Sutliff Tobacco Company Blue Danube

Smells and tastes a little like sweet honey bread to the smoker, and those around him/her. The nutty, molasses sweet burley is the most obvious tobacco. The black cavendish offers brown sugar and a hint of vanilla. The grassy, citrusy, bread-like Virginia component is not that prominent, and forms the base for the other components. The vanilla toppings also have a touch of cocoa and perhaps marshmallow. The nic-hit is mild. No chance of bite. Burns very evenly, cool and clean at a moderate pace with a very smooth, consistent flavor. Needs few relights, leaves almost no moisture in the bowl, and has a nice after taste. It's sweet, but not cloyingly so, which means you can smoke it all day without getting tongue bite or diabetes.

-JimInks

Sutliff Tobacco Co. - Blue Danube.

Mostly a medium brown mixture. Although it's coarsely cut, none of the pieces are destined for the bin; 100% of the blend's smokeable, without any of it being too coarse, or twiggy. It smells strongly aromatic: mainly sweet.

The rum gives a syrupy sweetness, as well as alcohol sharpness. The vanilla adds a palliative quality, which rounds the smoke off. From the tobaccos there's a sweet honey quality, with some rustic Burley; but not much Virginia. It burns very well, but the smoke can bite me if I'm not careful. Blue Danube gives a smoke that's cool in temperature.

Nicotine: very mild. Room-note: very nice.

I'll happily highly recommend it:

Four stars.

A really nice tasting blend. The Golden Cavendish is the star for me adding a sweet fruitiness to the rum and vanilla. The Burley adds depth and a little nuttiness. Can't taste any other Virginias. All around great flavors here. A very pleasing smoke.

Mild in body and flavoring. Mild to medium in flavor. Burns well straight from the tin.

Slightly sweet, slightly tangy with a subtle nutiness to round out the blend. Room note, can't quite put my finger on it but very very nice. This is a good day starter or after dinner smoke (but anytime you've got a craving for BD will do). Great with a cup of coffee or an ice cold root beer (can't figure out which adult beverage this pairs well with). Highly recommended. Excellent blend for the novice pipe smoker.

Too moist straight from the tin 32% moisture, I had to dry it for quite awhile to get it down to 15% [still a bit moist but I didn't want to wait any longer]-(I love my simple/ inexpensive moisture meter). Someday I may be an old hand and simply know by feel, for now I will cheat using the meter :). This stuff burned ok, I had to relight a few times after the 3/4 mark-guess I should have waited a bit more and dried it to 13% or so. It had a nice aroma, vanilla,berry. It had a vanilla/whiskey/fruit flavor. The berry/fruit flavor was minimal, the fruit aroma was more pronounced. It had a slight chemical flavor and aroma, not unlike the scented candle descriptions in other posts. I am a newbie smoker and prefer aromatics, so this was ok for me, but not exceptional. It burned to ash with very little dottle with a few relights at the bottom of the bowl. I am attributing this to a high moisture content. It didn't leave any sticky mess for me. I probably won't get this tobacco again, unless I find it at my local shop at 50% off again like this tin. It's worth smoking at 1/2 price 🙂

Way too Sutliffy. Pure rubbish. Weak, low-grade tobacco married with fake flavors that resemble the smells of scented candles. It leaves a very waxy flavor in the mouth and bites the tongue hard. It was originally purchased in a five pack with some other Sutliff tins from CI about 1.5 years ago. Like other Sutliff aromatics, this has virtually no nicotine, tastes nothing like tobacco and bites the tongue. Granted, I usually smoke a lot of English blends (such as 965, The consummate Gentleman, Squadron Leader, and many more), flakes (Mac Baren Navy Flake, Mac Baren HH Old Dark Fired, Dunhill Flake, Irish Flake and many) and more) and non-aromatics ( Dunhill Scottish Mixture); I do enjoy an aromatic from time to time. When I do, I guess I prefer real pipe tobacco like Peterson Hyde Park or Sweet Killarney and not this rancid, waxy garbage that Sutliff pushes as pipe tobacco. I was so disappointed to read that Sutliff is now the distributor of Mac Baren Products in the U.S. I hope to god that Sutliff doesn't do anything to ruin them and just leaves them as they are.

I don't remember the last time I got tongue bite from a tobacco, but this Blue Danube garbage didn't take long to bite the living heck out of my tongue. I could not even finish the bowl. The taste lingered in my mouth for hours, and no amount of fluids could get rid of it. I even brushed my teeth and tongue and still it lingered.

I am convinced that anyone who is giving high reviews to this blend or any Sutliff blend for that matter are 1) people who work for Sutliff and are trying to prop up their brand. 2) people who don't know any better because they graduated from gas station / drug store blends to Sutliff and do not realize there are virtually 100's if not 1000's of better brands out there. If all pipe tobacco tasted like this Sutliff stuff, then I would stick with my Tatuaje, Ashton VSG, AJ Fernandez, Don Pepin Garcia, Perdomo, Padron, and Camacho cigars. Tobacco should rarely be flavored with anything if it is high grade tobacco. If it is flavored, it needs to be a quality recipe (Gawith Hoggarth Rum Flake, yum!!!). With Sutliff, I find time and time again that I am smoking low grade tobacco coated with flavoring chemicals from a recipe taken from a scented candle factory. Also, what's with all the freakin' propylene glycol Sutliff?!?!?! For god's sake, if your tobacco didn't taste so awful, you would not need to add any because the tin would be smoked before the tobacco dried out. Also, you do not need to use PG as a bonding agent. That is hogwash if anyone ever tells you something different.

I am writing this review after smoking almost all of a 1.5 oz tin. It came a little damp for me in the tin. I tried mixing it with some very dry blending toasted burley, and I tried giving it some air. Both these solutions worked well.

This is a pleasant aromatic with notes of vanilla and maybe rum. It is slightly sweet. There is a quality to the taste that is sometimes heavy and maybe a little yeasty. I think that is the "bread" that some reviewers mention. The ingredients list Virginia, but I am not finding any in the taste profile.

Ahhh, the Blue Danube...Donau so blau, so schön und blau. Die Nixen auf dem Grund, die geben's flüsternd kund... Strauss! One day, I'd like to see the Danube, but until then a review for you. A medium amount of topping, somewhat greasy. Tin note is all over the place: coconut, rum, vanilla, chocolate. It tastes mostly of coconut, with plenty of cream and vanilla notes. The topping isn't overpowering, though close to it. The burley is good, nuts and molasses, and that is pretty much all she wrote for the tobacco. I don't much notice the virginias except some grassy sweetness and the odd bit of earth. The cavendish is just lost in all the flavours, maybe it adds some creaminess. Burns great, hardly needs any relights. Unfortunetaly, there is a little bit of acidity and a little bit of bite. Dry some and tread lightly. Otherwise, good flavour. Great tin art. Nice room note. Id smoke again, but not way up on the list. It's certainly a unique blend. If you dig on coconut rum, you'll like Blue Danube. Not recommended for beginners as it will likely bite ya. 2.5. Prost!

Even though I prefer Balkans & English,I do appreciate aromatics,if done with the intent to give the pipe smoker pleasure.I really don't know what the intent is here. The only pipe that I can recommend you put this vile stuff in is a sewer pipe.I tried it fresh out of the tin,air dried a little to a lot.I never could get this dried to a point where it was actually dry.It crackled& hissed and left a PG goopy mess in anything I smoked it in.Corn cob,Meerschaum,billiard,stacked,pot.Just plain unresponsive.Half way down the bowl got sour& tasteless.I really wanted to enjoy this for how it was presented.A very mild,sweet,burley based don't have to think about it smoke.On a positive note, one of my cats liked the room note(i think)but then again , he uses his tongue to clean himself, not toilet paper.It cost me more in pipe cleaners & pipe sweetener to save my pipes than in the cost of this tobacco.It was smooth with no bite,but so is a 95 year old carnival barker.(no offence to any carnival barkers out there)Try it if you want to.you've got my 2 cent opinion.

I am not really good on the terms with pipe smoking however this is one of my new go to tobacco's Extremely smooth mild no bite what so ever very nutty taste at first then back side of it maple taste witch is very nice . 1 out of 10 I would say 8.5