What Is Your Contemplative Blend?

[dongreyface]

As I sit here getting ready to smoke my pipe in hopes it will help me make a decision about a proposition I recieved at work today that could have a big affect on my future(or it could have absolutly no affect on my future at all), it got me wondering. What, if any, particular blend everyone here smokes when they are contemplating as opposed to simply relaxing. Or if there is a certain blend/pipe combo you use, and why. I don't really have one single pipe I gravitate towards, but I do seem too smoke Frog Morton Across the Pond whenever I'm in deep thought. I can't fully explain why, but there is something about the flavor that helps center my mind, and it's an easy tobacco for me to smoke with little fuss about it to distract me.

 

[jvandy77]

IMO, Blue Note by Dan Pipe Tobacco. Thoroughly good, but not at all complex. A good blend if I am reading or studying, as I don't have to think about it too much.
-Jim

 

[xray]

I'm gonna have to think about this one over a bowl of...?
Well, this leaves me in a Catch-22. 8O

 

[jchaplick]

Hard to say really, I suppose if I want to think, I want something that has a one dimensional as in unchanging flavor, that is complex as in it has many flavors in that one unchanging dimension ( I hope that makes sense) Orlik and HOTW come to mind

 

[nsfisher]

Easy to answer that one mate, Drum layered with Penzance for sure. Rare but relaxing smoke

 

[baronsamedi]

Black House and a glass of Absinthe. If you haven't figured out the answer by the end of the bowl, you won't really care.

 

[rickpal14]

Black House and a glass of Absinthe. If you haven't figured out the answer by the end of the bowl, you won't really care.

:rofl:
Mine would be Cerberus

 

[barkar]

Honestly when ever I sit down to smoke a whole bowl, it doesn't matter what it is, I slip off into the "zone"

 

[dervis]

Anything vanilla, and in a cob.

 

[batdemon]

GLP Barbary Coast for me ::

 

[carlosviet]

Honestly when ever I sit down to smoke a whole bowl, it doesn't matter what it is, I slip off into the "zone"

Me too, I am afraid. If I can put myself in a churchwarden or big bowl situation, I get as brain-mute as watching a fire...
After it, my head is clear, sure... but till then, my body is there but my head is on holidays...

 

[matchstickman]

I'm gonna vote either 1Q or Larrys Blend, the only difference dictated by weather. If it is a hot day, it'll be the 1Q. On a cold night, Larry's Blend is guaranteed to put me at peace. What really helps is a couple of big pinches of snuff right before lighting your pipe. A good menthol snuff soothes my sinuses while I smoke, and after the nic from the pipe and the snuff wears off, I have a good beer and all my worries are alleviated.

 

[stogie37]

Right now it's usually some really old G.L. Pease Kensington, or Ashton Pebblecut. Problem is, sometimes the tobacco is so good - it distracts me from what I was contemplating! I do know that a "high maintenance" tobacco is a thought process killer for me. I don't want to have to think about the mechanics of smoking too much while problm solving or visioneering.

 

[gecko13]

I have a few choices, but lately its some Plum Pudding.

 

[terry]

Haven't found that perfect blend yet.

 

[markw4mms]

Depending on what kind of tobacco I'm in the mood for, I'd have to go with 1Q, Blue Mountain,or Hamborger Veermaster as my contemplating smokes.

 

[lazydog]

English Oriental from P Stokkebye. The most 1 dimensional English, yet great english flavor. This is assuming I could ever be very contemplative. But on those rare occasions, this is what I'd go to. Pipe choice would play into this also. :?: Looks like pipe novelist has a very good recipe for relaxation.

 

[frtimmyd]

The more I smoke English blends the more I'm inclined to smoke one while preparing my sermon each week. I'm not sure why but it just puts me in a thoughtful mood. So I guess since the only English blend I have is the Villager 1888 Early Day...I'll have to go with that one as my Contemplative Blend. ::

 

[bailey331]

I have a large selection to choose from. It really depends on the mood and what I am craving at the time. I just got my first tin of panzance yesterday and will be having that tonight.

 

[judcole]

My favorite blend is Old Dublin - always reliable for any task at hand. ::