What is the Worst Pipe Tobacco You have ever Smoked?

[JOHN72]

I am refining my tastes and discovering that what I didn't like yesterday, I like today. But as of today something really disgusting, I haven't had that feeling yet. I think it would be something like a very aromatic tobacco, with an overwhelming chemical aftertaste. The ones with coffee aroma, toffee, I hate them. Very aromatic Mac Baren tobaccos, I am now tasting them. And I think it's one of the best on the market. As an inexperienced smoker with only a few years with pipe tobacco. What I do know is that I do not like a tobacco that does not taste like tobacco.

 

[RobertLeslie75]

Easy. Semois

 

[daveinlax]

MacBaren The Cube. I sampled it live at a pipe show and it made me sick and ruined my day. I have never sampled tobacco at a pipe show since.

 

[Jason H]

Hello all... I joined this group so I can say I tried Royal Yacht 20 years ago and i still cant get that taste out of my mouth. It should be called " Grandpas moldy shoe, Mothball blend"
I have been gun-shy to try "night cap" or other dunhill / Petersen Blends do to royal yuck tasting like a cleaning agent. I felt like I was caught swearing by an adult who made me sit in the corner with a bar of soap in my mouth.
Lots must like it cause they still make it.

 

[That Guy]

"We 3 Kings" by C&D. I'm not an aromatic type guy but thought I'd give this a try. Would get a headache everytime I tried it and had to just dump the bowl.

 

[Servant King]

A lot has changed in the year and a half since I replied here the first time. Sutliff 515 RC-1 is the clear winner, hands down. Not even Autumn Evening comes close to dethroning it. It almost made me quit, seriously. I wondered if I would need primal scream therapy afterwards, although my primary concern at the time was averting a tort lawsuit from my own tongue.

Consider yourselves warned!

 

[AJL67]

Old dark fired. Tasted like chewing on it quite charred campfire logs and what i can only imagine is like kissing the 60yr old hooker at the Nutley bus station, the one that never takes the Pall Mall outta her mouth.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Still Stonehaven.

 

[georged]

I was part of a group that pooled their money to buy an old can of something Rare Fancy and Expensive at the KC show in 2011. People who knew WHAT the were buying, too, not beginners: Fred Hanna, Mike & Mary McNeil, Tad Gage, and several others.

It wasn't just bad, it wasn't just horrible, it was poisonous. Acidic, chemical-reeking, fetid, industrial nastiness like you'd expect from eating dirt at a Superfund site.

One puff did it for everyone. Mary thought she might die, all of us coughed, and Fred tried to wash it away for half an hour.

The moral of the story is obvious: Sometimes age ISN'T a good thing. LOL

 

[didimauw]

Old dark fired. Tasted like chewing on it quite charred campfire logs and what i can only imagine is like kissing the 60yr old hooker at the Nutley bus station, the one that never takes the Pall Mall outta her mouth.

Good. One less buyer I have to fight for it over!

 

[SaxonX]

I have named Erinmore previously but today tried Ashtons Consumate Gentleman…..it was fouli emptied my pipe after 15 minutes and put the new tin back on the shelf

 

[condorlover1]

Hello all... I joined this group so I can say I tried Royal Yacht 20 years ago and i still cant get that taste out of my mouth. It should be called " Grandpas moldy shoe, Mothball blend"
I have been gun-shy to try "night cap" or other dunhill / Petersen Blends do to royal yuck tasting like a cleaning agent. I felt like I was caught swearing by an adult who made me sit in the corner with a bar of soap in my mouth.
Lots must like it cause they still make it.

You should read my opinion on the stuff - your views are mild compared to my views!

 

[condorlover1]

Erinmore is another one. I think they use prune juice in that one as it tastes nothing like how I remember the blend. It had course cut tobacco with big strands of black Cavendish and smelled delightful back in the 1980s. I nearly purchase a house built in the 1840s in South London circa 1990 from an elderly gentlemen who smoked the stuff. I often wondered if he was real or just some strange apparition since he always seem to avoid touching either myself or my girlfriend Boonrat at the time and always seemed to be at least five feet away from wherever we stood. Anyway I just gave away a tin to an old friend on here to enjoy as I thought the blend sucked arse!

 

[Franco Pipenbeans]

On Sunday nights, I tend to just play on my phone and research random things. Today I was researching the famous Toscanello Cigarillos and found myself watching a cigar review. In this particular episode, a popular set of dudes reviewed a 40 cigar bundle that was on sale for $30. At the end they all agreed they were all pretty terrible. They wanted to know what the worst cigar you ever smoked.

I am tweaking their question and want to know from you guys, what is the worst pipe blend you have ever smoked?

I will go first: C&D Yorktown! Now to be fair, I am a huge fan of Pirate Kake (sic), Star of the East and their Christmas blends. However, Yorktown takes the trophy as the worst pipe tobacco I have ever smoked.

Your turn...

I’ve not come across a “worst” but there are some that I wouldn’t choose in the future because of personal taste.

Everyone differs and what’s right for the goose might not be right for the gander.

I appreciate that I’ve got splinters up my bum from sitting on the fence but live and let live I reckon.

 

[Franco Pipenbeans]

I’ve not come across a “worst” but there are some that I wouldn’t choose in the future because of personal taste.

Everyone differs and what’s right for the goose might not be right for the gander.

I appreciate that I’ve got splinters up my bum from sitting on the fence but live and let live I reckon.

Oh and the Irish Twists, bugger that for a game of soldiers!

 

[Spa32]

The worst to me would either be 3 friars or 5 O'clock shadow. I love most C&D blends but with these 2 I couldn't finish the tins.

 

[avail]

There are a number that did not agree with me at all...One often talked about, that I hate, Haunted Bookshop.

I know you're supposed to be able to try a blend, determine what you like, then isolate the constituents of the blend and go from there. The process is hit or miss for me, some things will remain a mystery. Tried a VaPer once and it made me sick... Guess i don't like that, whatever it is.

Autumn Evening is another. I read comments, reviews, ingredients and it sounded perfect, so I ordered two tins. The tin note was beautiful, smoking it was a no-go. Gave away most of it and still have one tin I need to trade away.

Reading the forum comments, I will pick up on the tastes of others. If someone chimes in and loves a blend I can't stand, I'll avoid ever trying a blend recommended by that person!

 

[Chaukisch]

None of you would ever consider to buy it or even have it available but I did and some might.
"Farmer Tabak" from Planta. It has a 3/4 star review on tobaccoreviews.com but I don't know what devil has ridden those two poor reviewers.



I ordered the smallest box but they sent me the largest.
I'm convinced it wasn't out of good will or trying to please a new customer, they just wanted to get rid of this stuff. Advertised to also be suitable for cigarettes, which is not all that wrong,
but in a pipe this was just soapy.
It genuinely tasted like tobacco that was heavily soaked in plain soap and it lasted throughout the bowl.

 

[avail]

None of you would ever consider to buy it or even have it available but I did and some might.
"Farmer Tabak" from Planta. It has a 3/4 star review on tobaccoreviews.com but I don't know what devil has ridden those two poor reviewers.

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I ordered the smallest box but they sent me the largest.
I'm convinced it wasn't out of good will or trying to please a new customer, they just wanted to get rid of this stuff. Advertised to also be suitable for cigarettes, which is not all that wrong,
but in a pipe this was just soapy.
It genuinely tasted like tobacco that was heavily soaked in plain soap and it lasted throughout the bowl.

Sounds good...LOL

 

[Chaukisch]

Sounds good...LOL

Look at the guy. He doesn't even have a pipe in his mouth and he's still mocking me.
"Darn fool! Shoulda plucked a random weed instead!"