Worst blend

dstrib

What do you consider the worst blend you have ever tried. I know this can change over time and is purely subjective to the individual. I will say so far out of all the tobacco I have picked up over the years my worst blend would have to be Middletons Cherry Blend.

pipesith

That would be Half and Half so far. I know there are many who love it but I have never been able to get through a whole bowl. I knew someone who liked it and gifted what I had it to him. I heard there was a bad batch out for a while. Don't know if that's true but can't get myself to buy anymore to find out.

PappyJoe

Bad blends are definitely subjective. I ran into a pipe smoker last year who hates everything made by Cornell & Diehl for some reason. 

Personally, I don't "get" McClelland's Christmas Cheer and I've tried the last 4 years. I also didn't care for Bijou when I tried it. 

That being said, there was a blend in the mid-70s that almost put me off pipe smoking forever and I think it was Middleton's Cherry or a Mixture 79 blend. Whatever it was, it was the blend that left a lingering soap/old lady perfume taste and ghosted the crap out of a pipe. 

SuppressedRage

Peterson's Connoisseurs Choice.

drac2485

Anything cherry

judandhispipe

Dream Castle Vintage Black and Gold. I not only emptied the pipe after half a bowl and pitched the 'baccy,I had to pitch the cob,too.

thesubcon

@drac2485 YEEEESSS!!

thebadgerpiper

C&D's Captain Bob's Blend. I hate it. It's a grape aromatic, and the aroma is so cloying and repulsive. I don't understand grape aromatics.

Abreathawayfromglory

@thesubcon you know you have a secret stash of Cherry in your garage for when no one is around! lol next time I come over I will bring you some Cherry Cavindish 

PappyJoe

Don't know what it was, but one of the guys at the pipe club meeting last night had a bag of bulk tobacco from a tobacconist up in the northeast. I will not name the company because I can't remember what the name of the blend was. One member packed a bowl and lit it. It smelled great. For about 5 minutes. The more he smoked it the more the aroma began to resemble burning horse manure covered with creosote and set on fire. The guy smoking it didn't make it to half a bowl.

Kirbyb

Blockade Runner....foul stuff IMO

PappyBadger

To date, and I'm sure I'll get some flack for this, it would have to be Christmas Cheer 2016. TERRIBLE!! Literally smells and tastes like ketchup.

thesubcon

@abreathawayfromglory OH GROSS! NO THANK YOU!

dstrib

@PappyBadger. The ketchup you are tasting is probably the red Virginia. Lot of reviews on McClelland 5100 Red Cake which is a straight red Virginia blend mention ketchup/catsup taste and smell

thebadgerpiper

@pappybadger I have a Sherlock Honeydew Flake blend from McClelland that has that ketchup aroma to the tobacco. It goes away once lit. McClelland is known for that smell with some of their blends, so I know to expect it.

PappyBadger

I'll try it again once its aged a little more. I am intrigued but just not used to it.

Woodsman

Frogmorton has it too, but I don't mind it when I smoke it.

Woodsman

My vote for the worst ever would be Pipes and Cigars "Best of the Rest", basically an inexpensive  mixture of all blends left over from the bulks they ship. (ie. Sweepings?) Buying it is a crap shoot, it could be good or bad. In my case I use it to poison Mosquito breeding sites.

judandhispipe

@pappybadger, what you are smelling when you open that tin of Christmas Cheer is simply fermenting tobacco. I have never noticed that reflected in the taste of McClelland blends. (My two tins of CC 2016 are in the cellar for long term storage - I don't expect to tap one for 5 years,yet.) 

idbowman

About 10 years ago I stumbled on an old tub of tobacco that I thought I'd give a shot.

Schermerhorn's Mixture...awful stuff.

MrRetentive

My grandfather smoked Schermerhorn's Flake Mixture exclusively. He always kept an apple slice in the tin to keep it moist. Perhaps it helped the taste.

That said, a friend gave me a half pound he had cellared for many years. After re-moistening it with some distilled water, I gave it a try... Just about burned my tongue off!! Tasted like burned cardboard. (Not that I've ever tried a pipeful of that.) No redeeming value whatsoever, save for a physical connection with my long departed grandfather. Sigh....

hloakes

I heard a lot of good things about it, but I found Royal Yacht to be nasty.

LostMason

A couple of weeks ago I would have agreed about the cherry blends,but,
I opened a tin of Cult Blood Red Moon and fell in love with it.It is a cherry
cavandish blend.To date the worst for me would be M-79, it has the
floral after taste and does bad things in a pipe,glad I smoked it in a cob.

dstrib

Been meaning to pickup a tin of Blood Red Moon. Flambeau is a good cherry blend from the country squire, IMO. Everyone has their own tastes.

PappyJoe

I've really wanted to like one of the cherry blends but I just can't for some reason.

Mangoandy

McClelland Caramel Rush. I think this is 100% based on my expectations being way too high. Didn't make it through 1/2 a bowl. Gave it away.

ghostsofpompeii

I'd have to say Sutliff Mixture 79. I've been trying to give it a chance and even had one smoke where I didn't quite hate it but was able to tolerate it. Unfortunately it ghosted my pipe and the next three bowls were ruined. So based on the ghosting factor alone I'll say that its the worse tobacco in my cellar. I'm only keeping it around in the event of a zombie apocalypse and I find myself with nothing left to smoke.

RandyB1966

ghostsofpompeii try using a nice cob to smoke those other then great tobaccos, the cobs wont ghost on you.

rumrum4me

I find I'm most put off by certain aromatics, not all of them, mind you. The worst for me was Capt. Bobs Blend, tastes just like Nehi Grape soda, which even as a kid I hated. Grape juice, wine, both ok, but that artificial grape flavor, no bueno!

motie2

I'm weird, unable to choose between Mixture 79 (licorice) and Royal Yacht (ammonia).

RockyMountainBriar

My worst so far is Lane “Crown Achievement”.....Latakia is gross😖