Creamy Mouthfeel Blends

[ofafeather]

You know, those blends where the smoke is so present in the mouth it’s most like you’re drinking something?

What makes a creamy mouthfeel and what blends really have it? My feeling is it is usually some form of burley/cavendish presence but that is a guess.

Two recent ones that come to mind are Seattle Pipe Club Plum Pudding and SG Kendal Cream.

 

[BarrelProof]

You know, those blends where the smoke is so present in the mouth it’s most like you’re drinking something?

What makes a creamy mouthfeel and what blends really have it? My feeling is it is usually some form of burley/cavendish presence but that is a guess.

Two recent ones that come to mind are Seattle Pipe Club Plum Pudding and SG Kendal Cream.

I literally asked @alaskanpiper this same question not 24 hours ago when we were fishing.

Plum Pudding SR has it, as well, and I noticed it in Penzance, which is what raised the question.

 

[Country Bladesmith]

Black Cavendish is known for this. Adds smoke volume, some creaminess, and also helps meld different types of tobacco together in a blend. Balkan Supreme is one of my favorites for that. Habana Daydream has it going on, too. SPC Plum Pudding uses it to the same effect as well. There’s lots of them.

 

[ofafeather]

Ho

I literally asked @alaskanpiper this same question not 24 hours ago when we were fishing.

Plum Pudding SR has it, as well, and I noticed it in Penzance, which is what raised the question.

How funny. I just saw his post about what you smoked on your trip.

 

[ofafeather]

Black Cavendish is known for this. Adds smoke volume, some creaminess, and also helps meld different types of tobacco together in a blend. Balkan Supreme is one of my favorites for that. Habana Daydream has it going on, too. SPC Plum Pudding uses it to the same effect as well. There’s lots of them.

I think you’re right about the BC. Haven’t tried Balkan Supreme or Habana Daydream. Is Balkan Supreme the Arango blend?

 

[jpberg]

I think it’s a Latakia/Oriental/maybe Virginia thing. McClelland Oriental #14 and SG Commonwealth were two big ones for me.

 

[mityahicks]

Samarra

 

[philobeddoe]

Samuel Gawith’s Perfection.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Is Balkan Supreme the Arango blend?

The Arango and Stokkebye Balkan Supreme are the same blend.

 

[logs]

Reiner Long Golden Flake comes to mind

 

[canucklehead]

The thickest creamy mouth feel I've had was from mixing black Cavendish with some cigar leaf.

Pirate Kake tastes creamy and sweet to me in some pipes, but bitter and tarry in others.

 

[ofafeather]

Pirate Kake tastes creamy and sweet to me in some pipes, but bitter and tarry in others.

I sometimes feel like that’s our own daily chemistry that doesn’t work. Just a theory though. The perfect blend in the perfect pipe and you try to recreate the smoke but it never reaches the same level...

 

[Country Bladesmith]

The Arango and Stokkebye Balkan Supreme are the same blend.

Yep. Embers beat me to it.

 

[Country Bladesmith]

Having some Match BS 759 right now that has that creamy mouthfeel also. ?

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Hearth & Home Sweet and Savory, Germain Uncle Toms Mixture, and McClelland Black & Lemon.
Wish I still had some of the latter.

 

[PipesRock]

Balkan Supreme... smokey, creamy, spicy goodness

 

[greeneyes]

I sometimes feel like that’s our own daily chemistry that doesn’t work. Just a theory though. The perfect blend in the perfect pipe and you try to recreate the smoke but it never reaches the same level...

Exactly what's happening to me now. I just smoked a great blend in a great pipe and it was a bit of a mediocre experience. My fault, not the tobacco or pipe to blame.

PS I need to send you those weights I keep forgetting ... I'll write a note on my hand.

 

[mso489]

+1 on the black Cavendish adding volume to the smoke and giving it mouth feel. Some vanilla blends do that nicely, and more with Cavendish.

 

[ofafeather]

PS I need to send you those weights I keep forgetting ... I'll write a note on my hand.

Lol. No worries.

 

[jttnk]

I too seek this in my tobacco. Balkan Supreme for sure. Key Largo, I think the cigar leaf, as mentioned above adds some creaminess as well.

Maybe I’ll try sprinkling a little BCA or some other cavendish based blend into some English and see what happens.