It’s Not Often

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There are blends of tobaccos that have been around for over a hundred years.  Captain Black was founded in 1956 and remains a top seller.  It comes in Captain Black Original and Cherry.  There are a couple of others with the Captain Black logo like Royal and Gold.  They are all Aromatics with just different flavoring.  It comes in both tins and pouches.  The Original formula is my favorite in the Captain Black series.  

Prince Albert has been around since the late 1800’s and remains another of my old time favorites.  I don’t smoke much of Prince Albert but it comes in both original formula and Aromatic.  It is a cube cut Burley based tobacco.  It remains as one of my old time favorites.  

There are some old blends like Velvet, Amphora, Borkam Riff, Mixture 79, and others that have all been around for a very long time.  Mixture 79 might be my least favorite, but was Hugh Hefner’s tobacco of choice.  I find it too over bearing as an Aromatic.  It has a strong fruity kind of flowery fragrance.  It might be the most distinctive of the old time blends.  Carter Hall is okay, but again there just isn’t enough to it.  

I bought a 14 ounce tin of it about a year ago and find Carter Hall rather bland.  But the old time tobaccos never go away.  Most younger pipe smokers smoke these blends more out of curiosity and are often pleasantly surprised.  These old blends have been around for so long because some pipe smokers smoke these just for something different.  

I started out smoking Anphora and Borkam Riff, but these days I pretty much smoke just good English blends.  Quiet Nights could be a blend I’d smoke all the time except for price.  Bayou Night is my new favorite English which I can afford.  Today is Wednesday and I’m smoking some Quiet Nights in my Peterson Sherlock Holmes pipe.  My coffee this morning is Blue Bottle.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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