Is there any kind of guide to C&D?

[cosmicfolklore]

Epiphany is a really good and creamy English that I really like.

Star if the East Flake is an English with a buttermilk sourness that I like.

If you’re a Virginia Lover and you haven’t tried their Virginia Flake, you’re missing out.

I keep a pound bag of Havana Daydream open all summer. To me its a spicy Virginia with hints of notes that remind me of Cuban cigars, but it’s not like smoking a cigar at all. It’s my sweaty Southern summer smoke.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Oh yeh, don’t try Kelly’s Coin. Just let me be the only person in the world that loves it.

 

[butsiethesungo]

Grang

Pegasus is a masterful blend. When fresh it delivers quite pronounced flavors, albeit with a tingle when blown through the nose. With age, it achieves its mellowness, but the flavors become softer, melded. It is a comfort tobacco for me, fresh or with some jar time. (I have six pounds cellared).

Also agree with whomever said, come back to one that you don’t get much from initially. This has proven true for me with most of the CD Burley forward blends to include Old Joe Krantz Blue (love it), Big n Burley, and Haunted Bookshop which I could coax nothing from initially, provided an eye opening hour.

But 200 Blends??? Some of us don’t have enough time left to be buying green bananas.

I agree with Grangerou about OJK, HH, and Pegasus—-These are some of my favorite C&D burley forward blends. Now Big and Burley—as the old saying goes—-will put hair on your chest!

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

Not sure if this has been mentioned, and it's just my opinion on C&D blends.
But I've found 2 things that help their blends for me - and I only smoke their VA and VaPer blends really.

Their VA's taste young to me (only way I know to describe it) so I've found I don't really enjoy them fresh. But I love them after a year plus of age on em. Secondly, if I open I tin I jar it and let it sit 2 weeks before smoking it. I don't know why, but fresh from the tin has never been enjoyable to me. A couple weeks in the jar does something that really helps.
Opening Night is a great example. Fresh, I didn't get the hype. It was flat and kinda rough. After a year or less on the jar I revised the blend. Absolutely loved the stuff.
Again, this is just my experience. YMMV

Some VA blends I enjoy:
Bayou Morning Flake, Kajun Kake, Opening Night, Interlude, Bijou, Sunday Picnic

Burley I enjoy:
Burley Flake 2 and 3, Pegasus, Old Joe Krantz

 

[Streeper541]

Lol thats like a new blend everyday for a year

.... and?

 

[JimInks]

I don’t recall it as being particularly spicy. However, @JimInks noted in his review on TR that “The perique is very spicy, raisiny, and slightly figgy, and adds a big kick to the experience as a secondary star.”

I would take Jim’s word over mine.

It may also be that they tinkered with the amounts of perique and DFK since I reviewed eight years ago. Not an uncommon experience these days.

 

[skeeter456]

.... and?

…. And what? You forgot the rest of your post.

 

[Steddy]

Oh yeh, don’t try Kelly’s Coin. Just let me be the only person in the world that loves it.

You smoke that weak shite?! It’s tobacco for toddlers.

 

[Steddy]

Leisure equals looking through C&D’s blends on Smokingpipes.com.