What are your top five favorite non-aromatic?

[piperRowan]

I am really new to non-aromatic. Have tried SG full Virginia, university flake and old dark fired. I am wondering what will be your top five non-aromatic delivering cool dry smoking experience and happy to hear your recommendations for this type of tobacco.

 

[laniromee]

Well, "non-aromatic" is a really broad group of tobaccos - we'll have virginias, vapers, unflavored cavendish, burley based, orientals, english, "balkan", scottish, semois, lat bombs... So you'll have a lot to take in. I'll give you 5 of my favorite blends together with its type. I am a predominantly english mixture smoker, so beware.
I'll remove discontinued blends and unobtainium from the list so these should be fairly easy to acquire:
1. Boswell Northwoods - English (with black cavendish)

2. Wilke 524 - English (with black cavendish)

3. Presbyterian - English

4. Firestorm RO Series - Vaper (with kentucky)

5. Peter Stokkebye Luxury Bullseye - Vaper (with cavendish)

 

[cortezattic]

Try any of G.L. Pease's blends whose descriptions seem appealing. Their tastes are true to the leaf varieties used; they are well balanced; and their great clarity will help your palate sort things out. Haddo's Delight would probably make a nice transition from the aromatic world.

 

[alaskanpiper]

Esoterica Dunbar

Seattle Pipe Club Plum Pudding

Capstan Blue

GL Pease Maltese Falcon

Esoterica Penzance
+1 on Boswell's northwoods as well though. The latakia tin/bag note on that blend is heavenly.

 

[lasttango]

Uhle's crushed White Burley is cool and dry for me... As is their Perfection Plug. These are simple, unmuted and burn great.
Others I like include: Peretti's #52 and I got a little spoiled recently when some awesome member gifted me a little aged Pelican.
If you don't mind a little sweet, I like GL's Cairo and Barbary a lot also. (not aros, but the. VA makes it sweeter).
I'm at a bit of a loss for English, but I will concur that any GL Pease makes a good English and I am quite fond of Boswell's Northwoods.

 

[Chasing Embers]

McClelland 40th Anniversary

Yenidje Highlander

Yenice Agonya

Christmas Cheer

Balkan Blue

 

[alaskanpiper]

McClelland 40th Anniversary

Yenidje Highlander

Yenice Agonya

Christmas Cheer

Balkan Blue

Holy Unobtainium, Captain!

 

[Chasing Embers]

Holy Unobtainium, Captain!

They weren't when I loaded up on them, and they are my current favorite non-aros.

 

[tabakpfeife]

My favorite is Dunbar, which, of course, is one of the "unobtainium"s. BTW, I was watching Avatar last night, and the ore they are trying to mine on Pandora is "unobtanium". I wonder if that was the origin of the name? Anyway, I also like Rattray's Old Gowrie which I would classify as "sortaobtainable". I also like Peretti's Park Square, even the current version, and the new Sutliff's Crumble Kake. Both are "EZobtanium".

 

[workman]

If we're leaving Dunhill out of this, I'll say SG Full Virginia Flake, Rattray's Hal o' The Wynd, Capstan Blue Flake, SG Lakeland Dark, Peterson's Irish Flake (or Rattray's Stirling Flake), both of which have become unobtainable to me, alas, but should be available elsewhere.

 

[alaskanpiper]

the ore they are trying to mine on Pandora is "unobtanium"

I believe this term was used in the engineering/science community long before Avatar ever existed, but I could be wrong.

 

[tabakpfeife]

Alaskanpiper, History major here, so you are probably right.

 

[alaskanpiper]

You piqued my interest....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium
Actually kind of interesting........but I'm a bit of a nerd.

 

[tabakpfeife]

:worship:

 

[derhammer]

C&D Da Vinci

C&D Bow-legged Bear

GL Pease Odyssey

Ashton Artisans Blend

Presbyterian

 

[Chasing Embers]

the ore they are trying to mine on Pandora is "unobtanium"

With the budget Avatar had, you'd think they could have come up with something a bit more imaginative. :|

 

[troyniss]

MacBaren Navy Flake

C&D Black Frigate

GLPease JackKnife Plug

NewMinster no.400 Superior Navy Flake

SPC Plum Pudding

 

[brooklynpiper]

With the budget Avatar had, you'd think they could have come up with something a bit more imaginative. :|

This. It was an all-time bad name for a macguffin

 

[aquadoc]

With the budget Avatar had, you'd think they could have come up with something a bit more imaginative. :|

Well, the corporate pencil neck did refer to unobtanium as cheddar, too.

 

[danimalia]

These are probably my current to 5 iIn no particular order. All of them smoke cool and comfortably for me.
Bengal Slices

GL Pease Maltese Falcon (Really, there are several GLP Latakia blends I could list)

Gawith, Hogarth & Co. Dark Flake Unscented

Watch City Flake #558 (A new discovery I am smitten with)

Solani 656 Aged Burley FLake
If you enjoy the Old Dark Fired, I highly reccommend the Solani Burley and Dark Flake U/S. Also, Pease's JackKnife Plug is a wonderful blend with dark-fired Kentucky.