Whats your go to tobacco?

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Ok so all of this is new to me! I have four dif tobaccos right now and three out of the four I like. The McClelland 2015 is awesome. I think I will be smoking allot of this in the days to come.

So what is the one tobacco (right now) that it seems like you could smoke every day?
 
My go-to pipe tobacco has always been Tinderbox's "North Sea". There's another local blend that I like, but that's my mainstay.
 
I'm really enjoying this McClelland 2015. Very good stuff.


Come on! Is no one else out there smoking their pipes?
 
My go to pipe tobaccos would have to be GLP's Haddo's Delight for a perique blend or Dunhill My Mixture 965 for a latakia blend.
 
SWilson80 said:
My go to pipe tobaccos would have to be GLP's Haddo's Delight for a perique blend or Dunhill My Mixture 965 for a latakia blend.

I'll have to look into that...thanks!

My big question is this: does anyone use the same pipe to smoke dif blends in if they are non aromatic?
 
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Well, that kinda depends. I've got pipes dedicated to one blend, and I've got pipes dedicated to a group of blends in the same family (ie. latakia blends, virginias, VaPers, etc.).
 
steve, i have two pipes.

one that i smoke non aromatics out of ( my corn cob) and the pipe you sent me in the Holiday exchange. that pipe is for the pipe tobacco you sent me only... well, that blend. Its "Connoisseur' Choice" from Pererson.

I found it to be quite good. it says on the top of the can "Tropical fruit, Maple, Vanilla and rum" It isnt as fruity as i thought it would be, I find that it is more of the last three flavors.

and it smells great.

the one ive been looking at is on this page :

http://www.thepiperoom.com/tobacco/hous ... lends.html


the King Arthur Blend.

I find it less stressful to smoke a cigar but less opressive on everyone else to smoke a pipe. Even the wife thinks its "not that bad"

... and thats a big improvement over what she says about my cigars.
 
Thanks guys that pretty much answers my question.

I picked up a fistfull of corn cobs pipes to try different tobaccos in. Once I find a blend that I love (I think the 2015 is gonna be it) I will dedicate my nice pipe to Virginia Blends and so on...

Glad your using the pipe Matt! We need to start the pif or some kind exchange up some day soon.

steve
 
kuzi16 said:
the King Arthur Blend.

Matt that does sound good. I might have to try that when I get some smoke allowance money... :D :D :D
 
Its hard for me to pick a go-to tobacco. It has alot to do with the time of year.

Fall, during bird hunting season, I like C&D Autumn Evening, or Nording's Hunter Blend Retriever.

Winter, I like English blends, like McClellands Arcadia, Frog Morton Across the Pond, Penzance, or Dunhill Nightcap.

Spring, I like Blue Note, C&D Cross-eyed Cricket, and this is when I start smoking more VA flakes, just in time for summer.
 
Dark Navy Flake from Rich's Cigar Shop in Portland OR. It's a Flue cured dark Carolina, that's hard to get lit, pungent, robust, spicy, strong flavored. But no bite, no "edge" on it. You can smoke it all day.

Second is a golden, sun cured light Carolina that come rolled cake in buttons that you rub out. Mild like a blonde Cavendish, and really heavy on the nicotine.

Any English blend, Virginia, Latikia, Perique and Oreintal. Balkan Sobranie or blends to that effect.

I can't chose just one for the same reasons I'm not married. *LMAO*
 
elidog said:
I'm really enjoying this McClelland 2015. Very good stuff.


Come on! Is no one else out there smoking their pipes?

Still trying to find a perfect one for all...even most occasions... I'm liking the darks; local blender I found here south of me has "Moriarty" and another has "Black Gold" that I'm pretty partial to..........
 
It'd be really helpful to know what sort of tobaccos are mixed into these blends listed herein.

"Blue Banded Hawg Jowl" could be anything.

What's the tobacco blend? How's it cured? How's it cut?
 
Xeke said:
It'd be really helpful to know what sort of tobaccos are mixed into these blends listed herein.

"Blue Banded Hawg Jowl" could be anything.

What's the tobacco blend? How's it cured? How's it cut?

THAT is precisely why I came here to the pipe section and have a thread on just nearly the same...looking for "national" brands that I could recognize if/when I'm away from the two I've found here in the N. Bay Area PRK. I asked the sales perp :lol: whats in it...all I got was a blank stare from one...the other place said "proprietary blend"...I said Ok..and that made of? He says "Secrets" :roll: