Best Blend of 2024: The Nominations Phase
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My chosen blend this year is Samuel Gawith's Cabbie's Roll Cut Mixture; all of it I've smoked in 2024 has been packed in 2024. The mainstay. A number of other blends have been worthy of mention I should mention, but they can't be mentioned here.
Capstan Blue Flake… it’s like visiting the creamery, and not the dairy kind.
Wow, it's looking like this game is gonna be bigger than the last. To clear up any confusion, what we're here to determine is the subjective Best Blend, according to a voting game. The game's nominees are being submitted in 2024, thereby making this the Best Blend of 2024.
I find that my best blends vary by year. This year my favorite was Dockworker by HU, but I didn't want to duplicate from last year, so I picked one of my other favorites which hadn't been featured. Last year, my favorite was probably Capstan Blue and Plum Pudding the year before that. This game's just about what you're feeling at the time.
Anywho, here's what we've got so far. I'm going to arrange the list by brand this time around. At this moment, C&D has the most blends in the lineup with 4, but GH, GLP, and Sutliff are only one behind.
Nominees
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Capstan
Capstan Blue
Cornell & Diehl
Eight State Burley
Exclusive
Pegasus
Steamworks
Country Squire
Shepherds Pie
Daughters & Ryan
3 Sails
Drucquer & Sons
Rule Britannia
Erik Stokkebye 4th Gen
1931 Flake
Esoterica
Pembroke
Gawith Hoggarth
Bosun Plug
Dark Flake Aromatic
Ennerdale Flake
GL Pease
Bankside
Horizons
Telegraph Hill
Lane
1-Q
BCA
HU Tobacco
Aus dem Krater no. 2
Director's Cut
Mac Baren
HH Burley Flake
Royal Twist
Missouri Meerschaum
Luminaire
Orlik
Golden Sliced
Samuel Gawith
Cabbie's Roll Cut
Sutliff
Cringle Flake
Match Victorian
The Old Boss
Watch City
558
Bipolar Express
I find that my best blends vary by year. This year my favorite was Dockworker by HU, but I didn't want to duplicate from last year, so I picked one of my other favorites which hadn't been featured. Last year, my favorite was probably Capstan Blue and Plum Pudding the year before that. This game's just about what you're feeling at the time.
Anywho, here's what we've got so far. I'm going to arrange the list by brand this time around. At this moment, C&D has the most blends in the lineup with 4, but GH, GLP, and Sutliff are only one behind.
Nominees
----------------
Capstan
Capstan Blue
Cornell & Diehl
Eight State Burley
Exclusive
Pegasus
Steamworks
Country Squire
Shepherds Pie
Daughters & Ryan
3 Sails
Drucquer & Sons
Rule Britannia
Erik Stokkebye 4th Gen
1931 Flake
Esoterica
Pembroke
Gawith Hoggarth
Bosun Plug
Dark Flake Aromatic
Ennerdale Flake
GL Pease
Bankside
Horizons
Telegraph Hill
Lane
1-Q
BCA
HU Tobacco
Aus dem Krater no. 2
Director's Cut
Mac Baren
HH Burley Flake
Royal Twist
Missouri Meerschaum
Luminaire
Orlik
Golden Sliced
Samuel Gawith
Cabbie's Roll Cut
Sutliff
Cringle Flake
Match Victorian
The Old Boss
Watch City
558
Bipolar Express
Which automatically equates to greater potential for corruption, tampering etc. You may need to hire a staff for this go-around! Don't worry, my services are more affordable than you might think, especially if I'm paid in Margate.
Good gawd! This will keep us busy till the Secret Santa 2025 thread starts! 
Maybe so! The nom from @Pipke makes 30Good gawd! This will keep us busy till the Secret Santa 2025 thread starts!
Why hire someone to prevent corruption when corruption is the fun part? Plus, should I hire you, the politician in me would have to begin masterminding how to flawlessly oust you once it suits my interest and replace you with someone else. But then that means I'd have to brainstorm booting that poor bastard, and so on and so forth, ad infinitum...
I think elsewhere a discussion of the "Release of the Year" would be nice.
But given how jbfrady clarified the intent here, I'll share: the blend I have been enjoying and smoking this year has been D&R Ryback.
But given how jbfrady clarified the intent here, I'll share: the blend I have been enjoying and smoking this year has been D&R Ryback.
I was hoping someone would nominate Ryback, since I used my one nomination already!
If you make that thread, I'll comment on it! In my opinion Sutliff's Old Boss takes the cake on that one.
All I'm hearing are excuses...
Alright, point well taken. Do what you will. Just don't touch my slush fund.