After two weeks of covid, and another week regaining my strength, I had my first bowl since becoming ill. Give Me Liberty in an @Corey562 bent egg. Quite enjoyable!!
Some Wessex Gold Virginia in my failed ALI meerschaum poker. Three years of weekly smoking and regular waxing and no coloration at all. I have tested it and it is block meerschaum. It smokes well, just won't color.
I have had this new Savinelli “New Art” 127 for several years, I had not smoked it yet. Tonight it gets some love’n for an after dinner smoke. I loaded it with some Gawith & Hoggarth “American Peach” for a happy pipe and happy smoker🙂
Smoking some Captain Black “Cherry” in my Pete Barley Spigot 03 this evening after a bowl of homemade chicken noodle soup with handmade, hand cut egg noodles.😋. The patina on the natural Pete is coloring nice and evenly.
Played my 1st round of golf in 2 months. Shot an 84... Not bad for me considering my surgery and all. Later at home I relaxed with some Frankenblend in one of my workhorse pipes... an old reworked Darby.
Merry Christmas to all. Presently smoking Cornell and Diehl's Jolly Old St. Nicklaus. I don't smoke aromatics but I love the aroma and taste of this blend. To me, it tastes like Christmas. It's flavor of orange and ginger is very tasty. The only complaint I have is that it's only offered every four years. I've build up a supply in my cellar to hold me til 2026 - I hope.
@HarryMamassian Yep, I like JOSN as well. Have about half a tin left. Should easily last me through the Christmas season, along with a couple of other Christmas blends.
Well, I loaded my ‘22’ Pete XMas with some 2018 C&D “Jolly Old St. Nicholas”, nope, nuh’uh, icky🤢. What the heck in in this stuff? It burns my throat and tongue, and not like normal “tongue bite”…..maybe I’m allergic to something in it😳. Did somebody put some stinking Latakia in this? Now I have to go find the blend ingredients, ptooey. Yep, I remember why it has been sitting since 2018. Man this is harsh stuff, my eyes are burning, my tongue is burning, my nose is burning, my throat is burning…and I think I’m getting queezy🤢….and it’s stinking up the house.
Interesting, now that I’m in a bit, it’s starting to calm down. I do not get any orange or ginger, something nutty maybe? It’s still pretty harsh. The blend description from 2018 says Virginia, Black Cavendish and Perique, with orange and ginger, the tobacco components sound ok to me, but dang. I’m still not smoking this again for at least another four years. Maybe it’s a strange batch of Perique?
@vtgrad2003 You need to try C&D’s “Jolly Old St. Nicholas”😬 It tastes terrible, ya gotta try it🙂 It’s gotta be the Perique or ginger….unless they snuck some Latakia in here…maybe floor sweepings? Maybe I’m expecting Christmas Holiday sweets and the funky Perique is messing me up?
@RockyMountainBriar Seriously, I haven't had your experience with that blend. However, I never have, nor never will propose to be a connoisseur of tobacco blends. Massive sinus infections since I was 9 have eliminated any possibility of that happening. Anyway, really sorry for your bad time with that blend... Maybe try allowing it to age another 4 years. If nothing else, you will be putting off having it again for quite a while... 😏
@KA9FFJ Bad experience by me is nothing to be sorry about by you🙂. Hey, we all like what we like, or not🙂. It’s getting at least smokable as I get past the half way point, more like a straight Va/Per👍🏻
Decided to start off this morning with a touch of Half & Half in my coffee while doing some Half & Half in my MM Emerald, being careful not to get the two confused...😏
@RockyMountainBriar I had to laugh when you said you were going to pull out a tin of Jolly Old St. Nicholas, I tried it, I don't know what it was supposed to taste like, but it was terrible in my opinion and I could not even give it away to the aromatic smokers I know.
I'd be willing to make a small wager that In 4 years you still won't like it. :LOL
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Glad you are over your bout of “The Rona”👍🏻
Wow, three years and no patina, that kinda sucks…weird too🤔. Good looking poker though.
Add that one to my list too...
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Later at home I relaxed with some Frankenblend in one of my workhorse pipes... an old reworked Darby.
Yep, I like JOSN as well.
Have about half a tin left. Should easily last me through the Christmas season, along with a couple of other Christmas blends.
You must have gotten a bad batch... heehee...
Love the pipe and pipe holder. Very nice.
Dang🤨
It smells pleasant enough in the tin, kinda like W.O. Larsen’s “1864”.
@vtgrad2003
You need to try C&D’s “Jolly Old St. Nicholas”😬
It tastes terrible, ya gotta try it🙂
It’s gotta be the Perique or ginger….unless they snuck some Latakia in here…maybe floor sweepings?
Maybe I’m expecting Christmas Holiday sweets and the funky Perique is messing me up?
Seriously, I haven't had your experience with that blend. However, I never have, nor never will propose to be a connoisseur of tobacco blends. Massive sinus infections since I was 9 have eliminated any possibility of that happening. Anyway, really sorry for your bad time with that blend...
Maybe try allowing it to age another 4 years. If nothing else, you will be putting off having it again for quite a while... 😏
Bad experience by me is nothing to be sorry about by you🙂. Hey, we all like what we like, or not🙂. It’s getting at least smokable as I get past the half way point, more like a straight Va/Per👍🏻
Thanks for the heads-up...remember, I looovvvve my Periques
Back when I was able to play golf, I would have killed for an 84. Nice going.
@HarryMamassian;
Planning ahead is the way to roll.