Stokkebye's Twist Flake Pipe Tobacco Reviews
These medium-dark, one-inch-diameter slices have a twirly, zig-zag grain and beige birds-eye speckles to make them attractive. Their texture is soft and they rub out easily to a coarse cut that is perfect for slow smoking.
The tobacco smells sweet and buttery, and generously offers scents of coconut (vanilla flavouring often smells like coconut to me) and something deeper, like chocolate. It is a fairly sweet smoke, but not as much as the scent in the pouch promises. Much of the flavouring seems to burn off and become part of its fragrant sidestream smoke.
What really dominates is a caramelized-sugar taste, nicely balanced by some light and clean tobacco flavour. The smoke is of a dense, medium body and has a satisfying kick that suggests the presence of burley in the blend. It also has a bit of a bite, which adds freshness to its flavour and makes this a nice hot-weather smoke for me.
It might be too spicy for more sensitive palates, however. The flavourings fade and almost disappear after half a pipe-full is smoked. Unlike many flake tobaccos, this one does not develop additional richness as the bottom of the bowl is approached; in fact, I find it becomes progressively less complex.
Still, I like to smoke this on occasion, and have been doing so for several years, usually as a mid-day or mid-evening smoke. In many ways, this reminds me of Dan Pipe's Sweet Vanilla Honeydew. This tobacco could be a crowd-pleaser and thus an asset to those pipe smokers who need to flatter their entourage. Bystanders won't realize that your tobacco is much more robust than the heavily flavoured mild cavendish that they think you are smoking.
This tobacco burns clean and dry to a salt-and-pepper ash and I enjoy the caramelized-sugar scent that it leaves in my moustache. You might have already smoked this without knowing it... It's available loose in the jars at many smoke shops, under whatever name the shop chooses to call it.
The tobacco smells sweet and buttery, and generously offers scents of coconut (vanilla flavouring often smells like coconut to me) and something deeper, like chocolate. It is a fairly sweet smoke, but not as much as the scent in the pouch promises. Much of the flavouring seems to burn off and become part of its fragrant sidestream smoke.
What really dominates is a caramelized-sugar taste, nicely balanced by some light and clean tobacco flavour. The smoke is of a dense, medium body and has a satisfying kick that suggests the presence of burley in the blend. It also has a bit of a bite, which adds freshness to its flavour and makes this a nice hot-weather smoke for me.
It might be too spicy for more sensitive palates, however. The flavourings fade and almost disappear after half a pipe-full is smoked. Unlike many flake tobaccos, this one does not develop additional richness as the bottom of the bowl is approached; in fact, I find it becomes progressively less complex.
Still, I like to smoke this on occasion, and have been doing so for several years, usually as a mid-day or mid-evening smoke. In many ways, this reminds me of Dan Pipe's Sweet Vanilla Honeydew. This tobacco could be a crowd-pleaser and thus an asset to those pipe smokers who need to flatter their entourage. Bystanders won't realize that your tobacco is much more robust than the heavily flavoured mild cavendish that they think you are smoking.
This tobacco burns clean and dry to a salt-and-pepper ash and I enjoy the caramelized-sugar scent that it leaves in my moustache. You might have already smoked this without knowing it... It's available loose in the jars at many smoke shops, under whatever name the shop chooses to call it.
Labels: Pipe Tabacco Reviews
posted by Shang Ning | 5:06:00 PM
1 Comments:
Found your blog after searching for twist tobacco and remembering the twist tobacco I stole from grandfather and later bought once for myself (I preferred Skoal). Used to love tobacco but quit smoking years ago because I had to use an inhaler. Now I crave it from time to time and even roll my own once in a while. Interesting to find your blog across the oceans.
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