Minimal Happiness Requirements?

[brian64]

OJK

 

[MidnightPuff]

I really could be completely happy with just Big n' Burley.

 

[Skippy Piper]

Lane Limited - RLP-6
Smoker's Pride - Cherry Cavendish
Daughters & Ryan - Windsail
Cornell & Diehl - Haunted Bookshop
Peterson - Early Morning Pipe
Gawith Hoggarth & Co. - Kendal Dark

That oughta do it.

Ya know, I tried to be all sensible picking a Virginia, a Burley, an English blend, and a dark fired blend in addition to the couple aromatics; but truth be told I haven't actually smoked any of those in months.

Aside from trying out a few samples I was sent the only blends I've actually smoked since the beginning of October have been Lane RLP-6, Smoker's Pride Cherry Cavendish, and Sutliff Rum & Maple. I've been happy smoking my pipe every day with just those three aromatics too, so I guess my real answer for the minimum I could be happy with are those three?

 

[jpberg]

Dark Plug and a cob.

 

[TimeKiller]

I probably have one of the widest cellars on here. Still, I could exist smoking only Captain Black til the end and that’d be fine.

A gentleman and a scholar.

 

[redbarchetta]

Orlik Golden Sliced, Peterson Flake, and Peterson Irish Flake.

 

[MisterBadger]

Oh, Lordy... I have stuff in store I haven't even tried yet - but they say, "what you've never had, you'll never miss.". On reflection, I'll concur with @jpberg, as long as the Dark Plug is the unscented kind.

 

[Barry H]

Minimum and maximum. Always have these plus the occasional other. For me, these are the best available and would miss any one (not in any order):

Germain's 1820 Mixture
McConnell Original Oriental
Peterson Nightcap
SG Skiff Mixture
McConnell Maduro
MB Mixture Scottish Blend
Rattray's Old Gowrie
Fribourg & Treyer Special Brown Flake
Peterson Dark Flake
Solani ABF Blend 656

Gun to head or desert Island absolute minimum:

McConnell Original Oriental
MB Mixture Scottish Blend
Rattray's Old Gowrie

 

[Douglas]

Elizabethan Mixture and Billy Budd

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

some Amphoras and Bruno and for the after dinner smoke some Kentucky Dark fired blend would a be nice

 

[SmokingInTheWind]

C&D OJK Blue
D&R; Two Timer, Three Sails, Windsail

If I was forced to go into full codger mode and pick one blend I would be quite content smoking just OJKB.

 

[tartanphantom]

A simple bale of air-cured Tennessee burley leaf would be more than enough to keep me happy for the rest of my days.

 

[GardenStateoftheArtBriar]

More and more I’m realizing any type of properly stored tobacco for its type in moderation -
I like the flavor of tobacco
As long as there isn’t too much sauce in it
And in any clean and available pipe

 

[elvishrunes]

A good Virginia flake, Orlik, Gawith FVF, Peterson Flake, ect or another yet to be determined flake would be enough, minimalist, or Captain Black white if I was forced on one OTC blend.

But a step up:

-A Va flake: above
-A dark fire: Gawith 1792
-An English: Commonwealth or Nightcap
-A Lakeland: Ennerdale
-An aro: Sunbear C and D

Pretty easy to run a lifetime on those.

 

[Kollman]

Robert McConnell Scottish Cake

 

[MontyTX]

-A basic burley (old CH, PS 702) with coffe, in a cob.
-A vaper (aged Escudo or Anniverary Kake)
-An English (not too picky here; but MF, SL, PS52 and Westminster are all good)

As a matter of fact, when the TAD virus isn’t upon me, the above is 90% of what I smoke, usually.

 

[anotherbob]

-A basic burley (old CH, PS 702) with coffe, in a cob.
-A vaper (aged Escudo or Anniverary Kake)
-An English (not too picky here; but MF, SL, PS52 and Westminster are all good)

As a matter of fact, when the TAD virus isn’t upon me, the above is 90% of what I smoke, usually.

The one thing I personally have a problem with cellaring deeply. Is that I find I get more out of smoking a blend many times and many times in a row. It takes some times to learn what is really happening with a blend. When I jump from one blend to another I miss a lot. Or in other words I find a smaller stable of blends smoked over many months is the best way to enjoy one.

 

[smudgersmissingleg]

Revor
Ennerdale
FVP
Gawith flavoured twists
Warrior
Germain's Brown Flake & Medium Flake

 

[MontyTX]

The one thing I personally have a problem with cellaring deeply. Is that I find I get more out of smoking a blend many times and many times in a row. It takes some times to learn what is really happening with a blend. When I jump from one blend to another I miss a lot. Or in other words I find a smaller stable of blends smoked over many months is the best way to enjoy one.

Indeed. I have to experiment with cobs and burleys, and bowls of various sizes. Also, my palate is different depending on time of day, humidity, temperature, what I last ate, what I’m drinking, and of course, it changes with time. What could’ve been an amazing smoke, is totally lackluster the next day as variables change.

Oh, and don’t forget that aging a tobacco introduces yet another huge set of variables.

 

[anotherbob]

Revor
Ennerdale
FVP
Gawith flavoured twists
Warrior
Germain's Brown Flake & Medium Flake

I am starting to suspect you might be British. Albion are some ship like that.