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I was going to smoke Samuel Gawith Firedance Flake, the jar was empty so I grabbed a tin, about four years old. I opened it and it was completely covered with mold. Smelled terrible. That’s the first time this has happened to me with any SG tobacco. Rather disappointing, especially since I have five more tins bought at the same time. I couldn’t bring myself to open another and check right now. 🙁
So now I’m smoking GL Pease Key Largo in a meerschaum billiard.
That is awful. Mold. I can feel your fear and trepidation over opening the other tins.
Tonight, out in the garage, I was puffing on Sutliff Match Sugar Barrel in my Weber Deep Grain 965.
Brazilian brand comes to our market. I took some for reviews yesterday.
Orlik Golden Sliced in a meerschaum shape Austrian calabash.
Out in the garage I enjoyed a bowl of Wilke 515 (Basil Rathbone's blend) in my GBD Conquest Century 9518.
Thanks! It's a great little smoker. And the bowl holds quite a bit of the sacred leaf. Those clear stems are classy. I like the looks.
Mac Baren Modern Virginia Flake in a Kaywoodie Birkshire pocket pot.
Just now got around to trying Peterson Irish Oak I bought in 2011. I’m smoking it in a Butz Choquin calabash.
Arcadia (McClelland) Pipe: Mike Sebastian Bay
I have a tin of Arcadia. I'm saving it for when the millennium arrives. But if I have time before the Grim Reaper knocks on my door, I may bust it out then instead.
Great looking pipe.
With Arcadia there is a debate about whether or not it contains latakia. I have sometimes thought I detected it by suggestion 🙂
Savinelli 140th in a St. Claude bulldog.
There is indeed an Art Deco look about the pipe. I love Art Deco. Maybe that's the extra draw!
The number 44 Astleys with a Stanwell. After many months of searching, as I was always out of stock, I managed to get my hands on a couple of cans. I expected much more from this tobacco. However, the pipe is my favorite for smoking virginias. 150 like this were made to commemorate the 75th Anniversary of the house. It never fails me!
Mac Baren Club Blend in a BC calabash.
Samuel Gawith 1792 Flake in a Stanwell Hans Christian Andersen.
I also like to smoke these types of blends in pipes with the longer mouthpiece, because I find that it softens them slightly. Although it may be something psychological, like so many things that we pipe smokers have... 😀
Davidoff Royalty in a Ropp 331C
Wilke 515 (Basil Rathbone's blend) in my new to me GBD Popular 58410.
A parfait of Salty Dogs on top of St Bernard Flake in a Ser Jacopo
C&D Dreamworks in a BC calabash.
Country Lawyer (Briarwoks), with a Rattray's pipe.
Of the tobaccos that I know with the cigar leaf ingredient, without latakia, this is one of the ones I like the most.
Twenty-plus year old Peter Stokkebye Luxury Navy Flake in the GBD Popular I posted a picture of above.
Trying out C&D blockade runner. It's pretty decent. Much better than black frigate imo.
HU Flanagan Flake in a meerschaum billiard.
This is also a tin from 2021, but I’ve had it in a jar for the past three months. It’s really good!
For sure yes! HU produces very good blends. Of the ones I've smoked I really liked Dockworker, Haymaker and Old Fredder's. One question: is the yellowish color of the shaft of that meerschaum billiard the original or has it taken on that color over time?
It’s coloring from being smoked. It was all white when I got it new. I just keep reusing an older picture of it, it’s darkened more now.
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