What are you smoking?

[JimInks]

C&D Burley Flake #2 in a 1980s Peterson 314 Full Bend black Sandblast system pipe.

 

[monbla256]

Early start again today, this one with some FM 2000 in my "new" Edward's Prince / Pot I got recently from Bro Nathan. Chicory coffee 'N' Awlins style on the side !mmmmm Hienz 57 :twisted: :twisted:

 

[PeterD]

...early AM...HH Old Dark Fired...now, John Bull in a Ben Wade blast apple...
:santa:


...up next...McC #2015... :rendeer:

 

[fsu92john]

Edgeworth RR in a Savinelli Dry System bent rusticated Dublin.

 

[fsu92john]

Top Black Cherry in a Castleford straight grain pot.

 

[just ol ed]

juice/meds at this desk, DGT '06 PlantationEvening in large Ascorti spot-carved billiard (made for Tinderbox) in smoking room.

Ed Duncan, Batavia, NY
pipe/cigar since '62

 

[DrT999]

Brown Bogie & Modern Virginia in a Grabow Royal Duke

 

[JimInks]

Just finished smoking G&H Rich Dark Honeydew in a straight 2014 MM Pride Legend. Next is Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 1980s smooth slight bend Wally Frank Dublin.

 

[fsu92john]

PH Special Curly in a no-name bent bulldog.

 

[MisterE]

Dunhill Elizabethan Match in a 2003 smooth medium bent straight grain Ardor Venere Extra signed by Dorelio Rovera Dublin.

Jim, who blends the Elizabethan match you have?

Sutliff does. I much prefer it to the new version. This Match was based on the Murray's version. Here's my review if it will help:

I’ve compared this to the original (which once was a regular smoke for me) and I'd say this blend is fairly close, but not an exact match. It’s certainly closer than the current DE production by Dunhill, which I consider to be inferior to both the original and the Sutliff Match. The Murray’s version was a little more complex in taste, and had just a little more bright lemon Virginia. The perique is very peppery in both, slightly more plumy here. The brown Virginia is virtually identical. As much as I liked the Murray’s product, I like this Match very much, and would say it may be as close as you can get. A little more sprinkling of lemon Va., and it’d virtually be the same. Because the new version is different from the Murray’s, which is what the Match attempted to copy, I would not consider them to be similar. The proportion of ingredients in the new version is different and the shag cut is as well.

The Murray’s version of DE was one of the very few blends m'lady openly complained about. When they quit making it, she was very happy. A couple of years back, I tried the Match for the first time. Five minutes after I started smoking it, she came back to the studio and said, "Are you smoking that crap again? I thought they quit making it." Telling me that she recognized the smell after several years just struck me kinda funny. That, besides the taste, amplified my assessment that the Match is close indeed.

New Dunhill Elizabethan in a Charatan 20104 Belvedere Canadian.

Thanks Jim. I might have to give that one a try, even though I do like the Dunhill reincarnation. I seem to remember the Murray's version as fuller and the Perique much spicier. The re-release seems to be lighter in all regards. Then again it was almost seven years since I last smoked it. It could be me who has changed!

 

[user 2031]

Three Nuns in a Nording Freehand.

 

[MisterE]

On to PS LTF in a Savinelli Oscar Canadian. 8)

 

[JimInks]

Dunhill Elizabethan Match in a 2003 smooth medium bent straight grain Ardor Venere Extra signed by Dorelio Rovera Dublin.

Jim, who blends the Elizabethan match you have?

Sutliff does. I much prefer it to the new version. This Match was based on the Murray's version. Here's my review if it will help:

I’ve compared this to the original (which once was a regular smoke for me) and I'd say this blend is fairly close, but not an exact match. It’s certainly closer than the current DE production by Dunhill, which I consider to be inferior to both the original and the Sutliff Match. The Murray’s version was a little more complex in taste, and had just a little more bright lemon Virginia. The perique is very peppery in both, slightly more plumy here. The brown Virginia is virtually identical. As much as I liked the Murray’s product, I like this Match very much, and would say it may be as close as you can get. A little more sprinkling of lemon Va., and it’d virtually be the same. Because the new version is different from the Murray’s, which is what the Match attempted to copy, I would not consider them to be similar. The proportion of ingredients in the new version is different and the shag cut is as well.

The Murray’s version of DE was one of the very few blends m'lady openly complained about. When they quit making it, she was very happy. A couple of years back, I tried the Match for the first time. Five minutes after I started smoking it, she came back to the studio and said, "Are you smoking that crap again? I thought they quit making it." Telling me that she recognized the smell after several years just struck me kinda funny. That, besides the taste, amplified my assessment that the Match is close indeed.

New Dunhill Elizabethan in a Charatan 20104 Belvedere Canadian.

Thanks Jim. I might have to give that one a try, even though I do like the Dunhill reincarnation. I seem to remember the Murray's version as fuller and the Perique much spicier. The re-release seems to be lighter in all regards. Then again it was almost seven years since I last smoked it. It could be me who has changed!

You didn't change, the blend did. You're right about the Murray's version, plus this new stuff is a shag cut, whereas the old was ribbon and short broken flakes of lemon Va.


Earlier, it was Just finished smoking Jim's Evolving Work Blend in a 2002 smooth natural straight silver banded Ardor Venere Extra Fatta A Mano Maigret, signed by Dorelio Rovera. Now, it's Kentucky Club Aromatic Match in a 2003 IMP horn Meer.

 

[DrT999]

For the first bowl in the straight Larsen billiard my Secret Santa sent me, some Bakerstreet USA

 

[fsu92john]

LNF in a Gepetto rusticated bent Dublin.

 

[JimInks]

McClelland Black Tie in a medium bend 1983 Ascorti New Dear KS.

 

[fsu92john]

Burley Flake no 1 in a Ferndown Reo apple.

 

[JimInks]

HU Scotney in a 2003 smooth Peterson Sherlock Holmes Series Baskerville.

 

[just ol ed]

tea at this desk, DGT '06 PlantationEvening in Tinsky fancy coral '13 Christmas pipe (poker/sitter) in smoking room.

Ed Duncan, Batavia, NY
pipe/cigar since '62

 

[user 2031]

The in-laws are coming over tonight... one more bowl of Three Nuns in my Nording first. :roll: