Best Match Codger Blends
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Milan's "Our" Kentucky Club Mild is a great match for the original, IMO.
For what it's worth, P&C has a Hearth & Home sale right now so you can try the match coffee blends at a reduced price.
Nope. And why are there match blends for tobaccos that are still available ? Anyone ?
Ima invent one. Call it… Grunger.
Chatham Manor destroys my tongue. I bought it when it first came out because I wanted a cheaper Carter Hall. CH was my everyday smoke for a couple years and it was getting expensive. After I tried Chatham Manor for about a week I ended up ordering two tubs of Carter Hall then jarring up the Chatham Manor for a few years, I tried it again and it was the same outcome a fried mouth. I ended up gifting the rest away.
Oh how I miss Kentucky Club Mild. I started smoking a pipe right when it was axed by Middleton. I bought a few tubs at Ekerds drugstore, then it was gone for good. I miss all the Middleton pipe tobaccos, they were inexpensive, tasty and smelled great. They were also comfortable, if that makes sense. So Milan's is very close to Middleton's version Judcole?
I think it is. Someone kindly sent me a tub of the Middleton, so I was able to compare. I needed a filter for the Middleton; don't for the Milan. I smoke the Milan fairly often.
Field and Stream Match is my favorite. Sutliff's Ready Rub and Revelation matches are quite good too. But then I have the luxury of having never tasted the originals, so I am happily ignorant of how they compare.
I actually like Lane's Ready Rubbed compared to Sutliffs. I get terrible tongue bite from Sutliffs Edgeworth match. But their Field & Stream match and Revelation match is fantastic!
I'm going to try it. It's funny you mentioned the filter. I have some Sugar Barrel and Walnut that was gifted to me and I love them. But I have to use a filter. Prince Albert is my everyday smoke, no filter with that, PA is the smoothest burley on the market for me.
I don't know but I love that a lot of us are like me and never tried the originals and just kind of consider the Match to be a none issue. 
Am a big fan of many of the Match blends. Field & Stream, Bourbon Street, Holiday, Edgeworth Ready Rubbed, Sugar Barrel, Barking Dog, etc. These are the ones I smoke on a regular basis. They are inexpensive and well worth getting a 1 oz sample of all of them and see for yourself which ones you like.
As for how close they come to the original blend, it depends and some I found not even close yet still decent blends that stand on their own.
As for how close they come to the original blend, it depends and some I found not even close yet still decent blends that stand on their own.
Now that is some good tobacco! It actually gets better with jar time as well. I like Flying Dutchman match and Field & Stream along with Revelation match. The only thing with the Revelation match is the inconsistencies with batches. Most times it's great then other times the topping is nonexistent.
Now that is some good tobacco! It actually gets better with jar time as well. I like Flying Dutchman match and Field & Stream along with Revelation match. The only thing with the Revelation match is the inconsistencies with batches. Most times it's great then other times the topping is nonexistent.
Holiday match is awesome! So is Bourbon Street match. Barking Dog match is fantastic especially when mixed with Edward G. Robinson!
I like that one too, Sutliff Revelation Match is good, but the Epiphany just seems to have more flavor and nicotine to me.