Smoker's Pride Natural Blend

(2.05)
A mild, satisfying blend of quality tobaccos.

Details

Brand Smoker's Pride
Blended By Lane Limited
Manufactured By Lane Limited
Blend Type Burley Based
Contents Burley, Cavendish
Flavoring
Cut Ribbon
Packaging 12 ounce bag
Country United States
Production Currently available

Profile

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

Average Rating

2.05 / 4
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Reviews

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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Feb 18, 2013 Very Mild None Detected Very Mild Pleasant
The burley is lightly nutty, earthy, barely sweet with a minor cocoa note. The Virginia cavendish is a little grassy with very little citrus or honey flavor. Has a couple rough edges. It burns very well, but needs some hydration first. Needs to be sipped, or it can get a little warm on the tongue, and get a little cigarettish. I never experienced any tongue bite though. Smoked at a slow to moderate pace, it's fairly smooth. Won't leave any moisture in the bowl, and hardly needs a relight. Has a mild nic-hit. The strength and taste levels are very mild. The after taste is rather plain. An all day innocuous smoke that makes lots of smoke, and can be a mixer in home made blends.

-JimInks
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jul 18, 2014 Mild Extremely Mild Mild Pleasant to Tolerable
I have smoked exactly one pouch this and would probably not buy it again unless it were the only option. It is very dry in the pouch, and smells of a mild tobacco. I don't discern any particular "note" in the pouch. I tried hydrating it, and that did not help it much.

Smoked , it tasted like a slightly milder Prince Albert. There is a temptation to puff too fast to try to get more flavor out, and it goes from an "ok smoke" to really hot quickly.

This one falls in the "better than nothing" category for me. I can smoke it, but would not if I had a choice.

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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jun 25, 2005 Mild Very Mild Very Mild Pleasant
This is an incredibly inexpensive blend that makes a decent corn cob blend. Take it fishing, rake the yard, work on the car, etc. It can have an ashy finish, but what do you want for the money?
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Aug 04, 2015 Mild None Detected Mild to Medium Pleasant
I agree with the SWR comparison. This is very similar, even the cut. Haven't smoked SWR in a while but this seems about the same strength. Since so many reviewers extolled this blend in a cob, I tried it. Actually, it IS better in a cob than in the several briars I used (all dedicated to Burleys). This ain't bad, especially for the price. That's not a cop-out, either. If I'm paying nearly $20 for 50gr of tobacco, it better be really f'n good. For the price, this passes muster.

This blend is quite mild, not a bit of it wild, so if you want a nic hit, honey, just pass on it.

This is about a 2.5-star blend, but I can't give it that, obviously, so I am going with three stars, which it deserves if you are not hung up on every bowl being a nic-fest. After Uhle's Perfection Plug Burley (also cube cut), this is weaker stuff, but not everybody wants a strong blend, and Natural Blend is good for what it is. The codger aroma is nice, too. I grew up around a lot of old white and black men smoking stuff like this, so it's kind of a wayback thing for me. I prefer SP's Rich Taste for a mild Burley smoke, I think.

It also nicely cuts harsher Burley blends. I mixed some of this with Five Brothers (60/40 Nat/5Bro), and though they have not married yet, the mixture is promising.
Pipe Used: Cob, Vauen and Brebbia briars
Age When Smoked: New
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jan 17, 2011 Mild Mild Mild Tolerable
For a cheap tobacco this is very pleasant and served nicely as a change from the English blends I tend to smoke. I must recommend that instead of purchasing this and smoking it right away,cellar it for at least a month before dipping into it and I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at what this turns into.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Feb 24, 2017 Mild to Medium None Detected Mild to Medium Tolerable
This is a nice uncomplicated tobacco blend. Nothing special here and it won't impress the fellows at the club, but who cares it lights easily and doesn't require too many relights. A perfect blend for puttering around the homestead, or add some body to an aromatic.
Pipe Used: Cobs
Age When Smoked: P&C
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Feb 13, 2017 Mild Very Mild Mild to Medium Tolerable
It's OK. But just barely. The pouch note reminds me of a household cleaner. Windex perhaps? It burns OK but can get a little hot. Bites a little if pushed too hard, which doesn't take much. I don't hate it, but I also don't care much for it. There's far better choices out there in this price range. After I finish what's left of the pouch (which is now stored in a jar in the cellar) I don't think I'll be buying any more. I give it 1.5 stars because it could certainly be worse.
Pipe Used: Cobs
PurchasedFrom: PipesandCigars.com
Age When Smoked: Fresh and a few years aged.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Feb 16, 2009 Extremely Mild None Detected Extremely Mild (Flat) Unnoticeable
No body, no taste, no room note for the smoker (not much for the non-smoker either). Nice price; if you got some enjoyment out of smoking hot air as it is less than $12 per pound bag. Sorry to say, but I can't even recommend this to a new smoker. Since it doesn't even meet you half way, I'm afraid it would turn a newbie off from pipe smoking as they mutter, "What's the point?"
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jan 20, 2021 Extremely Mild None Detected Extremely Mild (Flat) Unnoticeable
Honestly, I don't get any flavor from this at all. Zip. Not really any sweet either. Odor from the bag smells like someone hurled in it. It came quite dry, seems of recent age. It burns, because I noticed the tendril of smoke, and could occasionally see a red glow from my pipe's "maw". I reckoned the opening as a "maw", because clearly my pipe was yawning. It is my opinion, this is a synthetic substance that has miraculously no impact on my environment in the burning state. Velvet is like an atomic explosion of flavor compared to this. There is amazing science involved here evidently, just not the kind that helps mankind.

I have smoked from old tins of mummified, probably dangerous vintage tobaccos, that had been forgotten in the back of grandpa's drawer of clip-on ties. These old crispy parchments had more tobacco taste left than this product.

I really like S.P Black Cavendish, and their Cherry is also pretty good. Their Vanilla is indeed bland, but you can still tell you're smoking something. I've even began to enjoy their Whiskey, if mixed with Bk. Cavendish. Their Natural? I bought 12oz, and I'll probably last me until 2473, unless I find a suitably strong blend partner that needs to be blended 50/0.

Oddly enough, the S.Value Natural is many times better than this.

Smoker's Pride "Classic Blend" is what you get now, and my sample tasted like sour lemongrass and citronella. Literally unable to smoke this "classic Blend" product.

Pipe Used: various
PurchasedFrom: various
Age When Smoked: new
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jan 01, 2020 Mild to Medium Very Mild Very Mild Pleasant
Sorry, made a mistake. When I purchase bagged or bulk I put them in mason jars. This review should have been for Smokers Pride Rich. Cigarette plain taste wise. Fact is purchased to roll. Cut is wider than cig tobacco and just did not work for me. Smoked a little strong and wet for cigs. Now the good part. The flavor is tobacco, plain tobacco. Alone it is bland for me being an aromatic smoker mostly but as a blender it is super. It is a blender that can tone down flavor without robbing the experience of flavor. It mellows out not waters down. For instance, a pinch of Lanes BS-005 with Lat, a couple pinches of Smokers Pride vanilla cav and a couple pinches of SM Natural let it sit in a can a least a week and you have a tasty blend similar to HGL.
Pipe Used: Cob and briar
PurchasedFrom: Pipes and Cigars
Age When Smoked: New and aged
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