Sutliff Tobacco Company Tobacco Galleria - Fox & Hound

The dark fruity and earthy red Virginia is a team player. The lighter Virginia has a light grass and citrus. The Cyprian latakia gives a light smoky, woody sweet push to the flavor, and the Turkish (wood, buttery sweet, lightly sour) and perique (raisins and spice) ingredients are minor players. The nutty, earthy, molasses sweet burley is a supporting player. The fruit topping tones down the tobaccos a little. A dash of rum seems to be present as well. The strength is just short of the center of mild to medium, while the taste level is a step past that. Has a mild nic-hit. Burns cool and clean at a reasonable pace; never hot no matter how hard you puff. Has a very consistent, rather smooth flavor, and leaves just a little moisture in the bowl. Needs an average number of relights. A comfortable, easy going all day smoke that wears well with a pleasing after taste and decent room note.

-JimInks

Sutliff Tobacco Company - Tobacco Galleria - Fox and Hound.

This was bought in bulk from Smokingpipes.com and it arrived with just the right amount of moisture for me. A little tacky to the touch, but still smokeable, and you know it can be trusted to cellar without becoming bone dry in days! The ribbons are quite coarse, and include a fair amount of each colour.

The Latakia isn't too pushy, the flavour has a smoky-woodiness, but isn't fulminated by loads of smoky flavour. The Perique gives the blend some life, being fig-like, and the Virginia sweetens it. The Burley seems as though it forms the 'backbone': it gives a rustic flavour throughout. The Turkish brings a creaminess, and smoothes the flavour out. I can't fault the burn, and I get no bite.

Nicotine: just below medium. Room-note: I don't mind it.

Fox and Hound: a good blend that does justice to three stars:

Recommended.

1.5 oz pouch was included with my most recent tobacco order, an unsealed pouch at that. This is another tobacco that comes under the heading of I'll Smoke Anything Once.

Looks and smells in the pouch like a decent sort of blend. Grabbing a pinch shows that this is one moist English mixture. I smoked a bowl fresh out of the pouch and the flavor was nauseating. Drying subsequent bowls yielded an improvement, however slight.

I could pick out the taste of all 5 constituent tobaccos. However, the effect was a serious dumbing down of all of them, into a bland concoction whose only taste was sour hot air. This blend had absolutely no personality of any kind. I don't know if PG has an actual taste but it seemed to do a good job of negating any positive aspects the blend may have started with. It's not a bad blend; it's simply an "also ran" in a very large field of similar blends, most of which better this easily.

1.4 stars. Hard to recommend, unless you want something cheap. Cheap is the one thing this has going for it.

I purchased this about a month ago and gave it a try today. This is a very light to medium bodied mixture to me. It is very light on the Latakia so those of us who really want a Latakia backbone, eh they might be disappointed. It has a lot of moisture in the pouch; not so much that it won't stay lit, but enough to make large clouds of smoke. It has a very creamy yet sweet and spicy aroma to it which can be annoying to those of us who like more full bodied English blends. Some people will not like the aroma as I found out tonight, but hey I'm not smoking to make others happy. This is an excellent blend for Aromatic fans seeking to venture into English blends or for a lighter English blend for all day smoking. Oh, it does have a high amount of nicotine so be careful; it might knock your socks off if you don't watch it. I highly recommend this blend as a light to medium bodied English blend with no bite.

This Altadis offering is not as heavy and smoky in flavor as their R.L. Will Long-Cut offering, but you will taste the Latakia as well as the other ingredients. Perique lovers may not like Fox & Hound because it sleeps in the back room of this blend's house, rarely coming out to say hello.

I have not found a cooler burning bulk blend. It is more light than heavy and my local pipe club members (the recipients of a box full of this weed from Altadis) overwhelmingly gave Fox & Hound a thumbs up.

I am really surprised at the average review. Many reviewers mention having received it as part of samplers. Thus I wonder if there may have been an issue with a bad batch. I also have smoked it only the bulk format, so I cannot give an opinion about the pouch version.

I have been smoking F&H for many years (I am 50 now) and find that, as with any other tobacco, there are always consistency issues, as you can expect from any natural crop product. Non-aromatics are also more prone to them, as processing, casing and flavorings help to standardize flavor and aroma.

This taken into account, F&H has done fairly well across the years in that department. Particularly for a non-aromatic bulk mixture of quite the number of varieties. And you may like it better or worse (from other review: yes, probably not the first balkan-like mixture to try, if you are used only to aromatics), but you cannot say that it is not a good mixture. As another reviewer suggested, maybe it is an acquired taste.

Now for the review itself: F&H is basically a balkan style + perique mixture, and a rather good one at that. If I had to compare it to a better known, maybe more reputable one, I would go for Frog Morton on the Bayou (OTB), which is currently getting a 3.2 average score, as opposed to the 2.0 for F&H.

Well, in that comparison I place F&H above the more expensive and praised Frog Morton OTB. Do not get me wrong, the latter is a really good, well thought and done mixture. Only, I think that if you put together a mixture with orientals plus another four or five varieties, it is not a bad idea making it so that you can taste most of them, and not only, let's say, the Latakia or perique. Frog Morton OTB has a bit more of the latter than F&H, overpowering the remaining varieties, particularly the orientals, which you can taste much more in F&H. Both OTB and F&H have just enough Latakia to taste it without overpowering the remaining tobaccos. I think the longer, less homogeneous ribbon of F&H also helps to better taste each of its components, in a more complex experience.

Bottom line: I think that in terms of quality, F&H is at least a three. A very good alternative if you like Perique and orientals and want to be able to taste both. Burns well and dry, leaving little residue behind, and is smooth enough to be an all day smoke. Then, you can score higher or lower above that depending on your personal tastes. I am giving it a 4 (OK, probably way too high but maybe a bit to compensate some of the awful reviews)

Fox & Hound is by far the best blend in the Tobacco Galleria stable. A light American English blend that is perfect for the Aromatic or new smoker wishing to try an English blend that won't overwhelm them with flavor or nicotine. A good all day blend for the cost conscious veteran smoker as well! Mild and yet not too mild, easy to pack, easy to light and easy on the wallet. There's nothing really to complain about, even the pouch is classy 🙂 Standard American style blend of Burley, red Virginia, Latakia and a little Perique. The Red Virginia and Burley mix gives F&H a nice toasty flavor with the Latakia and Perique adding some Smokey / plummy flavors and a light to medium nicotine kick. Just don't expect a heavy, from the British Isles traditional English and I really think you will enjoy F&H. Price for the bulk version is very inexpensive as well for the quality and for $5 I think you would be hard pressed to find a pouched tobacco this easily available and tasty! I don't see how one could give a Tobacco Galleria aromatic 2 or three stars and give this more traditional tobacco one star, but hey to each his own...

First impressions, its OK. A mild OTC English with a good bit of burley and moisture to accompany it.

As far as English blends go, Fox & Hound is probably the lightest I've ever had. The presence of burley is interesting, but not bad. It has a little bit of latakia, but not much. All in all, it's just, light.

One thing it isn't light on, moisture. I let the tobacco dry overnight in my pipe before smoking. Even then, it still took some patience to light. Surprisingly, it doesn't leave any residue gunk behind, so that's a plus.

F&H leaves a weird aftertaste in my mouth, which I think is due to preservatives in the blend (like other Altadis blends). Though I'm not sure. Whatever it is, I strongly dislike it. My pipes also dislike it, and require a strong whiskey treatment before smoking any other tobaccos in them after this stuff.

I give the blend 2 stars and not 1, because there's enough flavor in the blend to make me come back for more. Now, I only come back once a month or so, but I still smoke it on occasion...

smells awful, and my first bowl was as well. but i decided it was worth another shot. the second bowl was better, then the next was better still, and so on. definetly an aqiured taste.

This blend composed of multi colored brown and dark leaf is surprisingly a very nice smooth smoke. It packs, lights and burns well, not very wet, and burns down to a semi wet dottle at the bottom of the pipe. It is not a bold in your face Latakia and Perique blend like a lot of English blends and if that is what your looking for, this is not the one. But if you want a slightly sweet, smokey and pleasant blend that smokes smooth and with a lot of flavor on the tongue, this is a good one. I found this to be very nice as a night cap blend in a small pipe and with a good stout beer. It is not a tongue singer, but it must be sipped to really enjoy it as it can heat up if smoked too fast. I found the VA sweetness came out wonderfully, the Latakia was a compliment and not the main course, the perique was subtle but there and the burley kept it full and smooth. I will have no problem smoking this blend and while it is not the best English I have smoked, at the price it is hard to beat. I say give it a try and you will be surprised.