What was your worst tasting tobacco?

[clanobucklin]

I can't say I have had as a dramatic reaction to tobaccos as some of you fellow pipe smokers. Usually I try something and if it doesn't ring the bell after a few smokes I pitch it. However, I have gotten very cautious about tossing things out these days. I have spent quite a bit of $ on tobacco that I originally did not like...only to try it again and go oops!
Here the losers of 2011 that I won't be buying again:
1776 British Grenadier - love the taste - burns the heck out of my mouth. Burned so hot that it destroyed an estate pipe. Toss!

Altadis Witch Queen - I originally liked the smoke only to get turned off at some point. Toss!

C&D Mississippi Mud - I tried it long time ago didn't care for it. Tried it again - same monochromatic taste - nothing special for me. Toss!

Gatlin-Burlier Maple - burned too hot...little maple flavor. Toss!

Gatlin-Burlier Black Jack - a waste of Jack Daniels or whiskey. Toss!

H&H Sunza Bitches - My wife was offended by the name. It came too dry - I over humidified it and then tried to dry it out - my attempt was a complete failure. Toss!

Bob's Chocolate Flake - Bleah. If you love soapy cocoa this is the one for you. Toss!

H&H Sweet and Savory - This tobacco is neither one. Toss!

Rich's Maple Steamer - I never got the flavor of this one despite repeated try's. Toss!

C&D First Responders - made me sweat and gave me a fat head. Where's the Payday Candy taste everyone talked about? Traded! Decided to give it a try again - a pretty decent smoke and sometimes borders on great.

Sterling's Bargain Blend - tasted OK. But burned like an out of control grass fire. Toss!

C&D Cross-Eyed Cricket - what is this? It's not tobacco! Toss!!!

Gatlin-Burlier - American English...Hah! Actually its ok. Simply poised over the round recepticle - not dumped yet. Not tossed yet.

Pipeworks & Wilke #400 - when I first tried this blend it was a full bodied latakia masterpiece. However, the subsequent orders had more orientals than the latakia. I asked Carol Burns - what's up? She said its still the same blend - NO IT'S NOT!...not a bad smoke - tastes more like her High Hat Blend. A shadow of it's former self. Tossed with extreme disgruntlement!!!

Sterling Tahiti - love the taste. Can really be a scorcher. Tossed! Only to buy a little 2.5 ounce bag because the taste is scrumptious.

 

[ejames]

Mixture 79! Ain't fit for human consumption!

 

[ssjones]

I guess since I disliked Old Dublin so much that I probably won't like Squadron Leader either? I've dipped into the Old Dublin twice but not found it remotely to my liking.

 

[chopz]

half and half i always thought was ok. mixture 79 i could do without. step (or more) below either of those is middleton apple. might be the only one i ever threw out.
as a long time cigarette smoker i can actually deal ok with borkum riff. not as a steady diet but on occasion. it's kinda like smoking a cig.

 

[Sloopjohnbee]

War Horse Green - At first it seemed okay with that marshmallow thing going on but by day three it was a disgusting almost cheap fragrance waste of excellent leaf. The dark fired in their is choice, it's a shame because it was eventually disposed of. Others have mentioned the same thing.

What I wanted to know is if it is indeed like a tobacco of Europe? as the description claims. Which one?

 

[jpmcwjr]

It was 50 years ago, but Middleton's Cherry Blend stands out as one that didn't agree with me.

 

[daniel7]

Skandinavik mixture yesterday. Not worst tasting tobacco because it had no taste but definitely a bad tobacco.

 

[condorlover1]

Clan, Royal Yuck, Mellow Virginia are a few that spring to mind!

 

[Sloopjohnbee]

Condor thats the one War Horse Green is supposed to be condor; i've never tried condor.

 

[redglow]

My first ever pipe tobacco was Captain Black which I tossed out only because I didn't get any flavor from it. I was a big cigarette/cigar smoker way back then. So, I'm sure my sense of taste was out of whack. :crazy:
Other than that, I've never met a pipe tobacco that I didn't like. Some more than others. But, I tend to enjoy everything I smoke nowadays.

 

[bent1]

Flying (Frying) Dutchman. It torched my mouth, it was the closest thing I could imagine to eating red hot charcoal briquettes.

 

[kola]

Top 3 : 1792, Condor and Royal Yacht.

 

[sablebrush52]

Germain's Balkan Sobranie - It resembles the original about as much as I resemble a speedo model. I've tried on more than one occasion to smoke it but can't get past the first couple of puffs without feeling the need to barf. Calling it crap would be an insult to crap.

 

[ashdigger]

Without a doubt the absolute worst tobacco I've ever smoked was SG Fire Dance. It is without a doubt absolute garbage. It takes like puke that was shit out of a rabies infected raccoon as it was dying by the side of the road after being drown in a port-a-potty.

 

[mso489]

Hmmm. I actually like a number of these worst-tasting blends including 965, Iwan Ries Three Star Blue, Borkum Riff (Bourbon), Five Brothers, Royal Yacht, among others. I find Half&Half a little harsh for a good old OTC blend, but not awful. I tried Mixture No. 79 on Embers' advice, and it's kind of a good old aro, not first prize but not bad. My worst experience was with a Mac Barens Mixture of about six or seven tobaccos that was all bite and no taste. I tried to like it, but didn't. Over months. Finally discarded.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Yeh, someone's favorite is always going to be someone's worst experience ever. Someone's worst pipe is going to be a pipe that someone else is in love with.
Tastes are not universal, and it's why I think ranking blends or paying attention to rankings is worthless. It is like looking to see what is on the Top 40 to see what music they should like, when there are so many songs and bands than never make the list that are awesome, but just never got the commercial exposure, so many great artists that never got into a gallery, or great foods that never make the 5 star rankings.
Even people with the same tastes as me will occasionally surprise me and like something that I detest, like the Sutliff Vinegar blends. I have actually been amazed that so many people weren't as disgusted by it as me. But, it just goes to show that tastes are very individualistic.

 

[condorlover1]

I love these 'time machine' threads that come bouncing back from the dead after seven years!

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

I'd guess so far it was various Borkum Riff and Scandinavik offerings,

 

[headhunter]

Evening Rise.........yuck.

 

[donjgiles]

Safe Harbor Flake from C&D.

It was only on the market for a short while and reading the reports from TobbaccoReivews, you will understand why.
http://www.tobaccoreviews.com/blend/2767/cornell-diehl-safe-harbor-flake

Don