UPDATE 10/22/07: This stuff just keeps getting better. Give it a try, there is amazingly no bite and loads of flavor! It is a rough cut cake but not unmanageable. You definitely want dedicated bowls for this kind of tobacco. Perfume, oils, special essence of the Valkyries, whatever it is it's good! However I can definitely understand how some could hate it.
But then it kicked in and I've smoked several bowls. At first I thought I don't know, maybe not. Yummy! The first bowl immediately rekindled memories. What does all of that have to do with Glengarry Flake? Nothing, I just like reminiscing!Īfter many years I just retried GF last week. I finally made my way into a tobacco shop and started buying better pipes, ultimately premium pipes, but I was still smoking crap tobacco and about to quit the pipe altogether! Then I started experimenting with all of those "ick" tobaccos and discovered paradise. I was smoking crap pipes and crap tobacco. "Ick, you won't like that stuff, soapy nasty, blech." Thank goodness I finally stopped letting "those" people influence me. I am enjoying this tobacco a lot but would not recommend it as an all day smoke unless for the true and hard fans of Lakeland flavorings as the nicotine content is perfect for a daily repetitive smoke.This is one of those category of tobaccos that people told me to stay away from when I first started smoking a pipe. The taste was very refreshing, if it makes sense. Overall, a fine G & H bulk tobacco which I found very pleasant. Nicotine is in the mild to medium range during the first half and upgraded to a bit below medium during the last third. By the last third the taste of the tobacco is dominant with the licorice hanging around but it is more subdued.
The floral note does not stick around for too long once the tobacco is lit.īy mid bowl there is more of a tobacco taste supported by the Burley, which becomes more dominant and the Virginia accentuates the licorice but no in its sweet side. The burn is very good once the tobacco has been dried some before packing and it does not develop into any type of complexity as I progress but the Burley brings some backbone and nuttiness to the overall experience. Once lit up the taste will be consistent with these notes but the room note unveils the vanilla as well as the licorice. To my nose, what I perceive is more of the floral note (geranium, I believe) with some licorice. A Virginia and Burley medium brown long flake with golden shades and the occasional dark brown speckle, this offering is topped with licorice, fig and tonquin bean according to the SPC description and as a typical British flavorings with vanilla and fig extracts, according to TR.
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