What Pipe or Pipe Tobacco Did You Smoke Today? [pics]

[GreenDragon]

Love the grain pattern on that. Is it olive wood?

 

[Jody]

Captain Black in a Country Gentleman with Forever Stem.

Jody

 

[Sid.Stavros]

Hello from Greece, we have sun and 60 °F here in Athens. A new Olive wood pipe is on it's way and unfortunatelly my motorcycle battery is ''dead''.

Davidoff English Mixture.

Love the grain pattern on that. Is it olive wood?

Yes sir it is, the band and the mouthpiece are my modifications.

 

[Jody]

GLP Chelsea Morning/Tinder Box Newcastle pipe.


Jody

 

[Sid.Stavros]

J.M. Boswell Premium Burley.

 

[Franc]

Happy International pipe smoking day!
I'm smoking some 9 year old
Robert Mcconell's
Scottish mixture.
Cheers

 

[Charly]

Nice pipe !

 

[Jody]

GLP Maltese Falcon in a brand new Peterson Killarney.

Happy IPSD!!

Jody

 

[GreenDragon]

Jody, that is a beautiful pipe. I hope it smokes as cool as it looks!

 

[GreenDragon]

Today's pipe in which I smoked two home blends. A Burley mix in coins, and a rubbed blend named Evensong.

 

[Sid.Stavros]

Briar Patch Chocolate Cream.

 

[Jody]

Jody, that is a beautiful pipe. I hope it smokes as cool as it looks!

Thank you. It smoked as good as it looks. It will be hard to not reach for it every time I want to smoke.

Jody

 

[Sid.Stavros]

'Dayyy from Greece, we have 60 °F here in Athens but for the weekend we expect rain.

J. F. Germain & Son King Charles High Class.

 

[deluxestogie]

Yesterday, I hauled out my giant pressure cooker, and 4 one quart jars. I cooked up 4 different batches of Cavendish: Lemon Virginia, Virginia Red Tips, Pennsylvania ligero, and ten huge (~30 inch long) Dark-Air from @BigBonner. Since the Dark-Air jar lid failed to seal, that was the first one that needed to be dried. [Spreading out huge, soggy leaves to dry requires so much space, that I can dry only one jar of Cavendish at a time.] Last night, I spread out the Dark-Air, half on a cutting board on the kitchen counter and the wettest leaf on a cookie sheet resting on a seedling heat mat on the porch. This stuff was black, black, black, when it came out. Today, the tip of one leaf had dried down to a dull, chocolate brown, and was dry enough to smoke.

I hand-shredded about a tablespoon of the @BigBonner Dark-Air Cavendish, and stuffed it into a corncob pipe, to smoke it straight. Unlike the Black Mammoth Cavendish, (a different Dark-Air variety), which was a truly unpleasant smoke, this Dark-Air Cavendish is as smooth as satin. No tongue bite at all. The aroma is rich, full and a pure "tobacco" bouquet. The nicotine strength is intense--really too much for a straight smoke. I was feeling the nicotine after about 2/3 of a bowl. The burn is excellent, leaving a light gray ash.

My verdict is that this particular Dark-Air Cavendish is a spectacular blending component, especially for blends that might otherwise seem too bland and mild. It's probably a better choice for pipe blending than the kilned Dark-Air that has not been cooked.

Bob

 

[Traveling Piper]

Home blended English mix based on Bob’s “Flight surgeon”.

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Is this a variety of Begonia?

 

[Jody]

Peter Stokkebye Luxury Navy Flake in a Country Gentleman.


Jody

 

[CobGuy]

@deluxestogie - how long in the pressure cooker for your Cav's?
I've found 4-5 hours has been my average for Red FCV Cav.

Thanks!
Darin

 

[deluxestogie]

I've been going about 6 hours, then allowing the pressure to come down on its own, which continues to cook it for at least another half-hour. My suspicion is that 3 hours may get the job done. But it's such a nuisance to bring the cooker back up to pressure after cooling it and opening it, that I've never bothered to really evaluate that. Each of the varieties comes out true to type, regardless of the specific cooking time. That is to say, "delicate" leaf is as durable in the cooking process as "beasts", like Dark-Air.

Bob

 

[CobGuy]

My pressure cooker runs out of water after about 2 or 2 1/2 hours and needs refilled.
It doesn't seem to take too long to come back to temp once I refill it though.

~Darin

 

[deluxestogie]

I use the hernia-size cooker-canner.

Bob