ATTENTION: CB Pipe Tobacco Review Bombing Run Version 2.0

[Alligator Gar]

Registration Post as requested.

IrRegularFellow
Fuchsia A
Fuchsia AA
Yellow Q
Yellow C Hoovered

One of the samples (yellow C) looks and smells like beef jerky. Fire cured and basted with Pinesol. We were instructed to not thank Ne'er Bend, so THANKS! Will commence reviews shortly, plan on multiple tastings of each sample in different pipes, weather conditions and pairings. I fully expect to have to burn the pipe I use for the beef jerky, because it's strong as balls.

[Tobias Lutz]

Mine arrived, thanks Pete!



A
B
C
T

I'm finishing a battle with some allergies, but I'll start reviewing soon!

[NeverBend]

Mine arrived, thanks Pete!



A
B
C
T

I'm finishing a battle with some allergies, but I'll start reviewing soon!

Some of the bags have easy open tops with zip seals like the one on the right in Tobias' pic. Please let me know hoe they open and zip if you think of it - thanks.

[cbr310]

Date: 4/7/15
Name: cbr310 (Matt)
Tobacco: Pink E (vac) Stokkebye Luxury Navy Flake
Pipe: mm cob
Outdoor

Observations/Examination : In vacuum pack looks like tree bark, once cut open aroma of I think a cherry hint. Felt stiff and didnt want to bend without spliting. Rubbed out very easy, seems ready to smoke.

Preparation: Rubbed out gravity tampered in thirds till almost full

Burn: Burned well only had a few relights

Flavor: Smelled of cherry, that was it for the cherry, like an otc cherry blend I could never taste cherry flavoring. Tasted to me like pepper. Pretty spicy especially on the retro hale, couldnt do many of that. most of the bowl was spicey and peppery. Had a strong tobacco flavor to it as well. At the end of the bowl the spiciness seemed to mellow out and ended with a decent smoke. Lots of smoke on every puff. Mild with nicotine, a slight head changer for me.

Comments and conclusion:
This tobacco would tame a crave for spicy cravings. Didnt really care for the stronger tobacco(cigarette) taste. Dont think this is a blend I would buy. I enjoy the different flavors and not so much the tobacco side. first bowl I ever smoked with only about 3 relights!

[cbr310]

Mine arrived, thanks Pete!



A
B
C
T

I'm finishing a battle with some allergies, but I'll start reviewing soon!

sample A looks delicious!

[GWBowman]

My apologies for the quality of the picture and will try to do better when I review.

A-yellow
B-yellow
C-green (vac)
Q-orange

I'll start with A-yellow.

[Alligator Gar]

Date 7APR15
Name Alligator Gar (Jim)
Tobacco TBA G&H Dark Sliced
Pipe Custom Bamboo Egg
Indoor / Outdoor Covered Porch

The tobacco is well packaged.
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Small black dime sized disks flecked with gold.
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They appear cohesive and are mixed with long strings of tobacco exhibiting the consistency of easter grass or excelsior.
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You can put this in my Easter basket any day.

I'm smoking this in my "best pipe", a custom bamboo egg a friend made for me. This is the pipe that launched my journey a couple months ago and I am familiar with its smoking characteristics.

After air drying the tobacco I rubbed out the coins and dried some more. I used the progressive packing and lighting method known as The Jim System, or simply The Jim.

Damp rain slicker that caught just the sleeve on fire. Pungent fermented sweetness, a little smoked raisin smell. It has a smell I've smelled before but I can't summon the words that describe it. Very frustrating.

Dramatic rise on the char.
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Tasting what I'm smelling on pre-light, a froggy must that is not terrible. Some Basalmic qualities. The tobacco occasionally fronts a sweet note that comes and goes based on how hard I'm smoking it. Retrohale is quite pleasant and sniffing the smoke off the bowl yields that same prelight scent. The ash is dark grey and sturdy and the smoke both prodigious and substantial. The mouth feel of the smoke is chewy and round with an aftertaste of toasted almond. A little gurgle is cured with a cotton Dill's. Both the cleaner and the book that suggest one could cure a gurgle mid-smoke came from Warren, so a knowing nod to him. The smoke changes to a more oily, bergamot infused experience towards the end of the bowl after my first of several late pipe relights. I am a habitually fast smoker and this tobacco will not let you oversmoke it without the usual warning signs (ringing ears, blurred vision and rectal bleeding.) It is a slow burning tobacco that wants to be smoked that way.

Since I have no reputation to stake I'll just come out and say it. This tobacco has some years on it. It has the characteristics age imparts--smooth smoke with melded flavors. It has a good strength that satisfies after dinner. I wouldn't smoke this everyday, but much like 965, there's a place for a full bodied smoke in my line up. I would not recommend this to an inexperienced smoker.

4/5 Would smoke again.

[Alligator Gar]

This was a fine smoke, and I'm thrilled I was given enough to carry me through many more enjoyable pipe sessions.

That's a point worth noting. I've got a week's worth of tobacco "samples" which is good news, as I highly prize the first one I tried.

[BryGuySC]

Registration!

Yellow AA
Orange A
Pink Q (zipper bag)
Yellow C (vac)



And a great pipe!

Forgot to take a "before" pic. Here it is undergoing the first stage of cleaning.

[cpmcdill]

Here's my second review of these tobacco treasures, the pink (magenta?) U:

Details-
Date: April 8, 2015
Name: cpmcdill
Tobacco: Pink U C&D Exclusive
Pipe: Marxman straight bulldog
Site: Indoors

Observations-
Examination (how it looked, felt and smelled).
Upon opening the bag (great packaging, Pete!) I took a deep whiff. WOnderful odors of at least three different tobaccos. My first guess is Virginia, Perique, and a faint smokey hint of either Latakia or dark fired Kentucky. Not sure because it's so subtle.
The tobacco is a ribbon-cut blend of yellow, medium brown, and dark brown bits, with the medium brown dominating. The moisture level seems perfect and smoke-ready.


Preparation (how did you prepare and pack it).
I did not set it out to dry, as it seems quite ready to smoke. Used the standard three-stage packing method, got plenty into the bowl, and the cold draw was fine.

Burn:
This time instead of matches I used a standard Zippo lighter. Whereas I may be inclined to use matches on flake tobacco, I find that a ribbon cut lights just fine with a lighter. After the first light and tamp, it was still burning but I touched it up anyway. Only one relight as noted below.

Flavor:
From the first light, mouthfuls of delicious smoke. Sweet, spicy, with minor bitter notes. No distinct latakia flavor, but nevertheless a subtle low end presence. At the first quarter the sweetness begins to taper, and more peppery notes step in. About 60% through and it went out due to the burden of ashes, so I dumped them and relit. Th flavors kept on as before. My mouth did start to feel dry by this point, so I sipped some lemonade from here on. In the last quarter it held the semi-sweet, peppery and slightly bitter notes, with no smokey character emerging. Some dottle at the end.

Comments and conclusion: Overall a pleasant smoke. I would definitely smoke more of this. Eager to find out what I've been smoking.