If You Had to Choose Only One Tobacco

[anotherbob]

Probably a toss up between EGR and Cary Grant by Kramers. I mean they scratch several itches at the same time. Both are the kind of blends I get a different experience by focusing more on certain aspects of their flavor.

 

[JimInks]

jiminks has smoked more blends than anyone I know about and he always seems to come home to Edward G. Robinson, so that might be the one.

Actually, I change my mind so often on what is my current favorite that I can't list one.

 

[krizzose]

Goddammit. These threads are always pointless but always fun.

Even though it feels like I'm betraying the 15 other blends I really, really, like.......

MARLIN FLAKE

 

[markus]

Today it would be Elizabethan Mixture, next week it will probably change.

 

[Ziggywm]

Amphora Original

 

[Servant King]

"I’ll trample Grandma for a tin..."

Trampling grandma...is that code for something? I mean, I try to be up to snuff on all the idioms, but it's inevitable that some just slip through the cracks.

 

[Servant King]

Drew Estate Grand Central.

 

[autumnfog]

Right now, Capstan Blue.

 

[greeneyes]

Yeah, that one you mentioned would be my choice also, but I've noticed the quality has been steadily decreasing over the years and it's getting harder and harder to find.

Yeah, that's the one.

 

[The Clay King]

My taste changes... Right now I’m enjoying Gawith Hoggarth & Co.’s American Cherry Vanilla, and it’s Pret-ty, Pret-ty, Pretty good... but really, most anything by them is good ?
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@STP That's my favourite as well!

 

[marconi]

From a long list of favourites It would have to be between FVF and Gawiths Reunion nos 27 Perique Flake.Going by how much I smoke of a blend.It would be a clear win for FVF.I could easily live with that decision

 

[Worknman]

Old Dark Fired or Old Gowrie or Reiner Long Golden Flake or XX Flake Dark

 

[chefmike]

I realize in thinking about an answer to this that i am highly seasonal in what I smoke, highly exploratory and very memory driven. I seem to hit a favorite and freeze it in a memory and don't want to sully the memory. OGS for instance: I took a tin to Europe a few years ago as the only smoke for a week visiting friends with my wife. OGS is locked walking perfect fall days in Amsterdam and southern Germany/France/Switzerland. I took some rando $30 pipe (because anything I travel with is sacrificial as necessary... I am not even sure I have that pipe still. I need to look!) OGS was also my introduction to age and tobacco, as not too long after that trip I met a guy at the brewery that came to our pipe night who shared several jars freely. 12 or 15 year old OGS: my mind was BLOWN. I knew OGS really well in that moment and was fascinated to taste in so transformed. The other thing he shared was Woodbridge, which also blew my mind. Never seen it since... maybe because the memory of the generous sharing is perhaps better than buying the tobacco ever could be.

All that to say... no clue. Burley #3, likely because I had 1 tin and smoked through it and savored every bowl? Or maybe I will just go with Granger and leave all the rest as memories of an amazing journey. And I don't think I have ever had it!

 

[cshubhra]

I will buy in large amounts ... Blend Your Own Tobacco kit

 

[troyniss]

Newminster Light Burley

 

[karam]

Can't pick one because I know I'll crave one of the others after a while:

• old dark fired
• sweet rum twist
• nightcap
• 1792 flake
• deluxe navy rolls

 

[F4RM3R]

I only smoke whole leaf blends i make and lately my go to has been a blend with:

-kentucky
-stoved red virginia
-black stoved bright virginia
-orientals(basma and prelip)
-perique

Pressed into a plug of course!

It covers alot of bases and progresses with a wide range of melding flavours . Good strength too, cause if it's gonna be only one blend I can smoke it may as well have a little kick.

 

[coming to_falling too]

I only smoke whole leaf blends i make and lately my go to has been a blend with:

-kentucky
-stoved red virginia
-black stoved bright virginia
-orientals(basma and prelip)
-perique

Pressed into a plug of course!

It covers alot of bases and progresses with a wide range of melding flavours . Good strength too, cause if it's gonna be only one blend I can smoke it may as well have a little kick.

Damn, that there sounds excellent.

 

[SlowerThanMost]

Presbyterian Mixture. I smoke a wide variety of blends depending on my mood, time of day, ect. But that's the blend that i could grab day in and day out. My recent miss of an aged lot of 10 tins still has my eyes watering.

 

[karam]

I only smoke whole leaf blends i make and lately my go to has been a blend with:

-kentucky
-stoved red virginia
-black stoved bright virginia
-orientals(basma and prelip)
-perique

Pressed into a plug of course!

It covers alot of bases and progresses with a wide range of melding flavours . Good strength too, cause if it's gonna be only one blend I can smoke it may as well have a little kick.

What is black stoved bright Virginia?
Do you blend all of these together? Asking because with no knowledge of the proportions, any of the Basma, Prilep, Kentucky or Perique can likely overpower the rest easily. Out of these I've smoked straight Perique, Kentucky and Basma, for me the oriental are outliers but at the same time can likely be great condiments!