Your Favorite Book Reading Blend?

Jocose · Post by **Jocose** » 09 Oct 2022, 23:01

Please share your go to blend for book reading. I'd like to find something delicious that won't distract too much.

I currently enjoy mostly brown rope and Lakelands but they require some extra care.

sweetandsour · Post by **sweetandsour** » 09 Oct 2022, 23:20

GH Black Irish X, or SG Black XX.

Jocose · Post by **Jocose** » 10 Oct 2022, 00:15

sweetandsour wrote: 09 Oct 2022, 23:20 GH Black Irish X, or SG Black XX.

Do you have these stored up? I haven't looked in a while but the black ropes were difficult to find for a good long time.

I snagged a few #'s of Gawith sliced black a couple years ago, good stuff!

sweetandsour · Post by **sweetandsour** » 10 Oct 2022, 03:40

Jocose wrote: 10 Oct 2022, 00:15
sweetandsour wrote: 09 Oct 2022, 23:20 GH Black Irish X, or SG Black XX.
Do you have these stored up? I haven't looked in a while but the black ropes were difficult to find for a good long time.

I snagged a few #'s of Gawith sliced black a couple years ago, good stuff!

I got an oz or so of sliced black in a box pass several years ago, and you're right, it was a great smoke. Same with the other black ropes. My current stash was obtained earlier this year on line from an obscure shop in Pittsburgh, where works a benefactor.

Hugo Drax · Post by **Hugo Drax** » 10 Oct 2022, 07:16

sweetandsour wrote: 10 Oct 2022, 03:40
Jocose wrote: 10 Oct 2022, 00:15
sweetandsour wrote: 09 Oct 2022, 23:20 GH Black Irish X, or SG Black XX.
Do you have these stored up? I haven't looked in a while but the black ropes were difficult to find for a good long time.

I snagged a few #'s of Gawith sliced black a couple years ago, good stuff!
I got an oz or so of sliced black in a box pass several years ago, and you're right, it was a great smoke. Same with the other black ropes. My current stash was obtained earlier this year on line from an obscure shop in Pittsburgh, where works a benefactor.

I prefer the brown ropes by a country mile and will have to retry the black ropes.

Gawith Hoggarth Brown Irish X is probably my favorite reading blend. Smooth, lightly sweet, and so cool burning you don't necessarily have the sensation of smoking. That said it makes a horrible working tobacco because you can puff and puff without heat and the next thing you know you're overloaded on Vitamin N.

SlowToke · Post by **SlowToke** » 10 Oct 2022, 08:05

Lately, it's been either Reiner's Professional or McClelland's Virginia #24. Which one usually depends on whether I'm home alone or not. If it's just me, it's a Va. If there are others, it's Reiner's Professional. They both have nice room notes but Reiner's is a bit better.

Bloodhound · Post by **Bloodhound** » 10 Oct 2022, 14:02

I give credit to FredS for my favorite reading blend. Its Fusilier's Ration, he sent me a tin with a FredS pipe one year when he was my secret santa. The pipe is a perfect clencher and a great smoker and it makes me look fancy and Fusilier's Ration is a flavorful smoke that takes care of itself with out a lot of tending.

Hugo Drax · Post by **Hugo Drax** » 10 Oct 2022, 18:12

I don't think anything I've blended can read.

JimVH · Post by **JimVH** » 10 Oct 2022, 18:37

My favorite blend to read with is Walker Black.

MrPiper · Post by **MrPiper** » 10 Oct 2022, 18:53

Mine was always either PS Lux Bulseye or if I was in the house Dan Milonga.

I thought Haunted Bookshop would be a great pick for this but it was a woefully boring dud. I mixed it half with some exhausted rooster hoping g to mellow it a bit and the blend was even worse than the two individually