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Post by Gypo on Dec 8, 2021 9:21:07 GMT -5
What is your favorite Scottish blend?
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Post by Ronv69 on Dec 8, 2021 10:41:40 GMT -5
What is your favorite Scottish blend? I haven't ever had one. I have been wanting to get some Presbyterian blend, but I went through my cellar yesterday and got depressed because of all the tobacco I probably won't get to. |
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Post by Legend Lover on Dec 8, 2021 10:48:46 GMT -5
What is your favorite Scottish blend? I haven't ever had one. I have been wanting to get some Presbyterian blend, but I went through my cellar yesterday and got depressed because of all the tobacco I probably won't get to. I never realised Presbyterian mixture was a Scottish blend. In that case, Presbyterian mixture is my favourite one. |
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Post by Silver on Dec 8, 2021 11:29:54 GMT -5
Hmm. There seems to be some variation in the definition of "Scottish" tobacco. At the risk of being off the mark, I'll go with Highland Targe.
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Post by Silver on Dec 8, 2021 11:44:27 GMT -5
Drucquer & Sons Blairgowrie is a good one, too.
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Post by Gypo on Dec 8, 2021 11:45:41 GMT -5
Drucquer & Sons Blairgowrie is a good one, too. I have one tin of that one. |
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Post by Plainsman on Dec 8, 2021 11:58:15 GMT -5
Oh, gee. I thought this was about whisky. Duh!
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Post by william on Dec 8, 2021 12:58:17 GMT -5
Drucquer & Sons Blairgowrie is a good one, too. I will second this. Drucquer & Sons Blairgowrie is one of my favorites..... |
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Post by terrapinflyer on Dec 8, 2021 14:04:10 GMT -5
Hmm. There seems to be some variation in the definition of "Scottish" tobacco. At the risk of being off the mark, I'll go with Highland Targe. It's hard to argue that Rattray isn't Scottish, right? But, yes, people define it differently. I'm under the impression that it's Virginia, Latakia, Oriental, and Cavendish, but others will disagree. English, Scottish, Balkan, Lakeland...there are as many definitions as pipers. |
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Post by bonanzadriver on Dec 8, 2021 15:01:56 GMT -5
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Post by Gypo on Dec 8, 2021 15:08:56 GMT -5
well that one is no longer in production. |
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Post by username on Dec 8, 2021 16:34:32 GMT -5
Sadly long gone but mcelland oriental mixture 14.
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Post by zambini on Dec 8, 2021 20:50:28 GMT -5
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Post by Professor S. on Dec 8, 2021 21:00:25 GMT -5
The whole Balkan/English/Scottish thing seems pretty nebulous to me. Here's what I found from scrolling around some other forums:
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Post by trailboss on Dec 8, 2021 21:14:16 GMT -5
Not sure if it is true to being “Scottish” but MacBaren’s Scottish Mixture with age is a wonderful smoke.
Glad I have pounds cellared.
Can be bitey when fresh, like a pup…mellows with age.
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Post by bonanzadriver on Dec 8, 2021 21:27:40 GMT -5
I personally find the Scottish blends to have a significantly different tin note than most of the Englishes I smoke.
The English blends have a very leathery tin note, the Scottish blends have a pungent / lightly fruity note.
Both smoke differently to me as well.
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Post by terrapinflyer on Dec 8, 2021 22:26:23 GMT -5
The whole Balkan/English/Scottish thing seems pretty nebulous to me. Here's what I found from scrolling around some other forums: As a long-time omphaloskeptic, I can agree with all of the above. |
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Post by urbino on Dec 8, 2021 22:42:54 GMT -5
McConnell Scottish Flake, which Dino and I were discussing just recently in the chat.
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Post by urbino on Dec 8, 2021 22:43:25 GMT -5
Also, add my votes for Blairgowrie and most anything from Rattray's.
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Post by Gypo on Dec 9, 2021 6:47:31 GMT -5
urbino I popped a tin of that lastnight to try. Not too bad but needs more age I am thinking.
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Post by sperrytops on Dec 9, 2021 18:48:35 GMT -5
I don't believe Presbyterian is a Scottish blend. It's a light English. Scottish blends have Cavendish and little or no Latakia in them.
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Post by urbino on Dec 9, 2021 20:58:15 GMT -5
urbino I popped a tin of that lastnight to try. Not too bad but needs more age I am thinking. Could be. Or it might just not suit your taster. I dipped into mine not long after I got it, and found it enjoyable right away. |
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Post by urbino on Dec 9, 2021 22:10:04 GMT -5
Just reviewed the contents of Scottish Flake. It's, like, not a Scottish blend whatsoever. What gives, McConnell?
So, I'll stick with my Blairgowrie and Rattray's votes (Red Rapparee, in particular).
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Post by stjepipes on Dec 10, 2021 1:31:51 GMT -5
Not sure if it is true to being “Scottish” but MacBaren’s Scottish Mixture with age is a wonderful smoke. Glad I have pounds cellared. Can be bitey when fresh, like a pup…mellows with age. It's interesting you mention MacBaren Scottish Mixture  Actually it's a Danish blend and it was my first tobacco in my first pipe, for more than 35 years ago. In that time in Denmark (I don't know today I have not lived in DK for many years), it was a tobacco "real pipe smokers" looked down at. When I smoked it as a young man and young pipe smoker, these guy's always comment it and asked, why I not smoked "real" tobacco, instead of that! I just liked it and I still do. During my years of smoking pipe, I have been around a lot of tobacco's. And I enjoy a lot of different types of tobacco. I smoke Latakia blends, Virginia, Burly and I like the Perique blends too and much more. Only real Aromatic's I don't smoke. But MacBaren Scottish Mixture, there is a light aromatic mixture, I still love and I smoke it, when I write this note here It's a blend you need to smoke slowly, if not it punish you with tongue bite. But smoked slowly and cool, it's just so nice, soft and sweet, but not too sweet. This is defiantly one of my favourite tobacco's and get smoked on more or less daily basic. |
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Post by rastewart on Dec 10, 2021 14:10:47 GMT -5
Not sure if it is true to being “Scottish” but MacBaren’s Scottish Mixture with age is a wonderful smoke. Glad I have pounds cellared. Can be bitey when fresh, like a pup…mellows with age. It's interesting you mention MacBaren Scottish Mixture Actually it's a Danish blend and it was my first tobacco in my first pipe, for more than 35 years ago. In that time in Denmark (I don't know today I have not lived in DK for many years), it was a tobacco "real pipe smokers" looked down at. When I smoked it as a young man and young pipe smoker, these guy's always comment it and asked, why I not smoked "real" tobacco, instead of that! I just liked it and I still do. During my years of smoking pipe, I have been around a lot of tobacco's. And I enjoy a lot of different types of tobacco. I smoke Latakia blends, Virginia, Burly and I like the Perique blends too and much more. Only real Aromatic's I don't smoke. But MacBaren Scottish Mixture, there is a light aromatic mixture, I still love and I smoke it, when I write this note here It's a blend you need to smoke slowly, if not it punish you with tongue bite. But smoked slowly and cool, it's just so nice, soft and sweet, but not too sweet. This is defiantly one of my favourite tobacco's and get smoked on more or less daily basic. |
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Post by urbino on Dec 10, 2021 16:15:56 GMT -5
It's interesting you mention MacBaren Scottish Mixture Actually it's a Danish blend and it was my first tobacco in my first pipe, for more than 35 years ago. In that time in Denmark (I don't know today I have not lived in DK for many years), it was a tobacco "real pipe smokers" looked down at. When I smoked it as a young man and young pipe smoker, these guy's always comment it and asked, why I not smoked "real" tobacco, instead of that! I just liked it and I still do. During my years of smoking pipe, I have been around a lot of tobacco's. And I enjoy a lot of different types of tobacco. I smoke Latakia blends, Virginia, Burly and I like the Perique blends too and much more. Only real Aromatic's I don't smoke. But MacBaren Scottish Mixture, there is a light aromatic mixture, I still love and I smoke it, when I write this note here It's a blend you need to smoke slowly, if not it punish you with tongue bite. But smoked slowly and cool, it's just so nice, soft and sweet, but not too sweet. This is defiantly one of my favourite tobacco's and get smoked on more or less daily basic. This is a great story. A visit from the serendipity fairy. |
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Post by sperrytops on Dec 12, 2021 13:38:13 GMT -5
Seconding everything both of you have said. I've told this story before, but possibly not here: When I was in the master's program at the Graduate Library School (which, alas, no longer exists) of the University of Chicago, once you had completed your course requirements you had to take comprehensive exams and write a thesis. So on the day of my comps, having an hour or two before they began, I was wandering around in the university bookstore and saw two things: Roderick Mackinnon's Teach Yourself Gaelic, in the old blue-and-yellow Hodder & Stoughton/English Universities Press series, and a pouch of Mac Baren's Scottish Mixture. I bought them both, went out to find a quiet place on the quad, and smoked a pipeful of Scottish Mixture while starting my study of Scottish Gaelic. That was in the summer of 1976, when I was also a young man and a pipe smoker of only five years' vintage. Now I'm an old man and an old pipe smoker, and the Mixture is still my favorite blend. This is a great story. A visit from the serendipity fairy. Yes, I enjoy these tales from the past as well. Gives us a better picture of our fellow pipers and a glimpse into a never to return past. |
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Post by kxg on Dec 14, 2021 0:11:06 GMT -5
Watch City Fat Bastard is a blend worth a try.
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Actually it's a Danish blend and it was my first tobacco in my first pipe, for more than 35 years ago. In that time in Denmark (I don't know today I have not lived in DK for many years), it was a tobacco "real pipe smokers" looked down at. When I smoked it as a young man and young pipe smoker, these guy's always comment it and asked, why I not smoked "real" tobacco, instead of that! I just liked it and I still do. During my years of smoking pipe, I have been around a lot of tobacco's. And I enjoy a lot of different types of tobacco. I smoke Latakia blends, Virginia, Burly and I like the Perique blends too and much more. Only real Aromatic's I don't smoke.
