What's Your Old Reliable OTC:

[05venturer]

It would be a tough choice between Carter Hall or Granger

 

[rickpal14]

SWR

Walnut

Carter Hall

 

[judcole]

I have enjoyed Walnut, but these days it's not something you can find easily.
I am not, thankfully, in a position where I have to worry about smoking OTCs to get by. There's always plenty of good stuff on hand. ::

 

[murf]

I keep a pouch of CBW in my jacket inside pocket now. Smells great :D
I like the way it tastes, but would desire something with a little more body to it. Thinking of adding some Granger to it to see if that helps. I wish all these OTC blends were actually OTC. The only ones I can find are CBW and Super Value (which I don't really intend to try).

 

[wilson]

Carter Hall. I also very much like Walnut but it is so rarely, if ever, seen on the shelves of a drug store or convenience mart that I'm not sure it counts as an OTC anymore?

 

[bluesmk]

Ran out as the snow started just one last time, grabbed a Carter Hall, on my third bowl and you gents just may be right! On my third bowl and it's nothing like I remember. Thanks all!

Dan

 

[smokeybear]

Like most I also enjoy carter hall however I have to order this online to get and if I don't have it I just Mac Baren vanilla cream

 

[pstlpkr]

I like my codger blends, like any other piper.

Of course there is CBW, and Half and Half.

But there will always be a special place for Paladin Black Cherry.

::

 

[instymp]

JRcigar sells Walnut, hate to bring them up because they aren't a contibutor of Kevins retirement account.

 

[jcsoldit]

Mine would have to be Walnut as well.

 

[cmdrmcbragg]

If I HAD to buy an OTC because I needed to stay out of my cellar, I'd go burley: CH or H&H. I am choking down a pouch of CBW every now and then because I bought it after not having smoked CBs for 6 months ... not the same anymore, lol.

 

[zekest]

Prince Albert in the Red Can.
Captain Black of any color pouch except red.
Paladin Black Cherry, the very best cherry flavored Burley.

 

[phred]

I'm still upset that Sugar Barrel has been discontinued - I got my hands on a tub just after the announcement, and have stashed it in Mason jars for future consumption. I've fallen back to Prince Albert as a current (and currently available) favorite OTC.

 

[cmdrmcbragg]

I absolutely cannot smoke straight burley. I've tried CH, SWR, H&H, PA and I just can't do it. I like burley in a blend, but I can't smoke it straight. Too nutty and one dimensional. My go to OTC if I needed it would be CBW. Just leave the pouch open for awhile to dry it up and it smokes better than usual.

 

[petes03]

@phred. Damn right! I'm still upset about Sugar Barrel as well! I've got about half a tub left, but I wasn't able to grab anymore before it was all gone.

I really hope they decide to bring it back some day, along with Walnut.

 

[settersbrace]

<p>CH would be my OTC bug out bag choice simply because (a) I like it well enough and (b) I can walk 6 blocks to get a tub if I see hard times coming. In fact, it's been a while so I'll go get a tub to put away and maybe a pouch for a warm day change of pace. Thanks for this thread, got me motivated to get back to my pipe smoking roots so to speak.

 

[pipejunky]

Prince Albert is my shop smoke

 

[transmutated]

I bought 50g of St Bruno the other night from the local supermarket. I now really resent wasting that £12.

Allow me to make the most predictable comment ever: It tastes of scented soap, nothing else.

What more can be said about it?
A few months ago I was walking through town when a man offered me a free sample of what appeared to be a luxury sweet from outside what appeared to be a luxury sweet shop. Luckily I was a few yards further down the road before I unwrapped it and bit into it...and my mouth started foaming up with what had turned out to be luxury soap (I never said I wasn't an idiot). I couldn't get rid of the taste for hours.

This is the exact same experience as the one I had trying to smoke St Bruno yesterday.
I am not going near any otc again. At least not in the UK.

 

[ravenwolf]

Prince Albert in the red can - or a pouch of Five Brothers.

 

[hawke]

Carter Hall