Best Budget English
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You should try Count Pulaski by Sutliff. It's listed as an aro, but I don't taste it. To me it's a rich tasting blend that has a little bit of sweetness to it.
I tastes kinda like updog...
All of the blends mentioned are fine blends. I, for one, like to distinguish between Balkans and “regular” (less Oriental forward) English blends. Since you mentioned English, my recommendation for a bulk is Peter Stokkebye PS #52 Proper English. It is well named. If you want a budget Balkan, my recommendation is Sutliff Balkan II. It is IMO a superior product to the often recommended Balkan Supreme.
I'll bite.... what's updog?....
And regarding Aro-English cross-overs:
A good Aro is fine. A good English is sublime. Combined, I would not pay a dime.
A good Aro is fine. A good English is sublime. Combined, I would not pay a dime.
Sutliff blend no 5 is good.
Absolute agreement on Stratfordshire. My favorite latakia blend. Red Odessa is also great if you want some perique in it.
This one isn’t too bad really and cheap.
I’ve heard arrango Balkan smokes way above it’s pay grade too.
Not shit man. What up w/ u?
PS Proper English
PS/Arango Balkan Supreme
Both inexpensive. Both damn good.
PS/Arango Balkan Supreme
Both inexpensive. Both damn good.
I had great luck with my pound of BOTR English. Best value I've ever gotten in an English blend. It didn't seem cheap or like scraps or floor sweepings either, just a great medium English/Balkan.
BSOSM/759 Matches are fantastic. I'd recommend 759 since you like dark fired and a little more nicotine.
Balkan Supreme is probably the best of the budget blends. As good as anything in a tin. Plenty of oriental presence and the interplay of latakia, Cavendish, and Samsun gives a very full flavored, cigarish smoke that really sticks to the inside of your mouth, beard, face, clothes, room, and everything else it comes in contact with. I think it's fair to say Supreme gives the most Dunhill/Germain's/Sobranie -esque experience of any bulk English. Not exactly the same, but way up in the ballpark.
BOTR has got to be a blend with a recipe, because I don't see how a business that sells by the ounce has enough leftovers/sweepings to make up multiple 1 lb bags to sell. Any leftover would have to be less than an ounce and they'll need lots of them to make up a bunch of bags.
Thanks for the answer. I'm going to try that BOTR. Balkan Supreme is certainly worth a try, I've heard people bragging about this one all over the site.
Last time I posted a thread like this I found my 5 Brothers replacement... at a fraction of the price.
Yup, that story seems unlikely to me.
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I really enjoy Kramer's a blend for cary Grant, and I get it in bulk.
If you like a little vitamin N, you might order an ounce of C&D Bayou Night just to try out. It is a Perique bomb, but if you like really bold blends, it scratches the itch. It is more of an acquired taste than the other recommendations, but different enough to warrant trying. If you mix it with Balkan Supreme you’ll get a sort of low rent Quiet Nights.
It’s the tobacco co that puts it together not P&C from what I thought? Also it says that every bag is slightly different.
That’s what’s always kept me from trying it. If that’s not the truth, then it’s an awful advertisement. ?
P&C's Description-
"Best of the Rest English is another addition to the Best of the Rest family. The blend is constantly changing as we take left over English blend tobaccos and mix them together and sell them at a ridiculously low price. So, if you're a Latakia lover on a budget, stock up on Best of the Rest English."
I guess I've been thinking it was from leftover bulk orders.. so I figured it was probably made up of scraps from the english blend they sell the most of. I don't know where I came up with that after reading that description.. it's pretty vague.
Maybe its like store brand stuff, where they buy whichever brand is cheapest at the moment and repackage it..
"Best of the Rest English is another addition to the Best of the Rest family. The blend is constantly changing as we take left over English blend tobaccos and mix them together and sell them at a ridiculously low price. So, if you're a Latakia lover on a budget, stock up on Best of the Rest English."
I guess I've been thinking it was from leftover bulk orders.. so I figured it was probably made up of scraps from the english blend they sell the most of. I don't know where I came up with that after reading that description.. it's pretty vague.
Maybe its like store brand stuff, where they buy whichever brand is cheapest at the moment and repackage it..
I’ve enjoyed the C&D Engine #99 I bought in bulk as well as the PS Proper English. Right now I have a lb of Arrango Balkan Supreme on the way. I had bought 2 oz of Iwan Ries Balkan Supreme and it seems to be the closest thing to my mystery blend I bought ages ago from them that I dont remember what it is. Arrango is in the Chicago area, and I am wondering if IRC Balkan Supreme is actually Arrango, someone somewhere may have said as much. I figured with all the people talking about how good it is I can’t go wrong. Glad to see people talking about it so highly on here. Fingers crossed it shows up and I can have a few bowls of it this weekend.
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