Elizabethan Match is the least demanding with the greatest return for me.
Undemanding Blends
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A number of C&D ribbon blends; Star of the East Gold, Stratfordshire, Good Morning among others. Just a pleasure to smoke. Effortless and consistent.
Good question: What is a demanding smoke? And the answer is different for every smoker. I find blends like C&D Bayou Night or Semois medium and thick cut more demanding of attention, in a good way, something to which I devote most of my attention, as the flavor and strength is right up there at the center of my consciousness. Even more so with Indonesian air cured burley Tambolaka and brown rope, for examples. None of these, properly smoked, will knock you over, but you are right there with them, or I am. Whereas undemanding blends -- by my conceit -- give you some room to either give attention or do other things equally at hand. Some people only smoke strong tobacco, so for them, it is undemanding, or just as demanding as they like.
I don't smoke any blends I find demanding. If the pipe and tobacco aren't providing effortless and undemanding pleasure, I'm not smoking it.
Good question! Some favs already mentioned, so I will go with Davidoff's Scottish Mixture.
Capstan blue, Peterson deluxe navy rolls, solani silver flake, Reiner long golden flake, Orlik golden sliced
By the time I realized I had forgotten about the strap on, it was too late to edit my post. Oh, well, it'd have been too perfect otherwise. ?
minute while I give this some thought power.
Some blends do ask for an attention. I just ignore and smoke on. Others are just not there to be noticed, don't usually smoke them twice. Then there are those that just feels right. Those, I try to stash as much as possible.
This thread goes along with the threads on all-day smokes and every day smokes - they all are focused on the same idea. These blends will be uncomplicated, with lower level of nicotine, and a milder flavor - but they still have to be interesting. There are a number of these blends that I enjoy - Amphora Regular and Virginia, Sutliff Virginia Flake, PS Norwegian and Natural Dutch Cavendish, and so on. The vast majority of what I smoke falls into this category.
Amphora Full Aroma for example. Good quality , unpretentious and very enjoyable at a very reasonable price. Wish they would sell it by the pound, ideally in one of those colorful retro 1970s tins.
Capstan Blue ready rubbed.
It's been my first bowl of the morning for longer than I can remember.
Plain but interesting, I never tire of it, and it sometimes seems that I like it more and more with every day that passes.
It's been my first bowl of the morning for longer than I can remember.
Plain but interesting, I never tire of it, and it sometimes seems that I like it more and more with every day that passes.
Agree, Amphora Full Aroma is my undemanding blend as well.
I’ll second Star of the East - it always lights easy, smokes effortlessly and generally burns to ash regardless of what I might do to help or hinder
St Bruno. It's simple and turns to ash just by breathing.......................
Golden Extra. A nice easy smoke for me.
Chelsea Morning and Erinmore Flake are another two I find easy to smoke.
Chelsea Morning and Erinmore Flake are another two I find easy to smoke.