Stout Tobaccos to Lighter Blends?

[badbriar]

EDIT: Fixed Capitalization in Title (See Rule 9) - Bob

If you are partial to stronger, heavier blends, what do you think of lighter strength and lighter taste tobaccos? Good examples are English and Orientals that run from full on staggering pipeweed to barely noticeable offerings.
Personally, I prefer something that really gets my attention. I read regularly that Nightcap is a strong blend, but I find it to be about medium in strength and a little more full in fine flavors. Something like Skiff, I find to be a wee bit light in the britches. Thoughts?

 

[karam]

Depends on what you mean by strong?

Nicotine? I can't help with that because I don't "get" nicotine content from pipe tobacco.

Fullness of taste? I like full-tasting blends, once smoked pure gold Virginia (just cured, fermented and shredded - no topping/casing/steaming/pressing of any sort) and found it to be...hot air. I did smoke a Burley of the same manufacturer (Wolfway) which is equally pure to the VA and it had plenty of taste.

Other than that one time, which was unusual because pure leaf is rare to come by, I haven't smoked anything that I'd call hot air.

 

[cigrmaster]

I start my day with some kind of mild Virginia flake and then move up the strength ladder from there. I smoke for flavor not nicotine. The strongest blend in my cellar is Peterson Irish flake and I am used to the nicotine in it.
Flavor is the most important aspect of my pipe smoking. There are so many blends with different flavors that I never get bored.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I don't think I've found one I would call strong. I've been told Five Brothers is, but I've also discovered that it makes a nice, mild cigarette.

 

[gervais]

I enjoy blends that have flavour. The nicotine content doesn't have to be high. I really like the blends that are so flavourful that they stick to your mouth after the smoke (like Skiff does)

 

[mso489]

I like Nightcap, C&D Bayou Night and Stratfordshire, Old Joe Krantz, and other fuller strength blends. But I also like various Va/Pers, Virginia, milder English like Nat Sherman 536 and PS English Luxury, tobacco forward aromatics like Three Star Blue, SWR Aromatic, and Mixture No. 79. This isn't a summary but a sampling, a glimpse. I find the lighter blends give me a change of pace and a reset, and the stronger blends give me intensity of taste and variety. Not having to do one or the other is what is pleasing.

 

[ray47]

I start the day with a heavy nicotine blend and gradually taper down during the day until I'm smoking a nicotine mild blend at night. Heavy blends keep me awake if I smoke them before bed.

 

[rushx9]

I appreciate both sides of the spectrum. When I smoke something light in nicotine I'll often smoke again soon after, whereas when I smoke something stout I'm usually good for awhile.

 

[F4RM3R]

I prefer to smoke small bowls of stronger tobacco, instead of big bowls of weak stuff. I do prefer full flavour, but I can dig out the flavour in most blends. I just usually don't like to have to focus a bunch on hitting the sweet spot. It's not that I smoke overly fast, but I just prefer blends with a wider range of sweet spot, full flavour blends seem to offer that. I still consider some straight tobaccos offer full flavour though. It really depends.

If I had to choose I prefer a stronger nic hit as opposed to flavour. Well that's what seems to get smoked the most, the mild nic(but still full flavour) are for the occasion when I can have a long smoke, which isn't often. But strong nic blends almost always have a strong flavour anyway, so I just go with those.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Similar to what cigrmaster has said, I start with lighter blends and work my way through the day. I also find Nightcap to be a medium. I think it used to be stronger... but, of course I haven't tried it since they've gone to Peterson. If they've kept it the exact same, that would be a pity, IMO.

 

[BROBS]

Similar to what cigrmaster has said, I start with lighter blends and work my way through the day. I also find Nightcap to be a medium. I think it used to be stronger... but, of course I haven't tried it since they've gone to Peterson. If they've kept it the exact same, that would be a pity, IMO.

believe it's the exact same.. I found it medium as well in all ways.

stout.. 1792.

I smoked the spectrum of light to medium-medium full blends and I have found it helps to vary strength and flavors or you get kind of burned out and don't taste all the nuances of the tobacco.

I don't like heavy nic blends or I get spun out.

 

[smokiespipesmoker123]

I like lots of flavor in the winter, milder in summer, don't care for nic

 

[badbriar]

I smoked the spectrum of light to medium-medium full blends and I have found it helps to vary strength and flavors or you get kind of burned out and don't taste all the nuances of the tobacco.

I don't like heavy nic blends or I get spun out.

BROBS brings up a good point about getting burned out!

 

[NomadOrb]

Usually the more flavor the better for me, I don't seek the nicotine. Like BROBS, I have to switch it up or my palate is fatigued.