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     Kerry Lex Gerald Member Username: Comoy Post Number: 15 Registered: 02-2009 |
As many of you know I an a great fan of great tasting aromatics I have latley been trying some ENGLISH blends and do not like them they taste like leather and fish What is there other than Englsh and Aromatics? Are there any suggestions? Guys you are of great help to me thanks kerry | ||
| Jonathan A. Weber Sr. Member Username: Jonawbr Post Number: 11 Registered: 03-2009 |
If you do not like English and Aromatics you may want to give Burly or Virginas a try. Burly blends tend to be very easy to smoke compared to straight Virginas but I find nothing to be more tasty and rewarding than a good Virgina smoke. For straight burly Prince Albert or Charter Hill are a good place to start because they are cheap and are readily available. For a good straight Virgina I prefer any of the Samuel Gawith blends. Also another good blend is Solani's Silver flake, its a mix of virgina and burly. That is just my two cents and if you would like to read what others have said about them before you make a purchase www.tobaccoreviews.com is a good tool for that. | ||
| Todd Bannard Member Username: Sasquatch Post Number: 673 Registered: 05-2006 |
There are a whole range of tobaccos that kind of defy the English/aromatic schema. If you don't like the leathery latakia taste in the English mixtures, you could move to something like Rattray's Red Rapparee, which is basically orientals and virginias. Kind of spicey and sweet. Campanile by James Fox is the far end of that spectrum - like a Turkish cigarette! The Mac Baren tobaccos are kind of aromatic in that they often use honey or sugar as a very gentle casing. I am a major fan of Dark Twist and Club Blend. Navy Flake is another beauty. These are sweeter, lighter tobaccos, but still have a real tobacco taste. There are myriad tobaccos in this category of "serious tobacco with a slight topping" - Kendal Cream Flake from Samuel Gawith has an almost gingerbready taste. Virginia Woods from McClelland is nice... Sherlock Holmes from Peterson has a sort of Bergamot topping or something... These are not as fruity or rummy or vanilla-y as your usual aromatic - they still taste largely of tobacco. But they yield an interesting smoke because of the topping. You can also go topping-less, and move into something like Best Brown Flake, from Gawith, or Scottish Flake from McConnel. Both are seriously yummy virginia blends. Have fun. There's a LOT out there. | ||
| Michael D Sharum Sr. Member Username: Neshoba Post Number: 72 Registered: 11-2007 |
May I suggest Astley's#109 straight Virginia or GLP Union Square. Escudo Va/Per,MacBaren's Mature Virginia. Burley Light or Burley without a Bite. Mike | ||
| Ken Jones Member Username: Krjones Post Number: 10 Registered: 09-2008 |
Another good blend of Virginia and Burley is Peterson's University Flake. I'm on my second tin of this one. For me it smokes best when it has been dried out a great deal, dried even to the point that it gets crumbly. Reviewers on tobaccoreviews.com say that it has a berry-flavored topping. Sometimes this comes through for me and can be pleasant. | ||
| Mark Combs Member Username: Jazzmoose Post Number: 3 Registered: 04-2009 |
Perhaps a VaPer? Satisfies the sweet tooth, but adds a little kick in the tongue to keep you on your toes! I like Hearth & Homes Anniversary Kake myself. | ||
| W. A. Lanman Member Username: Blenheimbard Post Number: 125 Registered: 01-2009 |
There can be a wide variance within a grouping, such as "English" or aromatics, there are tobaccos in both those ranges i like and ones that leave me cold (or flaming hot in some cases). For a different take on the English line, you might try something like SG Balkan Flake, which i find quite good, but very different from their Squadron Leader, about which others rave and I find ho-hum. I also quite like Rattray's Highland Targe. We might have suggestions more to the point if we knew exactly which tobaccos you had tried. If you read through the Tobacco Reviews site you will find that there are dozens of aromatics which sound identical "choice Virginias and Burleys, with our best black cavendish, with a delicious topping of vanilla and rum", and then the reviews which indicate one is only good as a bug repellant and another is ambrosia, a gift from the gods. As you search back through the older postings you will see that some tobaccos seem to smoke better in different styles and sizes of pipes, and some smoke better when drier than they are shipped, etc. One advantage if you have a b&m store (Bricks and Mortar) which actually caters to pipesmokers, they will often let you sample loose tobaccos (with your pipe), before commiting to a purchase. Barring that hardly a store that stocks loose bulk tobaccos won't let you make up a bunch of little sample bags, trying an ounce of eight types, and giving you the 1/2 pound price. Some of the e-tailers will do this too. Have fun. | ||
| Massimo Aiello Member Username: Thebloozboy Post Number: 9 Registered: 06-2009 |
I was falling in love with Samuel Gawith 10 years ago, those are fabolous english made tobacoos that are still made the same way of 3 centyries ago (and still made with same original machinery). You could star with a medium streght one like Best Brown Flake, a sweet flake made ith different mature virginias pressed into cake and cooked, or with Sam's Flake, aromatic and sweet flake made with Virginias and Turkish tobaccos blended and pressed. If you like them you will find a world of different pleasent flake to taste going to all the other flakes of same producer !! |