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I have an estate Oldenkott with p-lip. I have no any idea of it's age as Oldenkotts aren't into business any more.

I have several favorite blends that i like very much, but i think i could live happily hereafter if i had an unlimited source for Capstan Original Navy Cut and SG Balkan Flakes only. Guess they must be my "must have" blends.

SG Balkan Flake Capstan Original Navy Cut Rattrays Hal Of the Wynd Germain's Special Latakia Flake Ashton's Artisans Blend Well yeah. On some other day my list would be maybe slightly different, but here's my top 5 now.

Early evening here. Things couldn't be better. Sitting in my back yard terrace and listening to seagulls laugh. Having SG Balkan Flakes in my Lorenzo Spitfire w/ meerschaum lining. Ice cold lager too.

I'm not sure if we're talking about the same Old Ironsides, but the one, made by Dan Tobacco, is surely not out of production. Of course i do know about the availability at your side of the Atlantic

Well i live in a part of the world where cold winters happen every year. When it gets -20 C (-4 F) i don't go out so often than when it's warmer. And i do not include the wind chill factor as i live about 50 meters from the shore, it is always damn windy here. Cold winters are no reason to quit...

SG Chocolate Flake is maybe one of my top favorites. There is latakia in it, but i haven't tasted chocolate while smoking. Maybe there is a slight chocolate in tin aroma, but i'm not sure even about that. Great tobacco it is.

Thanks for the great review. I'm not so much with aromatics, but among these this is my favorite blend. It is rather hard to get here; i bought mine from Gdansk, Poland where i was visiting few months ago. I found the tobacco shop at the central station, and the girl that was sitting behind the...

I used to 'borrow' a cigarette from my wife on the mornings when i had no time enough to smoke my pipe. Doesn't happen too often any more; but still say about less than once a week or so. After being without smoking cigarettes regularly for more than a year, they taste like smoking paper.

You are so right with this. I've tried several SG tobaccos and Chocolate Flake is my favorite. Kendal Cream is another but probably CF beats it. Very smooth and rich taste. I think there is chocolate in the name only as i haven't been able to taste it.

Damn cold here. -17 C (1.4 F) and some heavy wind so it is no weather to smoke outside. Just finished a bowl of Samuel Gavith Bracken Flake in my garage. This was my first bowl of this stuff so i cannot say if i like it or not. All i know now it's damn strong. Feels like my eyes fall off :shock:

Lately i've adapted a habit of smoking SG chocolate flake in my Stanwell while taking my dogs out for an evening walk. Today was not an exception.

A lot of great books have been mentioned this far; it is a tragedy that not all of them have ever been translated in my language (well most of them are, but not all). Never been much after fantasy but i used to read a lot of sci-fi when younger, some fine stories from Philip.K.Dick, Asimov...

I've had few Stanwell estate pipes this far but -thanks to this thread- just ordered Stanwell Nanna Ivarson. Poor excuse, but early xmas gift maybe.

This happened the last time i had my annual health check at work. Doctor: "Do you smoke?" Me: "Yes i do" Doctor: "How many cigarettes per day?" Me: "Non. Zero. I smoke pipe" Doctor: "Pipe? Don't you know it is so old fashioned? Nobody smokes a pipe" Doctors last sentence was such a great...