Something To Blend With Granger
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Update. So I was at a loss. Didn't need another Burley Virginia blend. Don't care much for Latakia or Perique. I tried smoking the Granger multiple times. It tastes just like Cigarettes to me. I had 34 dollars invested, I spent 13 more. Cheapest Black Cavendish I could find mixed 50/50 with this raisin smelling cigarette tobacco. Come back after a couple of weeks..........not to shabby! I have a little oak fired flavor, mixed with a little candy I can't identify yet. I don't eat sweets, so it may take some time for my memory to identify the flavor. So this is an extremely cheap blend, that isn't a dark fired, but tastes woody. I am extremely happy how this turned out. My cellar now has this bastardized, ultra cheap per ounce, burley blend. It's in the rotation, and it's something I could smoke everyday. All from the fear of wasting 34 dollars.
Postscript for Grangerous, and the other Granger mafioso. I yam who I yam, I can't change my taste. No offense intended. Much respect, send my regards to the Don
Postscript for Grangerous, and the other Granger mafioso. I yam who I yam, I can't change my taste. No offense intended. Much respect, send my regards to the Don
I can’t believe I missed this thread! Glad it worked out for you, Biz. I have mixed Pegasus with Granger. I have some Virginia #1 as well.
You know, I’ve never smoked cigarettes and I can’t stand to smell the smoke from them. Granger is the furthest thing from that to me.
Female guest was smoking Capri cigarettes on my deck. I had to walk to another part of the yard. Enjoyed a bowl later and marveled at the flavor and side stream from Granger. Go figure?
You know, I’ve never smoked cigarettes and I can’t stand to smell the smoke from them. Granger is the furthest thing from that to me.
Female guest was smoking Capri cigarettes on my deck. I had to walk to another part of the yard. Enjoyed a bowl later and marveled at the flavor and side stream from Granger. Go figure?
He smoked EGR with 1/3 rough cut for 50 years! But SWR and Half n Half were his choices. — lol.
Were’s @shermnatman when ya need him! ??
He didn't cut EGR with any tobacco for a long time. That came later. Anyway, when I wrote "Try a Shelby Foote formula: 2/3 EGR and 1/3 Granger.", that was a formula reference specific to his concept of cutting EGR, not to what he cut EGR with. And since he apparently liked to experiment with tobaccos to some extent, the possibility exists that he may have cut EGR with Granger one time or another. Just because Granger wasn't on the short list of blends we know he used doesn't mean it happened or didn't happen.
He loved EGR and only mixed it 1/3 so it would load better. You’re right, anything could’ve been his 1/3.
I just smiled at the marriage of Granger and EGR because of how you and I started off when I joined the forum. At that time, I hadn’t known all that you’d done to save the blend, Jim.
I like Granger as-is, but seeing your post, I tried mixing it with some Old Joe Krantz Blue Label (to me, a better Pegasus), and it was indeed quite good!
I'd do your mixing (of Granger or anything) in a mixing bowl a few pipe bowls at a time. It is interesting how ones taste evolves. You may eventually discover the pleasing simplicity of Granger itself. I like to try mixes with intention rather than mixing all of the dregs, which gets muddy or harsh in many cases.