What Were Your Go-To Tobacco’s in 2025?

[cosmicfolklore]

The two tobaccos that I smoked more of than any of the rest were C&D Folklore and Kelly's Coin.

 

[The Hermit]

Top 6 of Tier 1 rotation this year:

1. G.L. Pease Lagonda
2. C&D Star of the East Flake
3. G.L. Pease Odyssey
4. C&D Pirate Kake
5. G.L. Pease Horizons
6. D&S Levant Mixture

The other half of the Tier 1 rotation, no less loved:

7. G.L. Pease Quiet Nights
8. G.L. Pease Gaslight
9. C&D Palmetto Balkan
10. G.L. Pease Spark Plug
11. D&S Casbah
12. Captain Earle's Stimulus Package

 

[NudgeWink]

Have gotten away from aromatics, love these:

OJK
Haunted Bookshop
Father Dempsey
Old Gowrie
Salty Dogs
Peterson Irish Flake
1792
Jacknife

 

[Puff nstuff]

GH Rum Flake
Granger
Mixture 79
Mayor 1812 Flake
F&T Evans Blend

 

[Lumbridge]

Carter Hall (as always), Amphora Virginia, McConnell Red Virginia, Newminster 400, D&R Two Timer.

 

[RAGallup]

Primarily Rattray's Black Mallory and G. L. Pease Ellipsis. Occasionally Charatan Eventide, Robert Lewis Tree Mixture, and Rattray's Red Rapparee. I still have a few tins of H&H Black House but am loathe to open them yet since once they're gone there won't be any more.

 

[Skyfall]

Mac B plumcake
S&G FVF
HU directors cut
Per Jensen Collectors Burley
Sutliff RC-1
Those were in my rotation weekly.

 

[peteyhan]

Capstan Blue
Capstan Blue Ready Rub
Capstan Gold
Cobblestone Pressed Plum Rum LTD
Country Squire Cowboy Coffee
Dan Tobacco Limerick
Esoterica Stonehaven
GH Best Brown No.2
GH Bob's Chocolate Flake
MB Vanilla Flake
MB Vanilla Roll Cake
WCC Simply Gold
Sutliff 507C VA Slices
Sutliff Maple Shadows II
Three Nuns Green

All blends I focused on or just really enjoyed this year. In no particular order.

 

[Skippy Piper]

I tried a whole lotta new blends in 2025, over 50 of them I think, but I don't think I smoked through more than half an ounce of any of them... with two exceptions.

The two blends I smoked a lot of in 2025, and actually went through about 6 ounces of each, were Lane RLP-6 and Smoker's Pride Cherry Cavendish. Apparently when I'm not busy pretending I'm a cultured and sophisticated pipe smoker I'm actually going through quite a lot of ultra mellow Burley forward aromatics!

Most years I go through quite a lot of Haunted Bookshop too, but the fresh batch I got over the summer was way heavier on the dark Burley and Perique than usual and seemed more like Old Joe Krantz than Haunted Bookshop; so my jar of Haunted Bookshop has sat mostly unsmoked this year. I should probably pass it on to someone who will enjoy it more than I do and order a new batch.

 

[rowdyroddypiper]

In no particular order:

C&D super Balkan
C&D Haunted Bookshop
C&D Autum Evening
SPC plum pudding ( which I smoked all of what I had 🫩)
Country squire Parsons blend
C&D kings cake, pirate cake, briar fox

 

[Dances with Squirrels]

In my quest to stock a single blend in the three categories I usually smoke.

Aromatic--Three Star Blue
VaPer--Elizabethan Mixture
English--Bengal Slices

 

[NoogaPipe]

It looks like Low Country Edisto was my daily driver this year.

 

[blametony]

Quiet Nights
Northwoods
Balkan Blue
Marlin Flake
Plum Pudding
Rouxgaroux
Haddo's Delight
Cowboy Coffee
Star of the East Flake

 

[filmguerilla]

Every morning is Chelsea Morning, but after that I've been reaching most for BriarWorks Smokehouse, HU Louisiana Broken Flake, and (now that it's cooler) 1792.

 

[MidnightPuff]

A lot of my smoking has been the same with 1 surprise. If it's still around I'll probably be buried with a jar of the first one.

C&D Big n' Burley (as always)

Prince albert (the DR stuff has grabbed my heart as a go to mild smoke)

C&D Haunted Bookshop (never disappoints)

C&D Billy Budd (My go to latakia blend)

The shocker: Rivertown tobacco works custard conspiracy (Very tasty stuff!)

I suspect my list next year will be similar. The rivertown stuff has replaced C&D's maple cavendish as my go to aro. I could sell my soul to a demon to make this blend bite and it probably still wouldn't. The black cav is flavorful and the added vanilla is very pleasant.

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

This year I focused on moving through a number of jars Ive had opened for tge past few years of blends I eitger did not care for or were just okay. However i did find a few new blends I really enjoyed and will be, or already are, well reoresented in my celkar:

Marlin Flake
Uhles Blend 44

 

[BlueRidge]

Samuel Gawith Hoggarth & Co. always. smoked a lot of aged LNF, LBF, Newminster 400 and Sutliff 507c as well. have moved away from burley except for blends made in the Lake district.

 

[SoupCan]

Mac Baren Pure Virginia Flake
Hearth and Home Louisiana Red
Peter Stokkebye LNF
Half and Half

 

[Boko_Fittleworth]

I only smoke 5 or 6 bowls in a typical week, and have way too many open tins and jars that I dip into. Having said that, I have smoked more of the following than anything else in the past year:
GLPease Sixpence
Capstan Blue
Esoterica Dunbar
HH Vintage Syrian
St. Bruno Ready Rubbed
L.J. Peretti Thanksgiving Day (2020 batch)

Also, a few new to me (in 2025) blends that I really like:
HU Makhuwa
HU Fayyum
C&D Autumn Evening

 

[Steddy]

I have been smoking up my insane collection of jarred up blends, other than that it’s probably Briar Fox and Pegasus.