Best Blend of 2024: The Elimination Game Part

[telescopes]

-1 Cringle Flake
+1 Quiet Nights.

 

[Sobrbiker]

As Skippy said: tonquin ain’t rose geranium!

+1792
-Cringle

 

[Servant King]

HH Lat Flake +1
Bosun Plug -1

If a cd product ends up the last blend standing it just means the children have killed all the adults in the room!!

Should've nominated "Blend For The Menendez Brothers."

 

[FLDRD]

+ Steamworks
- Sun Bear


That's right. Not quite on auto-pilot...

 

[dottlejockey]

As Skippy said: tonquin ain’t rose geranium!

+1792
-Cringle

Yup.

+1792
- Bosun

 

[mingc]

+1792
- Cowboy cawfee

 

[VDL_Piper]

-1 1792
+1 Telegraph Hill

 

[Scottmi]

Cowboy Coffee + 1
Escudo -1

 

[andrew]

+1792
-winchester

 

[beefeater33]

+ 1 Quiet Nights
- 1 Anus -Weed Twist

 

[spearheadbill]

+1 Bosun
- quite boring nights

 

[Manawydan]

+1 Sun bear
-1 1792 Flake

 

[Fralphog]

Quiet nights+1
Bosun -1

 

[onepyrotec]

-1 Bosun Plug
+1 Esoterica Pembroke

 

[jbfrady]

+1792
-Winchester
I find it amusing how C&D went from a very subpar blending house to manna of the gods as people slowly accept the fact it's going to be all they have left. It

Let's keep this between us, but my thoughts are this: Cornell & Diehl, in my opinion, struggles from a number of SKU's. I get that in the modern era, with STG acquiring every f@cking blend on the planet, that dropping SKU's is a sin... but still, it's a problem.

I was early into the craft beer movement. I remember when IPA's were new and hip and the next up-and-coming thing. Next thing you know, your mother and your next door neighbor can make an IPA that blows for f@cking mind. And all of a sudden, the magic is gone.

In my humble opinion, the shrinking of Mac Baren and Sutliff is a representative of a picture that's true across the board: most blends suck. It's true for C&D just as it's true for any other blending house. You can't produce a few things... No, you've got to produce a shit load of stuff and here it is... blah, blah, blah...

But the truth is... the greatness lies in just a few blends. That's as true for C&D as it is for anyone else, and several of those blends have been named here. So will I be confused if a C&D blend wins? No, I won't. Because a majority of their shit isn't on the catalog.

But am I insulted that Mad Fiddler didn't make the list? Maybe a little.

 

[rsshreck32]

+1 Exclusive
-1 Cringle Flake

 

[jbfrady]

In new news, Steamworks has taken the lead. Winchester takes the second position and Sun Bear, Telegraph Hill, and 558 are all tied for third. It's time we introduced a little chaos, and that will be in a post incoming so that - hopefully - people won't just skip over it.

Sometimes I wonder if my write-ups aren't treated as mere Terms and Conditions, so I like to keep the important shit separate. This is no different. Or maybe it is. Either way, the addendum is coming next.

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+ Escudo
- Royal Twist
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Nominees
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AC Peterson
Escudo - 9
Cornell & Diehl
Exclusive - 24
Steamworks - 30
Sun Bear - 27
Winchester - 29
Country Squire
Cowboy Coffee - 10
Daughters & Ryan
Ryback -12
Erik Stokkebye 4th Gen
1931 Flake - 9
Esoterica
Pembroke - 19
Gawith Hoggarth
Aniseed Twist - 5
Bosun Plug - 21
Dark Flake Aromatic - 5
GL Pease
Bankside - 18
Horizons - 12
Telegraph Hill - 27
Quiet Nights - 20
HU Tobacco
Aus dem Krater no. 2 - 16
Director's Cut - 18
Makhuwa - 19
Mac Baren
HH Burley Flake - 24
HH Latakia Flake - 18
Royal Twist - 6
Missouri Meerschaum
Luminaire - 12
Samuel Gawith
1792 Flake - 23
Cabbie's Roll Cut - 10
Sutliff
Cringle Flake - 15
Match Victorian - 11
Watch City
558 - 27

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
Geometrie - GLP
Phantom Privateer - Sutliff
Early Morning Pipe - Dunhill/Peterson
Eight State Burley - C&D
Old Dark Fired - Mac Baren
Doblone D'Oro - Savinelli

 

[jbfrady]

Rule Addendum:
For your next vote and your next vote only...

All negative votes cast against blends harboring 20 or more hit points as of the last count will be counted as -2's rather than -1's.

These are the blends that will count as -2:
Exclusive
Steamworks
Sun Bear
Winchester
Bosun Plug
Telegraph Hill
Quiet Nights
HH Burley Flake
1792 Flake
558

 

[seanv]

+1 Winchester
-2 Quiet Nights

 

[spearheadbill]

Rule Addendum:
For your next vote and your next vote only...

All negative votes cast against blends harboring 20 or more hit points as of the last count will be counted as -2's rather than -1's.

These are the blends that will count as -2:
Exclusive
Steamworks
Sun Bear
Winchester
Bosun Plug
Telegraph Hill
Quiet Nights
HH Burley Flake
1792 Flake
558

Can we still call the CD blends silly demeaning names with impunity? lol. this is fun!