C&D Baileys Front Porch is the only blend I've ever thrown away, and I'm a big burley guy. Didn't pass it on, sell it, gift it etc, just straight in the trash.
Dishonorable Mentions
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One thing to always consider is the fact that every single blend no matter how widely viewed as repellant has a very good chance of being some ones favorite and their future sysphian quest for a match blend. Another thing if you hear what people say about certain blends no body sense the same exact things in them. The more complex the blend the more likely that is to stand out. In my mind I joke to myself sometimes that people either get good or bad blends.
And I am finally going to put out my evil opinion on which blend I found least enjoyable ever.
Capstan Blue. It was not bad, I even could see why it's a classic standard blend that has stood the test of time. Yet it bored me. No matter what I did with it, that blend never grabbed my attention and never gave me the full on smoking pleasure I can get even when a blend doesn't do much for me flavor wise. I tried it in every pipe I have. I aired it out and dried it out. But at the end of the day it just reminded me of similar blends that I can't get enough of. Maybe if it was my first of that style. And to me boring is worse then bad. Bad can be interesting and an experience. I can listen to (not all the time) music that is butchered, but I can't enjoy Kenny G.
Old Toby/Mirkwood from The Country Squire - not something a hobbit would smoke, can't see why anyone smokes this stuff.
Warped The Red Hunt - the topping on this...just awful, on top of what other wise would be amazing components.
Warped The Red Hunt - the topping on this...just awful, on top of what other wise would be amazing components.
C&D Autumn Evening. And I'm sorry to say many of the C&D blends period.
Exception being Black Duck.
I tend to like Dunhill and G.L Pease which is ironically made at the C&D factory...go figure.
Exception being Black Duck.
I tend to like Dunhill and G.L Pease which is ironically made at the C&D factory...go figure.
I usually find something to like about each blend I have tried but Blockade Runner just doesn't do anything good for me. Fresh or aged for a couple of years.... Just a no go.
I remember back in the late 80s a shop in town used to sell a bland called "Patriot". It tasted like Peragoric, which has got to be the worst tasting medicine in the world. Instead of Patriot I used to call it Skud. 
Borkum Riff Whiskey is mine. I really don't understand why it's in production and readily available all over. It's a disservice to the pipe smoking community, new smokers try it and assume all pipe tobacco tastes as awful.
HH Rustica might be the only premium blend I've ever tried that I tried and immediately didn't like, and still don't. Every other blend I've tried seems to have it's place, but Rustica just tasted like those craft IPAs where the brewer tries to overdo the hops to some ridiculous degree.
If anyone wants a jar with about 1/2 a tins worth of Rustica, PM me.
HH Rustica might be the only premium blend I've ever tried that I tried and immediately didn't like, and still don't. Every other blend I've tried seems to have it's place, but Rustica just tasted like those craft IPAs where the brewer tries to overdo the hops to some ridiculous degree.
If anyone wants a jar with about 1/2 a tins worth of Rustica, PM me.
I've often wondered how important the first few blends are in creating the expectations of a future palate. Or maybe the first few blends we actually like. Perhaps it has as much to do with the history of what we've tried as anything else. That would certainly add another factor to understanding palate varieties.
Ironically I just got more Old Toby in yesterday. Love the stuff!
There isn't any blend you can name that someone doesn't like it. I, for one, really like HH Rustica.
As always taste is going to be a very complicated thing with a lot of ins and outs and a lot of things that are too mixed in with each other to really pick apart. Like pulling the salt out of your soup!
EGR is a classic blend. If you don't like it, pass it along. It's pretty popular.
Black Frigate is the only one I've binned in quite a few years.
Royal Yacht is the only blend I could not get through a bowl without giving up. The flavor did not agree with me at all. I knew I was in trouble by my reaction to the tin note, but still gave it a chance.
The Frogs grossed me out many years ago (a sick metal taste), but then again I was never a McC fan.
Black Friggitt' was very nasty too.
Black Friggitt' was very nasty too.
What's the point of this thread? I'm too bored to read it anyway. Everything about pipe smoking is subjective, so why the rants?