I purchased a Tin of We Three Kings when it was released this year. But wanted to see what everyone's favorite blends are?
What is your Favorite Christmas Blend?
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Wilke's Santa blend
The Holly King - The Storyteller's Pipe
The Holly King - The Storyteller's Pipe
When they were still around, I looked forward to Sutliff’s Cringle Flake releases each year. They were good blends to smoke any time of the year too. Missed seeing something like that released for this Christmas.
Mcclelland Christmas Cheer and Cringle Flake. Peterson made a Christmas aero that I liked but I forget what year it came out. Maybe 2015? I liked that one a lot too.
With the cold weather at Christmas, I really like C&D Pirate Kake and GLP Spark Plug.
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Prince Albert with mixture 79 and Middleton cherry. Those were fun times.
But its hard to want to smoke something labeled as Christmas blend.
Maybe some called "let's smoke the seasonal blend of misery and bad music"
But its hard to want to smoke something labeled as Christmas blend.
Maybe some called "let's smoke the seasonal blend of misery and bad music"
A few years back I was hanging up exterior Christmas lights and garland with my sons. During this time I was smoking Blood Red Moon. It was such a nice smoke and one of my boys mentioned that they liked it because it reminded them of Christmas with the cherry aroma. So, since then, I try to smoke BRM or TK-6 (cherry) especially between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
I just had some Boswell's Christmas Cookie for the first time the other day and was pretty impressed. Prior to that, the only other holiday-themed blend I had tried was Sutliff Christmas Spice which is also quite good.
The Country Squire's Figgy Pudding scratches the Christmas blend itch for me.
Oh, if only it really still was... 
Just got both of the Squire's for the first time this year.. I'm looking forward to trying them both soon!
Though not a Christmas blend, I think that Sutliff Pumpkin Spice is good. It has a strong jar note of eggnog.
Corn Cob Pipe with a Button Nose
McClellands Holiday Spirit
My two favorites for November and December.
McClellands Holiday Spirit
My two favorites for November and December.
Corn Cobb with a button nose is one of the few aros I actually like and can get some good flavor from.
Generally they are aromatics that feature scents/flavors associated with the holiday season/Christmas traditions. Baking Spices, Chocolate & Marshmallow, etc.
Holiday Spirit, for example, was a mix of Burley, Black Cav, and McClelland's famous Virginias with exquisite flavoring of Dark Rum, (Hot)Cocoa, and Pecan... some of my favorite things in the world.
Yes, there are those who wax nostalgic about McClelland and place it to unreacheable levels of perfection in their mind's eye now that it is long gone... but trust me when I say that this was indeed one of the smoothest, complex, yet truest flavored aromatics I still have ever experienced. Even as a noob on my first bowl of it I was like "WOW this is no SWR Aromatic"
If only my younger self had put back more than a couple few tins... but money was much tighter then and I thought "One of the oldest and most well loved and high-end tobacco brands in the country.. surely they'll stick around" :/
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Ya it's always been funny to me that aromatics get recommended to new pipers when they can be tricky to prep and smoke.
That said, the original cube cut Corn Cob Pipe is a real easy "scoop and burn" blend.
I find it even more funny that the people who say that about aromatics then usually say "no it's burley/codger blends that are ACTUALLY the easiest" when in my personal experience, they are the only thing more difficult than even the tougher aromatics...
Idk, maybe it's my body chemistry, but nothing to me bites easier and is harder to control temperature wise than pure burley blends.
To me the easiest to control are actually lightly flavored pure cavendish or cav/VA blends. And I know cavs are burleys... but it just seems like the steaming process makes it a totally different, absurdly more friendly and forgiving leaf.