If You Could Only Have 7 Tobaccos.. Which Ones Are They?

[radrick96]

What section of FL are you in? Winter Garden, myself.

I love winter garden. Best cycling trail! I live in the Metrowest/dr Phillips area off Kirkman!

 

[gamzultovah]

I love winter garden. Best cycling trail! I live in the Metrowest/dr Phillips area off Kirkman!

I know Dr. Phillips well. My wife and I used to like going to Big Fin’s during happy hour and sit outside and enjoy the company. Of course, this is when we lived downtown. Maybe we can get together sometime for a smoke? I don’t know too many other serious pipe smokers in the area.

Talk to you soon,
Bob

 

[Pipelady20]

Especially numbers 2, 4, 6, and 7.

Good lists! I'll take a different tack and list characteristics that I use to select tobaccos:

1. Blends or single leaf that are consistent in flavor and smoking characteristics
2. Blends that require fewer relights and burn evenly
3. Blends with fewer additives
4. Brands and blends that can respond to demand and are generally not listed as "out of stock"
5.Brands that have wide distribution for the convenience of their customers and are widely available
6.Blends that have irresistible flavor and get smoked up
7. Brands and blends that are good value for the price

 

[radrick96]

Especially numbers 2, 4, 6, and 7.

Especially #4 & #6!!!

 

[haparnold]

1. Cornell & Diehl Three Friars
2. Mac Baren HH Old Dark Fired
3. GL Pease Haddo's Delight
4. Esoterica Dunbar
5. GL Pease Westminster
6. GL Pease Penny Farthing
7. Mac Baren HH Pure Virginia

 

[Jwebb90]

McClelland Pebblecut
McClelland 40th Anniversary
GL Pease Sixpence
GL Pease Telegraph Hill
Escudo
McConnell Scottish Flake
SG Full Virginia Flake

 

[condorlover1]

Warrior Plug
Condor Plug
Velvan Plug
SG RB Plug
SG Cobb Plug
SG Brown Twist
XXX Black Twist

 

[radrick96]

Warrior Plug
Condor Plug
Velvan Plug
SG RB Plug
SG Cobb Plug
SG Brown Twist
XXX Black Twist

I recently got a Salty Dogs plug as I’ve never tried that method. Sounds like it’s your preference? What makes it better?

 

[ophiuchus]

This question is just too hard! ?

I don’t even have the widest cellar by a stretch, but only 7?

 

[mingc]

Ennerdale
Margate
Germain's Medium Flake
Canon Plug
Commonwealth
Luxury Navy Flake
Dark Kentucky Flakes

These are my current 7. I have almost 100 blends in my rotation and I smoked up all the GL Peases in the early rotation and I need to work them back in.

 

[Frozenoak]

Based on my cellar;

PS Bullseye Flake
PS Luxury Twist Flake
Newminster Navy Flake
Old Joe Krantz
SG Full Virginia Flake
HH Old Dark Fired
PS Toasted Burley

But there might be room for a brown or black Irish twist in there somewhere. I’ll know more in a couple days.

 

[Spinkle]

Mac Baren Mixture Scottish Blend
Mac Baren Plumcake
Sutliff 515 RC-1
Erinmore Flake
Amphora Kentucky Blend
Cornell & Diehl Autumn Evening
Dunhill London Mixture

 

[J.Henry845]

In no particular order:

Wessex Burley Slice
Samuel Gawith Squadron Leader
St. Bruno Flake
Peterson Irish Flake
G & H Happy Brown Bogie
G & H Dark Flake Scented
MacBaren HH Bold Kentucky

 

[Smoking In The Fast Lane]

There is a lot of great lists on here...

Tough to isolate seven candidates... A top 20 would have been easier ?

Watch City 558
C&D Opening Night
Fribourg & Treyer CVP
Watch City Rhythym & Blues
Seattle Pipe Club Mississippi River
Rattray Marlin Flake
Reiner Long Golden Flake

I don't consider Mississippi River a true English so I'll throw in Chelsea Morning as my change of pace English blend.

 

[marconi]

GH Nos 27 Perique Flake
Full virginia Flake
Balkan Sasieni
GH Broken Flake Nos7
Cabbies mixture
GH Best Brown Flake
Pegasus

 

[judcole]

This was a toughie, and my answer would have been different five years ago.
All of these are in production, and easy to obtain.
Dunhill Flake
Dunhill Standard
Peterson Old Dublin
Capstan Blue (flake or ready rubbed)
Amphora Regular
MacBaren Mixture (Scottish)
PS Natural Dutch Cavendish

Reluctantly omitted:
MacBaren Golden Extra
Sutlfiffe Virginia Slices
Paul's Pipe Shop Arrowhead

 

[puff_not_snuff]

Although I’ve only been in this a few months and have a great deal to try I think I have a pretty good handle on what I like, although I’m sure my list will be different a year or 5 from now, or after I get through some samples I just received...especially with all the great SG mixtures out there.

As it’s stands:
SG’s Skiff Mixture
SG’s Brown Sugar
GH’s Bob’s Flake
Peterson’s University Flake
LJ Peretti’s Cuban Mixture
LJ Peretti’s Park Square
some LJ Peretti I haven’t tried

 

[brooklynpiper]

Haunted Bookshop
Cabbies
40th Anniversary
St. James Flake
Dark Plug/Flake Unscented/Dark Birdseye
Old Dark Fired
Squadron Leader

with the last being most shaky--somedays I might choose nightcap, but there are a lot of English blends to try, though I don't think the category deserves another slot.

 

[dquisenberry]

I like variety too much. I looked at the nearly 40 blends I have open and could narrow them down, but not to 7. Then rule out all the stuff in my cellar. Could t do it.

 

[mycroftholmes]

1. GH Coniston cut plug
2. Revor plug
3. GH Rum flake
4. Germains brown flake
5. GH Westmorland slices
6. GH Brown twist sliced
7. GH Brown flake U/S