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Go with the popular classics, that approach worked great for me. The more reviews on a site about them, the better. So I'd look at the categories on smokingpipes, tobaccopipes, even before I found tobaccoreviews, and I was not disappointed by following the masses at the initiation of the search.
See which ones appeal after reading a little. You can refine your palate after learning the basics in the category.
Presbyterian
Peterson Early Morning Pipe
Peterson My Mixture 965
Ashton Consummate Gentleman
Davidoff Royalty
These were early purchases for me that worked out well. I'm still pleased with every one of them.
See which ones appeal after reading a little. You can refine your palate after learning the basics in the category.
Presbyterian
Peterson Early Morning Pipe
Peterson My Mixture 965
Ashton Consummate Gentleman
Davidoff Royalty
These were early purchases for me that worked out well. I'm still pleased with every one of them.
Edward G Robinson and then Plum Pudding worked great for me. After enjoying those two blends for a month or so, I was off to the races and could enjoy just about any English I smoked. (my experience only).
English is just part of the rotation now. Red VA still my first choice most days, but there are a many English blends I enjoy.
English is just part of the rotation now. Red VA still my first choice most days, but there are a many English blends I enjoy.
Samuel Gawith, Cabbie's Mixture. Lots of taste. And their Full Virginia Flake is great aswell. And for a stonger Latakia blend, Peterson (nowadays) Nightcap.
The GLP London series are wonderful blends - there isn’t a single one I dislike. I also think their blend Quiet Nights is a best seller for a reason. Absolutely fantastic stuff. Huge GLP fan personally, I consider them my favorite blender.
A few recommendations:
Seattle Pipe Club - Plum Pudding
Samuel Gawith - Perfection
Samuel Gawith - Skiff Mixture
Peterson - Early Morning Pipe
Peter Stokkebye - Balkan Supreme
Peter Stokkebye - Proper English
Seattle Pipe Club - Plum Pudding
Samuel Gawith - Perfection
Samuel Gawith - Skiff Mixture
Peterson - Early Morning Pipe
Peter Stokkebye - Balkan Supreme
Peter Stokkebye - Proper English
Since they haven’t been mentioned already add these
Kramer’s English & Father Dempsey
D&S Blairgowrie
Solani Gold
Kramer’s English & Father Dempsey
D&S Blairgowrie
Solani Gold
Im loving Tashkent right now, about to order a pound more. But there's no VA's so technically not an english, but rather an oriental or perhaps balkan blend.
GL Pease Westminster
C & D Star of the East Flake
Kramer's Father Dempsey
And then as a crossover:
Kramer's Blend for Cary Grant
C & D Star of the East Flake
Kramer's Father Dempsey
And then as a crossover:
Kramer's Blend for Cary Grant
True. Omega is my favorite but do yourself a favor and get some Omega and Royal to sample. You won't be disappointed.
Fall/Winter line up.
Early morning pipe after eggs and coffee
My Mixture 965 after an afternoon burger, fries, pilsner
Nightcap before bed and after a steak and a bottle of malbec
any time of day or year
Squadron Leader, Skiff Mixture, Presbyterian, Father Dempsey, Consummate Gentleman
Early morning pipe after eggs and coffee
My Mixture 965 after an afternoon burger, fries, pilsner
Nightcap before bed and after a steak and a bottle of malbec
any time of day or year
Squadron Leader, Skiff Mixture, Presbyterian, Father Dempsey, Consummate Gentleman
My most frequent source of latakia is C&D Byzantium.
Once in a lounge, a fellow looked up from his cigar and remarked to me that he wanted to get some of what I was smoking and use it to smoke meats.
Once in a lounge, a fellow looked up from his cigar and remarked to me that he wanted to get some of what I was smoking and use it to smoke meats.
Night Cap is my jam! Big @$$ bowl and a glass (or 4) of whiskey around the campfire at the deer lease is my Heavan.
G
Gimlet
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Interesting to note, as an Englishman who smokes almost entirely Gawth Hoggarth and Smauel Gawith blends (which is about the only English manufacturer left in the country) that a lot of the blends mentioned here I've never heard of. So they are presumably English-style rather than English made. Which makes me wonder what people classify as the "English" style. Is it anything with Latakia in it, in which case what am I smoking because I don't like Latakia?
If it's not made in England, what makes a tobacco "English" in its character? Seems to be a wide spectrum, from the perfumed grassy Lakelands to the strong flue-cured dark African and Indian leafs and ultra-strong twists made in the same factory.
Sorry, genuine question from a smoker only one year in. Don't want to derail the thread. (Maybe I should have started my own). I'm just curious what makes a blend "English". Obviously it's down to the blend rather than the place because GH and SG also makes Irish twists and American style aros, and many English blends are made in Europe and America. Just wondering what people consider characterises an English style tobacco.
If it's not made in England, what makes a tobacco "English" in its character? Seems to be a wide spectrum, from the perfumed grassy Lakelands to the strong flue-cured dark African and Indian leafs and ultra-strong twists made in the same factory.
Sorry, genuine question from a smoker only one year in. Don't want to derail the thread. (Maybe I should have started my own). I'm just curious what makes a blend "English". Obviously it's down to the blend rather than the place because GH and SG also makes Irish twists and American style aros, and many English blends are made in Europe and America. Just wondering what people consider characterises an English style tobacco.
As I understand it, "English" generally means some combination of Virginia, Oriental and Latakia; and originates with the Crimean War when British soldiers got a bit of a taste for Ottoman tobacco and blenders back in England started using Latakia as a condiment.
The name probably caught on thanks to foreigners trying to describe it - "No, not this Virginia, not this Burley. They had this amazing stuff in England. Don't know what exactly it was but it was good. I wish I had more English tobacco"
G
Gimlet
Guest
Thanks. That makes sense. Makes me wonder what English tobaccos were like before the Crimea period. I guess Indian tobaccos predominated with the East India company. But before that maybe they were very similar to American blends as I imagine most of our leaf before the Indian empire came from the Americas and the Caribbean, and in turn probably reached there from Africa. Or maybe not. Is the tobacco plant native to north America and the Caribbean? Didn't Native Americans have a tradition of tobacco smoking?
It's fascinating to think of all the social and cultural history of the world that must be written into tobacco trading over the centuries.
I haven't seen it mentioned above... Capstan 'Original Navy cut' flake.
I am sure you will like it.
I am sure you will like it.