Also I found a blend at my local B&M, Their number one seller is a bulk blend that is said to be basically the same as Lane 1Q (I can't find any lane 1Q in town to compare it too) and I've found that it has that sweet smell of pipe tobacco that I remember from my childhood. I can find CB, Sir Walter Raleigh, Half and half, and a bunch of other brands that people have brought up on this post and am wondering if I should bother trying them or save my money and keep trying other blends from an actual tobacconist.
That Old School Aroma
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1Q has been the most popular tobacco for decades. If that's the one you remember from your childhood then I'd say that you're probably on to something.
FWIW, I always prefer buying my my tobacco from a B&M rather than a convenience store.
FWIW, I always prefer buying my my tobacco from a B&M rather than a convenience store.
Velvet bites the heck out of me, so does Granger and Half and Half. It must be something Lane puts in those brands. It actually painful for me to smoke them. Captain Black, Amphora, Sir Walter Raleigh regular and aromatic and some other's are fine for me. It's weird because Velvet is supposed to be "The Smoothest Smoke" but it's really like a 1960s snake and nape canister being dropped in my mouth then exploding!
I love Mixture 79. Funny thing when I first tried it I didn't like it. It wasn't the taste or the aroma, they were terrific, it was the fact that I couldn't keep it lit to save my life. After a few years of learning about packing and drying tobaccos out I bought another pouch and really liked it. I then bought a tub. Beings the tub was $38 bucks back then I ended up buying it in bulk then I just dump it in the tub to replenish it. I still use the tub lol, it hasn't had the "original contents" for a long time. The bulk version is better to me because the casing and topping in toned down and it burns perfectly.
I know this post is a year old but I would just keep an eye out on the online vendors like PC and SP. They are always having specials and sales on the pouch brands. Especially Pipesandcigars, they have a "battle of blends" thing going on all the time. That's where I tried Half and Half and Mixture 79 at the same time. You'll get two different pouches cheap. I'd say if you have the extra money just get one or two pouches a month of different classic otc brands and try them out.
Sir Walter Raleigh for me!
Seems like that was the go to in the 60s-70s at-least in the St. Louis, Atlanta and Raleigh areas where I knew relatives that were pipe smokers. In New Orleans late 70s early 80s B&M house blends in Ben Wade Freehand's or Peterson’s was very popular. Capt. Black for OTC blends.
Seems like that was the go to in the 60s-70s at-least in the St. Louis, Atlanta and Raleigh areas where I knew relatives that were pipe smokers. In New Orleans late 70s early 80s B&M house blends in Ben Wade Freehand's or Peterson’s was very popular. Capt. Black for OTC blends.
It's getting harder and harder to find those old codger blends where the old codgers found them. Well, it's getting harder to find the codger blends without settling for their matches.
As I first started smoking a pipe, it was pouches of Carter Hall. I smoked it in the car because of its smoking properties (load it sme light it, the tobacco will do the rest almost). I had been out of the car for about 2 weeks one stretch, a week of vacation then a week of commuting on the motorcycle. When I got back in the car, it smelled exactly like my grandfather's car. I asked my mother's side about it. Oh of course he smoked a pipe, they said.
A Grabow (from Winston's Drug Store in Auborn, Mass) was forever hanging from his jaw. It got replaced every Christmas with a new tub of Carter Hall. And when he finally retired, all the guys chipped in and got him a Dunhill instead of a gold watch.
He kept this hidden from the grandchildren. I guess he didn't want us to pick up smoking from him like his kids all did. But I remember walking in the woods with him, or fishing, or even just sitting on the porch listening to him tell stories from "the old days" of the 30s and 40s. He was always always fidgeting with a stick or tool or something. I see now he was in places he would usually bring a pipe full of Carter Hall. His mind or body was looking for the pipe and had to settle for the stick.
When I got into my car that day, all those memories came flooding back. Carter Hall became a link to a good man gone too soon.
As I first started smoking a pipe, it was pouches of Carter Hall. I smoked it in the car because of its smoking properties (load it sme light it, the tobacco will do the rest almost). I had been out of the car for about 2 weeks one stretch, a week of vacation then a week of commuting on the motorcycle. When I got back in the car, it smelled exactly like my grandfather's car. I asked my mother's side about it. Oh of course he smoked a pipe, they said.
A Grabow (from Winston's Drug Store in Auborn, Mass) was forever hanging from his jaw. It got replaced every Christmas with a new tub of Carter Hall. And when he finally retired, all the guys chipped in and got him a Dunhill instead of a gold watch.
He kept this hidden from the grandchildren. I guess he didn't want us to pick up smoking from him like his kids all did. But I remember walking in the woods with him, or fishing, or even just sitting on the porch listening to him tell stories from "the old days" of the 30s and 40s. He was always always fidgeting with a stick or tool or something. I see now he was in places he would usually bring a pipe full of Carter Hall. His mind or body was looking for the pipe and had to settle for the stick.
When I got into my car that day, all those memories came flooding back. Carter Hall became a link to a good man gone too soon.
Everyone is afraid to admit it, but it is deertongue.
propylene glycol a humectant added to many codger blends
it's a humectant and for most people it doesn't alter the taste. Heck for me under a certain amount I don't taste it. But it's the only thing I don't like about the drug store blends. I prefer my tobacco dryer to crispy. That's why I like blends like the seven seas which are knock offs of captain black.
Captain Black and Half and Half. There was also a cherry blend that comes to mind which my wife's grandfather smoked in a red pouch but we can't remember what it was. It was popular in the late 50s and 60s.
That phrase I would associate with eating too many bean taco's! That said I always associate Condor RR with that old time pipe smell. In the last few years a lot of the things I have smoked throughout my life have started to smell and taste different. St Bruno is one that springs to mind. It just doesn't leave the room note I remember growing up. Lane 1Q has always smelt the same to me. It smells very pleasant but I just cannot get into the stuff.
My grandfather smoked nothing but George Washington until he couldn't buy it any longer. I think it was discontinued in 1974 and he switched to Carter Hall about that time.
I know exactly what you're talking about! As a young teen , I remember going into tobacco shops to check out the magazines, (used to hunt for all those hard to find, (at the time,) WWII history/aviation/modelling magazines and I always loved the smell of the pipe tobacco going into them. But I've never noticed that smell smoking my pipe now and I have no idea what it was. Like someone said, maybe the blends available to Canadians were different. I remember one store in particular in Kitchener/Waterloo - can remember the smell like it was yesterday. Love that smell!
I’ve got like 30 metal Borkum Riff tins from my dad holding various nails and screws. All have the stamps etc.
Every time I see or hear that phrase, my mind conjures an olfactory amalgam of chalk-dust, hallway floor-wax, cafeteria-scented steam, locker stench, and aged, yellowed, paper.
No, wait, did you mean tobacco?
@huntertrw : I was thinking that exact thought. I remember the wax used on the linoleum floors in the dormitory at my old school and very occasionally I came across that same scent stateside and find myself traveling in time.