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

[Singularis]

For me the "aha" tobacco was Arango Balkan Supreme, and I almost didn't post because I want more for me, dammit! I could definitely smoke this for weeks on end and be happy. But I'm still tasting my way through a lot of English and Balkan blends, so it may not stay on top.

This might have been mine at one point, but I think I gravitated more toward C&D Super Balkan.

For me, I’ve really never felt the compulsion to buy more than 4 or 8 oz at a time. First 8 oz amount I bought was GLP Quiet Nights. But as of last week, my biggest “bulk” purchase is getting 4 tins of HU Louisiana Broken, and that was after smoking a 1-bowl sample. After I purchased the LB, I smoked another sample and confirmed that this was very much an excellent impulse buy that I won’t soon regret.

 

[huntertrw]

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

Edgeworth Ready-Rubbed, and I purchased almost eight pounds.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

I bought some one pound lots (largest I've ever gone) for the first time the past few months - but I can't imagine buying 5 lbs. of anything - tend to jump around.

 

[sittingbear]

Sutliff 507C.

 

[bent1]

SG FVF, then Best Brown Flake, Golden Glow (Medium VA Flake), then McClelland 5100.

 

[Sigmund]

Not gonna happen in the EU.
However I have almost 2lbs of Directors Cut.
I get stuff every couple of months and stash it away.
I average 2 pipes a day. Ive got a few years worth of various things and I keep buying more than I smoke

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

Sutliff Frosty Mint.

RIP Frosty Mint.

 

[Sobrbiker]

Sutliff Frosty Mint.

RIP Frosty Mint.

I too had to get a lifetime supply of that, fortunately that was 4oz

 

[pantsBoots]

5 lbs?

First was Samuel Gawith FVF and BBF

Then:
C&D Pegasus
Mac Baren Dark Twist
Sutliff Match Edgeworth Ready Rubbed

I've several pounds, but haven't quite hit 5 lbs with tins of:
Orlik Golden Sliced
Savinelli Brunello Flake
C&D Bijou
Luxury Bullseye Flake
Rattray's Holy Trinity (Brown Clunee, Old Gowrie, and Hal of the Wynd)
Rattray's Red Rapparee

 

[tschiraldi]

The blends I have 5lbs of, or nearly so, are PS Luxury Twist Flake, F&T Cut Blended Plug, F&T Vintage, F&T Cut Virginia Plug, Dan Hamborger Veermaster, and G&H Brown Flake Aromatic. LTF was the first I stocked up on, the others followed.

 

[Zeno Marx]

It took me 30 years to get to that point, but that was more about the lesson learned with McClelland than anything else. Though I rarely smoke English anymore (oh, how the palate changes), latakia made me take to the pipe for a lifetime (Rattray 7 Reserve). We didn't stock up back then. Very few people cellaring. I only knew one guy doing it, and he was more of a hoarder than what we consider cellaring today. It was like a pack of cigarettes. finish the tin and then go buy another. Tin after tin after tin of Nightcap and then BS759.

 

[FLDRD]

I luuuuvvvvv bacon, BUT I don’t ever buy it by the pound

Yeah, 1# is too small. Usually go for the locally sourced 3#.

 

[dejavueagain]

Variety! Variety! Not enough in my short lifetime to buy too much of anything.....'cuz a few ounces of tobacco last a while & I must explore! explore! Why bulk up & stop?

 

[wiijj]

C&D Briar Fox. When I first started I didn't like burley or burley blends, but VaBurs have become my go to. I like them so much now that I'm experimenting with blending my own.

 

[tbradsim1]

NITECAP!

 

[dejavueagain]

C&D Briar Fox. When I first started I didn't like burley or burley blends, but VaBurs have become my go to. I like them so much now that I'm experimenting with blending my own.

It is great fun & fabulous results. Try lots of mixes (prefer not to use the word blends). Burley is great when part of a mix including other than Virginia. And VaPers are made more complex & enjoyable also.

 

[RPaul]

LOL! Recently, as in the past year or so, 5 pounds of GL Pease Quiet Nights, 4 lbs of Autumn Evening, 5lbs of "Larry's Blend", and 4lb of Peters Norwegian. I figure with the great and inevitable disruption of society, I will darned if I have to grow my own pipe tobacco.

 

[carp rides again]

Try lots of mixes (prefer not to use the word blends).

I'm glad I'm not the only one who hates the term (blends). We gotta comes up with something different

Blends- sounds like we outta be sipping on tea with our pinky out

 

[KruegerFlap]

I haven't purchased 5lbs of any blend on a single order but the first blend I ever bought a pound of is Lane HGL. I buy C&D Haunted Bookshop 2lbs at a time when I need more since it is my favorite blend.

 

[Hollis]

Peter Stokkebye - PS41 Cube Cut Burley