"Blind Buying" 16oz of GL Pease - Help me Pick which Blends!

[Aylesbury Pike]

Would it be worth your while to get a cheap Ryanair flight over to Germany, stock up a bit, even post some back to yourself, then fly home?

Almost certainly (how insane is that?), especially as you can bring up to 1kg back form within the EU. I've actually got a friend visiting from germany soon who's bringing me a few cans (including some C&D "From Beyond" which seems long sold out from all US retailers).

 

[JoburgB2]

Meridian is a rather curious blend. I enjoyed it a lot. Odyssey isn't exactly the Lat bomb some say.
Cairo is awesome. There are others if Latakia is what you are looking for from GLP.

Bullet08, I also like Cairo. Love it. To me it seems dry and citrusy. The Virginia and Oriental ribbons give an unmistakable intoxicating aroma not unlike a fresh packet of 20 cigarettes with the iconic illustration of the camel on the front. Not in a bad way, but in a good way. It’s very different, but I doubt it would be a popular favourite of many. Barbary Coast is also different - who else would blend cube cut burley with a dash of perique? There are many others. Pease is prolific and inventive. Who else wishes they could just load up and buy a tin of each and every blend?

 

[JOHN72]

One of my favorite tobaccos, which I no longer have, nor can I buy from the USA, is Navigator.

 

[londonbriar]

FWIW

If you like Nightcap, go for Quiet Nights. Maltese falcon is another amazing rich dark latakia, one of my faves.

Westminster is a classic English blend.

If you like virginia perique, fillmore is excellent

If you are interested in Cigar leaf blends, Robusto is a classic cigar leaf mixture.

 

[Scottmi]

SIXPENCE!

 

[krizzose]

I just need to rant for the Irish! Seriously Peterson, an Irish Pipe Institute, and the Irish have terrible tobacco laws and no tobacco in Ireland! This is ridiculous!

Seriously, if I lived near Peterson, my Irish Ass would be over there, trying to understand how to turn this around in Ireland!

An Irishman with a pipe and struggling to buy pipe tobacco, doesn’t sound right to me!

What bloody next, going to take a decent, hardworking Irishman’s Pint away too!

So sorry to hear!

P.S. @swilford with SPC owning Peterson, anything in Ireland being done to turn this all around?

So sad too that SPC EU can’t find a way to sell tobacco for the EU.

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I did a study abroad summer semester in Dublin in 1995, so before the anti-tobacco laws, but well before I was interested in pipes. I must have walked by Peterson’s (when it was still on Grafton St) 100 times, and never stepped inside

The silver lining was that many of those walk-bys were to or from McDaid’s, O’Donoghue’s, or Toner’s, so the steps were not wasted.

FWIW:

Windjammer
Telegraph Hill
Embarcadero
Barbary Coast

 

[beef]

I don't love englishes, but I like westminster a lot.

 

[Sobrbiker]

@Aylesbury Pike did you ever buy anything?

 

[hoipolloiglasgow]

Quiet Nights, Westminster, Charing Cross, and Drucquer&Sons Levant are his best IMHO. There are many others that are fantastic.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Quiet Nights and Navigator.