What Kinds of Tobacco Should I Try?

[jonahtke]

I say try as much as you can. I'm typically limited to aro's due to the tastes of the wife. However I find that I really enjoy other types when I can get away with it. I enjoy new tobaccos just for the sake of trying something new. It has amazed me that each new blend is often times profoundly different from the last.

 

[estumpf]

You might enjoy Dunhill Nightcap (since you have a Dunhill can of Early Morning as your avatar I assume you like Dunhill products), and might enjoy Uhle's (Milwaukee based tobacco store) Bishop's Move and Blend 114. Welcome to the forum, hope it will be a source of good information for you.

 

[bphilli75]

I've been mostly enjoying Frog Morton's Cellar and Dunhill My Mixture 965 lately. I venture out to Dan's Blue Note and Escudo but always find I miss the Latakia. The Cellar has been really nice.

 

[youngsmoker]

thanks for all the suggestions again and villager 1888 sounds like my type of tobacco but I have a lot of tobaccos to try thanks a lot guys going to go order some :puffpipe:

 

[andrew]

I'm typically limited to aro's due to the tastes of the wife.

I'll pray for you buddy, once you give them an inch, they take a mile. You start with latkia bombs then settle on EMP or MM965

 

[lordofthepiperings]

I'm strictly an aromatic smoker by my own choice. Let the booing commence lol. To me right now Latakia is just bitter and awful, so I stick with mostly Va/Burley/Cavendish aromatics. My favorite right now has to be 1Q. Just a great easy non-complex puff on it all day smoke that has a nice even flavor transfer. There's a reason it's the #1 selling bulk blend.

 

[ciderguy]

lordofthepiperings, I'm happy that you smoke what you like. I think that one of the great things about this hobby is amount of different flavor choices. My first tobacco was a VA/Burley/Latakia blend, and I enjoyed it. I've found over the years I've tended more towards straight Va and Va heavy blends. About 25% of what I smoke are aromatics, and I feel that good aromatics have a good place in our hobby. One of these days I'll get around to trying 1Q. I tried to buy some at the B&M last time I was there, but the people working that day had no idea which shop blend was actually 1Q.

 

[lordofthepiperings]

I definitely would suggest anyone getting into the hobby to give every blend style a try right off the bat. People all react differently to the different blends and you really should sample most of the styles before settling on liking/not liking pipe smoking. Virginia blends are a lot different than English/Balkan blends, which are different from aromatics, which are different from Burley blends, which are different from cigar leaf blends and so on.

 

[easterntraveler]

Kind of a bad question IMO. If you do not want Latika then try Virginia or the other way around. You really just have to experiment until you find out what you like then go from there. For example pick a general Virginia from one of the Top blenders such as Mac Baren, Mcellands, Dunhill. After a couple different tins you will figure out if just pure Virginia is your style. If not jar it, store it, and come back to it later. Then repeat and rinse with Latika blends. $60 - $100 should give you enough tins to give you an idea of what you like or do not like. After you figure it out post a question that is a little more specific like: I really enjoy Latika blends. I had some MacBaren HH vintage Syrian and looking for something else to try any suggestions? Then everyone will have a better idea of what to suggest.