How Often does Your Favorite Tobacco Change?

[Razorback]

My favorite tobaccos don’t change much anymore. After 5 years of pipe smoking, I mostly stick to three houses: GH (including SG), McClelland and Germain.

Mostly Virginia and Va/Per, very little lat. I’m happily stuck in my ways.

I only smoke 3-5 bowls a week, though.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I don’t like using the word “favorite”, although I do use the word, ha ha.
I just don’t have a favorite. I have a bunch that I really like a lot, but not one that stands out hugely above the rest. Thankfully.

 

[kcghost]

With me I was a staunch English smoker for decades and then I got into my 60's and all of a sudden it was over. I went from a confirmed English smoke to a VaPer smoker in about a year. My taste buds had morphed into wimps. C'est La Vie, C'est La Guerre, C'est La Shit. Just another way of saying that change is the only constant.

 

[NomadOrb]

The word favorite doesn't really enter into my thought process when it comes to tobacco.

I have three levels I judge tobacco by:

1. I really like it and will purchase more.

2. I'll smoke through it, but won't buy again unless I'm craving it.

3. I don't like it.

 

[JOHN72]

A couple of months ago I was smoking one of my favorites, and a smell of old wet newspapers came over me. But a week ago, smoking the same tobacco, I got a nice aroma again, I don't know what could have happened, I really don't remember drinking anything that damn night.

 

[Hillcrest]

Lately, with each new order. The last two orders were different from each other and the first order.

 

[anotherbob]

not often really. It's the same way I am with food. I like new food and try a lot of different things but the favorites the top three or whatever have stayed the same for years.

 

[krizzose]

I have a top tier of 10 or so that doesn’t really change much, but no one blend is at the top. I’ve added a couple of blends to that list in the last few years. There are dozens more blends that I like a lot and will smoke when one comes to mind

 

[JRW11b]

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?

I'm right there with you. I'm a newer pipe smoker myself and every day something new that I try becomes my favorite. I just popped a tin of Old Joe Krantz last night and thought, yep, this is it, after saying the same thing only hours earlier after my very first bowl of Chelsea Morning. Definitely having a good time sampling all the great blends I have.

 

[Coreios]

I have about 5 I'm married to. I'll smoke other stuff, but those 5 are favorites, and haven't changed my mind. Autumns Evening, Balkan Sabranie No. 759, Black Irish X, Cream Brulee, &. Gentleman Caller.

 

[biodarwin]

I usually go back and forth about 2 specific blends. Cut blend plug vs Cut Viriginia plug and Gold vs Blue Capstan. Both are great examples of me going back and forth.

 

[hawky454]

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

That was a great thread, thanks for sharing! I just read it in its entirety. @sablebrush52’s post near the end was just the icing on the cake, that had me cracking up, I may have to hunt down the thread it was intended for.

 

[didimauw]

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?

My favorites change monthly. But I ALWAYS rotate the same 6 blends, and don't stray from them.

 

[LeafErikson]

My favorites are Pegasus and sir Walter Raleigh, but if I could only smoke one forever, it’d be Pegasus. My tastes haven’t really changed much but I’ve heard of some on this forum that have experienced that.

 

[BarrelProof]

My favorite has changed once. It has remained the same since that profound moment.

 

[renfield]

I have several blends I like a lot more than everything else but hard to say I have a hardcore favorite. I add blends to the preferred list as I run across them, always returning to the preferred blends in between.

 

[filmguerilla]

My favorite tends to always be a Balkan blend. I get on kicks where I favor one over the others, like my current every-other-day bowl of Black House that I'm doing right now. But I really don't change in that regard. Now, that said, if you name a style of tobacco, I will also have a current favorite in that category as well, but my favorite overall tobacco will always be a Balkan blend.

 

[warren]

IRC's Three Star Blue has been my favorite for 20-30 years. So, every quarter century maybe?

 

[ThermionicScott]

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

Some really great posts in there about product consistency, too.

 

[vosBghos]

Whenever K&K gets it's hands on it