The claim is that there are several different tobaccos within this mix, but a sweetened burley is all I tasted. The flavor was decent, but the tongue sting mentioned by others was in evidence, which marred the proceedings. Ultimately, I had the best success with a mahogany calabash meerschaum pipe, which toned down the sting. I also tried rehydrating but all that did was cause the flavor to dumb down. This did produce a taste akin to cinnamon at times but sweetened burley was the main taste. Not nearly as hearty of a burley as KC Mild, which I smoke occasionally. Perhaps the aromatic component is causing the tongue sting. At any rate, this phenomenon hurt what otherwise would be at best a mediocre batch of leaf. I give this two stars but it's probably somewhere between 1 and 2. Hard to recommend but curious puffers may want to give it a go.

No strength, no flavor, burns hot.

Kentucky Club Aromatic is not "cool burning" as the packaging suggests. As previous reviewers have already warned, you'll feel like a fire-breathing dragon about halfway through your first pipeful. I don't know how one could make this an all-day smoke. In the cannister, the blend has a sort of very faint chocolatey aroma but it doesn't translate into the room note or the taste.

Bottom line is: with so many delicious blends to choose from, ones that you can smoke all day with no tongue bite whatsoever, I can't recommend that you allow yourself to suffer with this blend at all.

After reading the more positive reviews here, I picked up a pouch for $4.95 at a local tobacco shop - way overpriced in my opinion. Yes, the packaging has that nostalgic look that creates an expectation of tasting something unchanged, traditional. The first disappoinment occurred upon opening the plaid printed foil pouch: an icky semisweet scent, and a muddy dark appearing tobacco. I hesitated to even put it in the pipe for fear it would foul the pipe - but I reasoned that often, the flavor when a tobacco is smoked is very different from the way it smells in the tin or pouch, so I decided to give it an honest try.

It loaded easily, and packed okay. Upon lighting, I knew there might be trouble. It did not just bite, it burned my entire mouth - reminiscent of a cup of hot chocolate, tea or coffee that is way too hot. The roof of my mouth definitely burned. (God forbid anyone inhaling this stuff - their lungs would be seared.) I am not a "heavy puffer." Even short, airfilled "sips" of this trash tobacco do not help. Within a few puffs of lighting, the bowl started gurgling, and after about a quarter of the bowl, it became impossible to puff without drawing a stream of fowl brown liquid through the mouthpiece. The bowl actually became too hot to comfortably touch. I put it down to cool, and emptied out the garbage.

The next morning, I still had a foul chemically taste in my mouth, and the roof of my mouth felt like the next day after swallowing a scalding cup of tea or coffee. Definitely not recommended.

Original review: I just finished a pouch of KC mixture, not having purchased this since my high school days. I can't really remember what it was like back then, but I felt cool, smoking what I thought was an expensive mixture.

I find the mixture today a nice smoke, readily available in my area However, there's nothing outstanding or notable about this tobacco. This is just an honest, decent, inexpensive pipe tobacco. Taste is mild, cannot say that it is an aromatic. Probably why I somewhat like it. Tongue bite stays at a minimum.

All in all, a decent change of pace smoke. I will buy it on occasion.

Growing-up in a small town in southeastern Ohio, one of the few surgeons around, along with his brother, used to do rotations, with other physicians, in the Emergency Room of the local hospital. This surgeon, Dr. D., used to pull ER duty in carpet slippers, cardigan sweater and pipe. Hard to imagine now...but that's how it was. Dr. D. lived to a very ripe old age, and he smoked nothing but Kentucky Club Aromatic, usually in a pot-shaped GBD with a Perspex stem. Once, when I had been riding on the handlebars of a friend's bike and dislocated my elbow, a trip to the ER found Dr. D. on duty. He recognized me, felt the place that should have been a bump, but was then a hollow, and gave the arm a good yank. I screamed, but the joint was back in-place, and I doubt we got a bill for it; he had bigger fish to fry.

Kentucky Club Aromatic is just that kind of tobacco--basic, experienced, and friendly. It is a genuine mixture, composed of Burley, Virginia, Turkish, and Perique. There is a definite fruity casing that makes itself known in taste, but more-so in room aroma. It is a friendly smoke that works. Just like Dr. D.

Don't expect anything fancy and you will be surprised...and pleasantly-so. Just let it air-out if you can. Middleton has a thoroughly nasty habit of putting WAY TOO MUCH PEG on their blends. When this evaporates, Ky. Club Mixture is a pretty good smoke.

I agree with the reviewer that purports this as basically a Burley blend. That it is, and in good measure. It's not that this is a bad blend. I guess that in more parochial settings blends like this one, or Prince Albert, Country Doctor or Vermont Maple, suffice. However, once you've been stung by Latakias, Turkish, straight matured Virginias or Virginia and Perique mixtures, well, Kentucky Club or Kentucky Club Aromatic just don't hit the spot.

Still, a nice baccy, in the same sense that Neil Sedaka is, well, Ok.

As I opened the foil pouch I smelled coffee, dark chocolate and something like ginger. The tobacco was very dry and quite loose. It lit very easy and smoked well. The tobacco tasted like a cigar, not an expensive $10.00 Dominican, but closer to a Dutch Masters. As I progressed down the bowl the flavor was consistently cigar, but turned sour about 3/4 way through, like most burley blends. I finished the bowl, but as I do not like cigars, I will not be having another.

This was not a bad tobacco, just one I don't particularly care for. If you like the taste and smell of cheap cigars give this a try.