Are you straight or a switch hitter?

[Anonymous]

I have some house favorites, my go-to tobaccos, but I can't see myself smoking the same thing all the time.

Tonight I started with a navy flake now on to an English blend. Burley yesterday. I would call myself a buffet kinda guy.

 

[Muddler]

I have about 30 blends open right now - both tins & mason jars. I will occasionally smoke the same tobacco twice in a day but I like to mix it up. When I first picked up the pipe, it was Borkhum Riff day & night. Thank heavens things changed. Life is too short for only one tobacco.

 

[Ol'Dawg]

Variety for me too! I've come to the conclusion that each pipe has a tobacco that really makes the pipe shine. Those pipes that I know have a favorite tobacco continue to be fed that tobacco. The others give me the opportunity to search for tobaccos I haven't tried yet.

Jim

 

[raevans]

I like the variety. (So many tobaccos, so little time). But I usually only have one tin open at a time. Once that tin is gone, I'll open something new.

I do have a stand-by, it's a custom blend that I made when I worked at a tobacco shop. (And now order from the shop to make sure I have an ample supply on hand) That's what I will go to if I can't decide on a new blend to try or if the blend that I am trying just doesn't do it for me.

Randy

 

[Joseph76]

I smoked a variety of VAs... currently...

McCranie's Red Ribbon
Escudo
Orlik Golden Sliced
FVF
Stonehaven
HOTW
St Brunos RR
5100

for me, variety is the spice of life, except when it comes to women, that would be too dangerous

 

[Anonymous]

I smoke a variety of different Virginia flake tobaccos.

 

[Anonymous]

Having come to realise how much better properly aged pipeweed is (Thanks, TeeJay !), am making do with what's around while waiting for the stash of long-term storage stuff matures.

Long-term :
Full Virginia Flake (bulk and tinned) (target dates, 2, 5 & 10 years)
Embarcadero (target dates : 5, 10 and 20 years)
(8 oz. Robusto)(target date : 10 years)

Key Largo would join them in a heartbeat, but this would require additional pipes, and at some point, enough's enough.

:face:

 

[beaupipe]

Variety, variety, variety. But I think I've gotten out of control. At last count (which was minutes ago), I have 40 half-pint jars on the go--12 English; 9 Aros; 7 Va/VaPer; 8 Burley; 4 Blending Baccies. (The Aros, though, are mostly blends I've concocted to try to reduce the pungency and bite of the few Aros I've opened--25% Captain Black Royal with 75% Carter Hall, for example.)

I've always loved English blends, but it's so damned hot here that I tend to avoid them in favor of Vas and Burleys. I'm planning on whittling the open jar count down to 24 and have told myself that I'm not allowed to open anything new until I hit that level. Problem is, there's an Ace Hardware right around the corner...

 

[ftrplt]

While pretty strictly an English/Balkan/Oriental type puffer, I have no "one" blend/mixture. My cellar is full of GLP, Perettis, C&D, SGawith, DH, G&H, PCCA, McClellands, Balkan Sobranie, Balkan Sasieni, Nat Sherman, Presbyterian, Charles Fairmorn, Butera, Esoterica, Dan, Boswells, and Troost Slices plus 10 liter (250-300 gms. each) jars of bulk Balkan and 1 liter of straight latakia. I like every blend I have, or else I wouldn't have it!

I presently know, and have known several other, puffers who are strictly "one-blend" smokers. I've never been able to do that....FTRPLT

 

[morleysson]

Do people really smoke the SAME blend ALL of the time?\

My grandfather smoked Union Jack/Edgeworth and 5Bros, almost everyday that i knew him. We had empty cans and cans, and empty paper pouches, all over the basement. He probably smoked 2 1lb cans of Union Jack each month, and a sleeve of 5Bros. At least, that was what he bought after he cashed his Social Security check each month. He found his niche and was very happy there. Comfort tobacco, consistent and pleasant. Same three pipes, too. No variations, no substitutions. If someone gave him anything different in pipes or tobacco, that items(s) would end up on a shelf in the basement, welcomed but unused. He also only smoked Cinco cigars but that is another story.

I've tended in these last 10-12 years to focus on burleys, w/o much variations. You find something you like, you stay with it. My quandary was in the loss of Edgeworth RRD, but the Uhle's Perfection Plug seems to fit the replacement mode rather well.

 

[alfredo_buscatti]

I alternate between two blends in the morning, ditto lunchtime smoke and four for my evening smoke

However, while my lunch and evening blends are usually the same, my morning smoke is not; once I've smoked up these tobaccos, I open something different.

 

[Dillon]

I've found a few greats that I'd be comfortable with smoking in routine, but I keep experimenting with anything that seems interesting. I usually stay away from anything with Cavendish, red VA, or more than a pinch of perique. Outside my tastes.

 

[Canvasback]

I generally have 30 - 40 jars open at one time. I tend to like variety, however I do have those that I smoke on a regular basis.

 

[jlong]

I think half the fun of this hobby is blend hopping. There is so much out there to try out. Every once in awhile, you discover a blend you come back to and it becomes a go to blend. That's when you buy it in bulk to save money and have it handy all the time.

A lot of guys keep three or four go to blends in bulk but continue to blend hop buying tins of this and that.

One needs a well balanced tobacco diet. Tobacco is like food. You don't want to smoke the same sheat six times a day, seven days a week. Some can but it can taste bland after awhile and the newness dissapears.

 

[smokey422]

For the last ten years or so I've been smoking a variety of tobaccos but before that it was always Carter Hall. Back when I was single, I would also smoke Amphora Red aromatic on my Saturday night forays into town in hopes of attracting the attention of some of the young ladies that were out and about. I had some success but that's a different story. These days, deciding on what blend I'm going to smoke is half the fun.

Smokey