Match Blends

[History Prof 1861]

Hello all

I just received an order of match blends to try from P+C. I chose several that were released by house of windsor but missed due to not knowing enough to order them when they were available. I thought this tactic might help broaden my horizon.

So I have the following match blends
Sugar barrel
Holiday Mixture
Briggs mixture
Revelation
Field and stream
Barking dog
Kentucky mixture
Hickory

Any ideas on what I should try first?

 

[Ozark Wizard]

Heck, I'd start at the top of your list and work my way down!

 

[Fr_Tom]

So we need a report now.

What did you pick? What did you think?

 

[Brewdude]

So we need a report now.

What did you pick? What did you think?

What the good Padre said.


Cheers,

RR

 

[Richard Burley]

My sequence would be Hickory, Briggs, Barking Dog, Revelation, Sugar Barrel, Kentucky Mixture, Holiday, Field & Stream, from least aromatic to most. But my memory may be faulty, especially with the last two--it's been decades.

As an aside, there was something in Holiday, the dark bits, that ate holes in the lining of my pouch, I remember. Probably booze. Hickory was the least expensive. I still have a partial tub of the original Sugar Barrel. Just finished one of Kentucky Club Mixture, and ordered a match replacement, and one of Walnut. I'm with Einstein on the Revelation, but find the various matches quite adequate as replacement. YMMV, etc.

 

[History Prof 1861]

Thank you for the advise on the order I have been super busy so I have not had a chance yet to break into these yet

 

[History Prof 1861]

The hickory match was interesting

Overall good quality tobacco the topping was very much evident.

 

[Richard Burley]

The hickory match was interesting

Overall good quality tobacco the topping was very much evident.  

Don't remember that at all. So much for memory. Thought it was a Plain Jane burley. Think you'd better toss my list above, as far as its being anything useful. :lol:

 

[History Prof 1861]

It's more than just plain Burley and for the life of me the topping smells to me like birch beer. It came to me the next day as I had a kroger birch beer with my lunch that was the smell I could not put my finger on or my sniffer is busted

Anyway it was good to try and I may pick some up In more than a sample

 

[huffelpuff]

I always enjoyed Briggs when I found tins of it Not sure how the match is. The only other one I have experience with is actual Field and Stream I have to say you can keep it if it's anything like the original. The only flavor I got out of F&S was patchouli. Not a flavor I care for at all especially in my pipes. Good luck with them though.

Jim