I like SWR as its currently filling the void for me since I can't find carter hall anywhere. Carter Hall is my favorite. It just hits the spot.
What's Your Favorite Codger Blend?
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I'm a Carter Hall fan, but it seems rare these days.
I do prefer European codger blends over the US domestic OTC's, mainly because of superior quality and more complex taste profile, namely,Amphora Original,&Burley, Mc Barend Golden Extra,St Bruno, and (Condor with some reservations )
SWR&SWRA are as good as any premium tinned aros imho...
Although if we get to count St Bruno, Condor, and all the Kendals, then they win, hands down!
Although if we get to count St Bruno, Condor, and all the Kendals, then they win, hands down!
SWRA, closely followed by a gaggle of others -- Granger, Edward G. Robinson, Mixture No. 79, Chatham Manor, Log Cabin, Amphora Burley, and others.
I would like to say Digger Flake as that's what I remember all the miserable old gits/old codgers smoking, but they don't make it anymore so I'll have to say St. Bruno.
Even in it's current MacBaren incarnation, St Bruno is a far more interesting "OTC" than most OTCs. I hadn't really thought of it as an OTC, but like Rich Dark Flake, I guess that's what it is. Send letters to MacBaren about offering St Bruno in bulk. Maybe if they get enough entreaties they'll do something about it.
Carter Hall and then SWRA and granger are tied for second
P.S cube cut and Sutliff edgeworth RR match are the only codger style blends I have. Both are nice
If I stick with American codger blends, it would definitely be Sutliff Edgeworth match. For European: St Bruno.
I can’t wait to try the PS cube cut, I have some in the mail. Great choice on the Edgeworth match!
haven't had a great number of them. But my favorite is Sail Yellow. It's a good point to show simple and mellow doesn't mean bad or boring.
When and if I ever befriend a codger I'll do my best to to talk to him about what he smokes. But I can't say I know a codger, nor do I know a codger's identifying marks nor where they hangout. That is to say, codgers haver never been on my adar. So were you to put me in a room of them I still wouldn't know a codger from baboon's bald butt. I suppose I could make a note of the blends they smoke, but smoking indoors is vastly disallowed. I confess I am all out of answers
I think of codger blends as something that you could get at the local convenience or drug store. So me for, Mixture 79. And since folks are treating St. Bruno as a codger blend, that too.
Being in the States, however, I never thought of St. Bruno as a codger blend because you it wasn't something you could get locally. It wasn't even available mail order when I started.
Being in the States, however, I never thought of St. Bruno as a codger blend because you it wasn't something you could get locally. It wasn't even available mail order when I started.
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