Favorite Seasonal Blends?
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Sleepy Hollow and Plum Pudding.
enjoy both and like a stooge I bought pounds my first year. So don’t get the excitement of buying new.
enjoy both and like a stooge I bought pounds my first year. So don’t get the excitement of buying new.
Cringle Flake, C&D Christmas offerings are always nice. Corn Cob Pipe and a Button Nose is always a crowd pleaser. I like to smoke it while cooking Christmas dinner.
I normally don't buy tobacco based on seasonality but the idea of getting some Cringle Flake somehow appeals to me.
I'm still madly in love with last year's Cringle Flake. If this year's release follows a similar recipe I will buy deep.
Not much difference between it and Sutliff's Pumpkin Spice. I'm very suspicious that it may even be a case of rebranding.
I enjoy the House Reserve spring and fall releases. Cringe Flake, as mentioned. All the WSC holiday releases.
There is no seasonality in my pipe smoking (Or smoking in general) - I pretty much smoke anything I feel like, any time. Only exception is cigars - Since I don’t smoke cigars inside, winter sees less cigar smoking.
I believe many members in this site are not seasonal smoker.
I believe many members in this site are not seasonal smoker.
I think the OP was referring to season and holiday specific blends.
Storyteller’s Pipe - The Holly King
Cringle Flake was good, I don’t know if We Three Kings is a seasonal release, but I liked that as well.
Cringle Flake was good, I don’t know if We Three Kings is a seasonal release, but I liked that as well.
Kind of the same isn’t it
1. Get Eight State Burley in the spring but smoke it all year
2. Get Carolina Red Flake in summer and smoke it whole year
3. Get Sun Bear late summer and smoke it entire year
4. Get Cringle Flake in winter and smoke it all year
Not at all. The OP is referring to blends that are released during holidays or seasons not the notion that certain genres are only smoked during certain seasons. No mention of only smoking those blends exclusively during their time of release. Eight State Burley (Sir Walter Raleigh Aromatic) and Carolina Red Flake aren't seasonal themed.
I've enjoyed Jolly Old St. Nicholas and We Three Kings. I only have about half a tin of St. Nicholas which was the 2018 holiday release....hoping that makes an appearance again to pick a few more up.
I'm a sucker for Holiday blends & have tried many over the years.
Straus Tobacconists' Sleepy Hollow & Wenceslas are great.
I also like Sutliff Pumpkin Spice & Christmas Spice. They are similar (if not identical!) to the Straus offerings.
In addition to the delicious Figgy Pudding, The Country Squire's Cordial Friends shows up before Christmas & it also really good.
Peretti puts out their terrific Thanksgiving Day around Nov. 1st & usually a Yuletide Blend Dec. 1.
Boswell's Christmas Cookie is available all year & it's outstanding.
In the past, Uhle's & Milan Tobacconists have sporadically put out Holiday blends.
Watch City Cigars puts out Holiday blends - haven't tried any of them but Ernie's other blends that I've tried are outstanding.
Cornell & Diehl has had multiple Holiday blends & they're also really good.
A few years ago from around Thanksgiving until the New Year I only smoked many of these blends. That started my on an aromatic pipe tobacco bender - I still haven't recovered!
I like Sutliff’s Pumpkin and Christmas Spice, and Cornell & Diehl’s holiday offerings. I plan to purchase Boswell's Christmas Cookie this year
I'll second the love for Boswell's "Christmas Cookie." It's a guilty pleasure of mine, and one I have to be in a mood for, but it's delightful.
I don't think this speaks to your original question, but I do find there are certain families of tobacco I enjoy more in the cold seasons. I will barely touch latakia and balkan blends during the warm seasons, but on a cold rainy night in Fall? I'm much more inclined to do so. I'm this way with my beers, too. I drink way more stouts and porters when it is cold, and barely touch them during summer. Not sure why, but it's how I am. But I mostly just smoke/drink whatever and whenever.
I don't think this speaks to your original question, but I do find there are certain families of tobacco I enjoy more in the cold seasons. I will barely touch latakia and balkan blends during the warm seasons, but on a cold rainy night in Fall? I'm much more inclined to do so. I'm this way with my beers, too. I drink way more stouts and porters when it is cold, and barely touch them during summer. Not sure why, but it's how I am. But I mostly just smoke/drink whatever and whenever.