Getting an aromatic like Lane BCA which can be easily used on its own or a mixer is a great idea!
The Quality Bulk Tobacco Cellar for $200 Challenge
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Getting an aromatic like Lane BCA which can be easily used on its own or a mixer is a great idea!
Having Sheppard’s pie really highlights it is good to keep a broad base of blenders in mind. Nice choice.
This is no light weight list! Your list led me to look at some GH blends. I now have to put on my shortlist to try Dark Bird’s Eye and Dark Flake.
Sutliff in general I need to explore, but this Match Victoria needs to go on my next tour of VAPers. Nice list. I learned some new things.
IMO Match Victorian is far and away their best blend. Stacks up against any va/per out there, tin or bulk, at an absolute bargain price.
Grab an oz. If we’re all wrong you’re out a whopping $2.
Sutliff BS 759 Match is a Russ O recipe and is the bulk version of Blackhouse!
Yorktown is definitely in my cellar from the 1 pound bag. It's one of my must haves.
Well maybe not. Bargain price yes, match against any other vaper no. My results with this blend were disappointing, certainly when compared against Elizabethan which had been a favorite of mine. Sutliff's version isn't bad but it's no Dunhill (or Solani 633, or Gawith St James). Albeit, a couple of years in a jar might make a big difference and even up the score.
You are certainly entitled to your opinion. I think the Dunhill version is good. I think the match is better. But hey, to each their own!
I like 633 and St. James as well (especially the plug!) and also find them superior to the Dunhill version of Elizabethan.
No question about it, 633 and St James are about as good as it gets and Dunhill was certainly not in the same category, (nor trying to be). But for a ribbon cut vaper I thought it was quite enjoyable.
I like what Sutliff is trying to do; don't get me wrong. And with some age maybe it gets there. I do have quite a bit of it in jars. I'll get back to you in two years with an update
Started piping in 2014. I found this site about 2 weeks into my own serendipitous acquaintance with a drug store acquired MM Legend and bought into the excitement about pipes and tobacco like a duck to water. I bought loads more pipes and sampled every blend I could get, and it was fun as heck!
I soon discovered youtube as well, and became aware of the likes of C&D and McLelland's.
I finally hit upon the Daughters and Ryan line of tobaccos and now that's pretty much all I smoke.
My favorites are 3 Sails, TwoTimer, and Picayune, because they are a VA, a Burley, and a Perique blend respectively, and can be mixed to 'create' some nice tasty and easy burning smokes.
I always wait till they're on sale and don't pay much more, and often less than $20.00 an lb. for them.
Sure, I keep some flake and some Latakia on hand, but seldom smoke em.
I soon discovered youtube as well, and became aware of the likes of C&D and McLelland's.
I finally hit upon the Daughters and Ryan line of tobaccos and now that's pretty much all I smoke.
My favorites are 3 Sails, TwoTimer, and Picayune, because they are a VA, a Burley, and a Perique blend respectively, and can be mixed to 'create' some nice tasty and easy burning smokes.
I always wait till they're on sale and don't pay much more, and often less than $20.00 an lb. for them.
Sure, I keep some flake and some Latakia on hand, but seldom smoke em.
A 10lb cellar for $200! Wow! But more importantly I'll look at these blends more and would love know more about how you create your own mixes.
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This has been a great thread so far. Lots to think about. I made a spreadsheet of all of the stuff I have or would consider buying in bulk and then made some extra columns to categorize things. Some blends are very unnecessary or better replaced by others on the list. For example, I have GH&C American Delight but it could easily be replaced by GH&C Kentucky Nougat. I have some Kentucky Nougat to try before making a final decision. Also I have GH&C Unscented Dark in both flake and plug. Everyone says the plug is better but I'm still struggling with it versus the flake.
So without further ado, here is the spreadsheet:
Which way would you guys go? (The rules are whatever you suggest has to be available in 1Lb or 500g quantities.)
So without further ado, here is the spreadsheet:
| Brand | Blend | Overall | Must | Maybe | 200? |
| Arrango | Balkan Supreme | $42.58 | |||
| Sutliff | 507C VA Slices | $37.71 | |||
| Sutliff | 707 Sweet VA | $27.86 | $27.86 | ||
| Sutliff | Spiced Rum | $27.86 | |||
| Sutliff | Match Victorian | $27.86 | $27.86 | ||
| Sutliff | Match Balkan Sobranie Original | $28.93 | $28.93 | ||
| Sutliff | Match Troost | $27.86 | |||
| GH&C | Kentucky Nougat | $55.56 | |||
| GH&C | American Delight | $55.56 | $55.56 | ||
| GH&C | Dark Flake Unscented | $55.56 | $55.56 | ||
| GH&C | Dark Flake Plug | $55.56 | |||
| GH&C | (Happy) Brown Bogie Unsliced | $55.56 | |||
| GH&C | Kendal Gold | $55.56 | |||
| GH&C | Kendal Dark | $55.56 | |||
| Watch City | Simply Red | $57.92 | |||
| Watch City | Old Dominion | $57.92 | |||
| Watch City | Rhythm & Blues | $57.92 | |||
| Watch City | Rougaroux | $57.92 | |||
$841.26 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $195.77 |
Which way would you guys go? (The rules are whatever you suggest has to be available in 1Lb or 500g quantities.)
Two different blends actually. But Blackhouse used to be available in bulk as well.
Great post. Love your table. It highlights to me how much room is left for me to explore tobacco! I think seeing your table I am thinking in retrospect that I should have worked into my cellar purchase a dark flake / kdf of some sort too.
Kept it simple. 1 vendor - Smoking Pipes.
MacB GE 41.62
MacB Mixture 41.62
PS Natural Dutch Cavendish 31.86
Sutliff Virginia Slices 37.71
PS Proper English 37.71
Total 190.52
MacB GE 41.62
MacB Mixture 41.62
PS Natural Dutch Cavendish 31.86
Sutliff Virginia Slices 37.71
PS Proper English 37.71
Total 190.52
You're right. Russ said the match is a general copy of 70s 759 with no perique, while Blackhouse is a rendering of a specific vintage tin. It's probably for the lack of perique that I prefer the 759 Match.
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