Rotation

[jon11]

I tend to smoke a blend exclusively for awhile without switching it up. A lot of times I’ll smoke through a 2oz. tin of one blend without anything else in between. It helps me pull all the nuances out and really get to know a blend before moving on to the next. Anyone else do this?

 

[username]

I tend to do this lately. Just open a tin of something smoke my way thru it. Then move on to another blend.

 

[bullet08]

No. But I keep open tins/jars to less than 10 at a time.

 

[warren99]

I usually have eight to ten blends open at any given time, mostly English/balkans with one or two VA flake or VA perique blends as a change of pace in the half-dozen or so pipes that I dedicate to non-latakia blends, out of about 130 pipes in my collection

 

[Winnipeger]

I tried that last year with a tin of Barking Road. Made it about a week. Got bored.

 

[ashdigger]

I’m all over the place. Two consistent blends are Granger and Capstan Blue. The rest are more a journey of randomness combined with exclusiveness.

 

[OzPiper]

I like variety and having a (large) choice
I have over 30 blends open at any time
Only problem with this approach is it takes ages before I finish a tin, given I average 4 bowls a week

 

[Chasing Embers]

I tend to smoke the same blend for a few days or weeks. Sometimes going through a pound before switching.

 

[MCJ]

I like to focus on 1-2 dedicated tins at a time for each blend type I enjoy smoking (1 VaPer, 1 straight Virginia, 1-2 Virginia-based, 1 Kentucky, and 1-2 Scottish/English). I also tend to smoke these at different times of the day (VaPers in the mornings, Virginias and Virginia-based in the afternoons, and Kentucky and Scottish/English in the evenings). I feel like this way I can concentrate and get the most out of each one while still getting enough variety to keep things interesting.

 

[Spa32]

I like variety and having a (large) choice
I have over 30 blends open at any time
Only problem with this approach is it takes ages before I finish a tin, given I average 4 bowls a week

^^^This. The only difference for me is I have 25 blends in my rotation.

 

[DanWil84]

I like variety, I try to only open 1 tin of type of tobacco (burely, VA, VaPer, English), generally have 6 tins of something open.

I have had cases when I open a tin and smoke through it all the way "fast" (still take about a month or 2)I won't get the nuances of it. I have a tin of Solani ABF which tasted very flat when I opened it, drying the flakes didn't help. I left it in the tin, revisited now and then. After 5 months it got better, after 1 year in the open tin it is actually very good and would be cellar worthy which for me means 5 tins of it. If you know the blend your method of smoking is fine, but for testing a blend the first time it wouldn't work for me.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

I only keep two to three various blends open and trying to finish those before opening another tin or pouch

 

[That Guy]

Nope I like variety. I probley have 50 jars I'm smoking out of at the moment. Helps me to compare what's just ok and what's worth cellaring deep.

 

[captpat]

No I usually keep 2-4 tins open at a time, cycling among them as the mood dictates.

 

[judcole]

That's the way I smoked for a long time, before I put my pipe aside almost completely and smoked cigars. Since I returned to the pipe 20 years ago, I keep 20+ opened at a time. Variety is the spice of life.

 

[telescopes]

I have two main blends that form the backbone of my rotations: they are my own blend, an aromatic aka Telescopes, and the North Atlantic accent of English blends, Black Maria. In between I smoke everything else.

 

[SBC]

Almost everything I own gets jarred immediately (there are a few exceptions); and, I may reach for any of my jars on any day. Still, most are on storage shelves and don't see as much use, whereas I keep 20-25 in my daily cabinet.

 

[Piping Abe]

I keep about 10-15 blends open for picking. But I will just smoke one blend exclusively if thats what I feel like smoking.

I used to force myself to smoke other open blends just cause. I didn’t like that. So if you want to smoke only one blend and are enjoying it, then do that. Don’t force yourself to try something if you don’t want to.

First blend I ran through with nothing else in between was St Bruno.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

I like variety and having a (large) choice
I have over 30 blends open at any time
Only problem with this approach is it takes ages before I finish a tin, given I average 4 bowls a week

Similar!!’

 

[Peter Turbo]

I tend to smoke a blend exclusively for awhile without switching it up. A lot of times I’ll smoke through a 2oz. tin of one blend without anything else in between. It helps me pull all the nuances out and really get to know a blend before moving on to the next. Anyone else do this?

I'm trying to do my own "blend club" thing where I only smoke one blend for a month or until the tin/jar is gone. Then settle on something else.

The goal is to just smoke the stuff I have a tin or less of that I bought to try and probably wont buy more of. Blends I have in greater amounts get smoked when I'm debating what the next "blend of the month" will be.