The Chuck Norris of Pipe-Tobaccos: What's Yours?

[newbroom]

Lately, GLP JackKnife Plug is among the stronger blends in my rotation. Cigars are still the highest nic-fix in my smoking supply.

I had been slicing flakes from my JKP Plug till it got down to about the last 1/4 of the cake and rubbed out the rest. I swear there is cigar leaf in this blend. I agree that it's loaded with Vitamin N, but it's smooth.
Don't laff, but I've used some of the rubbed out to do my own informal blending with nice results. Mixing it in with some aro I've got (peaches n cream)...makes for a very nice bowl.

 

[mso489]

Billy Budd and Big 'n Burley are full strength, but don't mow me down. I've heard Tambolaka, most rope

tobaccos, and War Horse are worthy of caution. Small bowl pipe, sip it tentatively, smoke on a full stomach,

and cut it with a neutral blend if necessary. I like a full strength blend, but I don't want to have to take a nap

about it. My first tin of Nightcap was a challenge, but I dove into a newly opened tin in a large pipe with a

full bowl and a long smoke. It was a nic high, not bad, but luckily actually just before bedtime. ZZZZZZ.

 

[mrenglish]

Gawith ropes. Love the brown #4 but it kicks my teeth in if I am not careful. I have a smallish sandblasted Peterson Kildare bulldog I smoke it in. One bowl will last me a week or so. Brown Bogie is another powerful one for me. I am going to try and mix a very small amount of the #4 with ODF and see what happens.

 

[acutabovebriar]

+1 for the JKP. Also Tambo was a killer and not a great taste IMHO.

 

[owen]

Kendall Pigtail I thought I had the flu after half a bowl. Still got it to. The pigtail that is.

 

[winton]

I enjoy Haunted Bookshop. But Sweet and Savory had me walking into walls.

 

[tarak]

My buddy smoked a large bowl of C&D Burley Flake #something and promptly vomited.

 

[cfreud]

I find it's Blackhouse and Pirate Cake. Both are going back into the cellar/closet for a while to mellow out.

 

[brudnic1]

Tambolaka gets my vote.

 

[lostandfound]

I don't smoke Old Dark Fired, it smokes me.
Truthfully though, it's tied with Dunhill Flake as my # 1 tobacco.

 

[dcrguns]

I have to say, Gawith, Hoggarth Rum Flake made my room spin. I thought I was back in college after a night on the town. That is the only tobacco that has hit me that hard.

 

[apiperisdown]

G.L. Pease is Chuck Norris! :worship:

 

[trustybriar]

There was a black tobacco called ' Bulwark' it was a plug.

Don't know if they still sell it but if they do I aint buying any.

Once was enough!

 

[rcstan]

On an empty stomach due to Lady Nicotine : Wessex Brown Slices, Peterson Irish Flake, SG Brown Rope #4 and Dunhill Royal Yacht. No vomiting but made my sugar drop and I had the cold sweats.
I tried ODF once and it has a disgusting element to it, a very bitter smoke. Not the nastiest though. That honor belongs to Cornell &Diehl Gray Ghost which tastes to me like cigar stump stew 8O

 

[johnnyreb]

 

[maxpeters]

What an appropriate topic. I hadn't bought any blends in a while except my go to blends of old, so when recently I picked up 10 new blends to try, I found two that that I like, but just can't get through a complete bowl without getting loopy.

G.L. Pease's Key Largo and Cairo. Both taste good but about halfway down the bowl I feel like I've had 2 or 3 glasses of straight bourbon.

I've never had this happen before, and I've gone through hundreds of different blends. I was wondering if it was just me. I thought I had gone all wussy in my old age. But going back to my older blends I had not a one treat me this way.

And from what I'm reading here, quite a few are heavy in the nicotine dept.

Are the blenders of today not cognizant of the fact that their blends may have too much nicotine in them? I don't know what it takes to lessen the nicotine content in a tobacco, but the older blends never treated me like this. Well, with the exception of 1792.

 

[bphilli75]

I've never had this effect from pipe tobacco. I did however decide to try a couple different cigars that left me very nauseated.
I'm really glad the cigars didn't work out anyway. ...too darn expensive for me, and my wife hates them. She loves the pipes though.

 

[thesmokingtexan]

Brown Irish x is the closest i have come to being Chuck Norrised. I do remember a time when me and a friend of mine were meeting some guys to give them a well deserved ass kicking. We'll when I picked up my friend he had taken two of his dad's cigars and we thought we would look like some bad ass walking up to the fight with cigars hanging out of our mouths. We'll we smoked them on the way over there inhaling like cigarets the whole time (we smoked cigs but this was our first cigar) we'll need less to say we ended up parked on a back road green in the face and sick as dogs and we never made it to the fight. In retrospect it was funny as hell.

 

[saltedplug]

Dark Flake is my favorite tobacco and has been for a number of years. I smoke it any time of the day. Brown rope didn't work in the MM in which I was smoking it so I'm going to try it in a different pipe. I'm finding a like Black Rope more and more, learning how to integrate the creosote flavor into the whole.

 

[winton]

Based off a suggestion form this forum, I brought chocolate with me to the Chicago Pipe Show, in case I had too much nic and needed to drive. The sugar rush would even out the low blood sugar.