Thanks SE, it will beHappy Birthday! Hope it’s a great one
Thank you Paul, good to wake up and take another breathHappy Birthday!
***What Are You Smoking, April 2024?***
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McClelland Virginia Woods (with a sprinkling of C&D Granulated Perique) in a leather wrapped Canadian.
Cheers Aro, be nice to have a catch up with my mates.
Short Army 102 was on its own today.
A couple smokes of GLP Sixpence and couple of University flake.
No action shots, will have to make do with it’s baby picture.
A couple smokes of GLP Sixpence and couple of University flake.
No action shots, will have to make do with it’s baby picture.
Congrats on a successful orbit!
McConnell Scottish Flake in a Castello 75th Anniversary pot.
PH Golden Sliced from a Tendi four square. 
War Horse Bar in a Stanwell Dublin.
Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and sugar snap peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm near the last quarter of this bowl of year 2018 Sutliff Dunhill Elizabethan Match in a 1982 near full bend egg shaped Ascorti Business KS with a black ferrule and black saddle acrylic stem in the military mount style. Haven't smoked this pipe in a while. Watching the Braves-Mets game.
Forum won't let me post the pipe photo.
Forum won't let me post the pipe photo.
I may have to toss some into a Stanwell volcano now…
St. James Flake in a mini meer
Gawith Hoggarth’s Dark Birds Eye in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard
Is the Louisiana Flake different? Waiting to be able to score some of either when in stock again.
I haven't been able to get my hands on the Louisiana Flake yet. I'm eagerly awaiting it's next drop. St. James is currently one of my top 3.
I'm parked out on the porch at sunset trying out Watch City Rouxgaroux for the first time, in the Morgan Bones Milan.
I can tell straight away that this is going to be one of those blends that takes me at least a few bowls to figure out, because there is a lot going on here! In terms of flavors I'm getting autumn leaf litter, whole wheat bread, ripe plum minus the sweetness, peppercorn, and hay in that order. It's a really lovely mix with the mature red Virginias out front, the perique close behind, and the bright Virginia hanging out somewhere in the background. I've read that there's a red wine casing on one of the Virginias, though my taste buds don't seem to be sharp enough to detect it.
Altogether it's all very tasty and quite smooth on the tongue, though the retrohale is pretty spicy and zingy; which is no surprise considering the substantial amounts of red Virginia and perique. For me the nicotine content seems to be just past the medium threshold, enough that it caught me a little off guard and admittedly led me to set the pipe down halfway through to finish later.
I'd say Rouxgaroux is easily the most stout VaPer I've smoked thus far, though that's no bad thing at all and it's not nearly as frightening as the name would imply! It's a deliciously complex blend with a lot to offer, and it's nice to have VaPer that seems best suited to cooler weather since I usually think of VaPers as light summertime smokes. This one definitely has an autumnal vibe though, and I dig it!
I can tell straight away that this is going to be one of those blends that takes me at least a few bowls to figure out, because there is a lot going on here! In terms of flavors I'm getting autumn leaf litter, whole wheat bread, ripe plum minus the sweetness, peppercorn, and hay in that order. It's a really lovely mix with the mature red Virginias out front, the perique close behind, and the bright Virginia hanging out somewhere in the background. I've read that there's a red wine casing on one of the Virginias, though my taste buds don't seem to be sharp enough to detect it.
Altogether it's all very tasty and quite smooth on the tongue, though the retrohale is pretty spicy and zingy; which is no surprise considering the substantial amounts of red Virginia and perique. For me the nicotine content seems to be just past the medium threshold, enough that it caught me a little off guard and admittedly led me to set the pipe down halfway through to finish later.
I'd say Rouxgaroux is easily the most stout VaPer I've smoked thus far, though that's no bad thing at all and it's not nearly as frightening as the name would imply! It's a deliciously complex blend with a lot to offer, and it's nice to have VaPer that seems best suited to cooler weather since I usually think of VaPers as light summertime smokes. This one definitely has an autumnal vibe though, and I dig it!
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Happy birthday!
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