I've always suspected that he was a blender.Woodsroad is sitting on some gold. Harvest Gold.
Taking Stock of the Blenders in the Cellar
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Great cellar! You might look at Solani 656, 633 and 660 and several of the Wessex burley and virginia blends.
What, no codger blends at all? You have to loosen up a little, man. Life is short. But a nice array of the premium blenders, that's for sure.
I’m open to expanding on G&H, but my problems are, 1., that I only enjoy the Lakeland scenting in small doses (Ennerdale), and, 2., I do not enjoy medium-to-full nicotine blends (and some of the G&H blends are quite potent).
To be honest, smaller, boutique blenders don’t really interest me. I don’t really know why. But it’s similar with other things as well. If I were looking at a 100% handmade guitar by an artisan luthier or an instrument from Gibson/Fender/PRS/etc. for the same price, I’d choose the factory instrument every time. Same goes for pipes; I‘ll always choose a known name-brand pipe over an artisan pipe, regardless of reputation. Again: I don’t know why.
In the definitive Lakeland sauce scale thread Ennerdale used to come on top for intensity but experienced people here have been saying for a while it's been toned down a lot.
I understand, but taking a couple of flyers might open up some new favorites. I do recommend Watch City blends if you prefer to stay local. When I started smoking a pipe, 50+ years ago, artisan made blends were common. The better tobacconists created their own store blends and a lot of them were as good as anything produced by a large blenders. And back then, there were more blenders and smaller factory operations than today. Today, we have a few conglomerates that have bought up a variety of IP's =, producing watered down versions of the blends and makers depicted on the labels.
Good call!
I keep a good supply of H&H and SWRA and keep them in regular rotation.
A cob full of H&H makes for a fine walking/ working smoke.
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Most anything from Boswells. Northwoods, Boswells Best, and No Bite DeLite.
I don't think that I've seen L.J. Peretti listed yet. I can recommend their Royal blend.
I'm currently revisiting the Borkum Riff blends since the early '90s and am loving them.
The best cherry blend i have smoked was a 15year old pouch of BR cherry cavendish. It was crispy in the pouch, tasted like it smelt and I could taste the tobacco under it all.
I've been smoking it, original, and bourbon whiskey. Hadn't bought any BR since I was a kid and now I'm considering loading up on it.
Will be interested to hear how you find it now that production has moved to Macbaren. Ok well a decade ago it did.
BR Cherry Cavendish has a fantastic room note I'll give it that.
Crap, now I'm thinking about getting a pouch.. was the first blend I bought when I decided to get back into pipe smoking and I don't recall even drying it before smoking which is probably why it burned hot most of the time.
Hmmm maybe.
Crap, now I'm thinking about getting a pouch.. was the first blend I bought when I decided to get back into pipe smoking and I don't recall even drying it before smoking which is probably why it burned hot most of the time.
Hmmm maybe.
This sounds like a good question for the "ask a blender" segment - Assuming Jeremy is allowed by contract to answer it.
Well, I got the idea from Greg's posts and from some of Jeremy's on here. Mine is probably very abbreviated, but... Being asked the same thing over and over is probably why they don't post as much.
Just about the changeover between blending for C&D, GLP, warped, two friends, cobblestone, etc.