When Forced to Choose Only 4...

[Browny]

Missed my list.

In order...
ODF ready rubbed
Peterson Scottish Mixture
Carter Hall

This would keep me happy a fair while.

 

[swaantwee]

With Forums members, it should be no surprise how little overlap there is, and many imply that it changes all the time.

 

[krizzose]

While this is similar to umpteen thousand other threads, I like the "only for a little while" aspect of this question. It doesn't make me sweat as much as "could only ever have X# blends" sort of question. Much less at stake here.

This would probably change next week, but if I had to pack right now from what I have available:

GLP Windjammer
McClelland Navy Cavendish
F&T Special Brown Flake
3:1 mix of Peretti BPC and Wilke Rumcake

I see a theme in my choices; I guess I should have a Dark and Stormy or perhaps a real Daiquiri tonight.

 

[mso489]

This thread is different from asking what one blend you would take to a desert island, but it is the same idea. Some of the pleasure of pipe smoking right now is variety.

My dad was a child of the twenties and then the Great Depression, so he settled on one low-cost blend, Granger, and stuck with it from about age 15 until he was 65 and quit altogether to start a new career at a no-smoking campus. He quit cold turkey, after fifty years of all-day pipe smoking. He'd only owned one pipe at a time (with a near-burn-out as a back-up) and only smoked Granger from the foil pouch. He departed life at age 89 licensed to drive without glasses.

 

[Hutch Piper]

GLP Sixpence
Mac Baren HH Pure Va
C&D Bayou Morning
Boswell’s Sweet & Mild

 

[warren99]

Artisan's Blend
Bill Bailey's Balkan Blend
Old Dublin
Penzance

 

[WerewolfOfLondon]

Capstan
G&H Coniston Cut Plug
Solani Festival
Germain's 1820

 

[Jbrewer2002]

For now

Bold KY
GLP Cumberland
Royal yacht
Warped St espresso

Possibly haddo instead of Cumberland

 

[wyfbane]

1. Thanks for reviving this, I missed it the first time!
2. List is of stuff I have enough of to take a reasonable amount.

MB Navy Flake (5 years aged)
Tinderbox Waffle House
ODF
SPC Plum Pudding

 

[K.E. Powell]

These kinds of questions are always tough, but I try to approach them like this: instead of choosing blends that cover a variety of genres, I choose blends that cover a variety of moods. In that vein:

For all day, no-thinking, no fuss, consumption:
C&D's Haunted Bookshop

For something savory, suited to slow sipping, and leisure:
G.L. Pease's Windjammer

For a sweet tooth and/or something to smoke when around others:
Boswell's Bear Blend

For contemplation's sake, something bold and leaves an impression:
Peterson's Irish Flake

And like others, I reserve the right to change these at any time.

 

[Sir Yak]

1. Old Gowrie
2. Sun Bear
3. Nightcap
4. OGS

 

[rick3wood]

1. Sillems Black
2. squadron leader
3. sevenseas black
4.Cult

 

[Papamique]

Headed overseas and had to choose just four tobaccos to take with me. Here's what I ended up choosing:

G&H Co Coniston Cut Plug
GLP Chelsea Morning (wanted to save my H&H black house)
Escudo
7 Seas Black

Almost subbed 7 seas for Bob's Chocolate Flake, but buddy will be partaking too and not sure whether Bob's would be enjoyable for someone who partakes once every few years.

What would you choose if limited to 4? Maybe a suggestion will make me do a last minute sub. Still considering subbing Salty Dogs or Folklore for Escudo.

1.esoterica tilbury
2. Esoterica Dorchester
3. GLP Union Square
4. McClelland mature Virginia

 

[anotherbob]

yorktown, egr, something english, 5 bros

 

[boston]

1792, Xmas cheer (any vintage), veermaster, and .....965 for a lat.

 

[Peterson314]

BCA
Ten to Midnight
Bengal Slices
Sunjammer

 

[sablebrush52]

McClelland 40th
Esoterica Dunbar from 2019 or earlier
St Bruno
HU Director's Cut from 2018 or earlier

Ask me tomorrow and it will be something different.

 

[Papamique]

1.esoterica tilbury
2. Esoterica Dorchester
3. GLP Union Square
4. McClelland mature Virginia

1.Esoterica Tilbury
2. Esoterica Dorchester
3. Old Gowrie
4. McClelland mature Virginia

 

[CoffeeAndBourbon]

In no order
Bayou Morning
Kelly's Coin
Windjammer
WCC Deluxe crumb cut

 

[stumichael]

Haunted Bookshop
Ennerdale Flake
Bayou Morning
PS Luxury Bullseye Flake