Blender's Gold Burley and Black

(1.93)
Master blend of 3 rich tobaccos. Mildly aromatic. Unique blend of mild, satisfying flavors. Blend of flake cuts and Cavendish cuts. Exclusive no-bite formula.

Details

Brand Blender's Gold
Blended By Sutliff Tobacco Company
Manufactured By Sutliff Tobacco Company
Blend Type Aromatic
Contents Black Cavendish, Burley, Cavendish
Flavoring Alcohol / Liquor, Other / Misc, Vanilla
Cut Flake
Packaging 12 ounce bag
Country United States
Production Currently available

Profile

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

Average Rating

1.93 / 4
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
May 29, 2016 Mild Mild to Medium Mild Very Pleasant
The gold Virginia cavendish provides mild grass and citrus with a drop or two of honey. The unsweetened black cavendish offers some brown sugar. The burley is a little nutty sweet and earthy in a secondary role. Sublimating the tobaccos to some extent is a light vanilla and caramel topping, though the caramel is less obvious. The vanilla has a little thinness to the taste. No nic-hit to speak of. Has no bite or harsh notes. Needs a little dry time, but burns cool and smooth with a consistent flavor, requiring a few relights if you do dry it; more if you don't. Leaves some moisture in the bowl, but no goop or dottle. Has a pleasant after taste. An all day smoke.

-JimInks
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Nov 14, 2013 Very Mild Mild to Medium Mild Pleasant
Smoking this stuff is perhaps better than not smoking anything at all…but not by much.

This is, at best, an uncomplicated, more-or-less smokeable, mild aromatic. I bought this last year because I didn't have any other option. I'd been out of the country for a year. When I got back, I was forced to spend a couple of months in a city far removed from my cache of pipes and tobaccos. The best I could do was walk to my nearest drug store, buy a cob, and a bag of the only tobacco they had in stock: Blender's Gold Burley and Black.

So this was my go-to blend for a couple months and I did learn a few things about it. It's a ribbon-cut mix of Burley and Cavendish covered with a generous helping of humectant. Freshly opened, the bag has aromas of vanilla, caramel, and a touch of cider vinegar. It's a very mild smoke with a light vanilla and butterscotch quality. The only problem with this is that it tends to be very steamy, even after extended drying. I found that by far my most enjoyable smokes came in filtered cobs, given all that humectant. Nicotine seems disappointingly low.

All-in-all, this isn't a bad tobacco. It isn't a good tobacco either. And the more a smoker has access to good tobaccos, the worse this will probably seem. I've been mixing the remainder of the bag with simple OTC Burleys and it seems to work ok.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Mar 04, 2010 Mild Very Mild Very Mild Pleasant to Tolerable
This is more humectant than tobacco. Almost tastes like the plastic bag it comes in. Somewhat recommended if you are flat broke since it's cheap. I guess I wouldn't toss if if I was stranded on an island by myself but I'd give serious thought to smoking my socks first.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jan 22, 2015 Very Mild Very Mild Very Mild Unnoticeable
After not smoking for a while, I came back to it. Wanted to try a few OTC blends, So I bought Captain Black and A tin of Burley and Black. I hadn't heard or read anything about it yet, so I was only going on the fact that it was a Sutliff blend for Walgreens-kindof had the idea that it would taste like the classic blends I smoked in College-not great, but pleasant. Frankly, To quote Ralph Wiggum "it tastes like burning." Not much else.

Tin note is nice, actually but beyond that it is really devoid of anything. Wanted to like it , as it is in my nature to like old standby's and locally available products. But this falls really short of even mild expectations.
Pipe Used: Missouri Meerschaum w/filter
PurchasedFrom: OTC, Walgreens
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Apr 07, 2018 Mild Medium to Strong Full Pleasant
Just a brief not stating I love Blender's Gold and is now my go to blend especially Burley and Black I have tried so many blends from tobacconist all over. This is a comfortable blend and I enjoy it very much
Pipe Used: cob and others
PurchasedFrom: Walgreens
Age When Smoked: 75
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Aug 18, 2016 Extremely Mild Mild Very Mild Pleasant
I smoke a variety of pipe tobacco. I have no problem with OTC blends if they are good.

This is the most humectant-laden tobacco I have ever encountered. Super Value black Cavendish runs a close second. Not much taste, very mild. Tin note is pleasant and I got chocolate out of it more than anything. Reminds me of chocolate covered cherries that are also sold in the drug store. Room note is pleasant.

Not much here. Like a lot of aromatic tobaccos, the delivery is in the tin or room note. For the person wielding the pipe, there isn't much pleasure in it.

Pipe Used: Corn cob
PurchasedFrom: Drug store
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jun 26, 2016 Mild Mild Mild Pleasant to Tolerable
Not sure if the blend has changed, but my tin wasn't heavily pg'd. I left out a bit about 30 min and lit it up. Hmmmm pleasant. Mild not much nicotine, really. Nutty, slight sweet maple/ vanilla. Burned fine to the bottom of the bowl. Nice summertime smoke with no bite. I'd buy it again
Pipe Used: MM cob
PurchasedFrom: Walgreens
Age When Smoked: New
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Jun 13, 2016 Very Mild Medium Mild Tolerable
It has bite in the back of the throat afterwards, probably from the chemicals they put in this tobacco. It smells good in the can and could be better used as a room scent if put in a fabric pouch and put on a shelf. I will probably do that when I get fed up with it. Perhaps if I put a filter in my pipe it will be less irritating to the back of the throat. It totally fails as a tobacco. The nicotine kick is hard to reach and comes at the bottom of the bowl if you work hard for it. People should be fired over this. I will never buy any of these 3.5 cans again from this company. They don't understand tobacco. How hard can it be? Shred tobacco leaves and put in a can. There is something retarded about this product.
Pipe Used: Dr Grabow Duke
PurchasedFrom: Walgreens
Age When Smoked: Mine or the tobacco's? OMG...
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Feb 06, 2016 Mild to Medium None Detected Extremely Mild (Flat) Extra Strong
Like tobacco? Then you'll hate this. I didn't think there would be a tobacco that was worse than Paladin. I was wrong. It tastes like rubber and gives off a faint smell of burning blackberry leaves. Actually was afraid it would ghost a cob!

One reason to have a zero star rating.
Pipe Used: Corn Cob and Billard
Age When Smoked: Should be put out its misery.
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Reviewed By Date Rating Strength Flavoring Taste Room Note
Apr 16, 2010 Mild to Medium Mild to Medium Mild to Medium Tolerable
In the bag it smells artificial and the smoke kind of tastes like plastic (not good). The tobacco has too many additives and it's wet.

Don't buy this.
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