Favorite Codger Blend

[PApiper63]

I realize that a lot of you don't smoke codger blends but for those of you that do please answer the following.
1. What is your favorite codger blend?
2. How often do you smoke it and is it part of your rotation?

Thanks so much, fellow Pipers

 

[Pipke]

My impression is that codger blends are often smoked and popular. There are many codgers here!

1. Daughters and Ryan Two Timer
2. I smoke it every week and it's part of my rotation.

I'll smoke Captain Black Original, but it's not currently in my rotation.

 

[PaulRVA]

In Rotation None.
If it has to be a Codger then
Mixture 79, Borkum Riff Original or Half / Half.

 

[BingBong]

In the UK, Three Nuns all I smoked until I went off the modern version. Now, I no longer have a codger goto. St Bruno / Gold Block / Erinmore now and again if I have some in, these are all codgers.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I don't really think of Two Timer as a codger blend, although I too smoke a lot of Two Timer. A really good unadulterated burley. To me it has to be one of the iconic blends that has set on the shelf in a convenience store for a few months to really deepen in flavor.

I will smoke some Prince Albert or Carter Hall, but not very often. When I used to set on a tractor for 8 hours a day, I kept Carter Hall on hand because of the ease of just scooping it out of the bag with one hand.

All of them just come across as too aromatic for my tastes.

Ohhh, Five Brothers... It is probably the least cased of all of the codger blends.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I've never seen some of these mentioned on the shelves of a drug store or convenience store. I'm not sure what definition of a codger blend some are using.

 

[Pipke]

I don't really think of Two Timer as a codger blend, although I too smoke a lot of Two Timer.

I get it, and sort of agree. But a bag of any DR tobacco would look at home on the shelf at my local Smoke n' Vapes shop, with all the other bags of bulk tobacco for sale.

So, is a codger blend a "classic" codger blend or can their be "modern" codger blends? The places where you used to be able to buy tobacco back in the day might not even sell tobacco anymore. The market looks different than it was decades ago.

 

[Grangerous]

1. Granger
2. Daily

Runner up Codger? Half n Half

 

[cosmicfolklore]

So, is a codger blend a "classic" codger blend or can their be "modern" codger blends? The places where you used to be able to buy tobacco back in the day might not even sell tobacco anymore. The market looks different than it was decades ago.

I can still find tobaccos behind the counters of drug stores, grocers, and convenience stores, especially older ones. Sure, there are newer convenience stores that don't even sell cigarettes any more. But, in my mind a codger blend has to be something sold in places where the more boutique stuff isn't sold.

 

[HeavyLeadBelly]

Edgeworth Ready Rubbed match. Never had the drugstore version but it’s my understanding that Edgeworth was a common drugstore brand? I could be very wrong but I do enjoy this one with coffee in the morning though it’s not in my current rotation.

 

[walkingpipeguy]

My favorite is a bulk match version of Carter Hall, definitely going to pick up a tub of the real stuff when I run low. It's in my regular rotation and I smoke it more than anything else. Rarely go a week without it. It seems to re-center my palate when latakia blends or aromatics lose their savor.

 

[SmokeyJock]

Assuming "codger blend" means otc baccy you can find in supermarkets, Special Virginia, I smoke it daily and prefer it to a lot of the "fancier" blends I've tried, has a lovely sweet casing that's not too heavy and reminds me of rum, smells like spiced raisins in the packet

 

[crawdad]

Granger and match Walnut

 

[Chasing Embers]

Mixture 79. I don't do a rotation but I do have many pounds of it.

 

[Hutch Piper]

The old Sir Walter Raleigh (not the new, which tastes like vinegar). Yes, in the rotation.

 

[anotherbob]

five bros

 

[Sig]

St Bruno and Half&Half.
I smoke them quite often.

 

[Infantry23]

I have really liked Carter Hall and I enjoy Captain Black when I want to slum it

Neither are in my rotation usually, although I'm currently working through a pouch of Captain Black cherry that is surprisingly enjoyable.

 

[warren]

I'm not sure what definition of a codger blend some are using.

Yup, without the OP's definition of "codger blend" hard to answer.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Yup, without the OP's definition of "codger blend" hard to answer.

I associate so called codger blends with those widely available not overly pricey mixures' which have been offered to smokers very long period of times ,and which more than not come in pouches