Changing Temps, Changing Blends

[jbfrady]

With fall hitting, I'm trending towards lighter Virginias and at this moment I'm totally smitten with Dan Tobacco's Milonga. There's something about finally being able to open all the windows while in carving and sanding away with a light smoke. Total change of pace from the Windjammer I'd so recently touted.

I feel pretty certain this is the same seasonal phenomenon described by JD Cole on the Radio Show as he noted the increase in lighter aromatic sales each fall. Anybody else falling prey to the seasonal swing?

 

[AcesAndEights]

Oh yes. Definitely a thing for me. Reaching for aros and English blends a bit more frequently for the last few weeks

 

[Waning Embers]

Anybody else falling prey to the seasonal swing?

Not a seasonal smoker. I just smoke whatever strikes my interest throughout the year.

 

[Peter Turbo]

I usually go for heavier blends when the weather cools and smoke lighter blends when its warm.

It was cool and rainy all last week (felt like fall) and I was hitting the H&H First Snow pretty hard. This week we have a bit of an Indian summer going (80 today!) and its back to some lighter, bright VAs that I like and some aros.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Fall weather is usually 90-85F here. But, the leaves still drop, and I start to grab more burley blends in the Fall. I have already popped a tin of Kelly's Coin.
But, by the time we start having frigid 60F days, I start grabbing latakia more often. Jeez, I hate winter, and having to wear socks.

 

[AcesAndEights]

Fall weather is usually 90-85F here. But, the leaves still drop, and I start to grab more burley blends in the Fall. I have already popped a tin of Kelly's Coin.
But, by the time we start having frigid 60F days, I start grabbing latakia more often. Jeez, I hate winter, and having to wear socks.

I hate when the temp here gets below 30 and I gotta swap my shorts for real pants.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I hate when the temp here gets below 30 and I gotta swap my shorts for real pants.

Oh hell naw... if it starts getting to be 30F for any length of time here, I will just keep going South.

 

[Bbailey324]

I tend more towards English blends in the cooler months. Smoking on a tin of MM965 and match 759 now along with some summer aromatics I found such as 7 Seas Regular. Still not that much cooler here in Texas.

 

[El Capitán]

I'll be into some Sutliff Christmas Spice by the end of October. Cooler it gets here the heavier my blends are.

 

[Servant King]

Yep, I likewise go heavier as the mercury drops, and always have. Nothing I ever planned to do, just...I dunno. Maybe it's psychological, or maybe I'm just that impressionable. I'm leaning more toward the latter former.

Despite a forecasted (as if those idiots know what they're talking about!) warm up toward the end of this week, it suddenly got a lot colder here beginning this past weekend. Sure enough, my tendency to reach for Newminster 400, OGS, Vanilla Roll Cake and the like, was, like clockwork, inexplicably replaced by my reaching for Mac Baren Golden Extra, Balkan Sasieni, Lane BCA etc. And since I'm an outdoor pipe smoker exclusively, my time to enjoy these blends in a hypothermia-free setting is relatively short.

It's times like these I wish I had a man-cave. Oh well, some day in the future!

 

[RookieGuy80]

This time of year I find myself smoking more aromatics. This is the time of year where my entire neighborhood has their windows open. Vapers and balkans are still heavily in the rotation, but there are more aromatics in the mix.

 

[Dublin Old Man]

I smoke the same kinds of blends all seasons. I never found any blend to be better/worse based upon ambient temperature.

 

[sardonicus87]

My only change is like others, I can't smoke heavier blends when it's a heat index of 115°F outside... it's pretty much 90% burley blends in summer.

Weather cools off and I will smoke anything. That my only real seasonal change. Cold weather = anything goes, hot weather = mostly only burley and lighter VAs, sometimes a light aro.