How Often does Your Favorite Tobacco Change?

[BriarLinedMeer]

Title edited for capitals. Rule 9.

I'm sitting here, with a bowl of aged HH ODF, socks get blown off.
Then light up a bowl of PPSR, and once again socks blown off.
Then I light up a bowl of aged Orliks DSK, socks blown off.


How often does your favorite tobacco change for you?

 

[Servant King]

Less often than the number of pairs of socks I own, which is fortunate.

It tends to change about once annually, but favorites within a particular blend genre change more often, perhaps every couple of months.

 

[BriarLinedMeer]

I've noticed it seems to cycle between good kentuckies, and good lats.

It's odd, I can't seem to get into the straight virginias, but will keep trying!

 

[BriarLinedMeer]

If I can somehow figure out how to make homegrown / made ODF then I'll be sorted for life in my opinion.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Been smoking Black Frigate and McClelland Virginias since the '90s and a few recently found blends for the past several years. Old Dark Fired has been a regular since 2012. I'd say very rarely. You can have multiple favorites.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Orliks DSK

Being discontinued, I wouldn't get overly fond of that one. Plus, it loses something with age.

 

[BriarLinedMeer]

Being discontinued, I wouldn't get overly fond of that one. Plus, it loses something with age.

I have an unopened tin of it, I'm waiting for a decade of age on it before opening it, in your experience, you believe it isn't as good aged?

 

[Chasing Embers]

I have an unopened tin of it, I'm waiting for a decade of age on it before opening it, in your experience, you believe it isn't as good aged?

It loses most of the licorice topping in just a couple of years defeating the intent of the blender. Aging often guarantees change, but not always for the better. Though cellaring can bolster against price increase and the discontinuation of favorites, pipe tobacco is intended by the manufacturer to be enjoyed shortly after purchase. There was even an email response posted here some time ago where Germain's scoffed at the notion of aging.

 

[judcole]

My favorite tobacco is the one I am smoking at the time.
I have a number of blends that are always in rotation; some of them have been for years - but I don't worry about which is my favorite - I just enjoy,
YMMV.

 

[AcesAndEights]

I’m still trying everything! Haven’t smoked a second tin of anything yet. And honestly, I’ve yet to try something that I didn’t at least like a little, but I also haven’t had anything that has made me think it’s “the one” either.

 

[Auxsender]

I'm sitting here, with a bowl of aged HH ODF, socks get blown off.
Then light up a bowl of PPSR, and once again socks blown off.
Then I light up a bowl of aged Orliks DSK, socks blown off.


How often does your favorite tobacco change for you?

Perhaps your socks are too loose.

 

[fireground_piper]

Not really for me. After I finally determined the 5 or 6 that just really click with me, most times I’m smoking something else I can’t help but prefer I was smoking one of my favorites.

Getting through all the other blends accumulated to find my favorites though needs to be done. It’s not bad, but it’s not my favorites either. Eventually I’ll just have them.

 

[Grangerous]

My favorite tobacco changes daily… into SMOKE

 

[hawky454]

There was even an email response posted here some time ago where Germain's scoffed at the notion of aging.

I missed that… do you know the name of the the thread? I would like to see that.

 

[tmcg81]

There's days where certain blends hit a little different. Occasionally one of my favorites just tasts extra good, but maybe I'm just boring.

 

[seanv]

I missed that… do you know the name of the the thread? I would like to see that.

It was Gawith and Hoggarth if I remember correctly the thread was about the poor seals on recent shipments

 

[yanoJL]

I missed that… do you know the name of the the thread? I would like to see that.

I'm not positive, but this (below) might be the thread @Chasing Embers was referring to:

Stonehaven/jJ f Germain & Co. Customer support - draw your own conclusion :: General Pipe Smoking Discussion

Dear Mr. Bakkus, We manufacture our tobacco to be enjoyed at acquisition. If you wish to "cellar" our blends, be it on your own head. From our point of view, why would you want to faff around with our product? We produce hand-made products only. Your contents may vary. That is all. Please do not...

www.pipesmagazine.com

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We manufacture our tobacco to be enjoyed at acquisition.
If you wish to "cellar" our blends, be it on your own head.
From our point of view, why would you want to faff around with our product?
......
John Germain

 

[lukasstrifeson]

I'm sitting here, with a bowl of aged HH ODF, socks get blown off.
Then light up a bowl of PPSR, and once again socks blown off.
Then I light up a bowl of aged Orliks DSK, socks blown off.


How often does your favorite tobacco change for you?

I think you're confusing "favorite" with "the one you're currently smoking"

 

[AcesAndEights]

It was Gawith and Hoggarth if I remember correctly the thread was about the poor seals on recent shipments

Is it me, or does there seem to be a correlation between the companies that use square tins and those that scoff at aging tobacco?

 

[sablebrush52]

There was even an email response posted here some time ago where Germain's scoffed at the notion of aging.

Yep. Robert Germain on the topic of aging: Quit faffing about!

For the past 15 years I've been mostly a straight Virginia or VaPer smoker. Just suddenly burned out on Latakia and found the smell of it repulsive and nauseating. Since then I've regained some ability to enjoy Latakia in small condimental amounts.

Once or twice a month I'll really enjoy a bowl or two of a good English or Balkan blend like Renaissance or Bohemian Scandal.

The current Balkan Sobranie is, without a doubt, the single most repulsive blend that I've smoked in over 50 years of smoking, and I loved the real stuff when it was made for real in the 1970's. Stick a famous name and label on a tin of gasoline infused puppy farts and people will rush to smoke it.

I don't often smoke more than a single blend in a day. Too much work to clean all those pipes. Usually I smoke a blend for a few days, or sometime just smoke through the tin, then switch to something else.