a nice bass tone to the smoke.