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[JimInks]

A third of the way through this bowl of year 2016 Newminister 400 Superior Navy Flake in a straight smooth brown year 1948 Parker Super Bruyere patent 23 88/F bulldog with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2022 unreleased Sutliff Brown Virginia Flake in a 1920s medium bend smooth dark brown BBB Umbra bulldog with a tapered black vulcanite stem with an orific bit.

 

[lgoldberg]

Now smoking year 2022 unreleased Sutliff Brown Virginia Flake in a 1920s medium bend smooth dark brown BBB Umbra bulldog with a tapered black vulcanite stem with an orific bit.
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I'm always surprised to read about this 1920s pipe. It looks too good! Obviously been well cared for.

 

[lgoldberg]

And

I don't think I've ever heard anyone rave about an instant coffee. I may have to try it now.

We've been using Folger's Black Silk for a long time now. My wife and I both think it's perfect.

Once worked on an IT project with a guy 25 years ago who had a side-business supplying coffee to businesses for their employees. He told me that when you go into these coffee trading houses, they have tons and tons of #100 sacks of coffee piled everywhere, graded on some sort of quality spectrum. All the buyers are buying from the same piles of beans; there's no Folger's pile, Starbucks pile, etc. He said don't pay attention to the brand, price, marketing, nothing. Just go by taste and buy what tastes good. And sometimes the grocery store brands accidentally get good quality beans and roasting, and there'll be a multi-month jag of excellent coffee in a generic can. I caught a wave once where Walmart's Colombian variety was super high quality for over a year, and then it pooped out. I should have bought cases of the stuff!

 

[JimInks]

I'm always surprised to read about this 1920s pipe. It looks too good! Obviously been well cared for.

The guy who gifted to me never smoked it. He said he gave it a good clean when he got it, but he didn't think it needed one because he got almost nothing out of it. When I got it, it looked brand new. I couldn't pull any grit out of the stem or shank. The bowl was perfectly clean, barely having any carbon. There was no scent of tobacco in the bowl, shank or stem. The photo you see was taken by me the day I got it. If it was ever smoked, it couldn't have been more than once or twice.

@lgoldberg Folger's Black Silk is very good coffee. Your comments about coffee companies is not surprising to me, and I can believe that's the way it is.

Not far from finishing this bowl of year 2012 Rolando’s Own in a smooth straight early ‘60s Lane era “William Conrad” Charatan Executive Extra Large stretch apple with diagonal channel cuts on the lower right and left of the bowl along with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem. Going to clean a few pipes as we listen to a lecture about colonial America.

Sorry, but some forum glitch is preventing me from posting the Charatan. You guys know what it looks like, though.