Smoke for Breakfast - Let's Talk About Blends to Start Your Day

[mso489]

Wow, reading my earlier post ... I don't smoke any of those blends anymore. Such is life. I'm not much of a morning smoker, but today I might gravitate toward one of the flavorful but mild pouch blends from PC I'm sampling: Sir Walter Raleigh Aro, Erin Go Braugh, and John Bull.

 

[oldmojo]

My morning coffee and a bowl of Dunhill London Mixture, almost every morning.

 

[saltedplug]

The first bowl of the morning is usually lighter fare than the death-by-nicotine blends the rest of the day:
Escudo

La Brumeuse

Cumberland

 

[dunstanhillwell62]

My early morning pipe is always a large bowl of Astleys No. 88.
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[ray47]

I like my first smoke to be a high nicotine blend to get my heart started. Usually it will be either C&D's Cube Cut or C&D's Crooner.

 

[perdurabo]

This morning it was C&D String Duster and a cup of tea. To me aromatics are better in the morning, kind of like pasteries and coffee. String Duster hits that spot.

 

[Chasing Embers]

50/50 mix of Black Twist XX and Old Dark Fired.

 

[cortezattic]

Used to be P.A. with coffee and the morning paper. Then I gradually switched to Haunted Bookshop.

These days it's Burley Flake #2, with Hal O'the Wynd for a change-up.

 

[markus]

Usually Amphora Original and occasionally Prince Albert, always in a larger size pipe, whilst reading the mornings news on my laptop, with A strong 1/2 pot of coffee.

 

[irishearl]

I noticed in 1 of the older posts someone noted they smoke ODF in the am. Yep, that is my morning smoke as well. A tobacco has to keep up with my espresso roast coffee and that one is sufficiently smoky to do the job.

 

[hawky454]

1792 Flake (or Bracken Flake until I run out) in a squat bulldog with some black Joe on the side, hits the spot every time!

 

[jaytex1969]

I was doing Irish Oak for breakfast a few weeks ago.
Lately, I've been enjoying the drier Cockstrong, which burns quicker. I've allotted 30 minutes for that pre-work smoke and I need a good nic hit to propel me out the door. Usually on the front porch with a cup of hot tea.

 

[mistersea]

Frog Morton on the Bayou with coffee is a nice mellow start for my day.

 

[skypilot]

CH (solo) was just fine for me, until I recently got a tub of the stuff. Now, I'm back to a home blend that is about 50% Russ' Old Glory, less than 10% CH from the tub, with the remainder divided more-or-less evenly between BCA, Sutliff Choc Mousse, and Russ' Spring Training. I keep this mixture on hand all the time, when I want something that is still just slightly sweet, but with some honest to God tobacco taste, and full flavor. The CH from the tub offers enough of that burley taste bleeding through, to satisfy very nicely with 3-4 cups of coffee. This blend came from a week or so of playing with various ratios, and just dumping the "mistakes" into a common container. Later, I decided that it was really a nice combo for early morning, sitting on the porch, waiting for the sun to awaken the forest creatures. In keeping with the Lane nomenclature, I call it HHM-57..."Hillbilly Heaven Mistakes", and since it's sort of a Heinz-57 of flavors, that really seems to work for me.
I just better not ever misplace this recipe, tho! :mrgreen:

 

[slowroll]

Start just about everyday with C&D Byzantium. Love the subtle orientals sneaking get thru the latakia. The rest of the day is smoking heavier lat blends. Can't taste any other tobacco worth

A damn

 

[thomasw]

First smoke is usually a solid medium strength VA-Bur like OJK, ODF or JKP. In that order of preference -- this is due to the amount of preparation required for me to enjoy the tobacco.

 

[deathmetal]

death-by-nicotine blends

Sounds appealing!