If You Had to Choose Only One Tobacco

[anotherbob]

Actions speak louder than words. Forget what you think your favorite is or would be. What have you smoked the most of, in your pipesmokerly history? With me, it would be Carter Hall, just based on pure weight consumed over the years, versus the weight of others I think I like more, or consider "higher quality." These poseurs eventually pall and end up stuck way back on a shelf somewhere. Just bein' real, or making the attempt.

using that my answer would be MacBarren Dark Twist.

 

[Wellington]

I heard that in the past it was common that people only smoked only one tobacco.

So if you had to choose only one tobacco for everyday smoke, which one would it be?

I would probably go for Squadron Leader.

Frog Morton Cellar if it still existed, no question.

I've been lost without it, but I enjoy Shephards Pie and Presbyterian. There's something about Half & Half I always love too.

 

[tobefrank]

Orlik Golden Sliced for me. That always was a very satisfying smoke when I still had some.

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

I have smoked the most Billy Budd Blonde out of my stash.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

Like asking if you could only drink one beer. I get my tobacco locally. I like the taste of Latakia (which has a famous “room note” f# …?”

 

[depriest1022]

I am new pipe smoker and it is maybe a bowl/day (or less). I would pick Orlik Golden Sliced or PS Luxury Navy Flake.

I have several aromatics that I was gifted when I started out last February, but I couldn’t pick one of those.

 

[solideogloria86]

I'd make my own blend. It would be one part whole flakes of Christmas Cheer and one part Cornell and Diehl Super Balkan. Then I'd have everything I'd need.

 

[ncshawn]

I think I would go with a pressed VaPer that is light on the perique.

 

[uzzi101]

This is an impossible question. Hmm. Solani 633 is way up there but it’s not very complex. Interested to see how it ages.

 

[UncleRasta]

Now I would say Solani 660 Silver Flake.

 

[lawdawg]

I’m surprised at all the codger burley choices. I love Carter Hall and several other burley blends, but I would probably pick Capstan Blue as my one and only smoke

 

[Sgetz]

It would have to be st Bruno flake for me. Followed by capstan blue

 

[Morrison Jeremiah]

I couldn't go without SG Full Virginia Plug.
So that would be the one for me, as long as I could keep all my pipes to bring out different aspects of the flavour.

 

[Inspired Idler]

I'd have to go with Deluxe Navy Rolls

 

[OlJawBone]

Glengarry flake. My only hold up would be maybe i will eventually need mor nicotine, but on this island, i smoke constantly, so its ok

 

[mso489]

Did I already post here? Well, anyway. If I could smoke only one blend, I'd smoke even less often, being a one bowl a day pipe smoker whose great joy in blends is variety. Sometimes I want a really strong blend (relatively, to me) like Big'n'Burley or Old Joe Krantz original. Other times I want something medium or mild, like Match Elizabethan or G&H Scottish Mixture. I guess I'd go for Old Joe Krantz, probably about twice a week.

I hedge on the strong tobacco after seeing a documentary on indigenous people in the Amazon and their tobacco, which is strong enough to have a psychoactive effect, though it is tobacco and not something else. What's strong to me would be extra mild to them.

 

[timt]

My answer the last time this was asked was probably FVF. This time, I'll go with GH&Co Dark Flake unscented. It's the closest pipe tobacco smoking experience to dipping Copenhagen. The flavor that seems to seep out of the stem of my pipe while smoking it is very reminiscent of dipping, at least to me.

 

[--dante--]

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

We already assigned you Edward G Robinson's Blend so you don't have to torture yourself with the decision. :p

 

[--dante--]

My favorites change too often, so, based on the fact it is the one tobacco that's never left my rotation, and I'm sure I've smoked more of it than any other, I'll go with Five Brothers.

 

[Morrison Jeremiah]

I hedge on the strong tobacco after seeing a documentary on indigenous people in the Amazon and their tobacco, which is strong enough to have a psychoactive effect, though it is tobacco and not something else.

I'm sure all tobacco has a psychoactive effect on me.
Seems that's the nature of nicotine for a lot of people.
That's the main reason I smoke, although I enjoy all the other things about pipe smoking.