What Was Your First "I Gotta Buy 5 Pounds of This Stuff!" Tobacco?

[jdlander]

I've been smoking a pipe for a little over a year now. I have yet to buy a second tin of anything.

This is partly because I want to try everything once before I smoke a second tin of anything, but also because I have yet to have my socks knocked off by anything AMAZING!

I get it that a big part of this might just be me developing my palate. I'm fine with that.

But I have yet to find something that could become an "everyday smoke" or the tin that will cause me to go buy five pounds more of it. Usually I enjoy the first several bowls of a new tobacco, but by the time I get through the 2oz tin, I'm read to be done with it and move on.

What about you? What was the first tin that caused you to go buy five pounds? (Or at least, as many tins of the tobacco that you could afford in one go).

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Way back when, I bought McClelland 5100 in five pound bags.

 

[dottlejockey]

Although i've never bought 5 lbs of anything in one go, the early tobaccos that i bulked up on were Stonehaven, Kingfisher, Edgeworth Slices and 5100. Thankfully i did as i still enjoy a bowl of each every now and then as i slowed down on them once they were no longer available. The most i ever buy these days, which is pretty rare, is maybe 4 or 5 tins at a time of any single blend.

 

[Sig]

Lots of McClelland 5100 and 2015, not sure which first.
Then MacBaren VA#1, SOTE, PS Luxury Navy Flake and Balkan Supreme, C&D Pegusus.....
Ive had a lot of "gotta get tons" blends.

 

[Pooh-Bah]

When Sutliff's closure was announced, I stocked up four pounds of War Horse.
If we add the weight of the tins to the weight of the baccy, that's definitely at least five pounds.

Aside from the aforementioned blend of the vengeful specter of Seabiscuit and a thousand irate Irish grandpas, nothing else has such an honor in my cellar.

 

[OzPiper]

I luuuuvvvvv bacon, BUT I don’t ever buy it by the pound
Never ever thought of buying 5lb of ANY blend
I like variety, and rarely smoke 2 bowls of the same blend consecutively.

There are a couple of blends I WISH I had 5lbs of. But that is just greedy of me.
5lb would last me a few lifetimes

 

[Waning Embers]

It's been nearly 40 years so who knows. For decades now I've mainly bought bulk blends in 5-10 pound lots.

 

[Dave760]

The first blend I jarred up five pounds of was Samuel Gawith St. James Flake. But that was back when it could be had for under US$30/lb.

 

[PaulRVA]

Capstan Blue Ready Rubbed and Dunhill Nightcap were my first really great blends I still love today. However McClelland’s Frog Morton Frog on a Log blew me away and was my first hoarding tobacco!

 

[Olkofri]

Sillem's Schwarz.

I never did buy more than the one tin, though.

 

[upnorth1]

I’ve never bought five pounds of anything. Quebec customs and duties would be ridiculous.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Being a couple years in, I’ve not found anything I’m looking to smoke all day, everyday. I like to change up blends too much (I’ve got other nicotine delivery forms that I use one flavor of all the time).
I’ve got a few I like enough that I’ve gotten more than a pound of, but not much more Irish Flake, SG Best Brown, 1792, Ryback, a couple GLP blends.
Sutliff Match Victorian is the first one that I found I don’t want to be out of and “amassed” about a pound and half and added along the way to keep about that.
Then the MacBaren/Sutliff debacle happened….
Well, 10+ pounds of Match Victorian and a good amount of 515-RC-1, TS20, and 507S later I can’t say I haven’t bought 5 lbs of anything anymore.

 

[jdlander]

Lots of McClelland 5100 and 2015, not sure which first.

Way back when, I bought McClelland 5100 in five pound bags.

the early tobaccos that i bulked up on were Stonehaven, Kingfisher, Edgeworth Slices and 5100.

Wow. The first three responses all included McClelland 5100.

I wish it was still available so I could try it.

For those who smoked it, is there anything close to it?

Its description on various sites sounds a bit like Three Nuns (which, I must say, is a tin I enjoyed very much).

 

[makhorkasmoker]

C&D Dark Burley was my first five pound order.

I switched to a home blend of WLT Kentucky burley, dark air cured, and burley red tips. Now I buy 5 pounds of those

 

[jdlander]

A common theme above seems to be "When a tobacco I like is going out of production, I buy 5 pounds or more."

So much for me trying them out!

 

[Sobrbiker]

A common theme above seems to be "When a tobacco I like is going out of production, I buy 5 pounds or more."

So much for me trying them out!

If guess the moral of the story is to go deep on what you like while it’s there. There have been plenty mentioned that are still in production.
As for me, after seeing one of my favorites going extinct-I’m glad I was able to buy a few years’ worth of I smoke it quite a bit, or a couple decades of I smoke it once in a while. The experience has taught me it would behoove me to go deeper on things I’d be upset if they went away, but I’m not going to break the bank for a blend.
I may start buying more of, and more variety because I’m more afraid of tobacco sales going the way of the dodo from regulation and I hope to enjoy my pipes for a long time.

“Tobacco will never be cheaper or more prevalent than it is today.”
-act accordingly, whatever that means to you.

 

[BayouGhost]

Never bought 5 lbs of any blend but the one that I immediately wanted to stock up on was Peretti Tashkent.

 

[Epip Oc'Cabot]

Three, one-pound cans of SWR cube-cut, non-aromatic back in probably 1979.

 

[sardonicus87]

Sutliff Maple Shadows (RIP) and Mac Baren HH Burley Flake (RIP).

C&D Eight State Burley also comes damn close to "I should buy the max amount of this that I can", but I still only wang 2 tins in my cart when it does come out.

 

[Waning Embers]

For those who smoked it, is there anything close to it?

Nothing close to McClelland blends but being a blender, 5100 really perks up bland blends.