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   eazye77
   

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   Hi all,

   I did a post a few months ago a good latakia blends. Got turned on to Larry's Blend and loving it!!!

   This time I need suggestions about a good English blend to try. I liked the Early Day 1888 blend, but looking for something else. Let me know family. Thanks in advance!

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   H&H - Blackhouse

   McClelland - Scottish Woods

   Two of my favs at the moment.

   "I was born to lose. So I'll die to win." -Breaking Benjamin

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   Villager 1888=English ??? Do you mean Virginia or did I miss one of them??? Besides Larry's is English

   ETA: I did miss it, sorry
   Dunhill nightcap...Frog Morton

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   Dunhill My Mixture 965. The new incarnation is very good.

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   Dunhill Nightcap
   Newminster English Orient

   My two favorites -- so far!

   Honorable Mentions:
   Newminster Ultimate English
   PS Proper English
   Dunhill My Mixture 965
   SG Squadron Leader
   H&H Larry's Blend (I know you've tried this, just including it anyways!) / Beverwyck / Daybreak

   "May I smoke my pipe as well?"

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   Thanks knightmare. Just finished off my Nightcap today.

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   Eazye77

   My pleasure! I wish I could buy Nightcap in bulk. Haven't had any in stock in a long time. When I get enough extra cash to buy more, I've been trying new stuff. So many tobaccos and so few dollars haha.

   I highly recommend trying Newminster English Orient, and feel safe saying its my current number 1 favorite.

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   PS English Luxury
   PS Proper English
   PS English Oriental Supreme
   All are good smokes. I also am really enjoying Stokkebye's Balkan Supreme; it is currently my No. 2 favorite behind Larry's Blend.

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   My favorites right now are PS English Luxury and PS Proper English

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   (Robert Kennedy)

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    I really enjoy Nightcap as well.

    Others I really like are C&D Pirate Kake and C&D Constellation.

    I like to smoke pipes

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    SG Balkan Flake
    Peterson Old Dublin
    Penzance

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    Peace in the hush of the twilight, balm ere my eyelids close
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    I am nearly as obsessive about Nightcap as the Baron is about his Black House.

    Almost.

    Though I must admit that I can't blame him - Black House is some righteous tobacco.

    I'm so awesome, I make myself jealous of myself.

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    eazye77:

    I'm a little confused about what you're really looking for, since you mentioned that you had found a "latakia blend" and that you were exploring Nightcap. What are you meaning when you say "English"? (To me, Nightcap is very much an English blend. . . and I'm guessing that your "latakia blend" is too.)

    Bob

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    Penzance
    SG's SL
    C&D's Crooked Lane
    Low Country's Cooper
    H&H Blackhouse & Mag Opus
    Dunhill Nightcap
    All the MC Froggies
    GL Pease's Odyssey

    I could go on and on and....well

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    Thanks again Knight. I will look into those, however I also tried SG Squadron Leader. Hated it. Left a weird after taste that didn't sit well with me.

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    "I'm a little confused about what you're really looking for..."

    I'm with Bob. H&H describes Larry's Blend as a 'full-bodied English'. And as discussed in another recent post, most western smokers use the terms "English blend" and "latakia blend" interchangeably.

    So what exactly are you looking for, Eazye77?

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    +1 on GLP Odyssey, and Mac Frog Morton.

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    Penzance
    Pease-Quiet Nights

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    Does a culture based on seperation and competition, of scientific sophistication and mideval religion, offer happiness even as it ravishes the Earth that sustains it?

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    So what exactly are you looking for, Eazye77?

    Eazye, seems to me you delineated what blends you've tried out and now you are asking for some suggestions of other English blends for you to consider trying out.

    I recommend you grab a tin of Dunhill Nightcap and a tin of Dunhill My Mixture 965. These two are arguably recognized as the definitive English blends, and you can use these two to measure others, such as the blends mentioned in this thread.

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    Chris the Villiger 1888 Early Day is an English blend(or Balkan as it's got other oriental leaf in it besides Latakia).

    This is from the tin description: "Mature Golden Virginia blended with oriental leaf and latakia from the Balkan Region."

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