You win "Necropost of the Year" award, I think. Good work -- bringing up these old threads keeps continuity and I'm really glad this forum allows it.
Here was my commentary on Presbyterian:
Here was my commentary on Presbyterian:
Presbyterian Mixture - What do you guys think?
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I haven't tried it. I know Presbyterian Mixture has been around for many years, and that suggests that many have tried it and many have continued to smoke it. There must be a reason. It sounds simple and straightforward, tasty and dependable. Likely I will eventually try it, but I'm not impelled to order it soon.
It's my favourite and has been for many years. If I were forced to smoke only one tobacco, PM would be it.
Here's my take as published back in 2011 on tobaccoreviews.com. I am of the same mind still:
To paraphrase "The Most Interesting Man in the World" who appears occasionally in television commercials for a certain brand of beer, "I don't often smoke English blends, but when I do I prefer Presbyterian Mixture!" To me, it epitomizes the phrase "classic English pipe-tobacco."
The aroma in the tin is delicious: wet leathery, smokey, late fall-woods musty sweet, and cow-barn-like ripe. It's one that, if it could be transubstantiated, I would happily chew on for hours in the same manner that my dog worries her favorite marrow bone.
Presbyterian Mixture's appearance is pleasing, too. Remove the cardboard cover beneath the lid, peel back the clear plastic inner wrap, and you will find substantial strands together with ponderous pieces of light-to-dark brown Virginia leaf, intermixed with Latakia tips that are almost black. It's typically moist, not overly so, but does benefit from some drying prior to use. This is a hefty-looking amalgam that promises solid smoking pleasure.
It does not disappoint. Using the Frank method to fill the bowl of a favorite Savinelli Oscar, it provides me with a good hour of English ecstasy. I find that this tobacco is at its best when smoked SLOWLY, but then aren't they all? I don't mean that you should sip it. Rather, take a deep draught every minute or two and let it drizzle out of your mouth. Take your time as you contemplate its manifold charms and it will reward you. Become distracted (or simply give in to gluttony) and puff too fast, and it will both bite and kick. Nicotine is here in abundance, but will behave if you treat this mixture with gentleness and respect.
Without drying I typically need only two pipe-cleaners per bowl; with drying only one. This tobacco reduces to a fine grey-white ash with little dottle. The room note is comforting in the same manor (pun intended) as that of an old, familiar, and favorite hunting lodge, cabin, or library.
This is a fine English tobacco mixture, and I give it my highest benediction. Amen.
To paraphrase "The Most Interesting Man in the World" who appears occasionally in television commercials for a certain brand of beer, "I don't often smoke English blends, but when I do I prefer Presbyterian Mixture!" To me, it epitomizes the phrase "classic English pipe-tobacco."
The aroma in the tin is delicious: wet leathery, smokey, late fall-woods musty sweet, and cow-barn-like ripe. It's one that, if it could be transubstantiated, I would happily chew on for hours in the same manner that my dog worries her favorite marrow bone.
Presbyterian Mixture's appearance is pleasing, too. Remove the cardboard cover beneath the lid, peel back the clear plastic inner wrap, and you will find substantial strands together with ponderous pieces of light-to-dark brown Virginia leaf, intermixed with Latakia tips that are almost black. It's typically moist, not overly so, but does benefit from some drying prior to use. This is a hefty-looking amalgam that promises solid smoking pleasure.
It does not disappoint. Using the Frank method to fill the bowl of a favorite Savinelli Oscar, it provides me with a good hour of English ecstasy. I find that this tobacco is at its best when smoked SLOWLY, but then aren't they all? I don't mean that you should sip it. Rather, take a deep draught every minute or two and let it drizzle out of your mouth. Take your time as you contemplate its manifold charms and it will reward you. Become distracted (or simply give in to gluttony) and puff too fast, and it will both bite and kick. Nicotine is here in abundance, but will behave if you treat this mixture with gentleness and respect.
Without drying I typically need only two pipe-cleaners per bowl; with drying only one. This tobacco reduces to a fine grey-white ash with little dottle. The room note is comforting in the same manor (pun intended) as that of an old, familiar, and favorite hunting lodge, cabin, or library.
This is a fine English tobacco mixture, and I give it my highest benediction. Amen.
Yes this is a very fine blend, I would comfortably have this as my only english (scottish though?) blend although I do rate highly a few others in the same genre.
I agree with the longer reviews and notes above, and would add/emphasise that this is a blend to be cherished, sitting. It loses its charm if you take it jogging or water skiing.
I agree with the longer reviews and notes above, and would add/emphasise that this is a blend to be cherished, sitting. It loses its charm if you take it jogging or water skiing.
I dont know, if you cant take it waterskiing then it may not be for me.
On a serious note, I may have to grab a tin next time im at the baccy-shoppe,sounds like my kind of blend.
On a serious note, I may have to grab a tin next time im at the baccy-shoppe,sounds like my kind of blend.
Still keeping away from anything which contains Latakia, nevertheless yes I can smoke most any latakia containing mixture but eventually This latakia+ orient addition tends make blends taste a bit too acridy-spicey yet smokey to my current like.
I like the mix well enough, and like very much the tradition associated with it. (And I'm an elder in the PCA, so, really, how could I not like it.) All those intangibles are meaningful to me. Let's face it -- ephemeral considerations aren't foreign to a group of guys who'll spend hundreds of dollars to burn old leaves in in wooden bowls. (They are part of, for example, why I like Peterson pipes a bit more than perhaps they deserve.)
Back in the day, before the internet made it so easy to obtain so wide a variety of tobaccos, Pres was much more of a staple for me, as it could regularly be found in B&Ms.These days, though, for me there is just too much competition for Pres to be much in my regular rotation. I've become so fond of lat-heavy blends that Pres tastes a bit one-dimensional to me compared with so many other readily available choices.
Back in the day, before the internet made it so easy to obtain so wide a variety of tobaccos, Pres was much more of a staple for me, as it could regularly be found in B&Ms.These days, though, for me there is just too much competition for Pres to be much in my regular rotation. I've become so fond of lat-heavy blends that Pres tastes a bit one-dimensional to me compared with so many other readily available choices.
I like presby well enough. Its been a few months but I remember it being a mild English with some complexity. Medium to weak in chemistry, no bite. A good light English for a change of pace from heavier blends. I got it on trade from a guy in Texas and enjoyed the smoke but I probably won't buy any. There are a lot more interesting bowls out there.
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