English blends

English blends

Ok Pipers,
if you could put together an English Blend, how much of each kind of
tobacco would you add to make a perfect English Blend?
jerrygarrison

Re: English blends

3% Latakia
12% Orientals
15% VA Cavendish
20% Stoved VAs
50% Lemon/Orange VAs

Guess that put me more in Scotland than England...

Andrew




jerrygarrison <garrisonlj@gmail . com > wrote in message
news:a123fda2-dd20-4a67-b14b-166ff2fe8dff@b1g2000hsg.googlegroups . com ...
> Ok Pipers,
> if you could put together an English Blend, how much of each kind of
> tobacco would you add to make a perfect English Blend?
> jerrygarrison

Re: English blends

On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 14:13:28 -0700 (PDT), jerrygarrison
<garrisonlj@gmail . com > wrote:

>Ok Pipers,
>if you could put together an English Blend, how much of each kind of
>tobacco would you add to make a perfect English Blend?
>jerrygarrison


Well, I put 8 ounces unflavored burley ribbon, 4 ounces of stoved
virginia flake rubbed out and 4 ounces of latakia.

Re: English blends

On Jul 8, 8:34 pm, Bill <wsblev...@hotmail . com > wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 14:13:28 -0700 (PDT), jerrygarrison
>
> <garriso...@gmail . com > wrote:
> >Ok Pipers,
> >if you could put together an English Blend, how much of each kind of
> >tobacco would you add to make a perfect English Blend?
> >jerrygarrison
>
> Well, I put 8 ounces unflavored burley ribbon, 4 ounces of stoved
> virginia flake rubbed out and 4 ounces of latakia.

I would have to get the exact recipe for Renaissance from Greg Pease,
duplicate as closely as possible, tin and age five years. In the
meantime, Maltese Falcon works pretty well for me.

Bear

Re: English blends

In article
<b31d4108-c525-4687-87dc-7d45d73032fd@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups . com >,
Da' Bear <beargraves@gmail . com > wrote:

> On Jul 8, 8:34 pm, Bill <wsblev...@hotmail . com > wrote:
> > On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 14:13:28 -0700 (PDT), jerrygarrison
> >
> > <garriso...@gmail . com > wrote:
> > >Ok Pipers,
> > >if you could put together an English Blend, how much of each kind of
> > >tobacco would you add to make a perfect English Blend?
> > >jerrygarrison
> >
> > Well, I put 8 ounces unflavored burley ribbon, 4 ounces of stoved
> > virginia flake rubbed out and 4 ounces of latakia.
>
> I would have to get the exact recipe for Renaissance from Greg Pease,
> duplicate as closely as possible, tin and age five years. In the
> meantime, Maltese Falcon works pretty well for me.
>
> Bear

I remain a big fan of Maltese Falcon, but I got two tins of Westminster
last month and I believe that it's a close to the perfect English blend
that I've had since I took up the pipe again.

--
Clinton
aka Zippy

Re: English blends

On Jul 8, 5:13 pm, jerrygarrison <garriso...@gmail . com > wrote:
> Ok Pipers,
> if you could put together an English Blend, how much of each kind of
> tobacco would you add to make a perfect English Blend?
> jerrygarrison

That's why blending was invented, Jerry. We all have a little
different taste. You can find every extreme available at Cornell &
Diehl.

Buck

Re: English blends

On Jul 8, 5:13 pm, jerrygarrison <garriso...@gmail . com > wrote:
> Ok Pipers,
> if you could put together an English Blend, how much of each kind of
> tobacco would you add to make a perfect English Blend?
> jerrygarrison

I'm with Bear on the Renaissance. However, I'd make mine this way:

25% red Virginias
15% brown Virginias
5% golden Virginias
10% dark fired Kentucky burley
25% Cyprian latakia
10% Syrian latakia
10% Yenidje

No stoved Virginias at all, but I might sprinkle a pinch of perique on
top.

Re: English blends

One of my favorite tobaccos is Gawith's Commonwealth Mixture. My
tobacconist has managed to come up with a reasonable facsimille of
that blend, and it's about 1/3 the price. Now we're working on
duplicates for Bombay Court and Squadron Leader.

For the Commonwealth Mixture it's 1 part stoved Virginia and 1 + 1/4
part of Latakia. It's close enough for Government Work...


On Jul 8, 5:13 pm, jerrygarrison <garriso...@gmail . com > wrote:
> Ok Pipers,
> if you could put together an English Blend, how much of each kind of
> tobacco would you add to make a perfect English Blend?
> jerrygarrison