Top 5 must try Pipe tobaccos

[wyfbane]

Stokkebye North Sea
Dan's Devil's Holiday
Mac Baren Navy Flake
SPC Plum Pudding
Carter Hall

 

[alan73]

Ps luxury bullseye flake

Mcclelland 2015

Mcclelland 27

Solani silver flake

Orlik golden sliced

 

[kodos44]

I think this is a good thread regardless of the OP's current status! Some good recommendations here, for the newbie and experienced pipers alike. I've long been a lurker here and enjoy threads like these. Just a note, I dislike HEAVY latakia blends and I prefer Virginias. I love well made Aros and am a BIG fan of Lakelands. Here's my 5 beginner friendly blends:
1) Rattray's Hal O' the Wynd

2) Peter Stokkebye Luxury Bullseye Flake

3) Lane 1-Q

4) Carter Hall

5) Peterson Connoisseur's Choice
I always enjoy seeing what others rate as starter tobaccos and usually see a few blends listed that I end up trying and enjoying. Necro ON!
Scott

 

[deathmetal]

I thought the rule was that this thread only got reincarnated once every five years.
I am glad to see Hal O' The Wynd getting the credit it deserves.
Lane 1-Q was not a tobacco for me, so I suggest Prince Albert instead for the vanilla Burley fix, even if it's not really a Burley (apparently mostly Burley, with some Orientals and Virginias).

 

[sablebrush52]

I thought the rule was that this thread only got reincarnated once every five years.

THe committe met and decided that it was permissible to do this more often. We've also agreed that "manliness" threads should be posted more often. So...

 

[jpmcwjr]

Which broaches the question: Are "man caves" manly, or an attempt to assert manliness (either in the presence or absence of same)?

 

[saltedplug]

Dark Flake

1792

War Horse Plug Red

Escudo

Stonehenge

Chant's Cake

La Brumeuse

Cumberland

Salty Dogs

 

[hobie1dog]

Great to see a thread that was started 5 years ago still going, and with the guy who had started it left 4 1/2 years ago.

 

[deathmetal]

Tag! You're it. It's your duty to come back in four and a half years and update the thread.

 

[perdurabo]

McClelland Blackwoods flake

GL Pease Gaslight

C&D Haunted Bookshop

Gawaith Hogarth &Co Ennerdale

SG Cabbie's Mixture

 

[pipesmokingtom]

Perdurabo, these are supposed to be lists for new smokers. While those are all great tobaccos, a few of them are pretty finicky to deal with for the inexperienced!

 

[snowyowl]

perdurabo suggested:

McClelland Blackwoods flake

GL Pease Gaslight

C&D Haunted Bookshop

Gawaith Hogarth &Co Ennerdale

SG Cabbie's Mixture

Well.

That is a very nice list, for the "new guy"!

I like it... as it will send the piper away from the starting line on a meandering wooded path.

Kudos.

 

[perdurabo]

Hey, if your gonna start smoking a pipe, you might as well start smoking the right stuff.
Cliff notes for the uninitiated:
BlackWoods flake: Allow it to sit out and air dry from 30 minutes to 4 or 5 hours. Try different dry times for different profiles.
GL Pease Gaslight: Cut the Plug in thin flakes and rub out. Let this be the second tobacco you try.
C&D Haunted Bookshop: this will be the first tobacco you smoke. Smoke this stuff for a few weeks, until you master the mechanics of packing a pipe, smoking slowly, etc. This tobacco will replace every suggestion given to you as your first smoke. It's a hidden gem, it reveals itself in stages. Pm me when you want the next initiation into burley. ::
GH&Co Ennerdale: you need an aromatic in your arsenal, what better aromatic than almond oil, lavender, vanilla and various fruits. Yes this stuff is the bees knees. The tobaccos are exquisite.
SG Cabbies Mixture: you need a Va/Per, don't fuck with the Mainstream crap. Go big and do it different.
Or you could smoke Lane 1-Q and Carter Hall and probably never make it far in the world of pipe smoking, Just a suggestion. :puffpipe:

 

[fitzy]

Here's 6:
PS Luxury Twist Flake

H&H Blackhouse

H&H Magnum Opus

McClelland Frog Morton Cellar

McClelland 5100

McClelland 3 Oaks Syrian :crying:

McClelland Yenidje Highlander :crying:

 

[J. Mayo]

I want to play! In no particular order:
English - Dunhill Nightcap

Va/Per - Escudo

Va - Orlik Golden Sliced

Burley - Solani Aged Burley Flake 656

Aro - Tewksbury Hobbit's Weed .......Recently discontinued, but pipesandcigars.com has a "match" blend that I've heard is pretty close. I have yet to try it but guess I'll find out how close it is when I run out of the Tewksbury I have in the cellar.

 

[uperepik]

G.L. Pease Haddo's Delight

Wessex Campaign dark flakes

G.L. Pease Quite Nights or Dunhill Nightcap

Solani Aged Burley Flakes

Peter Stokkeby Luxury Bullseye Flakes (for something lighter)

 

[hawky454]

Hey, if your gonna start smoking a pipe, you might as well start smoking the right stuff.
Cliff notes for the uninitiated:
BlackWoods flake: Allow it to sit out and air dry from 30 minutes to 4 or 5 hours. Try different dry times for different profiles.
GL Pease Gaslight: Cut the Plug in thin flakes and rub out. Let this be the second tobacco you try.
C&D Haunted Bookshop: this will be the first tobacco you smoke. Smoke this stuff for a few weeks, until you master the mechanics of packing a pipe, smoking slowly, etc. This tobacco will replace every suggestion given to you as your first smoke. It's a hidden gem, it reveals itself in stages. Pm me when you want the next initiation into burley. ::
GH&Co Ennerdale: you need an aromatic in your arsenal, what better aromatic than almond oil, lavender, vanilla and various fruits. Yes this stuff is the bees knees. The tobaccos are exquisite.
SG Cabbies Mixture: you need a Va/Per, don't fuck with the Mainstream crap. Go big and do it different.
Or you could smoke Lane 1-Q and Carter Hall and probably never make it far in the world of pipe smoking, Just a suggestion. :puffpipe:

I like your style!
Cabbies Mixture has quickly become my top dog VaPer too!

 

[davidintexas]

Your making it real hard to resist opening new tins. Have a tin of Cabbie's Mixture about a year or so old now, but have so many others opened up have been just letting it sit in the cellar. Hawky.....stop it

 

[forsooth]

When Chuck Norris smokes Haunted Bookshop, his family goes outside.

 

[perdurabo]

Chuck Norris is lucky, I light up a bowl of Haunted Bookshop and everybody in the house wants to interrupt me. I have to admit that my Haunted Bookshop diet has been interrupted by Pease Fillmore, C&D Purple Cow, and Blackwoods Flake.