There’s No Bad Pipe Tobacco

[condorlover1]

Every time I read one of @Briar Lee posts I seem to get visions of characters from the Andy Griffith Show! I half expect to hear in that Andy Griffith voice a tale of the time that a Lee 3 1/2 Star pipe was used to squeeze the grease glad on the butt hole of Otis somebody of others Great Dane! In terms of vile tobacco you have obviously never smoked Clan which is like sucking in a super heated fart!

 

[karam]

There are bad tobaccos for my tastes: C&D Mississippi Mud smells like cat poop and tastes abysmal.
SG Celtic Talisman: nauseating cloying artificial plastic-tasting cherry.
HU Tillerman: dunno what’s wrong with it, I read it may contain chilli. Gave me intense tongue bite from the charring light.
Warhorse Bar: I actually like it but my wife complains it smells like burning tires drenched with patchouli when smoked OUTSIDE.
Gawith black twists: not bad on a good day, abysmal stale grillhouse taste on a bad day.

 

[condorlover1]

@karam : Do have any idea how much research went into War Horse Bar to come up with that smell, the number of tire dumps that we're set on fire? Remember the original adverts? War Horse Bar. Smells like shit. Buy Some!

 

[Duke of Erinmore]

Tried plenty of distasteful (to me) blends, along with even more in the bland, boring & 'who'd smoke this shit' category. I'd hesitate to call any brand bad though as I'm sure the worst brand you can think of has it's fans, otherwise it wouldn't be commercially available. Having said that though, personally speaking I can't think of nothing worse than a bowl of Clan or Amsterdamer in one of those cheap Jack 'Lee' pipes.

Yes, same here.

I would say it depends of one's understanding of "bad". There is nothing intrinsically "bad" about Maggi soup cubes, in terms of that they will give you food poisoning, but when you compare it to a self-cooked broth from a chicken and fresh vegetables, there is a large difference in quality.

Same goes for blends. The soup-cube equivalent is your run-of-the-mill black cavendish based mixture with chemical vanilla cherry flavour.

 

[5star]

I have problems with blends with lots of PG in them. Many of them tend to be aros. The heavy PG can give me a headache for some reason.

 

[telescopes]

If the bar is set low enough, then yes, it might be stated that there are no "bad" pipe tobacco blends on the market today.

 

[telescopes]

Speaking of some pipe tobaccos, I find that some tobaccos seem to have identity dysphoria issues. But, given the confusing times we live in, that is to be expected, right? Is it an aromatic, an English, a burley, a Vapor, a Vabur, or is it some binary, poly trans flavored smoke? I am so confused by all of the names, I never know what to call zem. I guess it doesn't matter so long as they smoke, but then I feel guilty adding pollutants to the environment. At least the leaves aren't blue.... yet.

 

[condorlover1]

@telescopes : The question we have not asked is does the tobacco have preferred pronouns?

 

[sablebrush52]

Lee,

You haven't experienced life until you've had Polish Condor.

 

[sablebrush52]

Is it an aromatic, an English, a burley, a Vapor, a Vabur, or is it some binary, poly trans flavored smoke?

It's all that and more. Embrace the 3 strip Technicolor Overcoat and House Of Tomorrow!

 

[ray47]

Middleton's Cherry Blend is the worst I've ever smoked. Doesn't taste like cherry and burns my mouth as bad as it did 55 yrs ago.

 

[condorlover1]

Back on topic here. I think the consensus is that bad tobacco does exist but it is a matter of personal conjecture what constitutes a 'bad tobacco' blend. One persons turd is another chaps treasure blend!

 

[sablebrush52]

Middleton's Cherry Blend is the worst I've ever smoked. Doesn't taste like cherry and burns my mouth as bad as it did 55 yrs ago.

Maybe so, but remember that, like cockroaches, Middleton's Cherry will survive the apocalypse.

 

[condorlover1]

@sablebrush52: Pouches of Middleton's Cherry and Captain Monochromatic have been found in fresh, moist condition when 2000 year old Egyptian tombs have been opened for the first time!

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

I won’t share the blend but the only truly awful experience I’ve had so far was with a well regarded, well aged Dunhill tobacco that didn’t suit me at all (though I haven’t revisited it and I will someday).

Maybe that is the point.

 

[huntertrw]

There's no bad Pipe Tobacco

Except for Mixture No. 79...

 

[NC TX ID pipeman]

Some of the worst tasting tabaccos I smoked during the last 10 years were Dan tobacco Da vinci,2012 Peterson Summertime,2016 Jack knife plug,8oz of 2013 FVF,and 2015 SG Commonwealth,McBaren vanilla Everything else was acceptable..The new Carter hall version has too much chemicals for me...pre 1974 version is quite good and very different...

 

[bullet08]

I smoked Marlboro Red some 40 years before pipe. Yeah, most pipe blends are pretty good.

 

[mortonbriar]

I think half and half smells like fertilizer, but it's sale's would say that it is well enjoyed...

 

[pantsBoots]

I'm not sure there is a universally-bad tobacco, just tobaccos I tried several times and then relegated the remainder to the bonfire pit. For all the trash I read about Velvet being "too smooth" and "flavorless," I was pleasantly surprised with the recent antique Velvet tasting wherein I enjoyed both the hundred-year-old tin as well as the sample of modern Velvet. I could see buying it. On the other hand, I've tried probably 30 or 40 C&D blends and the ones I continue to purchase I can count on one hand.