My Favorite Blend: 2022 Edition

[JamesM]

What is the pipe tobacco blend, cut, type do you smoke most frequently and why is it your favorite go to? Not Unicorns but stuff people can actually buy.

Mine is C&D Haunted Bookshop. I like the strong flavor - Virginia, Burley, Perique - all working in concert. You have to smoke it slowwww to get it to last in the bowl. Easy to light, stays lit, and I smoke it all the way to the bottom.

 

[Spillproof]

This is worth a review:

My Favorite Blend, 2019 Edition

The intention of this thread is to give us ammunition to roast each other in future threads. That said, serious replies only regarding your current actual preference in tobacco. All other off topic posts, rants, and random buffoonery are encouraged and appreciated. Bosun cut plug

pipesmokersdens.com

I will find more related threads and link them.

 

[SwampWeed]

Black Rope. It is the most satisfyingly simple, tarry, delicious thing ever. The world is so much less hospitable now that only one manufacturer of this delicious ambrosia remains.

 

[MrTalkRadio]

I wish that question was as easy as what is my favorite Ice Cream flavor. Vanilla.
It's better I answer what don't I smoke. Lakelands.
IMO, McClelland had the best tobacco anywhere, their blends were the bar. Nobody had a better VA or source for Orientals. Sadly no more.
MacBaren/Sutliff is a close second.
Unfortunately I can't answer your question as you have answered your question. The blends I have I love. I smoke them equally throughout the year. I can do weeks on straight VA, then a week on Burleys, English blends for some reason I smoke between 12a and 5a.
If you put me on mars and I could only take one blend? Sir Walter Raleigh. I wish I could dial it in as you have.

 

[JamesM]

I know @WalkinStick will say RDF!!!!!

 

[Spillproof]

I said '83 McCranie's Red Ribbon in 2019 and that's still true. But for blends we can actually buy (if we're very lucky): Germain's Rich Dark Flake.

 

[BigBobBurley]

Drucquer & Sons Levant Mixture.

With Trafalger and Blairgowrie close behind.

 

[Rainier]

The blends I “go to” most often, lately anyway, are Germains Brown Flake and HU Edward G (or the similar HU Director’s Cut).
However, my favorite tobacco year in and year out is Samuel Gawith St. James Flake, it just keeps getting better and better with time and age.

 

[JamesM]

Drucquer & Sons Levant Mixture.

With Trafalger and Blairgowrie close behind.

Seattle Pipe Club, right?

 

[Zembla]

Easy. Not just 2022, but each and every year back to my first pipe in 1975.

Dunhill (now Petersen) Night Cap.

 

[BigBobBurley]

Seattle Pipe Club, right?

No.

 

[JamesM]

What brand?

What brand?

Sheepishly Drucquer & Sons, of course.

 

[WrightwoodJohn]

I see your HBS & raise you Pegasus.

 

[BigBobBurley]

Sheepishly Drucquer & Sons, of course.

Check your PM's.

 

[det]

Rustica and Irish flake I smoke every day

 

[CharringLight]

Surprising to me it's an aromatic that I have been reaching for as of late. Over the past six months I find myself reaching for Wilke Rumcake.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Sutliff TS24

 

[cossar]

Reiner long gold flake for me right now, just checking all the right boxes.

 

[DannoH]

MB Bold Kentucky is a go-to for me. Can be had easily, no fuss, enough oomph and taste.

 

[The Huguenot]

I smoke mainly mixtures, but my current favourite is Germain's SLF, with Skiff Mixture coming up on the outside.

Had you asked me a year ago the answer would have been Red Rapparee or McConnell's OOM, both of which are still in my 10 tobacco rotation.