Favorites of Each Catagorie

[crusader]

What it's your favorite of each of the following...

Aro

English

Straight Va

Va Per

Va Bur

Burley
Mine goes,,,

Molto Dolce

Peretti Smiths Own

GH St. James

Solani Silver Flake

C&D Big and Burley
Go!,

 

[sablebrush52]

Aro - Don't really smoke aros much these days. Maybe Exotic Orange or Stonehaven?

English - Easy Chair

Straight Va - FVF, HOTW

Va/Per - GP-11

Va/Bur - Solani Silver

Burley - Don't do much burley either.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Aro - Exotic Orange

English - Black Frigate

Straight Va - Red Cake

Va Per - Salty Dogs

Va Bur - Old Dark Fired

Burley - Watch City Slices

 

[saltedplug]

Aro - WarHorse Red, Haddos

English - Quiet Nights

Straight Va - Christmas Cheer 2012, FVF

VA/Perique - Escudo, St. James Flake, Chenet's Cake

VA/Burley - Dark Flake

Burley - Old Dark Fired

 

[lazar]

Aro - Boswell's Piper's Pleasure

English - Pembroke

Straight Va - BBF I guess, but I'd rather smoke it with Firedance topping!

Va Per - if I had to choose, GH Louisiana Flake, but I'm not a Per fan.

Va Bur - SG 1792

Burley - N/A!
....and you forgot Va Or - McClelland Classic Samsun

 

[chilipalmer]

Hiya, Crusader...
Aromatic - Lane HG2000

English - Boswell's Countryside

Straight VA - Capstan Blue

VaPer - Sutliff 1849

VaBur - Peterson University Flake

Burley - Sir Walter Raleigh

 

[deathmetal]

Aro

English

Straight Va

Va Per

Va Bur

Burley

No

Nightcap

5100

Irish Oak

Home blended

Cotton Boll Twist

 

[jpmcwjr]

English: Bengal Slices

 

[cshubhra]

Aromatic - Germain's Plum Cake / Amphora Special Reserve Black Cavendish

English - Dunhill Nightcap, Ashton Artisan's Blend, Penzance (assuming I can get my hands on some)

Balkan - Dunhill London Mixture, Dunhill Durbar

straight Virginia - Yet to taste.

Va - Per - Liked Germain's Royal Jersey Perique, but this is a genre I need to get a lot of experience . I think I would like pale Virginia with spiced perique

Va Bur - Yet to taste

Burley - Yet to taste
Unclassified (English Style) - Miyagi's Mindfulness, occasional Frog Morton's Cellar

 

[fmgee]

aro: Ennerdale

English: Plum Pudding

Straight Va: FVF

Va Per: Old Gowrie ( I know light, or excluding, perique)

Va Bur ???

Burley Solani Aged Burley Flake

 

[bigpond]

aro-xxx

eng-xxx

va-bbf, hotw, brunello, sam's flake (hybrids are almost always better imo)

vaper-watch city 558, fillmore,

vabur-xxx

burl-watch city slices
Visited Watch City a few weeks back. Great place, highly recommend their blends, which are in another league relative to Peretti's. Its great to see a micro-blender pulling this kind of quality particularly one that has zero leaf currently sourced from c&d. Less homogeneity.

 

[mso489]

I have a list of favorites in most categories, but some favorites are:
Aro -- Iwan Ries Three Star Blue

English -- PS Proper English

Straight Va. -- Orlik Golden Sliced

Va/Per -- PC Russ O.'s Fire Storm

Va/Bur -- PC Russ O.'s Log Cabin

Burley -- Tabac-Manil Semois thick or medium cut

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Aro - Peterson's Summertime 2016

English - Yenidje Highlander

Straight Va - Any of the McClellands

Va Per - Escudo

Va Bur - GH&co Sliced Black Twist

Burley - Burley Flake #1

 

[wyfbane]

Fun times! Great question.
Aro - Dan, Devil's Holiday; Tinderbox, 12th Man

English - C&D, Pirate Kake; Dan, Midnight Ride

Straight Capstan Blue

Va Per - Dan, Limerick; SPC, Deception Pass

Va Bur - Mac Baren, ODF

Burley - Mac B, Navy Flake (2nd favorite tobacco); C&D, Old Joe Krantz;
Balkan - SPC, Plum Pudding (my favorite tobacco); Mac B, Vintage Syrian

 

[thomasw]

Aromatic

English

Straight Va

Va Per

Va Bur

Burley

HU Makhuwa

Nightcap / Northwoods

HH PVF / Red & Black

Cabbie's

ODF/ Silver Flake / BK

ABF / OJK / Semois

 

[newbroom]

notably absent from these lists till now:
aro: Captain Black White

English: too many

st va : McRannies Red Cake? or McLelland's 5100?

VaPa : Marlin Flake

VaBur: and this is really the one that surprised me JackKnifePlug

 

[mso489]

After my earlier post with disclaimer, i should say that if I responded in a few months, say after the first of the year, I would likely supply a completely different list. I think Forums members tend to be inveterate samplers and many of us go from blend to blend within each category. I'd still like all of the above, but they might not be first to come to mind.

 

[glassjapan]

Aro - none right now

English - 3 Oaks Syrian

Straight Va - Full Virginia Flake, McCranie's Red Flake

Va Per - Escudo (A & C Petersen's version)

Va Bur - Stonehaven, University Flake

Burley - Solani Aged Burley Flake

 

[jpmcwjr]

Most these lists leave out great American blends in every category, esp. English blends. You've got Pease, Std. Tobacco of PA, Hearth and Home, Seattle Pipe Club, Wilke, Peretti and more.

 

[deathmetal]

Yep, these are more likely going to be rotating lists than fixed "just this one."
What people are looking for, generally, is how to find a representative blend of every type.
This should probably be done by using the shorthand for what's in the blend, like in Va/Bur/Per, so that an English for example would be Va/Lat/Or (Valator? sounds like a character from Conan...).
For newish pipers, that might make more sense...