Best very full bodied English?
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My Favorite English blends that I consider to be full bodied:
Smokers Haven Exotique
Esoterica Margate
Lane Limited Medal of Valor (dunno what makes this one so good but it's friggin special!)
C&D Star of the East Flake
C&D Engine 99
Lancer Slices
Smokers Haven Exotique
Esoterica Margate
Lane Limited Medal of Valor (dunno what makes this one so good but it's friggin special!)
C&D Star of the East Flake
C&D Engine 99
Lancer Slices
Whilst waiting with baited breath for Fungal word-play vs spillchucker, allow me to chime in with
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The guy said full-bodied English, right??? Where are they getting this War Horse poop? I mean I love War Horse (especially green) but ENglisheseses??? Nein! Nicht! Nyet! Iye! etc.
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The guy said full-bodied English, right??? Where are they getting this War Horse poop? I mean I love War Horse (especially green) but ENglisheseses??? Nein! Nicht! Nyet! Iye! etc.
Hey, she's not Billy Budd. Distracting. Some would say a non-aromatic with several tobaccos, Latakia, and some Virginia gets you to an English blend even with burley and cigar leaf. Others as already noted say no, no, and no. The high church English blend people would admit Virginia, Latakia, Perique, and Orientals, and backsliders might allow Cavendish. Dark fired is probably not admissible. That's why I cited smokingpipes.com, which took the open-minded leap.
You are always so courteous! What you call an open-minded leap I call permissive marketing! Good points you make, Tom.
Let's get out the big boy pipes now.
I have been keeping abreast of this discussion, and there are some fine suggestions for blends approaching full-bodied English. However, some with implants.... not the real feel.
I like the feel of some natural, full-bodied pairs (pipe and tobacco), don't you?
I have on hand and regularly imbibe in all the Esoterica English blends. But let me add some hand-blended and bulk thick smoking stuff that surpasses those.
Surprise, surprise... there are a few LJPeretti, Boston hand-made English choices: Royal and Omega are certainly full and thick smokes. But their Smith's Own is thicker. Recenty, I have been enamored of their first English blend in the Americas -- British Mixture. Full, complex... so something to think about with a real ale, single malt or glass of Burgundy (in the other hand).
In bulk, I keep coming around to Lane Ltd's Crown Achievement and the Arrango Balkan Supreme. While I know this is tinned, I buy Samuel Gawith Commonwealth by the half-pound (with admiration).
Motzek, now by Thomas Darasz in Kiel Germany at the Baltic Sea, is known for its S.Curly Mixture (a serious VA coin-cut). I love his Latakia concoctions, especially his Herbst 84, Autumn; and Old English. There are also Latakia bricks and ropes. How do we know, right off the bat, that he's into Old World Latakia styles? He also makes killer 9mm pipes at his shop. Here's a link to his hand-blending tobaccos... all of them:
http://dein-tabak.de/index.php?cat=c12_HAUSMARKE---aus-eigener-Produktion--St-Z-255--Hausmarke.html
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While these are jars not jugs... more than a handful is a waste...
I have been keeping abreast of this discussion, and there are some fine suggestions for blends approaching full-bodied English. However, some with implants.... not the real feel.
I like the feel of some natural, full-bodied pairs (pipe and tobacco), don't you?
I have on hand and regularly imbibe in all the Esoterica English blends. But let me add some hand-blended and bulk thick smoking stuff that surpasses those.
Surprise, surprise... there are a few LJPeretti, Boston hand-made English choices: Royal and Omega are certainly full and thick smokes. But their Smith's Own is thicker. Recenty, I have been enamored of their first English blend in the Americas -- British Mixture. Full, complex... so something to think about with a real ale, single malt or glass of Burgundy (in the other hand).
In bulk, I keep coming around to Lane Ltd's Crown Achievement and the Arrango Balkan Supreme. While I know this is tinned, I buy Samuel Gawith Commonwealth by the half-pound (with admiration).
Motzek, now by Thomas Darasz in Kiel Germany at the Baltic Sea, is known for its S.Curly Mixture (a serious VA coin-cut). I love his Latakia concoctions, especially his Herbst 84, Autumn; and Old English. There are also Latakia bricks and ropes. How do we know, right off the bat, that he's into Old World Latakia styles? He also makes killer 9mm pipes at his shop. Here's a link to his hand-blending tobaccos... all of them:
http://dein-tabak.de/index.php?cat=c12_HAUSMARKE---aus-eigener-Produktion--St-Z-255--Hausmarke.html
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While these are jars not jugs... more than a handful is a waste...
Thats really interesting but who is the old guy with two partially empty peanut butter jars? :rofl:
Thank all of you for your answers, keep'em coming!
I guess my morning will be used to look seriously into this, as I only have about three flakes left of my MacB. Latakia Flake so this has turned into an emergency haha! I have been looking at few Cornell & Diehl blends (Bow Legged Bear, Black Frigate, Star of the East and more), Captain Earle's blends look very interesting, Levant mixture and G.L. Pease blends like Gaslight, Odyssey and Westminister. So much, so interesting! Damn you Iceland for having one tobacconist and a quite shitty one at that haha!
I guess my morning will be used to look seriously into this, as I only have about three flakes left of my MacB. Latakia Flake so this has turned into an emergency haha! I have been looking at few Cornell & Diehl blends (Bow Legged Bear, Black Frigate, Star of the East and more), Captain Earle's blends look very interesting, Levant mixture and G.L. Pease blends like Gaslight, Odyssey and Westminister. So much, so interesting! Damn you Iceland for having one tobacconist and a quite shitty one at that haha!
I'm with MSO469 in that I consider C&D's Billy Budd an English blend. It might be the "redheaded stepchild" but it's in the same English family. I smoke several English blends besides Billy Budd and when all the other English blends are smoked up, I'm keeping Billy Budd around as MY preferred English blend. It's in my top 5 blends and an everyday favorite.
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