What is your pipe for english?

[ember]

Recently I purchased a Gabe 2nd series poker that smokes Virginia's amazingly and I will dedicate this pipe to that tobacco only .

But my question to you all what pipe in your collection gives you the best smoking experience for English tobacco?

 

[mso489]

It depends on the number of tobaccos. A simple English blend of three tobaccos -- for example Virginia, Lat, and Turkish -- goes well in any Group 4 (medium sized) billiard, bulldog, Dublin, etc. For blends with four or more tobaccos (number arbitrary but maybe useful), I like a wider bowl as is often typical of a pot, prince, author, diplomat, etc. I somewhat accept the theory that a wider bowl gets more different leaf going at once and gives a better range to the blend. Of course, this is all subject to trial and error, and sometimes a pipe that shouldn't work is ideal. For burley single leaf and burley blends, I often like a standard width chamber this is deep, like a Hungarian, a cob freehand or General, anything with depth.

 

[ejames]

Don't smoke English very often but when I do I use what ever pipe I grabbed off the rack that morning.

 

[aristokles]

If one defines an "English" as a Latakia containing blend, I always go with one of my large (group 5 or larger) billiards- Parkers, Comoy's (thanks to bilkay for both of those), Lorenzos, Custombilts, La Stradas, BBBs. Second choice is a large pot.

 

[ember]

I need to get myself a nice size Pot or Prince. I use a savinelli Tortuga 320 I like to use for Lat's and I have an old DR G. pot shape that was my pap's I wish I could use but it gets so hot no matter how slow I smoke it..

 

[ray47]

I also prefer a Savinelli 320 for Latakia blends.

 

[aldecaker]

Going with English = Lat-heavy, I prefer my Savinelli 673KS. Runner up is a Leonessa bulldog with an unnaturally large bowl and short stem.

 

[papipeguy]

All of them.

 

[okiebrad]

I use a country gentleman cob.

 

[mothernaturewilleatusallforbreakfast]

The only latakia blend that I smoke is Balkan Sobranie. I smoke a bowl of it every now and then, and when I do it's in a Kyriazanos Bulldog. I enjoy a couple other latakia blends occasionally, and when I do I smoke them in a cob. I plan to buy a new briar pipe for latakia blends this winter if my smoking picks up?

 

[tschiraldi]

All of them! I like a smaller bowl for plugs, larger for flakes.

 

[jpmcwjr]

All but a half dozen I use for Vapers. Pot shapes I avoid for any tobacco.

 

[gtrhtr]

For me, English blends leave a ghost, you're mileage may vary, but I have specific pipes dedicated to that blend.

 

[frozenchurchwarden]

All of them.

Yup. I don't think I've found a bowl that doesn't agree with English blends.

Then again the only specific combination I have found to avoid is flakes in wide bowls (because they burn too slowly), but that's more about the cut than the blend.

 

[judcole]

I use a variety of shapes. I like group 4 or group 5. So much depends on the tobacco I'm smoking. MM Baby's Bottom and Old Dublin I like best in a group 4 with a rectangular chamber. The SG flakes I like in a Cayuga pot. Experiment. ::

 

[forest7]

Peterson Donegal Rocky 999!

 

[shutterbugg]

I never pay any attention to which pipe I choose for which blend. I only smoke blends I like, so I don't mind the ghost of one haunting the smoke of another. I do have a few basket pipes I use if on a rare occasion I decide to try something entirely new and untested.

 

[lvs13]

Al Pascia Bent Curvy in Gloss Red

 

[pagan]

My Sav billiard, simple yet satisfying

 

[crashthegrey]

Most of them. I definitely lean towards diplomats (or squat tomatoes or 320), billiards, and bulldogs.