Wanting to get into some shag cut blends. Whats everyone's favorites? So far only one on my list is G.L Pease Penny Farthing.
Best Shag Cut Blends?
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Also, I'm sure I will find this out through trial and error, but what are your go to pipe shapes for shag cuts as well?
My favorite is 5 Brothers in a cob.
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Tabac Manil Le Petit Robin is delicious. I pack it tight in a small billiard.
There are Lots of various Tabacs de Semois blends in Belgium as well as many dark shag cut blends in France , to mention only a few, Caporal Export,Scaferlati Rouge,and Amsterdamer
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I am looking for recommendations of shag cut tobacco blends which are in current production. I enjoy the easy burn of hard shag 😎
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Ribbons and shags get smoked in my Falcon, or my Invicta Briars Pear, or if I want to get dizzy, the Airbus hangar known as the Hardcastle Crescent.
I've heard good things about D&R Three Sails.
Several of the GH&co. shags—Kendal dark, dark birdseye, Kendal Kentucky—are now all the same tobacco sold under these different names. This tobacco tastes of hardwood smoke—“campfire-y” in my opinion.
An option that hasn’t been mentioned above are the RYO tobaccos sold as pipe tobacco. The ones I’ve tried are shags. They get dissed a lot but the ones I’ve tried are ok. They have just been blended and topped so that the flavors resemble those of the various types of commercial cigarettes.
An option that hasn’t been mentioned above are the RYO tobaccos sold as pipe tobacco. The ones I’ve tried are shags. They get dissed a lot but the ones I’ve tried are ok. They have just been blended and topped so that the flavors resemble those of the various types of commercial cigarettes.
D&R Ryback is a good one.
My next pick would be 5 Bros, but to my tastes the Ryback has more flavor.
My next pick would be 5 Bros, but to my tastes the Ryback has more flavor.
I smoke about 4-5 RYO's of Peter Stokkebye Turkish Export a day. To my knowledge its just the Stokkebye pipe blends cut into a shag rather than a ribbon. I've packed my pipe with it and it works perfectly. Turkish Export is a blend of Samsun and Virginias and its one of the tastiest tobaccos I've ever smoked, pipe or cigarette.
I would consider most of the Germain line as great shags.
I'm always trying to get those Caporal's hoping they taste like the OG Gauloises and Gigantes never got a confirmation if they have that black leaf that the ciggs had before the nicotine tar level laws castrated them.
Wondering which one the GH all became the same of? I still have jars of all three that are distinctly different.
Yup, Caporal Export is very close to those even somewhat stronger, while Scaferlati Rouge is a true nicotine hammer , unlike Tabac de Semois both them do have some bitterness to the taste
I don’t know, but I can tell you it’s not the birdseye, as their “birdseye” no longer has birdseyes
GH Kendal #7 is one I like. Like others have said, Five Brothers is a good one too. I smoke them in whichever pipe's handy. 