Thread: Pipe of the Day

Originally Posted by spacemonkeyjon

At work getting ready to smoke some haunted bookshop in a fireside supreme

So, explain Haunted Bookshop too me again. Where do you get it and what is it's blend ? I just love the name of it !

Originally Posted by Nightblade

So, explain Haunted Bookshop too me again. Where do you get it and what is it's blend ? I just love the name of it !

It's a C&D blend it's a burley dominated blend with perique and Virginia. You can only get it in bulk. GI turned me on to this blend, good nic kick to it but great flavor with a little spice and a kinda buttery taste.( I think) and its makes the house really smell like a library. The Mrs loves the smell and actually asks me to smoke it. Lol oh and it has no topping all tobacco

Originally Posted by spacemonkeyjon

It's a C&D blend it's a burley dominated blend with perique and Virginia. You can only get it in bulk. GI turned me on to this blend, good nic kick to it but great flavor with a little spice and a kinda buttery taste.( I think) and its makes the house really smell like a library. The Mrs loves the smell and actually asks me to smoke it. Lol oh and it has no topping all tobacco

Sounds nice....cept I can't take too much perique,get's a little throaty on me after a bit. Still though,sounds good.

The thought has occurred to me that......Persian tea glass plates make for great tobacco processing bowls for when ya gotta rub a little. Butz Choquin and Nights Virginia house blend (Pilots and MacB Virginia No.1) with some nice Black tea from Istanbul. Contentment.....

Haunted Bookshop doesn't have alot of perique in it. Probably no more than your average Virginia perique mixture. For me, Haunted Bookshop is Old Joe Krantz light very similar flavors but the latter being much heavier (some would say borderline harsh). OJK is 25% Perique. Speaking of which, I think I'll have a bowl of OJK on the drive in. Both blends are the brain child of my good friend, the late great Bob Runowski, the man was an artist.

I've smoked Orliks which is a Virgina with Perique. I can feel the Perique right on the back of my throat every time.

That kind of problem with perique is not at all uncommon. If Orliks gives you throat irritation I wouldn't recommend either HB or OJK.

That's why I like my sweet Virginias. That and of course the occasional Latakias.

Irish Flake to take me through the morning.

Friday evening pipe: Commonwealth from Stanwell. Some lager too



And as inspired by Thomas, i recently read that in the city there was an art exhibition about paintings based on all stories and eyewitness of all wars fought by the Empire of Sweden. All the way from say bc 1200, via Thirty Years War 1618–1648 to Finnish War 1808-09. Eg all the years we were an integral part of Sweden, eastern half of the nation.
I never did visit the exhibition, but found their websites. There were about hundreds of interesting paintings. Some were modern, some were made about the same time they were wittnessed.
Here's few that cought my eye. Not because they would show power and glory (if such things ever even existed) but rather maybe more realistic, brutal or sad. Maybe something how the ordinary people or line soldiers could have seen it all.