What's the worst blend you've tried?

[Bobby Bailey]

Peritti Belmont. I've tried it several times and am drawn to lick the cats rear just to get the taste out of my mouth.

 

[bullet08]

Velvet.

 

[Simmerdown☕️]

Velvet.

??? this!️

 

[solideogloria86]

Peterson Hyde Park.
I've smoked my share of Lakeland style blends. I find ennerdale flake pleasant. About a 3rd of the way through my first, and only, bowl of Hyde Park, it dramatically changed from a flavor somewhat reminiscent of G&H Rum flake, to ash and ivory soap. Terrible experience.

 

[username]

+1 on 1792 flake. I don’t remember smoking it taste wise I just remember it making me sick to my stomach and feeling like I was going to puke.

 

[OzPiper]

Boswell Chocolate Cream and C&D Autumn Evening
I love chocolate? and rum ?
But those 2 - couldn't finish the 2nd bowl of either. The 2nd bowl was to confirm my 1st impressions.
I guess I'll have to eat chocolate and drink rum and forget about putting either in my pipes ?

 

[JimPM]

Any Borkumm Riff and like others said Velvet. What a disappointment for such a classic

 

[AroEnglish]

OGS is the first thing that comes to mind but there are many others.

 

[Bax Burley]

I had thought that Celephais was the absolute strangest and worse blend I've ever tried.
Grape Kool aid mixed with grape pixie stick.....then I smoked more of it...and more of it..... Just to be certain of it's terribleness...
Two terrible tins later.... I've ordered another four.

Tobacco is like motorcycles for me. I've never met one I didn't enjoy

I tried that for the first time last week. Definitely fruity candy. Dark chocolate and fruit. Really liked it.

 

[Bax Burley]

Sutliff Red Virginia Krumble Kake. I can still make myself sick if I think hard enough about it

Is it like Sutliff Mature Red? Kinda like sucking on a straw filled with vinegar.

 

[Ahi Ka]

Is it like Sutliff Mature Red? Kinda like sucking on a straw filled with vinegar.

Yep. I get an overly unpleasant tangy apple cider vinegar from both those blends. Even the tin note makes we want to spew. I know they are well received by others, but they just don’t work for me. Bare in mind, I haven’t tried either with decent age. But the placebo and memory is too strong

 

[myhyeung]

My initial Black XX smokes were God-awful, but I still smoked it from time to time unwilling to put down a tobacco 2 centuries of miners had chewed/smoked/ate. Surely if I kept smoking it the better part of that tradition would grace my efforts.

It did so, but slowly. I don't think I liked it until three years in. Don't laugh. I was fascinated with it. I liked it because it was dark and strong and like nothing else I'd smoked. I liked it because it was harsh.

I smoked it until I liked it.

Good to know I still try it once every couple months to see if I liked it better, the tradition thing makes me curious as well. Though thinking about it,I'd probably not enjoy the food coal miners from the 19th century ate as well, why do I expect myself to enjoy their smoke, tobacco is a delicacy just like food and wine, coal miners would probably prefer fine Cubans over Kendal twists too if they had the choice lol.

 

[jewman22]

Squadron Leader

 

[Berg]

Peterson - Sweet Killarney; basically hot air. Haven’t had a blend that made me wretch (yet), but SK felt like a waste of my time.

 

[captpat]

C&D - Five O'Clock Shadow. Tried it multiple times and got to the point where I had to talk myself into smoking it. Ended up throwing most of it out. Back when I started smoking a pipe I guess I didn't want to waste any tobacco.

This stuff is really bad, one bowl and it ended in the trash. I think this is the only blend I've tried that didn't get at least a couple of bowls before making a final judgment.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Oh, now you really need to pop that tin of Celephais.......
Take a video of your reaction to the first puff. ?

Hmmmm.... this just may be one of those tins that I let ride in the back of the cellar till absolutely everything else has been smoked. I have a few like that. Maybe 20 more years and smoked by an octogenarian, it won't be so bad, ha ha.
I have several tins in the cellar that I am just not interested in ever popping open. It can set next to that Borkum Riff special edition California Wine tin. And,. a few of the other swill tins that P&C sent me along with a IPSD order years ago.

 

[autumnfog]

Borkum Riff Cherry
HH Vintage Syrian

 

[chopper]

Didn't think there was such a thing as a bad tobacco until I smoked Firedance.
Nasty. Just no.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Didn't think there was such a thing as a bad tobacco until I smoked Firedance.
Nasty. Just no.

It does have a sort of fruity bile taste, ha ha.

 

[Es0teric]

The worst blend I ever tried was probably Middleton's Apple Pipe Tobacco.....it was just awful.