How Many Different Blends Have You Tried?

[rmbittner]

Spartan asked:
"What is the blend you have cellared the most of?"
These are my top 4, all in tins...
Esoterica Penzance: 1 pound, plus 30 tins

GLPease Westminster: 7 1/2 pounds

McClelland Yenidje Highland: 54 tins

Samuel Gawith Full Virginia Flake: 28 tins
Bob

 

[rockford]

I am about a year in and have tried 35 different blends. I have another 12 waiting in the wings. Most cellared for me so far are MacBaren Old Dark Fired and Dunhill MM965.

 

[goldsm]

I'd been smoke only 1 year so far. Below is all i did smoked.

Skandinavik Full Aroma

Mac Bare 7 Sea Royal

Honey & Chocolate

Sutliff PS CD Blend

Blend No.5

Peter Stokkebye Golden Dansk

Dansk Black

Nougat

Cherry Bonbon

BCA

Proper English

English Oriental Supureme

Smoker's Pride Carvendash

Brigadier Black Gettysburg

Bull Run

Alamo

Waterloo

Lane 1Q

Dunhill Night Cap

H & H Anniversary Kake

Sparrow Regular

lite

Mentol

Bull Durhan Mentol

Smokin Joes Mentol

As a regular daily blends are Sutliff Blend No.5 and Lane 1Q.

Best blend was Dunhill Night Cap.

 

[mortonbriar]

4 years of pipe, and probably about 50 blends tried. I have a rough system after the first bowl where i will...
A. Give it away if i despise it.

B. Cautiously try it again a week later in a trusty and consistent pipe if it was below or just on average.

C. Excitedly try it in any and every pipe with various single malt/tea/coffee drink combinations if i liked the first bowl.
If I really liked it after the whole tin or pouch is done, i add it to my 'keep in rotation' list and buy more. (this is all in my head, not on a spreadsheet). So far i only have 8 blends that i would confidently cellar in bulk. I really enjoy the trial and error experimentation though...

 

[petes03]

@spartan. I'd say the only ones I have more than 2lbs of are H&H Mazatec and Black House. I have quite a few in the 1/2lb to 1-1/2lbs range.

 

[judcole]

My problem would be that I didn't keep track of what I smoked,back when I was young and starting out. I'd guess well north of 200 blends.

 

[samanden]

I have tried about 20 blends over a 6yr period. And I smoke about a bowl a day, so I wouldn't consider myself dabbling. Many were repeated over the years, e.g. FVF, Stonehaven, MB Navy Flake, and RM Red Virginia. I have well over a hundred different blends in my cellar. Slow and steady wins the taste!
Sam

 

[johnnyiii]

5 blends a year sounds like a nice leisure sampling. Being new I have tried about 20 in the past four months, but have settled on my gotos and am now at a leisure trying pace.
Till now my log is in my head, but on a folded piece of paper I have my notes on my last 10 bulk purchases. Advice I got here. I just skipped the fancy notebook part of the advice out of laziness over a trip to the store. Plus the cost of a notebook would take away from that extra 1oz sample I could buy. :P haha
Off to my tobacconist today to stock up on my favorite blend.