I feel like cigs are more consumer products. The effect is what people are after. If you really loved tobacco you probably would at least smoke something else as well.
Only have 6 Tobaccos a.t.m.
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Although I've smoked pipes for about 13 years, I didn't get serious about hunting for my favorite tobaccos until more recently. I took a long view on that, for years, until I realized that my oldest kid is now 13, and if I take much longer then I'll miss the opportunity to leave my kids nostalgic associations with a small rotation of tobaccos that Dad smoked.
So I'm currently making up for lost time, trying everything I can get my hands on, working towards a somewhat concrete goal of completing my vetting process by approximately this time next year. Narrowing down the 7 tobaccos seems like a good goal.
So I'm currently making up for lost time, trying everything I can get my hands on, working towards a somewhat concrete goal of completing my vetting process by approximately this time next year. Narrowing down the 7 tobaccos seems like a good goal.
For my first three years of pipe smoking (not counting a brief stint way back in college) I explored, trying many different styles of blends. This exploration was frustrating, but very important. Took me a lot of experimentation to figure out what I liked.
But over the last several months I've smoked only one blend, and it's not even really a "blend" in some senses of the word: C&D's Dark Burley. Though it's simple--one type of tobacco--and thought "one dimensional" by many, I'm constantly finding new things in it, so much so that I have little desire to smoke anything else. I keep a few jars of other blends I Iike fairly well--dark birds eye, Five Brothers, Crooner, some Izmir Turkish--but I haven't touched them.
But over the last several months I've smoked only one blend, and it's not even really a "blend" in some senses of the word: C&D's Dark Burley. Though it's simple--one type of tobacco--and thought "one dimensional" by many, I'm constantly finding new things in it, so much so that I have little desire to smoke anything else. I keep a few jars of other blends I Iike fairly well--dark birds eye, Five Brothers, Crooner, some Izmir Turkish--but I haven't touched them.
My first couple years I just jumped from one blend to the next. I never really found one that I particularly had to have again. About ten years ago I found my first have to keep some of that around and then a few more. Brebbia Allegro then University Flake.
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I have over 60 blends that are jarred up and I find myself reaching for the same 5-6 lately.
Damn, too late to edit that. Seemed funny, but she just made me some tea with honey because she’s a peach and she wouldn’t think my making stuff up is humorous - what I really meant was ….
For the last couple years, I have really only smoked a few blends. I have 2 staples, PS Luxury Twist Flake and F&T Cut Blended Plug. I will change up every now and again for variety. G&H Broken Flake #7, F&T Vintage, C&D Crooner fit the bill. I rarely smoke anything else.
Had few more opened for awhile. Usually I rotate 6 blends. It's not that I don't like having a lot of choices. But things got little weird. I couldn't focus on the blends that were open. Things were just chaotic. Going back to having only 6 jars at a time.
I have 8 jars in rotation! Now its time to emty one of them so i can open my Rattray christmas tobacco i bought!
i have over 110 different blends at the moment, i long to be one of the guys who just buys pounds of a couple blends and theyre all set. im like that with cigars, i have two or three i like and thats it. my little acrylic humidor has 10 cigars or less in it at all times. meanwhile i have two full bins and a drawer full of pipe tobacco of all different kinds, theres just too much i like.
the variety is nice but can be tiresome when im sifting through tons of jars and tins for something to smoke. it would be nice to just have 4 or 5 blends to choose from and thats it.
the variety is nice but can be tiresome when im sifting through tons of jars and tins for something to smoke. it would be nice to just have 4 or 5 blends to choose from and thats it.
With my little experience, and testing day after day, I have converted my modest cellar. 80% Virginias and 20% mixtures with latakias ..................I still have no mixtures of latakias with more than three years of aging. I hope they retain some strength and flavor over the years...........I like the variety of course. But it is a matter of economy, and accessibility.