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Justpipes
The Duke
Age : 49
Joined : 17 Dec 2007
Posts : 3290
Location : American by birth, Southern by the grace of God!
 |  Subject: Re: Your Absolute Hands Down Favourite Tobacco...  Tue Feb 19, 2008 5:38 pm | |
| | alfredo_buscatti wrote: | | GH Dark Flake, Escudo, Haddos, Bracken Flake ( 1 back version), Irish Flake |
Mike,
You have a lot of favorites........... 
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PipeBrew
Age : 22
Joined : 22 Dec 2007
Posts : 549
Location : Knoxville, TN
| | Subject: Re: Your Absolute Hands Down Favourite Tobacco... Wed Feb 20, 2008 11:02 pm | |
| | I'm still very much a tobacco noob, but I would say C&D's Solace is my absolute favorite right. It has a little bit of everything. |
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Meerorbriar
Joined : 06 Feb 2008
Posts : 46
| | Subject: Re: Your Absolute Hands Down Favourite Tobacco... Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:07 pm | |
| Wow so many great out of production blends mentioned! and some of them I still have  - reading the words John Cotton #1 made my mouth water - definitely the all time favorite 
Happy puffin'
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ftrplt
Age : 62
Joined : 15 Dec 2007
Posts : 449
Location : Split between Raleigh, NC and OKC, OK
| | Subject: Re: Your Absolute Hands Down Favourite Tobacco... Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:51 pm | |
| | Meer...If you have a tin of JC #1 and #2 I am going to be N-V-US as hell!! FTRPLT |
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Muleskinner
Age : 65
Joined : 19 Dec 2007
Posts : 68
Location : OK
| | Subject: Re: Your Absolute Hands Down Favourite Tobacco... Fri Feb 22, 2008 4:38 pm | |
| MacBaren Scottish Mixture
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IHT
Age : 38
Joined : 02 Mar 2008
Posts : 84
| | Subject: Re: Your Absolute Hands Down Favourite Tobacco... Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:29 pm | |
| | Escudo, with many other Va/Pers following closely behind. |
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Tennessee Dave
Age : 58
Joined : 12 Feb 2008
Posts : 186
Location : Dayton, Tennessee
| | Subject: Re: Your Absolute Hands Down Favourite Tobacco... Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:43 am | |
| | Haddo's |
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gospelman
Age : 54
Joined : 20 Dec 2007
Posts : 115
Location : Knoxville
| | Subject: Re: Your Absolute Hands Down Favourite Tobacco... Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:12 am | |
| In the out-of-production, can't-get-anymore category, my all time favorite would be Union Jack Cut Plug, an absolutely wonderful burley produced by Larus Bros. I think it went out of production (or they went out of business) back in the late '70's.
Currently available blends? Probably GLP's Westminster.
Mike
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frankluke
Age : 28
Joined : 02 Feb 2008
Posts : 169
Location : Worcester, MA.
| | Subject: Re: Your Absolute Hands Down Favourite Tobacco... Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:34 am | |
| so far with just a little over a month on the job, my favorite is escudo.
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bobcat
Joined : 03 Mar 2008
Posts : 8
| | Subject: Re: Your Absolute Hands Down Favourite Tobacco... Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:48 am | |
| | I am fresh to the passtime as well. My favourite up to date is Haddo's |
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Tennessee Dave
Age : 58
Joined : 12 Feb 2008
Posts : 186
Location : Dayton, Tennessee
| | Subject: Re: Your Absolute Hands Down Favourite Tobacco... Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:45 am | |
| | Haddo's is my favorite as well. You could do a whole lot worse than trying all of the Pease tobacco's as they really give a good intro to all the flavors out there. You will probably find several that you like and that will become part of your permanent rotation. If you like Haddo's try Barbary Coast as well. |
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Wet Dottle
Joined : 27 Feb 2008
Posts : 175
Location : Littleton, CO
| | Subject: Re: Your Absolute Hands Down Favourite Tobacco... Tue Mar 04, 2008 1:41 pm | |
| Oh, boy! There are too many in the list and no clear favorite. Lately, GLP Westminster has been taking the cake.
Happy days and happier puffs. |
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Vito
Joined : 10 Dec 2007
Posts : 208
| | Subject: Re: Your Absolute Hands Down Favourite Tobacco... Tue Mar 04, 2008 2:18 pm | |
| | D.J. Perry wrote: | We did this over on ASP a few years ago and the hands down favourite from well over 200 of those responding was MacBaren's "Navy Flake"which also happens to be mine too...
What's yours? |
Absolute hands down favorite? Of all time? Including weedages that are now extinct? Impossible for me to answer; there's no such thing in VitoSpace. I could do it by category, maybe:
- Burley—Edgeworth Extra High Grade Sliced (EEHGS)...the original, by Larus & Bro. Co. of Richmond, not the version tinned in the EU until it went extinct a few years ago...which was good in its own right, but not close to the original
- Non-Vintage Straight Ginnyweed—Fribourg & Treyer Cut Virginia Plug
- Single-Crop Ginnyweed—McCranie's Red Flake, 1996
- Virginia/Oriental Blend—No contest here...GLP's Embarcadero, by a wide margin
- Balkan English—J.F. Germain Eighteen Twenty
- Balkan English w/Perique—GLP's Nocturne, coming soon to a weedmonger near youse
- Traditional (Maritime) English—GawHogg Coniston Cut Plug
- Hybrid English—PCCA Jubilee 2000
- VaPer—Tavern Tobacco Laurel Flake
Yeah, I know—this could go on for days..."Syrian Latweed/Burleymalt With Extra Hops"...but the point of the list above is not to get anal about weed differentiation. Rather, it's to say that after more than four decades of pipe smoking with a genuine spirit of exploration and thankful appreciation for an abundance of wondrous tobaccos, one comes to realize that the incredible breadth and depth to which blendmeisters have brought the art of weed blending provides limitless opportunities for weedular enjoyment.
To wit, how many tobaccos on the list above are no longer available? Only two, and one of those (Jubilee) occasionally appears in re-release form when demand supports it. One (Nocturne) is not available yet—which bodes well for the future. All the rest are extant. The lesson is clear: Weep not for the "loss" of bygone weedages you never knew you missed, brethren & sistren. "The best" is here and now, and there's more yet to come.
My apologies in advance for not adhering to the spirit of Dock's original post, but the truth is that it's just not possible for me to pick ONE tobacco. Forty or maybe even thirty years ago I might have been able to do it, but the pleasures of abundance and variety have disqualified me from such a task. I'm spoiled by the knowledge that judgments like "better" and "best" become increasingly irrelevant where possibilities multiply to infinity. There's no reason to make such judgments. The smoking experience between, say, EEHGS and Nocturne is of such a vastly different character and quality that I can't imagine choosing one over the other. It's sort of the moral equivalent of asking, "Which would you prefer—food or water?" ...uh, I'll take both, thanks.
None of this is to cast any aspersions on those folks who actually CAN pick an absolute hands-down favorite tobacco, any more than they should pillory those who can't. Let's face it, not all tastes are created equal. Just as there are folks who know precisely what they like, there really are minds in this universe that do not see life in such terms as "the best" or "the worst". Neither deserves disdain. Better to fire up a bowl and celebrate the whole bunch.  |
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Justpipes
The Duke
Age : 49
Joined : 17 Dec 2007
Posts : 3290
Location : American by birth, Southern by the grace of God!
| | Subject: Re: Your Absolute Hands Down Favourite Tobacco... Tue Mar 04, 2008 5:14 pm | |
| Vito, good to see you back brother but you got to stick to the rules of the thread!
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Vito
Joined : 10 Dec 2007
Posts : 208
| | Subject: Re: Your Absolute Hands Down Favourite Tobacco... Tue Mar 04, 2008 5:21 pm | |
| | Sorry, JP...no can do on this one. Besides, I was born a damn Yankee, but I'm still a rebel at heart. |
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