Mac Baren Three Nuns Green

(3.29)
The wrapper leafs of this blend are hand picked Virginia leafs. The inner part consists of Virginias, dark fired Kentucky and perique tobaccos. The Three Nuns Green pipe tobacco is produced according to old English tradition.

Details

Brand Mac Baren
Blended By Per Jensen
Manufactured By Mac Baren
Blend Type Virginia/Perique
Contents Kentucky, Perique, Virginia
Flavoring
Cut Curly Cut
Packaging 50 grams tin
Country Denmark
Production No longer in production

Profile

Strength
Mild to Medium
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
None Detected
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Pleasant to Tolerable
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Medium
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming

Average Rating

3.29 / 4
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jul 11, 2018 Mild to Medium None Detected Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
The earthy, dark fruity, lightly grassy and wood, lightly acidic, tart and tangy citrusy Virginias form the base of the blend. The very woody, earthy, dry, herbal, slightly sharp, fairly spicy, smoky, mildly floral dark fired Kentucky competes for attention with the Virginias, and mostly takes a little of the lead. The raisiny, spicy, plumy perique runs third place here as a condiment. The strength level is just short of medium while the taste barely makes that threshold. The nic-hit is in the center of mild to medium. No chance of bite or harshness, and has no dull moments. There is a little inconsistency in the flavor because some coins have more dark fired Kentucky than others, and there’s some loose cut tobacco along with the coins. The tobacco is lightly moist and the coins are pliable to suit your packing preference. Burns cool and clean at a reasonable pace, and will burn to ashes. Leaves little dampness in the bowl, and requires just a tad more than an average number of relights. Has a very pleasant, lightly lingering after taste and stronger room note. Can easily be an all day smoke. Three and a half stars.

-JimInks
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Sep 05, 2018 Mild to Medium None Detected Mild to Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
The coins tend to fall apart a bit too easily, but many can still be folded to prevent a faster burn. The VAs take the forefront, but the Kentucky is easily tasted throughout the bowl. The mild Perique is the third fiddle, most noticeable in the final 3rd of the bowl. Lights easily and keeps it going. An easy smoke. I expect the tins will improve with age (only 2 months on this tin). I look forward to cracking the next tin next summer.
Pipe Used: cobs, meers, & briars
PurchasedFrom: Smoking Pipes
Age When Smoked: 2 months
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Dec 19, 2018 Mild Medium to Strong Medium Tolerable to Strong
I’m reviewing both Three Nun’s Yellow and Green because I bought them simultaneously to compare. Both were smoked in a variety of pipes (hand carved, cobs, thick, thin, small and large) and in a variety of methods (sitting/tasting, while walking, while doing yard work). Based on all of those criteria, here are my reviews: Three Nun’s Green Described as a VaPer with Dark Fired Kentucky - this seems to me like one of those tobaccos trying to find itself.

Packaging: Like the other Three Nun’s in the family, this tobacco looks like it was packed in haste. Opening the round tin, I found loosely packed irregular coins haphazardly mixed with ribbons of tobacco. Moisture content on the other hand is perfect and smokable right out of the tin. Regardless, I transferred into a rubber sealed jar and let the tobacco breathe for a day before smoking.

Strength: I found the nicotine content to be on the more mild side for this tobacco.

Tin Note: The aroma from the tin could be described as a mixture of fig cookie with a little cocoa.

Taste/Flavoring: I chose to take this tobacco on a walk for the first few bowls and I found this tobacco to behave in a few different stages. In the first third of the bowl, I definitely noted a mixture of the sweet Virginia/Perique (bready and fig newton) combined with a toastiness from the DFK. In the middle third of the bowl, the tobaccos blended together into a sweet mixture that lingered across my tongue after every exhale. In the final third of the bowl, I detected almost no presence of the DFK.

Room Note: With the discerning nose of my non-smoking wife, she found the lingering smell of this tobacco to be a heavier tobacco then she appreciates. So, it clearly doesn’t pass the wife test and makes it an outdoor tobacco.

OVERALL: Considering that I love sweet Virginia tobaccos, when I compare 3NG to the other tobaccos in the family, I’d put this in a solid third place.
Pipe Used: Cobs and Briars
PurchasedFrom: SmokingPipes.com
Age When Smoked: Unsure
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Oct 07, 2018 Medium to Strong None Detected Full Pleasant to Tolerable
I really want to give this 3 stars because of the price!! For 50 grams I would probably look elsewhere.. on the other hand.. this is an amazing smoke.. maybe just a couple for the cellar.. This one is very Kentucky forward.. but the sweet complexity of the virginia.. and a little peppery perique really compliment things. It is nearly a cigar like experience.. extremely satisfying.. much like d'oblone doro.. but more oomph.. perfect for a fall night.. I don't really like latikia.. but I love how Kentucky forward blends give me a similar experience without the drawbacks.. some really good blending going on here.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Oct 05, 2018 Medium None Detected Medium to Full Tolerable
Mac Baren - Three Nuns Green.

The coins are quite broken, so it's an easy blend to load with. My tin was a little dryer than I'd have preferred, smokable, but I like a blend to be slightly damp to the touch.

Lighting up a bowl's easy-peasy, and it gives a decent smoke. The Virginia and Kentucky form the majority of the flavour, hence why I'm marking medium to full for taste. But the flavour isn't over fire-cured, and too acrid; more of a 'smoky-nuttiness'. The Perique's easily the lightest ingredient; it needs to be 'looked' for more than the others. The burn's good, maybe a little fast due to the hydration, but consistent. I've been smoking only this today and haven't had a bite from it.

Nicotine: medium. Room-note: not a fan.

Three Nuns Green? A nice enough smoke but not a 'brilliant' smoke. Three stars:

Recommended.
Pipe Used: Altinok Lee Van Cleef: My Friday pipe
PurchasedFrom: Smokingpipes.com
Age When Smoked: One month
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Apr 08, 2019 Strong None Detected Full Pleasant
It is a Curly Cut like the original Three Nuns red label. Loose spun curly cut discs in the size of small coins. The moisture in tin is spot on to smoke right out of the tin. Although, after opening the tin you should keep it under some moisture to prevent it from dying further.

Base and body of Three Nuns Green (3NG) is formed by a selection of different Virginias, mainly of the dark sort. The typical aroma-palette of the Virginias is all there, but it is slightly pushed aside by a strong, peppery Perique without the usual notes of dried fruit. Dark Fired Kentucky is on stage too, but it is a little more in the background and donates tasty notes of spices, no notes of smoke or campfire.

However, the secret star of the show is Perique. It provides exclusively an aroma of powerful White Pepper and makes this mixture quite strong, especially after the first third of the bowl. Therefore it is not an all-day mixture for me; I could not smoke several bowls in a row. I enjoy smoking it after dinner.

To me 3NG is a deep digging mixture, combining numerous flavours of the above mentioned tobaccos. This mixture is definitely in my wheelhouse. I find it delicious and interesting enough to introduce it into my rotation.
PurchasedFrom: Local tobacconist.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
May 19, 2020 Medium to Strong Extremely Mild Full Pleasant to Tolerable
Modern tin design with a classic feel, looks good.

Little coins, medium moist. Dries quickly and then the coins fall apart. Either way, it’s easy to pack and relatively easy to light.

Tin note is “ketchupy”-BBQ but not overpowering. Typical Va/Per spices with medium-high intensity. Lovely.

Stuff and fold works. Straightforward aromatic intensity all the way to the end. Round and full bodied, meaty and fruity too. Pleasure to smoke. Not too spicy to bite. Gets very very hot though, even in my largest pipes, even with a pipe competition smoking speed. This is possibly due to the high sugar content.

Classic Va/Per, a must in the cellar / rotation for people suffering in Tobacco Acquisition Disorder (quote: Bruno).

Worth the money.

Looking forward to age this for a long-long time and see how it performs 5 years later.
Pipe Used: Bing’s Favorite
PurchasedFrom: DanPipe
Age When Smoked: New (moist) then 7 months later (dry)
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Aug 12, 2019 Medium to Strong Mild to Medium Full Pleasant to Tolerable
Smoked out of tin, smells and tastes bready and grassy with white pepper too. The spiciness sits on your lips and is welcome especially in colder climate. I only noticed the strength when I dedicated some time to a full bowl. An interesting VAPer which I reach for more than Escudo during winter. Can be inconsistent though.
Pipe Used: Bones short bent bulldog
Age When Smoked: less than a year
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Sep 15, 2018 Mild to Medium None Detected Mild to Medium Pleasant to Tolerable
I picked up a tin of the new Yellow and the new Green to try.

I tried the Green after trying the Yellow earlier.

Presentation: Very small coins. Much smaller than LBF or the other coins I'm used to. The tin is tightly packed when opened. The coins in my tin were almost impossible to extract intact, they seemed to be stuck together and come out broken. Tin note was spicier than the yellow and I could smell the periques/kentucky over the Virginia in this one.

Prep: The moisture seems about perfect straight from the tin, it did seem a little drier than the yellow version. Was easy to pack the broken pieces, but was unable to get a complete coin out to fold.

Lighting: Char light, tamp, and then one light got me through the bowl. On charring it puffed up more than the yellow version.

Taste: Completely different experience from the yellow. The KY seemed to steal the show here staying in front of the Virginias. Definitely some spice from the periques in the background. Much earthier and darker feeling than the yellow. VAPer lovers I think will love this one.

Burn: A little bit hot in the bowl, but in the Canadian never required a relight. Burned down to ash with minimal moisture in the bowl of my Castello Canadian.

Overall impression: I really prefer this one to the yellow version. I have not tried the current version of regular Three Nuns to compare it to. With the curly cut and more complex flavors (spicier, fuller) I could see this one being a regular smoke.

I'm going to jar the rest of the tin and I'll update if the taste changes with some aging.
Pipe Used: Castello Canadian
PurchasedFrom: Smokingpipes.com
Age When Smoked: Fresh from Tin
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Mar 04, 2021 Medium to Strong None Detected Full Tolerable
Comes from the tin a little dry but ready to smoke. The blend is spun cut into very small coins. They are loosely spun, and break apart easy. From appearance, each coin contains a varying amount of Dark Fired Kentucky. Some have almost none at all, and other are mostly comprised of it. The tin aroma is mostly Virginia with a good portion of the Kentucky. The VAs smell of strong hay, with a touch of sweetness, and a little bit of grass. The Kentucky is smoky and tangy, with a lot of earth and spice. The perique is in the background but offers a little bit of a dark fruit aroma.

From the first puff, Three Nuns Green sports complexity in its flavor profile. The Virginias are mildly sweet and on the darker side, but has a light touch of grass with some citrus lurking in the background. I find the perique as a lead player behind the VAs. They offer a lot of black pepper and spice, and give a little bit of tingle in the tongue. It also offers a bit of dark fruit, but not quite the usual plum note perique gives me. I would say it’s closer in taste to a prune. The Kentucky is more then a condiment but it isn’t quite a lead player. The flavor notes are very much like the aroma notes, smoky, earthy, and spicy. In a addition to these, the Kentuckys are also savory and sport a hint of a floral, musty, and woody undertones.

3 Nuns Green smoked slow and cool, but could bite a little if puffed fast. Smoked slowly, it was well behaved and offered a wide range of flavors. It needed a few relights but not enough to worry. It smokes dry with a satisfying Nicotine hit, though I could smoke this blend more than once a day. 3.75 out of 4 stars.
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