How Do I Choose What Goes in It?

 Now that I choose a pipe for a day, with literally thousands of tobacco blends available, how do I choose my tobacco?  First of all, one can choose either English or Aromatic pipe tobacco blends with the term English not really being correct.  But as Aromatics depend on artificial flavoring and how they are flavored, English tobaccos depend on various tobaccos for blending.  Each tobacco gives flavoring depending on the tobaccos. 

In English tobaccos there is the tobacco consisting of Virginias and Burleys, but the various flavorings come from Orientals, Latakia, and Perique's.   It’s the difference between flavored coffees as opposed to origins of unflavored coffee and how the beans are roasted.  

When it comes to Aromatics it all depends on what flavors one likes the best.  Lane 1-q is the most popular aromatic followed by Autumn Evening if one likes Maple pancakes.  But unlike reviews of Aromatics I take reviews of English blends more seriously.  Only recently has Old Professor English tobacco been harder to find.  I can’t say it’s my fault, but I put it as a favorite in my Smoking Pipes profile and since I did that it’s been harder to find.  

I just think it’s being discovered as a good English tobacco.  I don’t smoke much of it, not because it’s harder to find, but because of all the English I’ve smoked my wife likes the aroma the least.  So, I’ve gravitated to a tobacco called Smooth English.  I’d like to order more Old Professor, but Smoking Pipes is currently out of stock on that one.  So, I placed a smaller order yesterday for an Aromatic I’ve never tried, but saw it in a list and is a top 25 best seller along with a small order of Haunted Bookshop.  I know the latter has a high nicotine content but thought I’d try it again.  

To many pipe smokers a flavored tobacco is just that depending on the flavoring one likes.  English blends are totally dependent on the tobaccos for flavoring.  I’ll take a good English over an aromatic any day.  I just don’t smoke them much so I have to be selective of my English blends.  My favorite tobacco is Old Professor.  That for me is my number one English.  Lane 1-q as an Aromatic is similar to Captain black Original, but I prefer 1-q over Captain Black.  So that’s how I choose what goes into my pipe.  My pipe this morning is my Peterson Sherlock Holmes pipe; and my tobacco is. Berries and Cream. My coffee this morning is homestead by Stumptown.  In case you wish to know Stumptown coffees are roasted and blended in Portland, Oregon.  They cost a bit more but are worth it, in my thinking.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave