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What are your top 10 favorite blends that you smoke a lot?

These are mine for now in no particular order:

Seattle Pipe Club Snoqualmie Falls
Seattle Pipe Club Vashon Island
Sutliff's Blend No. 5
Carter Hall
Orlik Mellow Mixture
Daughter's and Ryan English Hoopla
Dan Tobacco Bill Bailey's Balkan Blend
John Patton Storm Front
Mac Baren HH Vintage Syrian
Eric Stokkebye 4th Generation 1882 Founder's Blend


I find my tastes are always changing! That's what pipe smoking is all about.
 
Corncobcon":eqpbapgp said:
What are your top 10 favorite blends that you smoke a lot?
Escudo
Kendal Kentucky
Dark Bird's Eye
Irish Flake
University Flake
Cut Blended Plug
Royal Yacht
Brown Irish X
Luxury Navy Flake
Ennerdale Flake

Stonehaven would be on the list if it were plentiful enough to "smoke a lot" of. :|
 
This is always a revolving door for me, but these would make up my current 10 "smoke the most of blends," give or take as of now...

Blackwoods Flake
Matured VA No. 24
Brown Irish X
Margate
Dunbar
Germain's Medium Flake (smoke occasionally due to rarity)
Aged Burley Flake
Silver Flake 660
Fillmore
Haddo's Delight
 
So many I've yet to try, but thus far:

McConnell Scottish Flake
McConnell Scottish Cake
Mccranies Red Ribbon/Red Flake
Germains Brown Flake
Escudo
PS Bullseye Flake
Rattray's Hal O' the Wynd
C&D Small Batch Sansepolcro
Esoterica Stonehaven
McClelland 40th Anniversary
 
McC's 5100 RC
McC's FM 2000
McC's Anniversery
McC's Blackwoods Flake
Orlik's Golden Sliced
After 40 + years of smoking I've narrowed things down to these 5. KISS it !! :twisted: :twisted:
 
No particular order:

Union Square
Cumberland
Embarcadero
Storm Front
Chenet's Cake
Haddo's Delight
Key Largo

blanking on the others....

Sad thing is that most of those are on the FDA chopping block.  i have been doing alot of cellaring!!!
 
In no particular order:
C&D Big 'n Burley
C&D Burley Flake #3
C&D Byzantium
C&D Epiphany
Esoterica Stonehaven
GL Pease Jackknife Plug
G&H Dark Flake/Dark Plug
G&H Happy Brown Bogie
G&H Kendall Dark
Germain's Brown Flake
 
Ozzie's "Grandpa's Sweater"
Royal Yacht
Best Brown Flake
EA Carey's Dark Flake No 7
Firedance Flake
Sir Walter Raleigh
Luxury Twist Flake
Blackwoods Flake
Old Dark Fired Flake
St Andrews (a blend created by my local tobacconist a very sweet older lady to boot)

 
Corncobcon":ql88rcr4 said:
What are your top 10 favorite blends that you smoke a lot?
As of right now, in no particular order

Escudo
Peter Heinrich's Curly Block
Peter Heinrich's Dark Strong Flake
SG Kendal Plug
SG FVF
GLP Stonehenge Flake
GLP Jackknife plug
GLP Triple Play
Dan Tobacco Salty Dogs
Solani Aged Burley Flake

wolfeman
 
Once again no particular order, and it will probably change in half an hour:

SG Best Brown Flake
SG Squadron Leader
McClellands Black Woods Flake
C&D Kajun Kake
Peter Stokkebye’s Luxury Bullseye Flake
Storm Front
Peterson’s 3ps
Orlik Golden Sliced
Solani Aged Burley Flake
Dunhill Night Cap



 
Favorites that I smoke a lot? The only ones I smoke with any consistency are LBF and, strangely, SWR Aromatic. I have other favorites, but they have been relegated to a holding position while I sample a host of other blends, usually whatever I see recommended by anyone who remotely sounds convincing. That's not good judgment--it's curiosity. In other words, I'm not smoking my other favorites, which is a hell of a state to be in. There's just not enough hours in the day. On the plus side, the favorites I have closeted away are gaining in age. Epiphany, Escudo, various MacBarens, various McClellands, etc., blah blah blah.
 
I don't turn tins fast enough to really establish a pattern, but ones I keep buying are:

MC C VA (22, 24, 25 and 27)
MCC St James Woods
Solani Aged BUrley
Solani Silver Flake
GLP Triple Play
Dan Hamborger Veermaster
IRC Blue
Captain Black Red Sky (and some other cherry - still exploring)

I am backed up on Latakia blends so have no favorite. Too many to still explore.

 
I seem to go through Flavours of the Month that seem to depend on temperature & mood - the colder it gets, the bigger the baccy, though at a certain point I give up and stay indoors. :D

Right now I'm reaching for

MacBaren Golden Extra
Solani ABF
MacBaren HH Vintage Syrian
Orlik Dark Strong Kentucky
St Bruno
Nightcap
Kramer's Blend for Carey Grant

 
Fazby, you should try IRCs VA flake next time you stop in. One of my favorites!
My list also includes
PS cube cut burley
Escudo
Uhle's 00
Storm front

But there are so many more I haven't even tried.
 
This is a tough one as my tastes are always changing, but lately my top ten would be:

-Stonehaven
-Escudo
-SPC Plum Pudding Special Reserve
-Mac Baren HH Old Dark Fired
-Solani ABF (new to me but I'm LOVING it)
-Dunhill DeLuxe Navy Rolls
-Solani Virginia with Perique (I should mention it has like 13 years of age on it, but wow I'm going through it too fast.)
-Dunhill Nightcap
-Peterson Uni Flake
-Mac Baren Navy Flake
 

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