Ok sir, I live in a small town outside Turlock. We are not a cow town we are a cattle town😂. Great list! Been a Gold over Blue fan since day one, sorry Tolkien. I blew thru my tin of Pegasus in about a week. 2025 is your year brother. Happy new year
lol. What town? I wonder if we've both smoked at that lounge. Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of it right now, but I do have a special place in my heart for Cigar Monkey in Merced. Thanks, and happy new year to you as well!
Great list. Love all the burley blends on the list. I'm a big burley lover. The one I missed out on was 8th State Burley. Maybe next year. Pegasus has become one of my favorites this year too. I love C&D's burley forward blends. Thanks for sharing.
I'm glad you enjoyed the list! Burley blends really do have a special charm, and 8th State Burley is definitely worth trying. Keep exploring those fantastic flavors!
Enjoying 4th Generation Evening Flake in a Nording Fantasy Freehand at the moment. Top 5 1. 4th Generation 1897 Erik Paul’s Blend (fresh raisin bread w/honey) 2. J.A. Dragon Flake Kohlhase and Kopp (burnt brown sugar/ Carmel) 3. Peter Stokkebye Luxury Bulls Eye Flake (savory) 4. Bob’s Chocolate Flake (cocoa and campfire) 5. Briarworks Sweet Tea
The best to you in 2025! Great list! I love burleys, but I’ve been making my way into the world of Virginias. Thank you for your content. Thank you for the giveaway that I won this year through you! 1st YTPC contest I ever won. Cheers brother!
Having some MacBaren Symphony that I pressed into a cake and let sit for a month in my Kaywoodie 12B Bulldog. Love Kaywoodie estates. Always a fun project before a great smoke.
Loving the vid so far! Gotta get my hands on some of that Hamborger… heard good stuff and I’m a VA lover so it makes sense. Smoking Hal o the wynd currently in my Savinelli 644 Erica Fiamma. Hope you and yours had wonderful Christmas and have a happy new year!
Thanks for your top list of 2024! It was very good. Pegasus is my go to blend. I first tried it when it was thought Carter Hall would meet it's demise several yezrs ago. Not an aromatic fan, I will smoke it when I am going to be sround people. It is 8nteresting what different reviewers taste in the blend. One reviewer claims " cold coffee and prunes". I also enjoy OJK and haunted Bookshop, in that order. I also really like C&D's Poplar Camp. Sadly, two blends in my rotation are now the property of STG. Hopefully. they will survive the winnowing cuts. Happy puffing and may the new yezr bring great opportunities your way! Jeff
@amanrelaxes CanRod/Mike was where I heard about Poplar Camp. I love Peter Stokkebye Luxury Bullseye Flake. However it is like an Esoterica blend in that one has to wait for it to drop. I am not into "drop waiting". So I tried Poplar Camp. It is now near the top of my rotation. Happy puffing, Jeff
Loved this one. You have some truly great blends listed here and i was happy to see Pegasus as your no.1 pick. I, too, started with latakia blends about 20 yrs ago and then moved into burley and eventually Vas. Just this year, after all t his time, i've found i love non-latakia oriental blends as well and the collection is growing again. Just what my tobacco acquisition disorder needed - to find an entire new genre of bliss. *eyeroll* However, i have to say, i always avoided Pegasus due to the cavendish and just discovered it this year as well. Since then i've smoked it every day...usually 2 -3 times (i'm a 10+ bowl a day kinda guy). So needless to say, i love it, too. Thanks for the entertaining recap. We seem to have similar tastes. Happy new year! :)
Two burleys I like a lot are Mac Baren Symphony and Cobblestone Brick Burley Plug. Symphony is a wonderful basic burley. Nothing fancy. Brick Burley Plug is delicious.
It is not easy to pick favorites for me, hard to tell. Sure, everyone has preferences which will change over time... so, enjoy pipe smoking in general. For hopefully many years to come! Happy new year to each and everyone out there! God bless!
Hi Robert. Nice video. Thanks for sharing! I know you have said many times that you're not a fan of aromatics, but you know what? Neither was I in my younger days. I started smoking cigars and pipes in my 20s, but now I'm 60, and I don't know if this is normal or not, but over the years I guess my taste buds have changed, and now, after 40 years of smoking, I had to switch to aromatics because I couldn't really taste anything else. Are there any other old timers out there that have experienced this shift? I'm honestly curious to know. Of course, you can't go wrong with Cornell & Dielh. Their Autumn Evening is one of my favorites. But that's still an aromatic, I think. Right? Cheers to you, my friend! I hope 2025 rewards you with joy and success in all you do. Mark
Autumn Evening is one of the aromatics that turned me off to aromatics. lol. I'm always willing to try stuff every once in a while. For whatever strange reason, I like Cult Blood Red Moon, but most aromatics just upset me because they don't taste like tobacco. We'll see if it changes.
@amanrelaxes Being a big JRR Tolkien fan, I began my pipe journey with Capstan Blue (because it was said to be Tolkien's favorite). But after 40 years I guess my taste buds changed.
Hola, Man. Este año me han sorprendido Red Rappare y Artisans Blends. Añado las tuyas a futuras compras. Gracias por compartir y salud para 2025. Un abrazo.
Hola! Me alegra que te gusten Red Rappare y Artisans Blends. Espero que mis recomendaciones también te sorprendan. ¡Salud para un 2025 lleno de buenos sabores!
Very nice! I have a Dracula 268, and it's probably my favorite pipe. It fits my metalhead/goth aesthetic, and it's the perfect size/shape! I also have a Rocky Donegal 106, and it's a real champ for English blends (though the bowl is HUGE).
As a massive Burley fan, I am so bummed I missed out on Eight State Burley. Argh I could just punch myself. Regardless a great video! Love the Top 10s. Puffed on some Irish Flake while I watched tonight in my piping room (which I hear may be on STGs chopping block 😢).
@@amanrelaxes They may still be, but on the Stuff And Things video his contact did say specifically that the Peterson line is among their poorest sellers. From STG's perspective it would make sense to drop the lineup during this consolidation phase. I just bought 10 tins of Irish Flake just in case. :(
I’m doing the stock up thing as well. I have three pounds of ODF jarred up and in a dark cabinet. Also collecting all the tins of Irish Flakes, Irish Cask, and Elizabethan Mixture that I can afford.
I'm making a big swing back to burley again, and I'm hitting my stash of Pegasus. It's so good. I've also been smoking a bit of Five Brothers! I only smoke it in a tiny clay pipe because it's the strongest tobacco I've ever smoked. But it's just pure, unvarnished burley. Some of my top blends this year are C and D blends! The Carolina Red Flake was divine this year. I would also put Pegasus on my list. I'm going to venture back into the C and D burley flakes. They are wonderful. I've tried 1, 2, and 3. 1 has perique in it, 2 is just straight burley flavor, and 3 has dark fired in it. I really like 2 even though some people find it one dimensional. It's a pure burley flake and way different from HH Burley Flake. I think you'd like them too! I haven't tried 4 or 5 yet but maybe I will this year! Other tops on my list: Palmetto Balkan, Black Mallory/Red Rapparee (these are siblings in my book), Three Nuns, Brown Flake Aromatic, 1792 Flake, 1820 Mixture, and and HU Diplomat are probably some good other choices.
Oooh, I might need to try every blend you just mentioned! I also have a clay pipe (I think you'll see it in a video now that you're a member-thanks, btw). I have 3 tins of the Carolina Red Flake but haven't tried a single one yet. Definitely when the weather warms I'll be popping one open.
Ok sir, I live in a small town outside Turlock. We are not a cow town we are a cattle town😂. Great list! Been a Gold over Blue fan since day one, sorry Tolkien. I blew thru my tin of Pegasus in about a week.
2025 is your year brother. Happy new year
lol. What town? I wonder if we've both smoked at that lounge. Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of it right now, but I do have a special place in my heart for Cigar Monkey in Merced.
Thanks, and happy new year to you as well!
Savinelli 315ks with Country Squire Cowboy Coffee love the dark fired Kentucky in it!
Great list. Love all the burley blends on the list. I'm a big burley lover. The one I missed out on was 8th State Burley. Maybe next year. Pegasus has become one of my favorites this year too. I love C&D's burley forward blends. Thanks for sharing.
I'm glad you enjoyed the list! Burley blends really do have a special charm, and 8th State Burley is definitely worth trying. Keep exploring those fantastic flavors!
Enjoying 4th Generation Evening Flake in a Nording Fantasy Freehand at the moment.
Top 5
1. 4th Generation 1897 Erik Paul’s Blend (fresh raisin bread w/honey)
2. J.A. Dragon Flake Kohlhase and Kopp (burnt brown sugar/ Carmel)
3. Peter Stokkebye Luxury Bulls Eye Flake (savory)
4. Bob’s Chocolate Flake (cocoa and campfire)
5. Briarworks Sweet Tea
Thanks for sharing. The Bullseye Flake was on my list last year.
@ I need to look for that video. I picked up pipe smoking in October. So it is all kind of new. 😂
The best to you in 2025! Great list! I love burleys, but I’ve been making my way into the world of Virginias. Thank you for your content. Thank you for the giveaway that I won this year through you! 1st YTPC contest I ever won.
Cheers brother!
Thanks, and happy new year! I hope you find as much joy in the world of Viginias as I have.
Thanks very much. Love the year end comps.
You're most welcome.
Happy new year to you and wishing you all the best in 2025 ! Good vibes all the way from France ! Cheers !
Smoking Kings Highway with my Kaywoodie estate pipe.
Fave blends from this year:
Haunted Bookshop
Ruins of Windsor
HH Old Dark Fired
Having some MacBaren Symphony that I pressed into a cake and let sit for a month in my Kaywoodie 12B Bulldog.
Love Kaywoodie estates. Always a fun project before a great smoke.
I need to try that middle one.
Great list. Currently smoking LJ Peretti Cuban mixture in my savinelli la corta 616. Have a happy new year.
Thanks! I'll have to look into that blend you mentioned.
Loving the vid so far! Gotta get my hands on some of that Hamborger… heard good stuff and I’m a VA lover so it makes sense. Smoking Hal o the wynd currently in my Savinelli 644 Erica Fiamma. Hope you and yours had wonderful Christmas and have a happy new year!
Thanks! I've got Hal o the wynd on my list of blends to try.
Thank you for a great list Sir! Happy new year 🎉
And to you!
Thank you for the review list! Have a great new year!
You too!
Thanks for your top list of 2024! It was very good. Pegasus is my go to blend. I first tried it when it was thought Carter Hall would meet it's demise several yezrs ago. Not an aromatic fan, I will smoke it when I am going to be sround people. It is 8nteresting what different reviewers taste in the blend. One reviewer claims " cold coffee and prunes". I also enjoy OJK and haunted Bookshop, in that order.
I also really like C&D's Poplar Camp. Sadly, two blends in my rotation are now the property of STG. Hopefully. they will survive the winnowing cuts.
Happy puffing and may the new yezr bring great opportunities your way!
Jeff
Oooh! This is the second time someone has recommended Poplar Camp. I need to make sure and add that to my next order. Thanks for sharing!
@amanrelaxes CanRod/Mike was where I heard about Poplar Camp. I love Peter Stokkebye Luxury Bullseye Flake. However it is like an Esoterica blend in that one has to wait for it to drop. I am not into "drop waiting". So I tried Poplar Camp. It is now near the top of my rotation.
Happy puffing,
Jeff
Loved this one. You have some truly great blends listed here and i was happy to see Pegasus as your no.1 pick. I, too, started with latakia blends about 20 yrs ago and then moved into burley and eventually Vas. Just this year, after all t his time, i've found i love non-latakia oriental blends as well and the collection is growing again. Just what my tobacco acquisition disorder needed - to find an entire new genre of bliss. *eyeroll* However, i have to say, i always avoided Pegasus due to the cavendish and just discovered it this year as well. Since then i've smoked it every day...usually 2 -3 times (i'm a 10+ bowl a day kinda guy). So needless to say, i love it, too. Thanks for the entertaining recap. We seem to have similar tastes. Happy new year! :)
Two burleys I like a lot are Mac Baren Symphony and Cobblestone Brick Burley Plug. Symphony is a wonderful basic burley. Nothing fancy. Brick Burley Plug is delicious.
It is not easy to pick favorites for me, hard to tell. Sure, everyone has preferences which will change over time... so, enjoy pipe smoking in general. For hopefully many years to come!
Happy new year to each and everyone out there! God bless!
For your half point of your vid for me its sun bear black locust best so far happy new year as well
It was really close-almost went with Sun Bear. 🤓
Hi Robert.
Nice video. Thanks for sharing!
I know you have said many times that you're not a fan of aromatics, but you know what? Neither was I in my younger days. I started smoking cigars and pipes in my 20s, but now I'm 60, and I don't know if this is normal or not, but over the years I guess my taste buds have changed, and now, after 40 years of smoking, I had to switch to aromatics because I couldn't really taste anything else. Are there any other old timers out there that have experienced this shift? I'm honestly curious to know.
Of course, you can't go wrong with Cornell & Dielh. Their Autumn Evening is one of my favorites. But that's still an aromatic, I think. Right?
Cheers to you, my friend!
I hope 2025 rewards you with joy and success in all you do.
Mark
Autumn Evening is one of the aromatics that turned me off to aromatics. lol. I'm always willing to try stuff every once in a while. For whatever strange reason, I like Cult Blood Red Moon, but most aromatics just upset me because they don't taste like tobacco. We'll see if it changes.
@amanrelaxes
Being a big JRR Tolkien fan, I began my pipe journey with Capstan Blue (because it was said to be Tolkien's favorite). But after 40 years I guess my taste buds changed.
Good list I agree with 75% of it
Hola, Man. Este año me han sorprendido Red Rappare y Artisans Blends. Añado las tuyas a futuras compras. Gracias por compartir y salud para 2025. Un abrazo.
Hola! Me alegra que te gusten Red Rappare y Artisans Blends. Espero que mis recomendaciones también te sorprendan. ¡Salud para un 2025 lleno de buenos sabores!
Dracula, 107 rusticated. Enjoying pirate cake.
Very nice! I have a Dracula 268, and it's probably my favorite pipe. It fits my metalhead/goth aesthetic, and it's the perfect size/shape! I also have a Rocky Donegal 106, and it's a real champ for English blends (though the bowl is HUGE).
That was on my top 10 last year-beautiful blend.
I approve this list!
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wtf... I'm not too far from Turlock. So to hear you mention it was a surprise.
Great list and I wish the best in 2025 😊
As a massive Burley fan, I am so bummed I missed out on Eight State Burley. Argh I could just punch myself.
Regardless a great video! Love the Top 10s. Puffed on some Irish Flake while I watched tonight in my piping room (which I hear may be on STGs chopping block 😢).
The STG situation is truly unfortunate. I thought since Peterson had been with them a while that those blends would be safe. :(
@@amanrelaxes They may still be, but on the Stuff And Things video his contact did say specifically that the Peterson line is among their poorest sellers. From STG's perspective it would make sense to drop the lineup during this consolidation phase. I just bought 10 tins of Irish Flake just in case. :(
@@TonikQL Damn. I need to stock up on Night Cap and Early Morning Pipe then.
I’m doing the stock up thing as well. I have three pounds of ODF jarred up and in a dark cabinet. Also collecting all the tins of Irish Flakes, Irish Cask, and Elizabethan Mixture that I can afford.
@@markrough5176 yep same. Bought a pound each of HH bold Kentucky and HH pure Virginia
I have fallen in love with blue danube
cornell og diehk autumn evening.....Savinelli New Dry System Rustic 613
Cheers!
I'm making a big swing back to burley again, and I'm hitting my stash of Pegasus. It's so good. I've also been smoking a bit of Five Brothers! I only smoke it in a tiny clay pipe because it's the strongest tobacco I've ever smoked. But it's just pure, unvarnished burley. Some of my top blends this year are C and D blends! The Carolina Red Flake was divine this year. I would also put Pegasus on my list. I'm going to venture back into the C and D burley flakes. They are wonderful. I've tried 1, 2, and 3. 1 has perique in it, 2 is just straight burley flavor, and 3 has dark fired in it. I really like 2 even though some people find it one dimensional. It's a pure burley flake and way different from HH Burley Flake. I think you'd like them too! I haven't tried 4 or 5 yet but maybe I will this year! Other tops on my list: Palmetto Balkan, Black Mallory/Red Rapparee (these are siblings in my book), Three Nuns, Brown Flake Aromatic, 1792 Flake, 1820 Mixture, and and HU Diplomat are probably some good other choices.
Oooh, I might need to try every blend you just mentioned! I also have a clay pipe (I think you'll see it in a video now that you're a member-thanks, btw). I have 3 tins of the Carolina Red Flake but haven't tried a single one yet. Definitely when the weather warms I'll be popping one open.
Five Brothers!
C&D burley all the way... other than that check out Pipe Force episode VI and V
I've tried the V and have some VI in my cellar.
Who knit your hat?