Were You Ever A One Blend Smoker?

[geopiper]

Early on, I only smoked W.O. Larsen's Signature Blend because I didn't know any better. I was given a tasting of this blend at the Briar Patch in Sacramento and for a while that's all I bought.

 

[workman]

Not with pipes. Before I even started smoking I had read everything I could find about pipes and tobacco.

But for more than 20 years before that I smoked cigarettes, never more than one brand at a time and for the last 10-12 years one brand only. During those many years, flavor was never a priority. It was about the nicotine, mouth and throat feel and burn characteristics.

So in a way I was a one blend guy. But as a pipesmoker I'm not and never have been.

 

[pepesdad1]

Ray47 said: " Flat out reason is, I'm retired, on a fixed income and just can't afford all these different blends anymore."

That is why I started to cellar in the last year before retirement...thanks to my good friend AJ who told me to "get it on!"
Now I have a cellar that will hopefully last until I die.

 

[alaskanpiper]

Yeah, when I smoked my first bowl :D ::
Since then I've branched out a bit...

 

[chilllucky]

I smoked one blend for nearly 8 years. Out of maybe three pipes that whole time. For the first 15 or so years of my smoking, I liked a variety of aromatic and non aromatic blends, eventually settling on blends with a lot of perique. Then I put the pipe down for a couple of years. When I picked it back up, my 'mostly a cigar shop' tobacconist had a bulk aromatic that I liked well enough, so I started ordering it a half pound at a time a couple of times a year.
Fast forward to a year ago now. I went to make the order and it turns out to have been a McClelland blend and no longer available. I found this forum while trying to figure out what had happened to the company. In that time I've tried close to 50 blends, started messing with flakes and such, purchased a few new pipes for the frist time in more than a decade, developed a traveling pipe cabinet, and planted a couple dozen tobacco plants.

 

[madox07]

I wish I was ... my wife would sure be happier. On the other hand I have not found the no 1 go to all day all night blend. I may smoke a favorite like Royal Yacht (well maybe not ry anymore) or st. bruno back to back tins/pouches, or like ash mentioned, smoke one of them more frequently than others, but the itch for this or that always pops up.
Oh, and by the way, what is this Tinderbox? I don't remember running across this store when I was in the US ...

 

[odobenus]

I smoked one Chief Catoonah blend -- 'Fifth Regiment' -- for the first 25 yrs of my smoking career. Not sure what I was thinking. Very little?

 

[ssjones]

Ah, I forgot about Chief Catoonah (RIP), Princes blend?. I occasionally enjoy an alternate to MM965, which is the death knell for that blend or shop (Imperial Dubec from the now gone Annapolis Smoke Shop, etc.)

 

[crashthegrey]

For a period I can be a one style or company smoker, but never a single blend. I may stick to one for a week to try it all different ways, but I still usually mix something else into the rotation.

 

[thedbs999]

For the longest period of time I was a fan of Prince Albert as that is what grandpa smoked. Then after a couple years i was some where i coould not get Prince Albert and had to go with Carter hall. I still like them both, but with age I've branched out.
Dan

 

[ryeguy]

During my first semester of college, when I was first learning to smoke, I was a one blend smoker (I think it as SWR, thought it's been a while so I can't be sure).
Like workman, I was a one-blend cigarette smoker (Drum).
But today, I'm in the same boat as madox,

I wish I was ... my wife would sure be happier. On the other hand I have not found the no 1 go to all day all night blend.

Variety isn't an end for me. I want to be a one-blend (or maybe a 3-5 blend) smoker, but I keep collecting new tobaccos while I look for the one (or 3, or 5) blend(s) that I won't tire of.

 

[blendtobac]

I rarely smoke the same blend twice in a row. Of course, when working on a new blend, I would make an exception.

That said, while I'm at work I smoke the same type of blend all the time - i.e. - a$$kickers. Otherwise I wouldn't make it through the day.
Russ

 

[cachimbero]

I started trying every easily available blend. That meant aromatic pouches (Clan, any Borkum Riff, Amsterdamer).Then, one day, I found the Dunhill international squared tins and really liked MIld Blend. This made me try every Dunhill blend available, and everything changed. Nowadays, I have always an English and a Virginia open, usually three or four open tins, but, when a tin is over, I never open another of the same blend. I like variety.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

before days when I smoked cigarettes, I mostly smoked one chosen blend as after dinner, mostly it was something with latakia, primarily Dunhill blends,whereas today when I had pretty much quite with cig smoking I usually have something like 3-to max. 4 open tin/pouches at a time, though where possible I tend not to open the very same blend type I had just finished earlier, it is the variety keeps things interesting to me

 

[raybrown55]

I've been a one blend smoker for decades (tipically aromatics, but also for a long time Amphora Original Blend), only about seven years ago I discovered that I liked nearly every type of blend (except cigar leaf) and started to rotate between them