Current 12

I have 33, soon to be 41. Lord help me.

... I've got open the following jars of tobacco:

Captain Bob's Blend
Two Friends-Heritage

... but I sure am enjoying them.

Chris, I enjoy your short reviews like "Interlude". How about some more of your experience as you wade through all that aluminum. I'd be interested to hear what you have to say.

By the way, the mysterious cardboard/paper is to prevent the flakes from breaking up in shipment.

Don't forget to recycle your aluminum when they are all smoked up.

Let's see... 41 tins @ $10 = $410.

Hey! ... I could buy 14 pounds of Captain Bob's Blend for that! I need more mason jars :)

Carter Hall
Early Morning Pipe
Edgeworth Ready Rubbed
Half & Half
Mac Baren Dark Twist
Mac Baren Scottish Mixture
Mac Baren Stockton
My Mixture 965
Orlik Golden Sliced
Peter Stokkebye Luxury Navy Flake
Sweet Dublin Whisky
Three Nuns

There are a few more, but this noggin can't keep up.

McCleland 2015
PS LNF
ERR
Haunted Bookshop
Morley's Best
OJK
3 Friars
Mc Baren NF
OG
10 to Midnight
St James Flake
FVF
BBF
Professional Mixture
No7 Reserve
Billy Budd
965
EMP
Plantation Evening
OGS
Star of the East
Penzance
Riverboat Gambler
Exhausted Rooster
Red Carpet
Walnut

Packed the 2010 away - it needs time.

reverse 'loaves into fishes' thing, huh, Michael? 26 becomes 12, sort of. Reminds me of the bumper stickers that I see in my neighborhood all the time re Ireland; "26 + 6 = 1". Great selections of tobacco, though. In fact, I could easily fall into any of the foregoing selections rather easily and not miss a beat. I feel somewhat schizophrenic these days with a small pile of OTCs, another small group of C&Ds, and my newly-found obsession with G-H blends (Dark flake, Coniston, Bosun's, and the pigtails). I like flavor and strength in what I smoke. Otherwise, why smoke?

For our European friends, have any of you recently seen "Schipper's Tobak", either the green or brown packs? There is an old friend (like 75+ YO) who mentioned them to me and I would like to accomodate him.

I know Schippers Tabak is available in Holland and Italy. You might also be able to find it in some German stores.

Note: I have only come across the white packs.

D&R Windsail (RYO Virginia)
D&R SJ Rimboche (RYO Va/ St. James Perique)
D&R GR Rimboche (RYO Va/ Green River Perique)
D&R Ramback (RYO Turkish)
Esoterica Stonehaven

FVF
McClelland Blending Oriental
Orlik Golden Sliced
MB Golden Extra
Bennington's Pirate's Gold (I believe this is renamed PS BullsEyes)

PCCA Arcade
McC 5100
PS Luxury Navy Flakes
PS Luxury Twist Flakes
C&D Blending Turkish

C&D Redwood
C&D Espresso (oh, this is the old one)
C&D Blending Latakia
C&D Red Virginia
C&D Virginia Flake

MB Vintage Syrian
GLP Westminster
C&D Cube Cut Burley
C&D Bright Flake
C&D White Burley

Kohlhase & Kopp's Blending Latakia
Kohlhase & Kopp's Blending Kentucky
Russ Oullettes' Marble Kake
Russ Oullettes' Rolando's own
C&D Virginia Ribbon

Plus eight tins with various tobacco experiments.

Of course, I wouldn't call it rotation but what surprises me is that none but Espresso stays neglected too long.

Old Joe Krantz
Haunted Bookshop
Riverboat Gambler
Epiphany
Big&Burley
Sir Walter Raleigh
Edgeworth RR
Morleysson Prototype "A"
Morleysson Prototype "B"
Blenders Choice Burley
Blenders Choice Black&Burley
My own "Old New England"
Poplar Camp
Exclusive
Pegasus
#517F Flake
Scots Heather
Exhausted Rooster
MacBaren VA#1
Odds and ends, "mixed bag" jar with latakia.
Odds and ends, Virginias jar.

I'd better get smoking!

The ones open now
Lanes TK6
Butternut Burley
Carter Hall
Velvet
PA
Lanes 1Q
SWR aro
PS Nougat
PS LTF
PS LNF
Wessex Classic Virginia
Petersons Irish whiskey
Orlik Golden Slices

But.. I can write what I have smoked in August:

open and finish OGS 100 gr. (good and easy experience)
open and finish Presbiterian Mixture 50 gr. (not good experience)
open and finish GLP Westminster 2 oz. (mmm... I prefer anothers GLP)
open and finish Schurch Torina 100 gr. (good experience)
open and finish McClelland Oriental n°12 (best experience this mouth)

some St. Bruno ready rubbed, sometimes
some FVF, sometimes
some Black XX, sometimes
some G.H. Brown Flake, sometimes

today I'm starting with a new tin of McClelland Rose of Latakia, after I don't know.

Currently open:

Ashton Celebrated Sovereign.

That's it.

I'm not sure about brown or green, but if that white is also good, contact me, and let me know how much you'd like and I'll see what I can do for you.

I used to have more than I could count open at once but I have been trying to keep open tins to a minimum lately.

C&D Pirate Kake
Butera Kingfisher
Compton's Macedonian Mixture
SG Full Virginia Flake and Best Brown Flake

A small envelope of G&H Black Pigtail

Jars, tubs, and baggies...way more than I can manage but I am confident I can muddle through.

In no particular order:

McClelland Dominican Glory
McClelland 2010
McClelland 5100
McClelland 22
McClelland Dark Star
Rattrays Old Gowrie
Fribourg & Treyer Cut VA Plug
MacBaren Mixture Modern
Samuel Gawith Full VA Flake
Solani Aged Burley Flake
Edgeworth Sliced
Dan Tobacco Treasures of Ireland: Limerick
Peter Stokkebye Luxury Navy Flake (some new, some 4 year old)
Peter Stokkebye Bulls Eye
CAO Old Ironsides
MacBaren Navy Flake
Dunhill London Mixture

I think thats it ... well its my best shot anyway.

Who said we need a limit of 12?

I did. And my precision tobacco strike force will be by soon to get you down to that number. An open tin of Mixture 79 through your window and while you are incapacitated by the stench, they will confiscate enough tins to get you down to 12, which is the universal tobacco number.

Resistance is futile.

BREAKER 19, If they show up here, they better have a convoy. 12 opens, not since the Great Depression.

The precision tobacco strike force will be easy to recognize ... they all wear hats covering their eyes. We'll see 'em coming from a long distance and the hats they wear will stop them from seeing us as we prepare to throw tins of Ennerdale Flake back at them!

Besides we're in no real danger from the Mixture 79 ever hitting the glass panes of the window - these guys all drink copious amounts of various alcoholic beverages ... they couldn't hit the side of a barn after a few drinks! (and they pee all over the toilet too!)

That has got be at least a 9 outta 10.

Hey, now . . . wait . . . you can't . . . ummmmm . . . but . . . . dammit. You're right.

An open tin of Mixture 79 through your window and while you are incapacitated by the stench, they will confiscate enough tins to get you down to 12, which is the universal tobacco number.

Resistance is futile.[/quote]

Wow, what a flash bang. Mixture 79? I'd rather you just threw a burning bag of crap through my living room window. Eventually I could purge that smell, but Mixture 79 would become a permanent part of the house forever it would remain soaked into the walls, that smell of old lady perfume. Anyway, here's my 12

OJK
Edgeworth RR
Walnut
Five Edges
Haunted Bookshop
Competiton Blend
Big n Burley
Kentucky Club Blue
Prince Albert
Old Gowrie
SG Chocolate Flake
Green River Vanilla

"Lord, show them the way, give them the strength to follow the right path. Grant them the strength to avoid temptation to dwell in evil places, consumed by variety for variety sake, consumed with desire for self-gratification. Show them that one is enough, two is plenty and three is too much. Bless the tins of their sins and show them the light onto the path of your holy Virginia, Burley, Cavendish, Perique, Latakia, Turkish and other condimental leaf. I pray this in Your name, Amen.

Schippers Pijptabak

http://www.pipesandt...

http://www.pipesandt...

Description:

A very good pipe tobacco, light aromatic and cool. To selected Virginias from USA and Africa are added aromatic Orients. We recommand to smoke it in a middle-big sized pipe.

Price: CHF 6.30

Weight: 50g // 1 3/4 oz.

www.synjeco.ch

look under the orlik brand name

And on that note, I think I'll just open yet another tin :) This time it's some W. O. Larsen Flake Cut. After a couple of bowls this stuff reminds me of OGS sans citrus.

Bad nun II
Virginia-Perique Slices
Broken Virginia-Perique Flake
Warrior plug
revor plug
Billy Budd
BnB
FVF
black pigtail
brown pigtail
brown No 4
Dark Birds eye

exactly 12, the Q-continuum can be proud

(yes, this thread had some star trek feel to it)

Walnut
50/50 mix of Prince Albert/Carter Hall
Prince Albert Choice Blend

Been more of a prude recently and haven't been slutting it up. It will probably pass when Autumn comes.

Five Brothers
Orlik GS
50/50 mix PA and Carter Hall, does this count as 2?