McClelland - Frog Morton on the Bayou pipe tobacco reviews

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bman64	05/09/2013	Mild to Medium	None detected	Mild to Medium	Tolerable
First FM I have tried-tin aged about a year. Tin note is Englishy-lat like, with some earthy Perique smell and a healthy McC's dollop of catsup-albeit rich in a red gravy sort of way. Good texture, very few stem pieces noted. Blend packs well, I fill these sorts of baccy's loosely, and though it requires a few re-lights, minimal wetness noted. I am at the point of adoration -in a non-religious sense-with good Balkan blends, and this is a good smooth tasty smoke. The Perique is subtle to my palate, it's there but it plays only a bit character role. It's fairly complex flavor-wise, and it plays well with a number of beverages-my favorite here being Guinness E'S, which results in a clever sweetness of both drink and baccy. I may update this upward from 3-4, but I have to compare the rest of the FM's before I ponder further. Solid blend, either way.
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ArchtopBill	05/01/2013	Medium	Very Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
It took me awhile to get a tin of this in my neck of the woods, but I finally got one today. This is a very well blended tabacco, as is expected of McCleland. Just enough perique. Smoke dryly to the bottom of the bowl, but does seem to require a few relights.
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gladi8tor96	04/30/2013	Mild to Medium	Very Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
Least favorite of the F.M. series. It was ok, but not spectacular...not for good ole froggy, nor for a VaPer.
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Squidpanda	04/07/2013	Mild to Medium	Very Mild	Medium	Pleasant
A fine smoke. From start to finish I enjoyed this tobacco. I found it to be a relaxing smoke that needed little tending to. The flavor was mild and pleasant, the aroma was pleasing and not to pungent. I feel this will be a new staple in my tobacco stock.
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pipeofbriaropenfire	03/29/2013	Mild to Medium	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
Very nice. I good balkan that I can enjoy through the whole bowl.
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Perique	01/18/2013	Medium	None detected	Medium	Tolerable
Frog plus Perique. What's not to like?
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USVI sailor	01/16/2013	Medium	None detected	Very Full	Tolerable
Frog Morton On The Bayou is my all time favorite Balkan style blend - just the right amount of Perique for that spicy / nutty taste and not too much latakia. You can smoke this stuff right down to the bottom of the bowl and get a good dose of that much maligned but much loved drug - nicotine. I find this tobacco pairs up really well to a strong, slightly cooled cup of Ethiopian or Kenyan coffee and of course two fingers of Dewars Signature - neat of course.
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serif365	12/08/2012	Mild to Medium	Extremely Mild	Medium to Full	Pleasant
I bought a Frog Morton sampler of the four blends offered at the time and OTB was the first I smoked. I've now finished off the first 50g tin and I've bought two more 100g tins to cellar. This is a "special treat" tobacco for me. I enjoy it in a small meerschaum and dream of better days gone by and more to come. OTB is like comfort food for the pipe. The Perique is not subtle...it's there in every puff. The Latakia is mild but present. I've read where other folks have trouble keeping it lit, I light it once and smoke the whole bowl to a fine, grey ash. I particularly like the spice tickle in the back of my palate and the flavor is unique in my tobacco rotation. I highly recommend the blend.
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430pat	12/06/2012	Mild	Mild	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
OK,same good tobacco different label.
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joshwolftree	12/04/2012	Mild to Medium	Medium	Medium to Full	Pleasant
So, I'm about halfway through my first tin of many. I'm not gonna lie when I opened the tin the tin the first time I had been smoking some heavy lat bombs for a week or so. It smelled like dirt, not loam, not grass, just dust and dirt. I thought to myself "Josh your a slave to the lady with the yellow fingers. You know without nicotine you turn into the biggest bastard ever. We'll smoke a bowl even if it's mildly palatable you can jar it up and save it for a day when your broke, out of everything else with nicotine in it, and really hard up." Sounds great right? I packed it up into a fresh cob, and it felt a little dryer than I was used too, not like dried out, just dry kinda bland. I stared at it moodily for a minute or two, picked up my zippo and gave it a char light. Those of you who like to mention that the tin note isn't always a good indication of the tobacco can start fist pumping now. Under the flame the flavor and scent of the tobacco blossomed forth. I could really get the earthiness of the per. Suddenly that dirt gave forth life. A rich loamy flavor with, almost mossy notes. It really did remind me of my time in Mississippi. When me and the guys would go out hiking in the swamps. I sat back enjoyed the flavors, as each drag pulled me in a little deeper into the swamps I remembered from tech school. Back to happy days with my little band of wing-men, to crawdad boils and beers out at that little fricking shack of a restaurant. To the girls I knew back then, crazy swamp raised girls. Girls who's momma married a soldier, cause us soldiers were such good men. Back to bar fights, with my buddies to back me up. Back to that short period in time where I was in the best shape of my life,I was old enough to drink, and I still didn't have any real responsibilities, just had to show up to class. In an MM legend it gives me about forty five minutes to an hour to enjoy those memories. I'm getting the packing and breathing right now so it doesn't need more than maybe one relight. It does leave a bit of dottle but that seems to be more the pipes fault as everything leaves some dottle in that one. The stem is just a hair high, and I've been to busy to sit down and fix it. It smokes like a dream out of my Boswell and leaves a not but fine dust to sit in my ashtray till I get around to making up some mud to fix a few high stems. Frog Morton "On the Bayou"? Yeah it's earned a spot on my TAD list I'm gonna need to keep a nice stock of it.
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jstilly1	10/31/2012	Mild to Medium	None detected	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
I found this to be very spicy at times, but generally well-balanced nonetheless. It is certainly flavorful and has some depth and complexity to it.
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Kraft1994	09/02/2012	Mild to Medium	None detected	Medium	Tolerable
overall its a great tobacco. the latakia gives it a creamy taste while the virginas give a tomato-ish sweetness. and finally the perique adds a spicy smokey note. together the blend tastes like a good, spicy, tangy sweet bbq sauce. smoked very cool, no bite. love this smoke.
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HellOnAStick	04/06/2012	Mild to Medium	Medium	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
This is the first English/Balkan Blend that I have smoked. I chanced across a tin from 'O3 thinking that it might be a good way to break into Latakia mixtures, and I wasn't disappointed. I've since smoked about 4 oz of this mixture of different ages, the '03 is the best, but I really think that another 10 years of aging will possibly make it even better. The flavors are married so well, that the only thing that seems to stand out with sharp prominence is the virginia, which still has a bit of high, sharp notes, even after 10 years of aging. The tin smells to me just like Levi Garrett Tobacco that I used to chew. Woody, Tobacco-y, smoky and sweet. The initial smoke was awesome. Great flavors like smoked pemmican, sweet citrus, sage, sandalwood and bitters were all present. Not so much like BBQ to me, but the smoky Latakia was definitely present. I'm not well versed enough to talk about the perique, but there were some notes of black pepper and chili in this as well. I saved some of this '03 back, its going to be hard not to smoke it. This is definitely a permanent addition to my cellar, and something I'll keep in rotation for the years to come. Amazing work from the Blenders at McClelland.
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tleek	04/05/2012	Medium	None detected	Medium to Full	Tolerable
Pretty good, sweet and smoky mostly, but the perique is detectable. Seems pretty similar to regular Frog Morton, but a little more rounded and full. Less one dimensional.
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L. McQueen	02/01/2012	Medium	Mild to Medium	Medium	Tolerable
I prefer aromatics so I think this blend requires an acquired taste. To me the aroma from the tin kind of put me off and the taste of that kind of smoked meat does not appeal. There was no tongue bite, the tobacco was about perfect to put straight into the pipe but I did have to relight several times. The room note matches the tin and taste so for me not great. If you are an aromatics fan and new to smoking it may not appeal. I do like to have something different to aromatics every once in awhile but I don't think I would purposely buy this one again.
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Xeno Dextra	01/24/2012	Mild to Medium	Extremely Mild	Medium to Full	Tolerable
This is my first review of my first pipe tobacco. "McClelland Frog Morton" series would be the best blend as a starter tobacco for an occasional cigar smoker. I was originally a cigar smoker but I am not a rich man so I could not enjoy a cigar as regularly as my more affluent friends could. I really enjoy the taste of a good quality cigar, for the subtleties of the taste in a good tobacco. Meeting my friends at a cigar bar would be kind of strange if I was the only one on the table not smoking. The other night at the cigar bar, I took out my Peterson Silver Mounted Army Pipe 69 (my very first pipe) and started filling it while my friends lit up their cigars. I got some curious enquiries from my cigar smoking buddies, but none were insulting or derogatory just because I produced a pipe instead of a cigar. They were more interested in the tobacco than anything else. They complimented me on the tobacco smell of Frog Morton on the Bayou. I initially learned about "Frog Morton" series when I visited my local tobacco/cigar shop and the owner introduced me to pipe smoking. I told the owner that I like smoking cigars and enjoy the spicy taste of a good cigar tobacco when smoking. He gave me some pipe tobacco samples to try and recommended me on a Peterson or a Stanwell pipe for my first. I chose the Peterson as my first. I enjoyed the Frog Mortons more than the other types, but the "Frog Morton on the Bayou" tasted the best for me and it reminded me most of the type of cigars that I enjoy smoking. As a cigar smoker, I would say that this blend is quite mild in nicotine strength. I did not detect any chemical flavoring, which is a very good thing for my very first pipe tobacco. It tastes spicy which I love and it smokes cool. The woody, cinnamon like taste is the subtle undertone of the tobacco as latakia hits the high notes of my tastebuds. The spicy woody taste comes mainly from the perique tobacco which is true to the tin's description. Because I started smoking my first pipe on the "Frog Morton" series, I think I got hooked as a new pipe smoker. I am still an occasional cigar smoker too. I enjoyed all the "Frog Morton" series, but of all the "Frog Morton" series, my favorite is "...On the Bayou". I can smoke this tobacco for an hour it leaves a nice taste in your mouth. I recommend all the "Frog Morton" series for cigar smokers as their first leap to pipe smoking tobacco.
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krg1000	10/16/2011	Mild to Medium	Mild	Medium	Pleasant
This is the third in the series that I have tried so far. As with the others, this is a fine blend with all the components coming together nicely. It lights well, burns well and all that is left is a fine ash at the end of the bowl. Definitely recommended.
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Darth Vader	10/15/2011	Mild	Extremely Mild	Mild	Pleasant
I prefer the original to this. I have had one or two reasonable smokes from FMOTB but most a fairly average. Doubt i would buy more. Quality made though so it may be your cup of tea. You have to try it to find out.
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Mr. Big	09/27/2011	Mild	Extremely Mild	Mild	Pleasant
As with all the Frogs, this is a good blend but not a great blend. The tobacco starts with a hint of chocolate flavor that fades fast into Orientals. Mild, smooth, more sour than sweet, no bite, but doesn't burn well at a sip and requires constant relights, and this does try the tongue. The Orientals don't really "dance" , as they fade into the background. I don't find the Perique except on relights, even though the name " On The Bayou" indicates a heavy presents. This might be the best of the bunch ( If you like Orientals as I do)but it is still boring. Wow, I just checked the other reviews, is my taste so shot that I'm so far out of wack with you all? I guess it's just me and reviewer "zulujerk 9/19/09".!
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Tom Servo	08/07/2011	Mild to Medium	None detected	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
The tin aroma here is mouthwatering. Orientals and tasty Perique hanging heavy on the sweet & sour backbone of nicely aged Virginia. Fresh grain, green hay, aged cheese, dried fruit, ketchup, hints of Latakia smokiness, savory herbs, fresh salty notes, citrus and graham crackers. Mixture of rubbed flake and ribbon cut tobaccos. Packs OK - Lights OK - Burns well. In the smoke, a beautiful balance of Perique, Virginia, Orientals. More subtle than expected - soft spoken - rich but a bit underpowered. Complex, sweet, spicy and delicious. Mellow but satisfying despite the mild character. Quality tobaccos - well blended. I find myself really liking this stuff. Mild but tasty, this blend goes on the favorites list for a light change of pace.
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