Suggestions for English Blends
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This forum is awesome and filled with great folks! They’re all quite helpful. It’s the last bastion of decency on the internet. I love it here.
I know lots of folks go nuts over 965, Nightcap, and EMP.
You can all have my share. I'll take Standard, Old Dublin, and Pease Quiet Nights over any of those.
You can all have my share. I'll take Standard, Old Dublin, and Pease Quiet Nights over any of those.
Message your address to me and I'll send you a sample (a couple of bowls).
You are too kind. Thank you for your generosity, but I have put in an order with smoking pipes along with a few others. FYI, P&C has 20% off Peterson tobacco ??
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LJ Peretti:
Omega
Royal
Tashkent
LJ Peretti:
Omega
Royal
Tashkent
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John Aylesbury Black;
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You’ll notice the tins are similar, and they seem pretty much the same.
Harder to come by, but you’ll want Samuel Gawith Squadron Leader on your Radar!
I just remembered another English I tried around Xmas and thought I’d pass it along.
I found it on the Pipes & Cigars website, and it’s very affordable. It’s their MATCH My Mixture 965. I actually like it better than MM 965, tbh, and I really enjoy MM 965. But to be fair, I’d have that this particular match blend is in name only. IMHO, they smell and taste quite different.
Here’s the dif:
MATCH is a little less smoky, and the brown cavendish is much sweeter and more forward. It’s super tasty, and to my mind, smells exactly the way I remember the tobacconist shop smelling when I was a young boy in the early 80s and would go in with my dad.
And while is sweeter and less robust, I don’t mean at all to say it’s not robust, or that it’s leaning towards an aromatic. It’s an excellent smoke, and I was happily surprised.
Now I need to order more.
Best of luck.
Everyone’s tastes are different, for example, I love English blends, but Presbyterian is just too light and I don’t enjoy it as much as others. To me, it’s not an English blend if you’re expecting Latakia and that sweet smokiness.
Personally, I’d start with that as a comparison but I’d also grab something classic in the genre such as PS Proper English. My personal favorite English blends right now include that, Maltese Falcon, and Pirate Kake.
Personally, I’d start with that as a comparison but I’d also grab something classic in the genre such as PS Proper English. My personal favorite English blends right now include that, Maltese Falcon, and Pirate Kake.
I say go light and go super heavy to start. See what you think of it as both more a condiment and as more of club of flavor. Then neat trick you can mix both in different ratios and see if you like more middle of the road. I think that is the best way to gauge your opinion of latakia mixed blends.
Dive right into Pirate Kake. My first English/Balkan was Nightcap match. It was soon after Dunhill Nightcap was discontinued, and match was only thing I could try. Loved it and wanted to find out what would give a true blast of Latakia. Suggestion was Pirate Kake. Enjoyed it. Now I don't enjoy Lat bombs, but still love mild, east blends. Anything by GLP is very good.
Yes! Royal and Tashkent top my list. I'm not saying I don't enjoy others, but I reach for those time and again, especially the Royal.
I'll toss in a 2nd vote on the PS 52. I just recently began trying that one as a more rea$onable alternative to some of my fav's and am rather impressed. I'm only a 1/2 dozen bowls or so into it so take it for what it's worth, but I've tried several and English is my preferred family of blends.