Best Blend of 2024: The Elimination Game Part

[VDL_Piper]

We will fight till we have died or all our enemies are allies, and even then we'll sleep with an open eye. Because, to put it frankly, all these other blends are sissy stuff.

Haha, bit of nicotine is the deciding factor or is it the heavily smothered Tonquin sauce or the fact that the flakes are wetter than a honeymoon g string and trying to get them to burn is the largest contributor to global warming

 

[Grangerous]

The herds scattered, the village in flames while the weeping wives and daughters of my enemy lay sobbing at my feet and clasped to my breast armor. This is a good day.

 

[Servant King]

The herds scattered, the village in flames while the weeping wives and daughters of my enemy lay sobbing at my feet and clasped to my breast armor. This is a good day.

Metallica lyrics?

 

[Pypkė]

Because, to put it frankly, all these other blends are sissy stuff.

Finally obtained some 1792, and smoked it all day. Meh. Really, it's just OK. Enlivened my palate with Horizons, which was very tasty, and that is not even doing well in the polls. Even a bowl of Pegasus was better.

 

[jbfrady]

Metallica lyrics?

Or Merle Haggard

 

[Skippy Piper]

Haha, bit of nicotine is the deciding factor or is it the heavily smothered Tonquin sauce or the fact that the flakes are wetter than a honeymoon g string and trying to get them to burn is the largest contributor to global warming

1792 definitely has a pleasantly sedating nicotine content, but the real reason I like it so darn much is the rich flavor and smoothness of the dark fired Virginias that Gawith uses for it. Dark fired Kentucky is nice and all, but it's always rather harsh and abrasive and lacks the gentle smoothness of Gawith's dark fired Virginias; and I think the tonquin top note is a pleasant addition. Yeah, you do need to rub out the flakes and give it a bit of dry time before smoking if you don't want to be relighting it all the time, but not much more than any other pure Virginia flake.

And yes, I do realize that I just gave a serious answer to a silly question, but I do love 1792 Flake and I figured I might as well explain why. Next year I'll probably be shilling for Happy Brown Bogie or Coniston Cut Plug, which are my two other favorite dark fired Virginia blends. The Bosun's Butt Plug just tastes a little too soapy for my liking I think. I guess he must wash it a lot!

 

[VDL_Piper]

1792 definitely has a pleasantly sedating nicotine content, but the real reason I like it so darn much is the rich flavor and smoothness of the dark fired Virginias that Gawith uses for it. Dark fired Kentucky is nice and all, but it's always rather harsh and abrasive and lacks the gentle smoothness of Gawith's dark fired Virginias; and I think the tonquin top note is a pleasant addition. Yeah, you do need to rub out the flakes and give it a bit of dry time before smoking if you don't want to be relighting it all the time, but not much more than any other pure Virginia flake.

And yes, I do realize that I just gave a serious answer to a silly question, but I do love 1792 Flake and I figured I might as well explain why. Next year I'll probably be shilling for Happy Brown Bogie or Coniston Cut Plug, which are my two other favorite dark fired Virginia blends. The Bosun's Butt Plug just tastes a little too soapy for my liking I think. I guess he must wash it a lot!

Live footage of Skippy lighting his flakes after a little dry time

 

[jbfrady]

Finally obtained some 1792, and smoked it all day. Meh. Really, it's just OK. Enlivened my palate with Horizons, which was very tasty, and that is not even doing well in the polls. Even a bowl of Pegasus was better.

I agree with you. When I first tried 1792, in those first few puffs I thought I'd love it but it was a bowl of diminishing returns. Some beers are like that too, where the first sip is incredible but by the time you finish the pint your palette is purely over-taxed. I preferred to use 1792 as an unorthodox condiment to add to other blends, and I'd suggest perhaps trying three parts Pegasus to one part 1792.

I'm glad it's getting you to experiment though, as it's one of the things I like about this whole ordeal. I actually discovered my absolute favorite blend (HU Dockworker) off last year's rendition.

 

[VDL_Piper]

I actually prefer SG Brown Rope No4. All the nicotine and none of the sauce or wetness and I can taste the Virginias not just the sauce.

 

[jbfrady]

Sweet! The double-downs worked. As of yesterday's update, there were 11 blends in the upper echelon (20+ hit points) and now there are 7. The house of C&D remains largely unchanged, as it still has 4 blends in that tier, but group think prevailed to a large degree. 1792 was taken down a notch and many users decided to make like Mrs. Claus and jump Santa.

In a change of pace, the top spot is now a tie between two blends and it's the first time either of them were in the lead. C&D's Winchester and Watch City's 558 are tied at 24 points each. They've both been creepers, like Little Finger from Game of Thrones, wrenching control piecemeal.

Another blend kicked the bucket, too. Sutliff's The Old Boss faded into obscurity, though it scarcely ever saw an upvote. This blend, a crumble cake which @JimInks once called "mildly moist," now rests in mildly moist peace. It may be missed, or it may not.

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+ Escudo
- Ryback
- Cowboy Coffee
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Nominees
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AC Peterson
Escudo - 10
Cornell & Diehl
Eight State Burley - 8
Exclusive - 22
Steamworks - 21
Sun Bear - 23
Winchester - 24
Country Squire
Cowboy Coffee - 12
Daughters & Ryan
Ryback -11
Dunhill/Peterson
Early Morning Pipe - 9
Erik Stokkebye 4th Gen
1931 Flake - 10
Esoterica
Pembroke - 14
Gawith Hoggarth
Aniseed Twist - 9
Bosun Plug - 18
Dark Flake Aromatic - 7
GL Pease
Bankside - 14
Geometrie - 2
Horizons - 9
Telegraph Hill - 18
Quiet Nights - 20
HU Tobacco
Aus dem Krater no. 2 - 13
Director's Cut - 17
Makhuwa - 17
Mac Baren
HH Burley Flake - 18
HH Latakia Flake - 16
Old Dark Fired - 7
Royal Twist - 11
Missouri Meerschaum
Luminaire - 12
Samuel Gawith
1792 Flake - 19
Cabbie's Roll Cut - 11
Savinelli
Doblone D'Oro - 8
Sutliff
Cringle Flake - 21
Match Victorian - 12
Phantom Privateer - 6
Watch City
558 - 24

Deceased, in order of disappearance:
1-Q - Lane
BCA - Lane
Bosun Cut Plug - GH
Golden Sliced - Orlik
Trail Head - Cascadia
Capstan Blue - Capstan
Rule Britannia - Drucquer & Sons
Bipolar Express - Watch City
Ennerdale Flake - GH
Three Sails - D&R
Dunbar - Esoterica
Pegasus - C&D
Shepherds Pie - Country Squire
Gates of Argonath - Ravenwood
The Old Boss - Sutliff

Oh, and @tschiraldi gets to re-vote. The Old Boss was already no more.

 

[seanv]

This blend, a crumble cake which @JimInks once called "mildly moist," now rests in mildly moist peace.

 

[tschiraldi]

+1 Bosun
-2 Old Dark Fired

 

[wyfbane]

+1 4th Gen 1931
-2 1792 flake.

 

[Pypkė]

I'm glad it's getting you to experiment though, as it's one of the things I like about this whole ordeal. I actually discovered my absolute favorite blend (HU Dockworker) off last year's rendition.

this game is prompting me to try new blends. The unobtainium blends just get a hard pass by default.

 

[ThomasS]

+1 HH Burley Flake
-2 Geometrie

 

[LongIslandPiper]

Finally obtained some 1792, and smoked it all day. Meh. Really, it's just OK. Enlivened my palate with Horizons, which was very tasty, and that is not even doing well in the polls. Even a bowl of Pegasus was better.

1792 definitely shines more brightly once aged and even then I prefer it to be drying out for 40-60mins minimum before ready for loading.

 

[LongIslandPiper]

-1 4th generation 1931
+2 1792 Flake

 

[BlueRidge]

-1 4th generation 1931
+2 1792 Flake

 

[Grangerous]

+ 1 Winchester
-1 Cringle
-1 Quiet Nights

 

[Grangerous]

Metallica lyrics?

Ghengis Kahn