What is the Worst Pipe Tobacco You have ever Smoked?

[wgstraub]

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — I believe Bond Street was the primary component of mustard gas.

 

[Elric]

Tight race between Mixture 79 and Dan Blue Note. Both are nasty in uniquely different ways.

 

[DanWil84]

MacBarren Virginia#1 . Stung like putting your mouth in a waspnest and trying to chew them, even being it on the verge of desert dry.

 

[condorlover1]

Condor Mild. It was like smoking Condor that you had left in your pants pocket and then put through a hot wash cycle. I have had more flavorful farts then Condor Mild/Condor Blue. Another uniquely unpleasant one that thankfully is no long available was 'British No:1' or something in that vain which made a very brief appearance in the early 1980s. It was supposedly made from U.K domestically grown tobacco. I purchased a tin whilst visiting The House of Pipes. It was so unpleasant you might as well have filled your pipe with dried leaves from the forest floor, although the tin was very pretty if my memory serves me correctly.

 

[orlandofurioso]

With a beautiful certainty ; Dunhill's EMP.
Tasted bitter and foul ; made my pipe smell like a sewer. Yuck.

 

[hawky454]

@karam reminded me that I really disliked Mississippi Mud and that also brought back memories of really disliking Da Vinci, also by C&D (I kind of enjoyed the Dan Tobacco Da Vinci blend topped with wine). I do love a lot of C&D blends but these 2 were pretty bad, tossed both. It's probably been about 10 years since I had them and I always preach about never swearing off a blend but I'll never return to those two again.

 

[karam]

I gave the Mississippi Mud to a friend who said it’s among the best things he’s smoked. Funnily enough, a few years later I could barely make it through half a bowl of SG Celtic Talisman, gave that to the same friend who loved it. To this day these are the two only blends i have given one star to.

No moral to the story, just a pleasant realisation of friendship through time

 

[Country Bladesmith]

Tight race between Mixture 79 and Dan Blue Note. Both are nasty in uniquely different ways.

I love both of those! ?

 

[lonepiper]

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...

Paladin takes the gold. Chatham Manor the silver. Stonehenge Flake the bronze.

 

[Franco Pipenbeans]

G &H’s Kentucky Black Cherry - a gloopy mess all round and tastes like cherry bubble gum of the most synthetic order, that funny stuff you find abroad on holiday; the kind of flavour that lingers for about three days.

 

[Carol]

This thread is really an interesting example of differences in people's tastes in tobacco. I love Mississippi Mud and Haunted Bookshop. I'm still trying different tobaccos, but so far I can't tolerate Capt Black Original ?, Half and Half, and Carter Hall. Just got a tin of Grousemoor, which burned the heck out of my mouth, first two puffs! I jarred it, and will try again another day.

 

[RobNYC]

For me it has to be Middleton Apple. I apologize to any fans of this tobacco in advance and it was quite some time ago. To me, it was reminiscent of taking a soaking wet sock and marinating it in applesauce and then jamming it into a pipe. Not very pleasant at all.

 

[AcesAndEights]

This was my first Christmas as a pipe smoker, so I geeked out a bit on Christmas blends. Got a tin of Cornell &Diehl’s Hearthside. I thought it was a rare find being from 2019 and all. Turns out there’s a reason there’s still plenty left two years later…

 

[JOHN72]

This thread is really an interesting example of differences in people's tastes in tobacco. I love Mississippi Mud and Haunted Bookshop. I'm still trying different tobaccos, but so far I can't tolerate Capt Black Original ?, Half and Half, and Carter Hall. Just got a tin of Grousemoor, which burned the heck out of my mouth, first two puffs! I jarred it, and will try again another day.

I love Mississippi Mud. I'm smoking it fresh, I don't know how it will be when it's 5 years old or more. At the moment my mind is still accepting latakia's rockets.

 

[Ocam]

Probably Kentucky Bird, or Clan. The Borkum Riffs are pretty bad as well.

Also, Peterson Nightcap and Early Morning are supposed to be good, but I couldn't finish the tins.

That only happened to me with these few blends. Oh, and Rattray Bagpiper Dream. The topping just made me sick.

 

[JohnClyde]

Jack Knife Plug.

No matter how I smoked it, it always tasted like ash with a free complimentary headache.

 

[Christos D. Tsatsaronis]

Clan and Borkum Riff Bronze for me.

 

[Brendan]

I suppose another one for Borkhum Riff,
Cherry Cavendish for me but I knew at the time it wasn't going to be great.
Burnt hot, quick, little flavor but good room note.

 

[Franco Pipenbeans]

Condor Mild. It was like smoking Condor that you had left in your pants pocket and then put through a hot wash cycle. I have had more flavorful farts then Condor Mild/Condor Blue. Another uniquely unpleasant one that thankfully is no long available was 'British No:1' or something in that vain which made a very brief appearance in the early 1980s. It was supposedly made from U.K domestically grown tobacco. I purchased a tin whilst visiting The House of Pipes. It was so unpleasant you might as well have filled your pipe with dried leaves from the forest floor, although the tin was very pretty if my memory serves me correctly.

Condor Mild/Blended = pointless, in my estimation.

 

[Chris81]

Skandinavik regular was one of my first tobaccos because it was readily available in tobacco shops in Italy and I remember how terrible it was, not a nice way to begin...
Amsterdamer is also very common in tobacco shops and is pretty terrible.

Borkum Riff Ruby and Brooksfield No 1 (in Europe) are 2 cheap tobaccos that I didn't find so terrible as most of people seem to.