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What's a good light/smooth tasting tobacco (non-specialist)

  • 03-09-2012 3:31pm
    #1
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,303 ✭✭✭✭


    Hello all,
    With Drum being heavy, and Cutter Choice being light, can anyone recommend other "light/smooth" tasting rolling tobacco?

    Have been smoking the yellow packet of Golden Virgina, and recently moved onto Cutters Choice, but wondering what other tobaccos are light and/or smooth to taste? In comparison, I'd consider Drum to be quite heavy.

    I'm unsure if this is just personal taste, or if others find the same, or what. Don't know many people who smoke rolling tobacco.

    To be clear; I have no interest in cigarettes (cause dryness of my throat the next day) in this quest to find a light tasting rolling tobacco.

    And by "non-specialist" I mean one that can be found in your average Spar, and not one that you must order from a monk in the Alps via ebay.


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  • #2
    Get Real
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 909 ✭✭✭Get Real


    I think your opinion on the strengths of tobacco is about on par with mine. Drum is terribly harsh i think. Three types that you havent mentioned spring to mind: Amber Leaf, Old Holborn and Camel rolling tobacco. As youre probably aware, the amber leaf comes in the 12.5g box with filters and skins, also in 25g, 50g is harder to obtain. A moist, smooth smoke that burns well. lovely htuff :). The second one is my all time favourite, Old Holborn, dark blue pouch with an orange elephant on it. It is a dark tobacco, but not strong at all, it is a mix of virginia, burley and oriental tobaccos, the smell when you open the pouch is amazing, purely unique. Finally, and i didnt know this existed in ireland, is Camel rolling tobacco. It was new when i bought it once last year, but havent since so maybe it never took off i dunno. nothing like cigarette tobacco, its moist smooth rolling tobacco with a turkish blend.

    Hope you enjoy at least one of em, if not all:D


  • #3
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,303 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    One thing I've noticed is that if I get tobacco in a pouch, it's soft and not moist, but not dry. If I get it in a box, is usually dry. Do you notice this?
    Get Real wrote: »
    Amber Leaf
    Aye, but just haven't smoked it in a while. Went off it a while back, I think, before i moved to Yellow Packet Golden Virginia.
    Get Real wrote: »
    The second one is my all time favourite, Old Holborn, dark blue pouch with an orange elephant on it. It is a dark tobacco, but not strong at all, it is a mix of virginia, burley and oriental tobaccos, the smell when you open the pouch is amazing, purely unique.
    Whoa, blast from the past. Used to smoke it (remember the packagin, not the name), but have forgotten about it. May try it again.
    Get Real wrote: »
    Finally, and i didnt know this existed in ireland, is Camel rolling tobacco. It was new when i bought it once last year, but havent since so maybe it never took off i dunno. nothing like cigarette tobacco, its moist smooth rolling tobacco with a turkish blend.
    Sounds nice. Will probably see if I can source it from NI or england.


  • #4
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,303 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Get Real wrote: »
    The second one is my all time favourite, Old Holborn, dark blue pouch with an orange elephant on it.
    Forgot the name, but "blue packet with orange writing on it" got me a packet. Nice stuff.


  • #5
    treeminder
    Registered Users Posts: 67 ✭✭treeminder


    the_syco wrote: »
    One thing I've noticed is that if I get tobacco in a pouch, it's soft and not moist, but not dry. If I get it in a box, is usually dry. Do you notice this?


    Aye, but just haven't smoked it in a while. Went off it a while back, I think, before i moved to Yellow Packet Golden Virginia.


    Whoa, blast from the past. Used to smoke it (remember the packagin, not the name), but have forgotten about it. May try it again.


    Sounds nice. Will probably see if I can source it from NI or england.
    can you get camel tobacco in ireland still??? or maybe american spirit? they have it in tesco in england.


  • #6
    the_syco
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,303 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    treeminder wrote: »
    can you get camel tobacco in ireland still??? or maybe american spirit? they have it in tesco in england.
    Haven't found the camel tobacco in Ireland. Never saw the "american spirit" tobacco, but most of the time the rolling tobacco was in a drawer, even when the cigarette boxes were in full display, so you often never knew what was on offer.

    Maybe contact the tobacco and ask if they supply it to any shops/franchises in Ireland, and post back here?

    AFAIK, American Spirit isn't sold here any more, as seen in; http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056004994&page=2


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