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[hawky454]

Some of your USA tobacco's sound enticing but I will never get to try them, thank the lord that we still have some good tobacco's across the pond.

I personally think you have the better stuff on your side of the pond, but the choices are starting to dwindle as the conglomerates take over. I would take what you all have over what we have any day of the week as long as we kept the US prices, of course. But, as the saying goes, “the grass is always greener” and all that jazz.

 

[mso489]

This changes over time. There have been many favorites. I agree with an earlier post on Nat Sherman 536, a refined English blend with burley as a condiment.

Lately, my favs include GLP Barbary Coast, Esoterica Tilbury, and C&D Bayou Night, Mountain Camp, Old Joe Krantz, Billy Budd, Stratfordshire, and Tuggle Hall.

And so on, many others.

 

[Doctor Chopper]

I'm seeing a lot of Windjammer - I've skipped this previously. Clearly I need to order a tin for discovery purposes.

I am too much of a nic wimp for this blend

 

[Doctor Chopper]

Escudo
Presbyterian
Sutliff Maple Walnut

 

[vosBghos]

aw yes Escudo truly was love at first puff
+1 fer sure

 

[Elric]

FVF
Sutliff Maple Walnut
EGR
Presbyterian
Solani ABF

Lamentedly Gone:
GLP Bohemian Scandal
Edgeworth Slices

 

[Coreios]

Autumn Evenings
Irish Black X Twist
Molto Dolce
Balkan Sabranie 759
Gentleman's Caller
Barking Dog

 

[thepipesman]

I haven't had a great deal of variety in the past but just started to branch into this hobby again and recently picked up a few different tins and sampler packs. I am really liking this Peterson Early Morning Pipe blend a lot. It's my current favorite of all time for now.

 

[Searock Fan]

There have been so many . If it's a medium to heavy English blend then I probably like it.

 

[B.Fee]

F&T Cut Plug
Orlik Golden Slice
Klondike Gold
Dunhill Flake

 

[tmcg81]

KBV Burley Morning Pipe
MacBaren HH Burley Flake
GL Pease Windjammer
St Bruno Flake
WCC Rouxgaroux

 

[sablebrush52]

St Bruno - preferably Ogden's, but the current MacBaren version is pretty good
Sutliff - Cringle Flake
McClelland - 40th Anniversary
HU Director's Cut - before K&K screwed it
HU 5th Anniversary - before K&K screwed it
GP-11
McClelland - 2015
Pfeifen Huber - Virginia Golden Flake
Esoterica Dunbar - before Germain's screwed it
Esoterica - Cardiff - haven't tried any recent releases, so can't tell if it's been screwed with like other Esoterica blends
GL Pease Renaissance
Ardath - State Express London Mixture
Sobranie LTD - Sobranie White and 759 - The current stuff is vile evil crap
Cope's and A&C Petersen - Escudo - the current incarnation tastes nothing like actual Escudo
Solani Silver - before K&K screwed it
Doblone d'Oro - before MacBaran changed it. Still pretty good, but no longer a Three Nuns clone
Sutliff - Troost Match
Sutliff - Ready Rub Match (or whatever it's called these days)
Sutliff - Match Victorian
C&D - Yorktown
Watch City - Deluxe Crumb Cut
Watch City - Rogauroux
D&R - Rimboché AP - apparently OOP
D&R - Blender's Bench series
G&H - Bosun Cut Plug
G&H - Glengarry Flake
G&H - Brown Flake Unscented
G&H - Dark Flake Unscented
Brigham - Klondike Gold

 

[Scottmi]

Doblone d'Oro - before MacBaran changed it. Still pretty good, but no longer a Three Nuns clone

speaking of Three Nuns clones.. have you/anyone tried current Peter Heinreich's Curly Special? Is it comparable and/or worth the price in it's own right?

 

[sablebrush52]

speaking of Three Nuns clones.. have you/anyone tried current Peter Heinreich's Curly Special? Is it comparable and/or worth the price in it's own right?

The last tin I smoked had about 8 years on it, and it was a fairly tasteless bore. Three Nuns it wasn't.

 

[Searock Fan]

St Bruno - preferably Ogden's, but the current MacBaren version is pretty good
Sutliff - Cringle Flake
McClelland - 40th Anniversary
HU Director's Cut - before K&K screwed it
HU 5th Anniversary - before K&K screwed it
GP-11
McClelland - 2015
Pfeifen Huber - Virginia Golden Flake
Esoterica Dunbar - before Germain's screwed it
Esoterica - Cardiff - haven't tried any recent releases, so can't tell if it's been screwed with like other Esoterica blends
GL Pease Renaissance
Ardath - State Express London Mixture
Sobranie LTD - Sobranie White and 759 - The current stuff is vile evil crap
Cope's and A&C Petersen - Escudo - the current incarnation tastes nothing like actual Escudo
Solani Silver - before K&K screwed it
Doblone d'Oro - before MacBaran changed it. Still pretty good, but no longer a Three Nuns clone
Sutliff - Troost Match
Sutliff - Ready Rub Match (or whatever it's called these days)
Sutliff - Match Victorian
C&D - Yorktown
Watch City - Deluxe Crumb Cut
Watch City - Rogauroux
D&R - Rimboché AP - apparently OOP
D&R - Blender's Bench series
G&H - Bosun Cut Plug
G&H - Glengarry Flake
G&H - Brown Flake Unscented
G&H - Dark Flake Unscented
Brigham - Klondike Gold

Wouldn't it have been easier for you to just list the ones you DON'T like? (Just kidding)

 

[metalheadycigarguy]

I've had lots of favorites over the years, but the ones that standout at the moment are:

Seattle Pipe Club Mississippi River
Seattle Pipe Club Plum Pudding
McClelland Blue Mountain/Balkan Blue
McClelland Frog Morton Cellar
McClelland Black Sea Sokhoum
McClelland 3 Oaks Syrian
Samuel Gawith Skiff Mixture
Samuel Gawith Perfection
Dunhill Early Morning Pipe
Dunhill Flake
Mac Baren HH Latakia Flake
Peter Stokkebye Balkan Supreme
GL Pease Gas Light
Cornell & Diehl Pirate Cake
Rattray's Red Rapparee
Lane Limited 1Q
Trout Stream

 

[sablebrush52]

Wouldn't it have been easier for you to just list the ones you DON'T like? (Just kidding)

That list would have about 500 entries.

 

[tmcg81]

I'm seeing a lot of Windjammer - I've skipped this previously. Clearly I need to order a tin for discovery purposes.

I dont know shit about pipe tobacco, but when I popped the first tin of it, it was as ideal a tobacco (for me) that I'd tried up to that point. Just a really great blend. I stocked up on it, and I'm probably going to be opening a tin from the original release in the next few days, and I'm real stoked on it.

 

[Scottmi]

I'm seeing a lot of Windjammer - I've skipped this previously. Clearly I need to order a tin for discovery purposes.

Tin arrived! As I entered it into my spreadsheet, noticed it is same components as Haddo's Delight (which I also have not yet tried, but picked some up on spec), including Rum topping. For any who have had both, is Haddo's just a ribbon version of Windjammer or do they manage to be distinctly different? If different, can you describe..?

 

[alsatmem]

McCleland Captain Cool
Sutliff Aromatic English
RLP6
Russ’ Old Glory
Lane MV1000