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not a big fan, Accidentally I open a can 3 days ago, and the flavor is really intense, not really pleasant and tobacco really strong. I was smoking outside and still got a little dizzy, something that never happen with a pipe, and even with cigars it is very rare specially when smoking outside. I did a got a brand new corn pipe with the first smoke, and made sure to let it dry just to get a good first impression.
Another superb video, Allan!!! My Papa had a smoking jacket, actually 2 smoking jackets that Granny made for him. One was an everyday jacket, the other was a red silk jacket that was only worn during the Holiday Season!!! I have his everyday jacket in my closet (a prized treasure). I remember many a Christmas Eve sitting in his lap, smelling his pipe and listening to him read, "A Visit From St. Nicholas"!!!
Hello Alan! My name is Dermot, from Dublin Ireland. I am seriously interested in starting to smoke a pipe and would just like to say that I am thoroughly enjoying watching your channel and I am delighted to say that you and your videos have provided me with superb insights for the pipe smoking beginner. I wish to thank you for that and long may they continue.
I enjoy your videos but this one got me laughing quite a bit. Enjoyed your confession about your 'smoking jacket' purchase as a student and sharing that meeting with fellow men in the pipe smoking room all wearing smoking jackets, were the 'good old days'. So true! We are merely the grandchildren of that past generation wondering what it was like. Cell phones and the Internet have ruined us all!
@@internet-user22sure, but maybe we could knew it in a much more natural way; in person in a smoking room/ saloon type of vibes. I like more this type of “old days ways” then the new.
What a perfect way to start my day. Your videos are relaxing to my soul, informative, and inspiring me to remember to slow down and enjoy life. As a brand new pipe smoker, I want to thank you. Please keep it up. I will happily support your business for years to come. I just ordered a Clark’s favorite and will now order some of these blends. Thank you sir. P.s. I have my late father’s corduroy sport jacket, it is now my smoking jacket.
My dad smoked a pipe, quit for many years then became a smoker after I started it. I gravitated to English very early and pretty heavy at that. My dad tried it. We had to order tobacco as this was in the 1980s. He thought my English tasted ‘musty’ Well he lived next door, and we ordered tobacco together to save on shipping cost. He ran out and it took about two weeks to get it shipped. And I let him have a couple ounces of my English. Within a few days he really came to like it. And over the last thirty years of his life I don’t think he ever smoked anything but a English blend
Enjoying Early Morning Pipe with my Savinelli Rusticated Trevi 606 drinking a cup of coffee and watching this video. Thank you Sir! I really enjoy and appreciate your videos.
Usually in the afternoon when I have my first pipe. I listen to your videos and I've commented before that I used to smoke cornsilk when I was just a lad. I now have 6 pipes and one more on the way. I'm sixty six, i'm gonna join the next twenty-five five + years of smoking my pipes. I'm excited about trying out some new blends. As you say in your videos, I'm looking forward to cooler weather, I live in Oklahoma, and it's hot here today. Thank you, Mr. Haroldson, for your timely chats.
Love your content have dabbled in pipe smoking for a year just recently started back. I have one briar pipe and several expensive meerchuam pipes. Some fron SRV and IMP they are amazing! I just ordered some of the blends you mentioned. Just wanted to say thak you for everything!
Good advice for a prospective pipe smoker. Not bought my first pipe yet but doing my research and your advice is invaluable. I'm in England, and it's great to hear that rich Kentucky accent. Saw you recently on Pints with Aquinas. God bless.
Greetings sir. I hope this comment finds you well. I wanted to take a moment to thank you for your time and insights. I have recently began to work in a brick and mortar shop and I am expanding my experience with pipe smoking. Your videos have been of great help with both your suggestions and over all point of views on the art of enjoying pipe smoking. Thank you.🙏🏽
Love ALL of the Peterson blends you mentioned! Based on your recommendation, I have tried Squadron Leader and Quiet Nights. Both are delicious! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise.
Presbyterian is my first reach these days. It is perfection from the initial light until the final draw. Also Cornel and Diehl Carolina Red Flake is amazing this time of year!
Blending tobaccos for pipe smokers is an art that I have come to appreciate deeply. Like making a great artisan whiskey, ale or brandy. A good pipe, a great tobacco, a good book. These things make life great. Thank you for your efforts and excellent reviews. Some of your favorites are mine too. Presbyterian is always on hand here. It is a favorite of mine. I shall try your recommendations with great enthusiasm.. I went camping at a fishing camp with some old friends recently. After a great day in the trout fisheries we sat by a campfire and poured some good whisky. i lit my pipe filled with an aromatic favorite. It was an enchanting evening. I am the only pipe smoker I know of in my area. It seems to be a lost art. Sad to say. It is to be me a spiritual hobby that I will enjoy until the day I leave my rhis life.
As a Maryland-born hillbilly from North Carolina and Virginia stock I have a fondness for southern accents. It takes me about half an hour every time I’m down in NC, SC, Georgia, Alabama, or Florida for my own accent to appear. I’m enjoying your videos, brother; keep them up. I’ll be preordering my own Old Carolina Pipe t-shirt in a week or two! Edit: I should add my favorite English and Balkan blends for the fun of it (in no particular order) - 1.) Esoterica Penzance 2.) Dunhill/Peterson Night Cap 3.) GLP Quiet Nights 4.) Baker Street from The Country Squire 5.) My Private Blend from The Country Squire - it’s a very close match to my beloved Frog Morton On The Bayou that Jon David makes for me. If you’d like to give it a try call Jon David and ask him for four ounces of Rondy’s Private Blend and I’m sure he’ll be happy to set you up. 6.) Hearth & Home Black House 7.) Hearth & Home White Knight 8.) Esoterica And So To Bed 9.) Dunhill/Peterson Early Morning Pipe 10.) Seattle Pipe Club Plum Pudding Special Reserve. 11.) Sutliff Red Virginia Crumble Kake 12.) Sutliff English Crumble Kake 13.) Esoterica Margate 14.) C&D Chocolate Cavendish (bwahahaha - just seeing if you were paying attention. This is a pretty good chocolatey aromatic tobacco though; you should give it a try. 15.) Frog Morton On The Bayou. I only have about two mason jars and one unopened tin left, and it hurts my heart. This is why Jon David makes me a match for it, which is super close but just off enough to not be a perfect match; I think it’s due to the McCelland tins the way that they did. Happy smoking! And yes, Greg’s Quiet Nights is a *better* Penzance and is a million times easier to come by.
To my taste, Star of the East Flake has always been a dead ringer for Penzance. It contains more Latakia than Penzance however. I can remember buying Penzance in bulk and then trying SOTE Flake and wondering, “why am I spending more on this C&D Flake that tastes like Penzance and I have all this in bulk?” Still have a couple pounds left, but I prefer London Mixture.
@@thepipecottage3301 I agree with WW. My number one morning English. Same ingredients as NightCap. I also smoke and enjoy NightCap. Poor comparison is Quiet Nights vs. Penzance. Penzance is well above all English blends. Also Penzance has no Perique. Quiet Nights is a refined NightCap with the same ingredients.
Wonderful video. You really do this well. Great work - will subscribe. And your dialect/accent is fantastic, I cannot deny it. And learning more about pipes and tobacco is a bonus.
Greg Pease has revived several of the old Drucquer and Son’s mixtures and I have been working my way through them this year. So far “Inns of Court” and “Princes Blend” are my favorites. All of them are very high quality tobaccos that are worth a try for any English lover. Also, Rattray’s “Number 7 Reserve” is a lovely English/Scottish blend that has been my go to all day smoke for several years. Love your videos sir and I will make the trip down from Black Mountain, NC when you open your store. Cheers!
I swear I am watching Gone with the Wind when listening to you speak, not a bad thing. You have an interesting format to your presentations, and they are enjoyable, Cheers!
New subscriber love the content thus far. I am fairly new to pipe smoking. I've only been going for about a year. Happy holidays to everyone and please keep up the great content.
This is my first visit to your youtube channel. A very pleasant discovery! I am an old and experienced pipe smoker, my current top three English blends are: 1. Peterson's Standard blend, 2. Peterson's Nightcap, and 3. Cornell & Diehl"s The Old Ones Series, Awakened Elder. All are Latakia heavy, and a delight through a good pipe; especially through my recently refurbished gourd calabash. Did it with some trepidation, since even youtube was fairly ambiguous about what actually worked. It came out really well, with the effortless draw I remember from days of old. I look forward to visiting your website.
Just found your channel and was thinking about English being low around here anyway, so good timing. Enjoyed your presentation and accent, which strangely reminds me of our own East Texan accent in some ways....smoke a pipe all day and night I will enjoy this channel.
Enjoyed watching while smoking my beloved Peterson 965. Smoked some early morning pipe this morning. I will no doubt finish the day with some nightcap. In my opinion these are they holy trinity of english blends..lol ;)
It takes a special type of personality to properly maintain the old tradition of pipe smoking. The perfection is in the fine simplicity of tobacco mixture. Enjoyed to watch and listen the intelligent lecture, English blend it is. Cheers!
You are the only other presenter on YT that has extolled the virtues of Bombay Court. I love this blend greatly and for the longest time thought I was the only one who did. It was a sad day when McClelland closed shop.
An English blend that I initially did not like at all when I first started the pipe-smoking hobby, but has since come to be one of my absolute favorite blends, having a little bit of a salty taste, is Sutliff SPS-14 Majestic. It's fabulous.
For years its been Early morning pipe. Just recently I tried Peterson Standard mixture and I have been smoking a lot of it. The richness of it was what really got me returning to it multiple times a day now.
I truly enjoy your videos I recently returned to pipe smoking as during the covid times good pipe tobacco was hard to find will take your recommendations to heart. I today tried Autumn Evening what a nice smoke thanks
Another engaging video.I really like Gawith & Hoggarth # 25 Mixture.It is a very balanced middle of the road blend.Also Petersons Standard Mixture is a good, not talked about much blend.
I should also mention that some classic American English blends were once made. Barking Dog, Walnut, and Holiday mixture were lighter on the Latakia but introduced many American pipe smokers to this beloved English component, at a time when burley dominated domestic pipe blends.
Some excellent recommendations, and a pleasure to listen to - you're making quality content. I used to smoke Nightcap, but I've switched that to Quiet Nights as the 9oz jars are readily available (and cheaper). I also enjoy RRR, an excellent mixture. Captain Earle's: Stimulus Package, H&H Fusilier's Ration and Plum Pudding SR are some that I'd recommend trying and I'll take your recommendation of Shepherd's Pie. Many thanks.
I would like to recommend Deacon's Downfall. It is one of my favorite all day English blend. It is very similar to presbyterian but richer and more complex on some levels, a great smoke.
Milan’s Colonial Pastime was one of my first blends. I agree it is wonderful. They also make a blend called Triple Crown which David Meyer has told me was crafted for a customer who wanted something like Frog Morton On the Town. Although I’ve never had the McClelland blend, Triple Crown was the first English blend to really grab me and remains a favorite of mine. I find it is an excellent morning smoke.
I enjoyed your video , nice change of pace . For the past while I have been smoking Father Dempsey from Kramer's it is a English Mixture very nice . Hope all is well !
I always enjoy spending a few moments with you. While I am mostly a aromatic piper, I enjoyed our visit while on the veranda with some hot coffee and Sutliff Vanilla Custard. Always a pleasure. 🤠☕
@@thepipecottage3301 I just started smoking a pipe I would love for you to show me the ins and outs thank hope to here back from you. -your Carolina neighbor from NC
Not a pipe smoker but love the smell. Just got on nasal Snuff 3months ago and stopped smoking cigarettes and vaping. Might go to vape again cause I put a lot of money into it. But the taxes is ridiculous and then putting everyone name in the database is messed up. Love the channel, just found your channel. Love your voice. I'm from VA and love hearing accent like you talk with. Much love brother
Great video. I've been enjoying Pirate Kake these days, a very heavy English. I find it pairs well with a single malt from Islay like Ard Mor or Lagavulin or Laphroaig.
Thanks for that nice overview of English blends. I remember well having had a tin of the by then Dunhill 969 which I enjoyed very much, maybe because it was aged already. As I restart with the pipe now and haven't really smoked for about 15 years I'd definetely want to try the Peterson version of it before I crack the tin of the 969 that is still there and well sealed. What I got for my restart is two Rattray's from which one is the Professional Mixture. I got this because it says in the description a pinch of Oriental and a pinch of Latakia. Opening the tin it smells rather "English" but when transformed into smoke it's just like a seasoning with salt and pepper on food. I'd deeply recomand this mixture for any more "natural" smoker who wants to try toward the English mixtures. Helping in that is for sure the black cavendish for smoothening. Give it a try and be surprized.
I agree with your thinking that some blends are just better in different pipes. I wasn’t a fan of 965 when I smoked it out of my JOB pipe but, when I smoked it out of my savinelli billiard it was amazing.
There is only one tobacco the loss of which I mourn and that is the original Balkan Sobranie. I first smoked this some 50 years ago and can never forget the pleasure it gave me. Dunhill Standard is another way to introduce someone to English blends. Doing a great job!
I enjoy the current Balkan Sobraine though. It’s not quite the same, but it’s still very, very good. It’s just a hassle to get any of; I think that I may have three tins of it but that’s all at the moment.
I find better luck at brick & mortars for finding it. I've picked up a ton or 2 every couple months from a location near me. They always seem to have some in stock..m
Esoterica Tobacciana - Margate is pretty damned close to TBSOSM as I have ever found. TBSOSM was my favourite back in 1972 when I lived in the UK, and started smoking a pipe after deciding to give up cigarettes. Savory's in Oxford was a favourite haunt. back in the 1970s.
Very nice. Northwoods is second only to Pease’s Maltese Falcon for me. Quiet Nights is a top Pease blend as well. Squadron Leader is a fine blend as well. Enjoyed watching. All the best.
Very helpful! Presbyterian is certainly in my list of favorite English blends, as is Westminster by G.L. Pease-one that I didn’t hear you mention. If it would benefit other YTPC members, I’d love to hear more about your approach to cellaring tobacco-especially those like the McClelland you mentioned that you enjoy slowly over time. I’d love to “sip” more tobaccos and vary my palette, but I’m always worried about drying out larger tins and wasting great product. I’ve tried mason jars, humidors, rehydrating, etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Very enjoyable video sir. I'm not a latakia enthusiast for the most part, but I do have plenty in the cupboard, many Syrian latakia blends before they disappeared. I couldn't agree with you more when it comes to Early Morning Pipe and Quiet Nights. Yes, QN does compare very closely to Penzance, but, as you know, much more available and reasonably priced. Another favorite of mine is Sam Gawith's Winter Time Flake. I prefer latakia when it's used more as a condimental tobacco than as a main component. I like HGL from Lane, the Walnut match blend made by I believe Middleton, also Dr. Bradley from Iwan Ries. I prefer the smokey latakia in the background rather than the forefront, but to each his own. I really got a sense of the old time smoking parlour when I toured Biltmore Estate in Ashville, NC. I was in the smoking room that the gentlemen would go and enjoy their pipes and cigars after dinner, quite an experience. Keep up the good work and pipe on!
I am still struggling with English blends, but I am trying. Currently it is Port Latakia from HU Tobacco and of course the Squadron leader from SG. Good content, by the way. Just subscribed to your channel.
I just discovered your UA-cam channel this morning. I really like the continent how are you come across on your videos. I myself pretty much only smoke English blends. Presbyterian tobacco was popularized by British prime minister Stanley Baldwin. I believe he may have had a hand in how to put the tobacco blend together with his tobacconist. Presbyterian and Night Cap were the first English blend I ever tried recommended by my father. I was 14 years old when I first tried a pipe never looked back I’m 57 years of age.
Great video. I would suggest Rattrays Accountants Mixture if you like an English blend that favors latakia but without orientals…a smooth and smoky blend…very enjoyable. 😀
Great video! I would include Hearth and Home 's Magnum Opus on that list, together with Seattle Pipe Clubs Plum Pudding and GL Peases Gaslight! Those are my favorites English/Balkans! Cheers from São Paulo/ Brasil
Russ’ Magnum Opus is definitely a must-try. About ten years ago P&C messed up my order and later I found a package on my doorstep that they sent me with eight ounces of Magnum Opus as way of an apology. It was unexpected, not asked for at all because everyone messes up orders now and then, but it was certainly welcomed! It’s a great, great blend. Russ makes a lot of great blends
Many English blends are superb, and some even superior but only one is supreme! Arango's Balkan Supreme is the best english blend one can smoke! Two other inexpensive yet wonderful english blends are Spilman mixture from E Hoffman and Watch City's timely named nor'easter! great channel! love it
Thank you Sir for that. Well wishes and satisfying smokes. I look forward to the Brick and Mortar store. I live in Charlotte and hope it is close enough for day trips.
Man, do I love Blend No. 5. I also really enjoy the bulk Peter Stokkebye English Oriental Supreme. When I smoke my first bowl, it did not taste as though it had a Pugh Latakia, compared to Blend No. 5. But having put it in a Ball jar, and let it set for a couple of months, it now has a sufficient Latakia content for my liking, and has since become my 2nd favorite English Blend. At some point in the near future, I’ll be ordering myself a ton of My Mixture 965, as well as a tin of Early Morning Pipe, Nightcap, and Quiet Nights; so as to expand my English blend palate.
Hi... lemme first introduce m'self... I am Devjit Raxit from eastern India... 'been smokin' a pipe since way back in the eighties ( 1982 to be precise ) when my elder brother gifted me my first briar-pipe, a straight pipe... I used to spend long nights studying, preparing for the Cost Accountancy examinations... My favourite english tobacco being the Erinmore mixtures , jus' wanted to share with you... have a wonderful time smokin' your fav tobacco in your fav pipes...❗✌️😊
I love Presbyterian, it's a wonderful all day smoke but I really love it in the morning with coffee. Between that and Early Morning Pipe you'll never have a bad morning.
I agree with all the listed tobaccos, excellent blends from the English branch of tobaccos. Nightcap and EMP are by favourites, but I've recently picked up 965 and have grown very fond of it. I wish I could try Presbyterian Mixture, but alas, it is unavailable here in Italy.
My father , aWW2 tail gunner vet was very fond of an Irish blend called Erimore . I now at the ripe and retired age of 58 have decided to return to pipe smoking and have ordered a tin of this very same tobacco! I remember a rather smooth and pleasant aroma from it
I am really enjoying your channel and content, just subscribed too. I don't know how easy it is to get Gawith & Hoggarth products in the States but if you can you should try their Balkan mix, the flavour is excellent and well balanced, it's a great smoke. Kind regards Carl.
English blends are more if a winter tobacco for me since I started smoking nightcap in Christmas of 2020. One of my favorite English blends is the Hearth of Galway from Wilke Tobacco that was specially blended for my pipe group the (Pipe Smokers of Ireland). I am also very fond of Fox's Bankers and 123 Mixture which I picked up in Dublin and London and i would highly recommend them both. Virgina and Kentucky blends are more of an autumn time smoke for me. St Bruno is one of my absolute favorite tobaccos to smoke in the Autumn as well as Elizabethan mixture and Ennerdale Flake. As for favored pipe, any I reach for is good. although I will favor one of my Newgrange Petersons or my trusty and much loved Liscannor 87.
As far as under the radar English and Oriental blends, Scottish Blend and Original Oriental by Robert McConnel, blended in Germany by Kolhasse and Kopp, are both excellent. And of course, Seattle Pipe Club Plum Pudding is quickly becoming legendary.
My dads family were Scottish irish and my dad had hes grandads smoking jacket silk with a dragon on the back dads uncle was only a short guy and used it as a boxing robe .the smoking culture always was a healthier practice than say cigarettes are today .for example a lot people who played sports had a smoke back then
I'm a great fan of EMP and Presby. A notch up in flavor from those, but still a moderate and superb English, is Father Dempsey's Mixture. Available only at Smokingpipes, at a very reasonable price.
Just curious, what was your field of study? That is quite an impressive bookshelf there. I always get excited when I see a great assortment of historical books.
My first English blend was C&D's Black Frigate. Memory serves that it was the finest tobacco I've personally enjoyed, though my experience is limited. I divested myself from the lifestyle several years ago in order to aid in my desire to break free from the grip of cigarettes and instant gratification. Now that I've finally quit cigarettes, I'm considering a reinvestment in the pipe. Not for the nicotine, but for the contemplative slowness and enjoyment.
I'm 77, and the first baccy I smoked when I was 10 was a pigtail of twist. The coal miners smoked it. An old woman on a canal coal boat gave it me when she saw me sucking on an empty pipe. I turned green and I almost voided my bowels. That was my baptism of fire that day on the side of the canal. Never forgotten it, how could I.
Peterson’s Old Dublin is another excellent English blend; rich , slow burning and flavourful.
I agree.
One the my favs.
Nathan, from Brazil South America
not a big fan, Accidentally I open a can 3 days ago, and the flavor is really intense, not really pleasant and tobacco really strong. I was smoking outside and still got a little dizzy, something that never happen with a pipe, and even with cigars it is very rare specially when smoking outside. I did a got a brand new corn pipe with the first smoke, and made sure to let it dry just to get a good first impression.
Do you think Old Dublin may be an Irish tobacco? Just asking……..
@@alanjohnson4637 no
What about 7reserve?
Another superb video, Allan!!! My Papa had a smoking jacket, actually 2 smoking jackets that Granny made for him. One was an everyday jacket, the other was a red silk jacket that was only worn during the Holiday Season!!! I have his everyday jacket in my closet (a prized treasure).
I remember many a Christmas Eve sitting in his lap, smelling his pipe and listening to him read, "A Visit From St. Nicholas"!!!
Hello Alan! My name is Dermot, from Dublin Ireland. I am seriously interested in starting to smoke a pipe and would just like to say that I am thoroughly enjoying watching your channel and I am delighted to say that you and your videos have provided me with superb insights for the pipe smoking beginner. I wish to thank you for that and long may they continue.
I’m just getting into pipe smoking at 25 and your videos are so helpful. Thank you 🙏
After all the UA-cam pipe content that I've consumed over the years, I'm delighted to have found this channel! Great content!
I enjoy your videos but this one got me laughing quite a bit. Enjoyed your confession about your 'smoking jacket' purchase as a student and sharing that meeting with fellow men in the pipe smoking room all wearing smoking jackets, were the 'good old days'. So true! We are merely the grandchildren of that past generation wondering what it was like. Cell phones and the Internet have ruined us all!
I did enjoyed that part of the video as well because I’m that guy with a grant buying tobacco and a smoking jacket.
@@internet-user22sure, but maybe we could knew it in a much more natural way; in person in a smoking room/ saloon type of vibes.
I like more this type of “old days ways” then the new.
I like the “smoking jacket confession “ and as an English pipe smoker I totally concur with the tradition long past 🧐
Without technology we probably wouldn't even know about all the good blends or even this channel for that matter😂
What a perfect way to start my day. Your videos are relaxing to my soul, informative, and inspiring me to remember to slow down and enjoy life. As a brand new pipe smoker, I want to thank you. Please keep it up. I will happily support your business for years to come. I just ordered a Clark’s favorite and will now order some of these blends. Thank you sir.
P.s. I have my late father’s corduroy sport jacket, it is now my smoking jacket.
Couldn't agree with you more Gabriel! You stole my thoughts while watching and listening to Alan.
My dad smoked a pipe, quit for many years then became a smoker after I started it. I gravitated to English very early and pretty heavy at that.
My dad tried it. We had to order tobacco as this was in the 1980s.
He thought my English tasted ‘musty’
Well he lived next door, and we ordered tobacco together to save on shipping cost.
He ran out and it took about two weeks to get it shipped. And I let him have a couple ounces of my English. Within a few days he really came to like it. And over the last thirty years of his life I don’t think he ever smoked anything but a English blend
I love your videos, so well thought out and well presented and always informative with great content . Keep up the great work.
It is a pleasure listening to you talk. Thanks for the video.
Enjoying Early Morning Pipe with my Savinelli Rusticated Trevi 606 drinking a cup of coffee and watching this video. Thank you Sir! I really enjoy and appreciate your videos.
Love this chap especially his accent he comes across as a true gentleman and very informative and like me a love of the past
Usually in the afternoon when I have my first pipe.
I listen to your videos and
I've commented before that I used to smoke cornsilk when I was just a lad.
I now have 6 pipes and one more on the way.
I'm sixty six, i'm gonna join the next twenty-five five + years of smoking my pipes. I'm excited about trying out some new blends.
As you say in your videos, I'm looking forward to cooler weather, I live in Oklahoma, and it's hot here today.
Thank you, Mr. Haroldson, for your timely chats.
Love your content have dabbled in pipe smoking for a year just recently started back. I have one briar pipe and several expensive meerchuam pipes. Some fron SRV and IMP they are amazing! I just ordered some of the blends you mentioned. Just wanted to say thak you for everything!
What a delightful dip back into the refined days of Tobacciana . Thank you Dr.Harrelson.
Good advice for a prospective pipe smoker. Not bought my first pipe yet but doing my research and your advice is invaluable. I'm in England, and it's great to hear that rich Kentucky accent. Saw you recently on Pints with Aquinas. God bless.
Thank you sir it is refreshing to veiw a gentleman with your caliber for knowledge and demeanor
@@thepipecottage3301 your very welcome
Greetings sir. I hope this comment finds you well. I wanted to take a moment to thank you for your time and insights. I have recently began to work in a brick and mortar shop and I am expanding my experience with pipe smoking. Your videos have been of great help with both your suggestions and over all point of views on the art of enjoying pipe smoking. Thank you.🙏🏽
Love ALL of the Peterson blends you mentioned! Based on your recommendation, I have tried Squadron Leader and Quiet Nights. Both are delicious! Thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise.
Presbyterian is my first reach these days. It is perfection from the initial light until the final draw. Also Cornel and Diehl Carolina Red Flake is amazing this time of year!
It's a great church as well 🤩
Blending tobaccos for pipe smokers is an art that I have come to appreciate deeply. Like making a great artisan whiskey, ale or brandy. A good pipe, a great tobacco, a good book. These things make life great. Thank you for your efforts and excellent reviews. Some of your favorites are mine too. Presbyterian is always on hand here. It is a favorite of mine. I shall try your recommendations with great enthusiasm..
I went camping at a fishing camp with some old friends recently. After a great day in the trout fisheries we sat by a campfire and poured some good whisky. i lit my pipe filled with an aromatic favorite. It was an enchanting evening. I am the only pipe smoker I know of in my area. It seems to be a lost art. Sad to say.
It is to be me a spiritual hobby that I will enjoy until the day I leave my rhis life.
As a Maryland-born hillbilly from North Carolina and Virginia stock I have a fondness for southern accents. It takes me about half an hour every time I’m down in NC, SC, Georgia, Alabama, or Florida for my own accent to appear.
I’m enjoying your videos, brother; keep them up. I’ll be preordering my own Old Carolina Pipe t-shirt in a week or two!
Edit: I should add my favorite English and Balkan blends for the fun of it (in no particular order) -
1.) Esoterica Penzance
2.) Dunhill/Peterson Night Cap
3.) GLP Quiet Nights
4.) Baker Street from The Country Squire
5.) My Private Blend from The Country Squire - it’s a very close match to my beloved Frog Morton On The Bayou that Jon David makes for me. If you’d like to give it a try call Jon David and ask him for four ounces of Rondy’s Private Blend and I’m sure he’ll be happy to set you up.
6.) Hearth & Home Black House
7.) Hearth & Home White Knight
8.) Esoterica And So To Bed
9.) Dunhill/Peterson Early Morning Pipe
10.) Seattle Pipe Club Plum Pudding Special Reserve.
11.) Sutliff Red Virginia Crumble Kake
12.) Sutliff English Crumble Kake
13.) Esoterica Margate
14.) C&D Chocolate Cavendish (bwahahaha - just seeing if you were paying attention. This is a pretty good chocolatey aromatic tobacco though; you should give it a try.
15.) Frog Morton On The Bayou. I only have about two mason jars and one unopened tin left, and it hurts my heart. This is why Jon David makes me a match for it, which is super close but just off enough to not be a perfect match; I think it’s due to the McCelland tins the way that they did.
Happy smoking!
And yes, Greg’s Quiet Nights is a *better* Penzance and is a million times easier to come by.
To my taste, Star of the East Flake has always been a dead ringer for Penzance. It contains more Latakia than Penzance however. I can remember buying Penzance in bulk and then trying SOTE Flake and wondering, “why am I spending more on this C&D Flake that tastes like Penzance and I have all this in bulk?” Still have a couple pounds left, but I prefer London Mixture.
Chelsea Morning is a good blend too if you enjoy EMP.
@@thepipecottage3301 I agree with WW. My number one morning English. Same ingredients as NightCap. I also smoke and enjoy NightCap. Poor comparison is Quiet Nights vs. Penzance. Penzance is well above all English blends. Also Penzance has no Perique. Quiet Nights is a refined NightCap with the same ingredients.
I enjoy your videos. I wish you and your business venture much success.
Wonderful video. You really do this well. Great work - will subscribe. And your dialect/accent is fantastic, I cannot deny it. And learning more about pipes and tobacco is a bonus.
Greg Pease has revived several of the old Drucquer and Son’s mixtures and I have been working my way through them this year. So far “Inns of Court” and “Princes Blend” are my favorites. All of them are very high quality tobaccos that are worth a try for any English lover. Also, Rattray’s “Number 7 Reserve” is a lovely English/Scottish blend that has been my go to all day smoke for several years.
Love your videos sir and I will make the trip down from Black Mountain, NC when you open your store.
Cheers!
I swear I am watching Gone with the Wind when listening to you speak, not a bad thing. You have an interesting format to your presentations, and they are enjoyable, Cheers!
New subscriber love the content thus far. I am fairly new to pipe smoking. I've only been going for about a year. Happy holidays to everyone and please keep up the great content.
This is my first visit to your youtube channel. A very pleasant discovery! I am an old and experienced pipe smoker, my current top three English blends are: 1. Peterson's Standard blend, 2. Peterson's Nightcap, and 3. Cornell & Diehl"s The Old Ones Series, Awakened Elder. All are Latakia heavy, and a delight through a good pipe; especially through my recently refurbished gourd calabash. Did it with some trepidation, since even youtube was fairly ambiguous about what actually worked. It came out really well, with the effortless draw I remember from days of old. I look forward to visiting your website.
I am coming back to this to try the ones I have not next time I am ordering. Love so many that you mention.
Can’t wait to visit that shop when the doors open!!
Just found your channel and was thinking about English being low around here anyway, so good timing. Enjoyed your presentation and accent, which strangely reminds me of our own East Texan accent in some ways....smoke a pipe all day and night I will enjoy this channel.
Enjoyed watching while smoking my beloved Peterson 965. Smoked some early morning pipe this morning. I will no doubt finish the day with some nightcap. In my opinion these are they holy trinity of english blends..lol ;)
It takes a special type of personality to properly maintain the old tradition of pipe smoking. The perfection is in the fine simplicity of tobacco mixture. Enjoyed to watch and listen the intelligent lecture, English blend it is. Cheers!
You are the only other presenter on YT that has extolled the virtues of Bombay Court. I love this blend greatly and for the longest time thought I was the only one who did. It was a sad day when McClelland closed shop.
An English blend that I initially did not like at all when I first started the pipe-smoking hobby, but has since come to be one of my absolute favorite blends, having a little bit of a salty taste, is Sutliff SPS-14 Majestic. It's fabulous.
For years its been Early morning pipe. Just recently I tried Peterson Standard mixture and I have been smoking a lot of it. The richness of it was what really got me returning to it multiple times a day now.
I truly enjoy your videos I recently returned to pipe smoking as during the covid times good pipe tobacco was hard to find will take your recommendations to heart. I today tried Autumn Evening what a nice smoke thanks
Another engaging video.I really like Gawith & Hoggarth # 25 Mixture.It is a very balanced
middle of the road blend.Also Petersons Standard Mixture is a good, not talked about much blend.
Fantastic video. I’ll be visiting your store. Thank you for this very informative presentation. Subscribed!
Many thanks for your recommendstion. I really like EMP and Epiphany.
I bought Early Morning tobacco due to your recommendation and its the perfect morning smoke with coffee
Just purchased a few tins from your store. Can’t wait to break in my new Savinelli 404 Pocket with them !
I should also mention that some classic American English blends were once made. Barking Dog, Walnut, and Holiday mixture were lighter on the Latakia but introduced many American pipe smokers to this beloved English component, at a time when burley dominated domestic pipe blends.
talking about burley's. Granger pointer is my favorite
Some excellent recommendations, and a pleasure to listen to - you're making quality content.
I used to smoke Nightcap, but I've switched that to Quiet Nights as the 9oz jars are readily available (and cheaper). I also enjoy RRR, an excellent mixture.
Captain Earle's: Stimulus Package, H&H Fusilier's Ration and Plum Pudding SR are some that I'd recommend trying and I'll take your recommendation of Shepherd's Pie. Many thanks.
Great episode!
Looking forward to an episode on Balkan/Oriental blends!
I would like to recommend Deacon's Downfall. It is one of my favorite all day English blend. It is very similar to presbyterian but richer and more complex on some levels, a great smoke.
Milan’s Colonial Pastime was one of my first blends. I agree it is wonderful. They also make a blend called Triple Crown which David Meyer has told me was crafted for a customer who wanted something like Frog Morton On the Town. Although I’ve never had the McClelland blend, Triple Crown was the first English blend to really grab me and remains a favorite of mine. I find it is an excellent morning smoke.
I enjoyed your video , nice change of pace . For the past while I have been smoking Father Dempsey from Kramer's it is a English Mixture very nice . Hope all is well !
I always enjoy spending a few moments with you. While I am mostly a aromatic piper, I enjoyed our visit while on the veranda with some hot coffee and Sutliff Vanilla Custard. Always a pleasure. 🤠☕
@@thepipecottage3301 I just started smoking a pipe I would love for you to show me the ins and outs thank hope to here back from you.
-your Carolina neighbor from NC
@@thepipecottage3301 that is wisdom right there. Muttenchops via youtube. He's the Yoda of pioesmokers everywhere.
@@thepipecottage3301 thank you I will check him out.
Love you perspective . Worthwhile watch IMHO
Nice video sir. I’ve been enjoying quiet nights and pirate kake myself lately. Nightcap is another great one.
Not a pipe smoker but love the smell. Just got on nasal Snuff 3months ago and stopped smoking cigarettes and vaping. Might go to vape again cause I put a lot of money into it. But the taxes is ridiculous and then putting everyone name in the database is messed up. Love the channel, just found your channel. Love your voice. I'm from VA and love hearing accent like you talk with. Much love brother
Great video. I've been enjoying Pirate Kake these days, a very heavy English. I find it pairs well with a single malt from Islay like Ard Mor or Lagavulin or Laphroaig.
Ardbeg An Oa and Bowmore are my favorites as well.
Would really enjoy seeing some pics of your brick and mortar. Your style must carry over. Good videos, very enjoyable to watch and listen.
This is Fred. I love your recommendations. I enjoy Early Morning Pipe in the morning as well.
Enjoy the videos. I’ll be checking your store out tonight✅
I was on the other side of the room and thought for sure you said “esoteric piss ants” thank you for the laughs! Great content, sir.
Thanks for that nice overview of English blends. I remember well having had a tin of the by then Dunhill 969 which I enjoyed very much, maybe because it was aged already. As I restart with the pipe now and haven't really smoked for about 15 years I'd definetely want to try the Peterson version of it before I crack the tin of the 969 that is still there and well sealed. What I got for my restart is two Rattray's from which one is the Professional Mixture. I got this because it says in the description a pinch of Oriental and a pinch of Latakia. Opening the tin it smells rather "English" but when transformed into smoke it's just like a seasoning with salt and pepper on food. I'd deeply recomand this mixture for any more "natural" smoker who wants to try toward the English mixtures. Helping in that is for sure the black cavendish for smoothening. Give it a try and be surprized.
I agree with your thinking that some blends are just better in different pipes. I wasn’t a fan of 965 when I smoked it out of my JOB pipe but, when I smoked it out of my savinelli billiard it was amazing.
There is only one tobacco the loss of which I mourn and that is the original Balkan Sobranie. I first smoked this some 50 years ago and can never forget the pleasure it gave me.
Dunhill Standard is another way to introduce someone to English blends.
Doing a great job!
I enjoy the current Balkan Sobraine though. It’s not quite the same, but it’s still very, very good. It’s just a hassle to get any of; I think that I may have three tins of it but that’s all at the moment.
@@EatTheMarxists You are lucky to have that much even if it is not the original.
Cheers
I find better luck at brick & mortars for finding it. I've picked up a ton or 2 every couple months from a location near me. They always seem to have some in stock..m
@@Stahlgewitter You are a very lucky man Joe!
Esoterica Tobacciana - Margate is pretty damned close to TBSOSM as I have ever found. TBSOSM was my favourite back in 1972 when I lived in the UK, and started smoking a pipe after deciding to give up cigarettes. Savory's in Oxford was a favourite haunt. back in the 1970s.
Very nice. Northwoods is second only to Pease’s Maltese Falcon for me. Quiet Nights is a top Pease blend as well. Squadron Leader is a fine blend as well. Enjoyed watching. All the best.
Very helpful! Presbyterian is certainly in my list of favorite English blends, as is Westminster by G.L. Pease-one that I didn’t hear you mention.
If it would benefit other YTPC members, I’d love to hear more about your approach to cellaring tobacco-especially those like the McClelland you mentioned that you enjoy slowly over time. I’d love to “sip” more tobaccos and vary my palette, but I’m always worried about drying out larger tins and wasting great product. I’ve tried mason jars, humidors, rehydrating, etc. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Very enjoyable video sir. I'm not a latakia enthusiast for the most part, but I do have plenty in the cupboard, many Syrian latakia blends before they disappeared. I couldn't agree with you more when it comes to Early Morning Pipe and Quiet Nights. Yes, QN does compare very closely to Penzance, but, as you know, much more available and reasonably priced. Another favorite of mine is Sam Gawith's Winter Time Flake. I prefer latakia when it's used more as a condimental tobacco than as a main component. I like HGL from Lane, the Walnut match blend made by I believe Middleton, also Dr. Bradley from Iwan Ries. I prefer the smokey latakia in the background rather than the forefront, but to each his own. I really got a sense of the old time smoking parlour when I toured Biltmore Estate in Ashville, NC. I was in the smoking room that the gentlemen would go and enjoy their pipes and cigars after dinner, quite an experience.
Keep up the good work and pipe on!
YNWA
I am still struggling with English blends, but I am trying. Currently it is Port Latakia from HU Tobacco and of course the Squadron leader from SG. Good content, by the way. Just subscribed to your channel.
I just discovered your UA-cam channel this morning. I really like the continent how are you come across on your videos. I myself pretty much only smoke English blends. Presbyterian tobacco was popularized by British prime minister Stanley Baldwin.
I believe he may have had a hand in how to put the tobacco blend together with his tobacconist. Presbyterian and Night Cap were the first English blend I ever tried recommended by my father.
I was 14 years old when I first tried a pipe never looked back I’m 57 years of age.
Great video. I would suggest Rattrays Accountants Mixture if you like an English blend that favors latakia but without orientals…a smooth and smoky blend…very enjoyable. 😀
I'm new to English blends and Samuel Gawith Squadron Leader is actually the first and favourite so far for me!
I really enjoy C&D Star Of The East flake! Thanks for another outstanding video, take care my friend!
Great video! I would include Hearth and Home 's Magnum Opus on that list, together with Seattle Pipe Clubs Plum Pudding and GL Peases Gaslight! Those are my favorites English/Balkans! Cheers from São Paulo/ Brasil
Russ’ Magnum Opus is definitely a must-try. About ten years ago P&C messed up my order and later I found a package on my doorstep that they sent me with eight ounces of Magnum Opus as way of an apology. It was unexpected, not asked for at all because everyone messes up orders now and then, but it was certainly welcomed! It’s a great, great blend. Russ makes a lot of great blends
Many English blends are superb, and some even superior but only one is supreme! Arango's Balkan Supreme is the best english blend one can smoke! Two other inexpensive yet wonderful english blends are Spilman mixture from E Hoffman and Watch City's timely named nor'easter! great channel! love it
As a french, I enjoy so much your accent.
I used to wait till fall/winter for Latakia forward blends. Now it’s all year around. I can’t stop.
Thank you Sir for that. Well wishes and satisfying smokes. I look forward to the Brick and Mortar store. I live in Charlotte and hope it is close enough for day trips.
@@thepipecottage3301 Yes I am a regular there. Great family the McCranies i have been friends with them for 25 years.
Peterson’s Standard mixture is pretty good too
My current English rotation is Davidoff royalty, Sutliff blend 5, 965, and nightcap. Davidoff royalty is an incredible under the radar blend!
Man, do I love Blend No. 5. I also really enjoy the bulk Peter Stokkebye English Oriental Supreme. When I smoke my first bowl, it did not taste as though it had a Pugh Latakia, compared to Blend No. 5. But having put it in a Ball jar, and let it set for a couple of months, it now has a sufficient Latakia content for my liking, and has since become my 2nd favorite English Blend. At some point in the near future, I’ll be ordering myself a ton of My Mixture 965, as well as a tin of Early Morning Pipe, Nightcap, and Quiet Nights; so as to expand my English blend palate.
Tanks for fantastic videos! A coffee mug can not be to big!
Hi... lemme first introduce m'self... I am Devjit Raxit from eastern India... 'been smokin' a pipe since way back in the eighties ( 1982 to be precise ) when my elder brother gifted me my first briar-pipe, a straight pipe... I used to spend long nights studying, preparing for the Cost Accountancy examinations... My favourite english tobacco being the Erinmore mixtures , jus' wanted to share with you... have a wonderful time smokin' your fav tobacco in your fav pipes...❗✌️😊
I love Presbyterian, it's a wonderful all day smoke but I really love it in the morning with coffee. Between that and Early Morning Pipe you'll never have a bad morning.
Sutliff Heavy English smoked my first bowl of if this last weekend. Couldn’t stop thinking of it all day at work that following Monday.
I agree with all the listed tobaccos, excellent blends from the English branch of tobaccos. Nightcap and EMP are by favourites, but I've recently picked up 965 and have grown very fond of it. I wish I could try Presbyterian Mixture, but alas, it is unavailable here in Italy.
Thanks for the useful information
Thank you for a great video!
My father , aWW2 tail gunner vet was very fond of an Irish blend called Erimore . I now at the ripe and retired age of 58 have decided to return to pipe smoking and have ordered a tin of this very same tobacco! I remember a rather smooth and pleasant aroma from it
Smelling like fruit cake too☺️
Thats an awesome blend, keep in mind that its a flake
@@rubenuneken6037 Yep , like my father back in the 60-70s I use a extremely sharp chisel to cut it in the tin . It’s dedicated just for that purpose
Glad to see Milan made the list.
I am really enjoying your channel and content, just subscribed too. I don't know how easy it is to get Gawith & Hoggarth products in the States but if you can you should try their Balkan mix, the flavour is excellent and well balanced, it's a great smoke.
Kind regards
Carl.
English blends are more if a winter tobacco for me since I started smoking nightcap in Christmas of 2020. One of my favorite English blends is the Hearth of Galway from Wilke Tobacco that was specially blended for my pipe group the (Pipe Smokers of Ireland). I am also very fond of Fox's Bankers and 123 Mixture which I picked up in Dublin and London and i would highly recommend them both.
Virgina and Kentucky blends are more of an autumn time smoke for me. St Bruno is one of my absolute favorite tobaccos to smoke in the Autumn as well as Elizabethan mixture and Ennerdale Flake. As for favored pipe, any I reach for is good. although I will favor one of my Newgrange Petersons or my trusty and much loved Liscannor 87.
Great Recommendations!
What a southern accent, I could listen to it all day.
As far as under the radar English and Oriental blends, Scottish Blend and Original Oriental by Robert McConnel, blended in Germany by Kolhasse and Kopp, are both excellent. And of course, Seattle Pipe Club Plum Pudding is quickly becoming legendary.
My dads family were Scottish irish and my dad had hes grandads smoking jacket silk with a dragon on the back dads uncle was only a short guy and used it as a boxing robe .the smoking culture always was a healthier practice than say cigarettes are today .for example a lot people who played sports had a smoke back then
You should start an Old Carolina Pipe Cottage Audio Book Club. Your cadence would make for a great audiobook.
I'm a great fan of EMP and Presby. A notch up in flavor from those, but still a moderate and superb English, is Father Dempsey's Mixture. Available only at Smokingpipes, at a very reasonable price.
I agree, I love Father Dempsey’s, have to smoke it daily.
Just curious, what was your field of study? That is quite an impressive bookshelf there. I always get excited when I see a great assortment of historical books.
My first English blend was C&D's Black Frigate. Memory serves that it was the finest tobacco I've personally enjoyed, though my experience is limited. I divested myself from the lifestyle several years ago in order to aid in my desire to break free from the grip of cigarettes and instant gratification. Now that I've finally quit cigarettes, I'm considering a reinvestment in the pipe. Not for the nicotine, but for the contemplative slowness and enjoyment.
McClelland is legendary. Their tobaccos are like nothing else. It saddens me to no end every time I think they closed down shop.
I began piping about a year ago. Maybe 2 months in, I discovered English blends. Aside from the occasional codger blend, they're all I smoke.
Loved the video and will be sure to check out the 'Early Morning'. I would also strongly recommend 'Commonwealth Mixture' by Samuel Gawith.
I'm 77, and the first baccy I smoked when I was 10 was a pigtail of twist. The coal miners smoked it. An old woman on a canal coal boat gave it me when she saw me sucking on an empty pipe. I turned green and I almost voided my bowels. That was my baptism of fire that day on the side of the canal. Never forgotten it, how could I.
First off. Congrats on your newborn. God is good. Yes I would love to come and visit you.
Nice to see Robertson's "Stonewall Jackson" on your shelf. Great book! I love Dunhill Nightcap too, "The Velvet Hammer!"