Prince Albert - Prince Albert pipe tobacco reviews

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bluemonk	06/15/2013	Mild to Medium	Mild	Mild	Pleasant
This is a fine tobacco. It has a very earthy flavor and smell. Its not trying to be something its not. Prince Albert is a great everyday go to smoke, great for the workin man.
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Smoking Sam	06/05/2013	Mild to Medium	Very Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
The Prince Albert in the can joke is older than I am. OTC blends are held in such distain that I avoided them, until now. Curiosity finally got the better of me. The good: It's cheap, I mean - really cheap. It is readily available at almost any drug or grocery store. It comes in either a handy size 1.5 oz. pouch or the large jar. Perfect moisture right out of the pouch. To say that this blend lights easily would be an understatement. One simply has to touch the flame to the tobacco, and it lights instantly and fully. Burns superbly, almost no relights are necessary. Lots of smoke. Pleasant aroma. Burns COOL. Delicate taste. No bite. Zero dottle. The bad: Very mild monochromatic taste. Must be sipped for maximum enjoyment. Puffing can and will cause the burley to become harsh, and the taste can erode quickly mid-bowl if this happens. Burns so easily that the bowl doesn't last all that long. Recommendations: Gravity pack VERY loosely. Light touch with the tamper. Gentle light. Always sip. I can see now why this blend has been around for decades, and why it was a staple of our grandfathers. For the money, it isn't half bad - a pleasant surprise. A nice change of pace from smoking Latakia bombs, Balkan's, aromatics, straight Virginia's, flakes, and the dreaded tongue burners.
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Flinthills Tex	06/05/2013	Medium	Very Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
I'll admit, for many years I was too much of a tobacco snob to try PA. I mean, come on, my grandpa smoked this stuff. But wait! I always loved going to visit Grandpa; I loved the scent of his pipe. So, I checked out the reviews here on this page, and they encouraged me to give PA a try. I had to wait till I was back in the States, though, since I cannot buy it here in Germany. Finally, in 2011, I had a chance. Well, I was pleasantly surprised... Packaging: old-fashioned, but nostalgic, although I wish that the description on the pouch were better. Whether you buy the cellophane wrapped box with "luxury" pouch or the tub, both will have kept your PA from drying out. The "luxury" pouch is somewhat awkward and doesn't close well, making it difficult to keep the tobacco moist. The tub does a fantastic job of keeping the tobacco just right, even over a long period of time (right now, I am finishing a tub I opened 14 months ago, and the moisture content is just fine. Contrary to several other reviewers, I do not detect any traces of propylene glycol. Pouch/tub note: typical nutty Burley aroma; I detect no additional flavoring. Room note: pleasant, sweet, crowd pleasing, commonly draws remarks like: "Mmm! My grandpa used to smoke something that smelled like that!" Smoke: PA has a fine cut, which allows for an initial gravity filling of the bowl. It packs well and lights up easily. The burn is cool and even. It is possible to rush this and get "tobacco juice" and tongue bite, but you really have to try hard. The taste is pleasant, ranging from coffee and chocolate to nuts and licorice. As many have remarked, this is not a gourmet meal, but rather meat-n-potatoes. I would recommend this to any pipe smoker, expert or novice, fan of English or aromatic. It is a good smoke any time of day.
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review_again	03/31/2013	Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant
It took me many years to get around to smoking this "old time" tobacco. I decided to try and never turned back. This is tobacco for the smoker who enjoys the "best of the best"! I smoke this blend almost exclusively and always have a tin on hand. Carter Hall is another 'go too"! But Prince Albert, for me, is my tobacco of choice. It's just bliss!! I smoke it in a Missouri Meerschaum cobb. I've tried the rest and have settled down to be best ....Prince ALbert!
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DrDyson	03/29/2013	Mild	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
This was P.G. Wodehouse's favourite tobacco, apparently. For that (I suppose rather silly) reason, I thought I'd give it a try. Rather ordinary, I thought; mild, undemanding and rather insipid. Meh. All right as a workaday smoke, perhaps, but not a tobacco to relax with and savour. You can fill your pipe with it if you want to smoke while doing something else (e.g writing novels); it doesn't really deserve single-minded concentration, though. (Changing the name of this tobacco might help its sales in the UK. The expression "Prince Albert" has a connotation here that I think it doesn't have in the USA.)
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Shoog	03/13/2013	Mild	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
The tobacco in the pouch smells pretty good, like dark chocolate. PA has great burning qualities. Burns cool and clean down to white ash with very few relights. The first half of the bowl is very mildly sweet and nutty. The second half, the mild sweet taste burns off and the nutty tends to bitter. It does have a very pleasant nostalgic room note.
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Perique	01/17/2013	Mild	Mild	Mild	Tolerable to Strong
I hate to insult the OTC lovers here, but this is not your Grand Father's PA. Just as the ingredients in cigarettes have changed dramatically over the years in favor of sheet tobacco and chemicals, I fear similar tampering with the PA formula. This is nasty tobacco. Little flavor, full of PG, and drying/aging makes it worse, not better. After a few months jarring it smelled like a cigarette ashtray. Flat, nasty. If Burley is what you're after, there are much better choices made with real, unadulterated tobacco.
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Blevins	12/29/2012	Mild to Medium	Extremely Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
If you like burley, you'll like this. Millions of smokers over then decades can't be wrong. Smooth, buttery flavor with a clean burn. I have also found that if a tobacco leaves a gost in your pipe, smoking a bowl or two of Prince Albert seems to absorb the residue and remove the ghost flavor. Try it.
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M42	11/08/2012	Mild to Medium	Extremely Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
Prince Albert is a classic old time favorite. I can remember as a boy watching old men roll their own cigarettes with this tobacco. My father also smoked it in his pipe and I loved walking into a room where it was being smoked. I find it tastes a bit like its room aroma for the first half bowl. It is not a complex tobacco and is rather one dimensional in its flavor, as are all the classics - Carter Hall, Sir Walter Raleigh and Half n Half. But unlike the others, the Prince will suddenly drop its flavor about mid way down the bowl. It simply goes flat and if you keep smoking it develops a taste not unlike that of a dirty mop. Still, despite its flaws it is cheap enough that I can smoke it down to the point where the flavor drops out and empty the bowl and have another. Of all the classics, Carter Hall is the mildest. Half and Half has the fullest flavor, with SWR sitting in the middle. The Prince is second in mildness to CH, but lacking in the flavor the others give you.
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ROOKIE	10/24/2012	Mild	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
I am now at 64 years old starting to smoke a pipe. During my early twenties i went to Peretti in Boston and had a distinguished older gentlemen suggest a classic (estate pipe) and a blend that the Peretti company suggested as a mild smoke. The reason for this was because i was a real rookie at pipe smoking and i had no idea what i was doing. At any rate 2 years later the tobacco andn pipoe were put away and i quite all together. I have now started to smoke a pipe again and am using PA based on that same as a dear friend. It does not bite and has a nice aroma. Would someone else make a recommendation of other mild blends that do not bite. thank you!
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William H. Hardy	10/01/2012	Medium	Extremely Mild	Medium	Tolerable to Strong
It's an old codger burley. It's an OTC blend. It's cheap. It's ubiquitous. It's pretty damn good. If you love burley, I can't see how you would dislike it. Yeah, it has some PG, but that evaporates rather quickly if you leave it out for a little while (I like my tobaccos a little on the dryer side, anyway). Yeah, PA is a little on the sweet side, when compared with Carter Hall, Granger, and Sir Walter Raleigh. But, there's nothing like it when you're in the mood for it. This tobacco was what your grandfather probably smoked. Enjoy it.
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Bowser	09/18/2012	Mild to Medium	Medium	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
When I saw that Wal-Mart had Prince Albert on offer, I figured it was time to try a classic. My sample came out of the pouch a little on the moist side, but still very usable. It smokes cool, and is pretty good about staying lit. My sample was cased with a flavoring not unlike Black and Mild, but a lot more subtle; some tobacco taste actually came through. This blend is a little light for me, though; I've come to prefer blends with a little more of a kick. As others have noted, this is the pipe-tobacco equivalent of Budweiser. Its main advantage is that, like Budweiser, it should be widely available. If you need a widely available blend to hold you over until your next tobacco order arrives, or you're somewhere that a good tobacconist cannot be found, you could do a hell of a lot worse than Prince Albert. Recommended, for its status as a classic and availability. Try it in a cob!
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thehaggis	09/17/2012	Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable
So it's an OTC and that will put some off just for it's lack of snob appeal.....however it remains a decent standby and like another reviewer said..."a Budwieser smoke". Well said, sometimes a Bud is okay and so is PA.
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JimInks	09/14/2012	Very Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant
After nearly 40 years of pipe smoking, I finally decided to try this blend. I was initially put off by the chemical taste, but after dedicating one briar and one corncob to it, PA became a very pleasant smoke with a light chocolate taste. It burns evenly, doesn't need to be relit much, and packs very easily. One of the few tobaccos I have smoked that my lady commented favorably on when she smelled it. It would never be more than a change of pace smoke for me, but sometimes I need a break from heavier, fuller blends. This is a good choice for that. Don't expect more than it's meant to be, and you'll probably enjoy it.
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Phonomet	09/13/2012	Mild	Extremely Mild	Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable
I'm one who enjoys a good IPA, or a stout, but sometimes it's nice to have a Budweiser. This is a Budweiser kind of smoke. I just finished my first pouch and I enjoyed every bowl. Because of the price and availability here in the States, this is one comes recommended and is a tobacco I'll keep on hand. The taste and smell do suggest cigarettes (as a former cigarette smoker I am particularly reminded of Camel lights). For those who could do without cigarette analogies, this is a simple burley tobacco with very little casing. If there are chemicals added, they don't show up in the taste. The description says "alcohol" casing, but compared to Half and Half or other drug store blends, this one is au naturale.
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CMidwinter	09/13/2012	Very Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant
I usually smoke burly english blends but I thought I'd try this. Probably my favorite mild blend I've found so far. It stays lit the whole way through (even when it was raining). Overall a good mild blend.
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PeterD	09/08/2012	Mild	Very Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
...when I started smoking a pipe in 1960, Prince Albert, SWR and Half & Half were my everyday day mixtures...very inexpensive at the time, reasonable smoke and available anywhere. the last 45 years I have spent smoking strong Virginia Plugs/Flakes and they are still my preference...However, every few years I pull a tub of PA out and smoke a few bowls for the memories... The last few weeks I have been smoking PA and this time around, I quite like this...and since I'm not a Burley fan...the aroma, taste and smoking characteristics of PA have almost made this a daily go to smoke. The tub I am smoking out of is about 22 years old but I've also purchased a few pouches over the last two weeks as well...little to no difference, so consistency is there for sure... I have not yet decided to keep this in my top 15 tobaccos I smoke in rotation, but it is close to being there...a most worthwhile tobacco I think, and one that I have come to appreciate more and more... Perfect in a larger size pipe , group 4 size or higher... ...a pipe is to be savored...
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gsbergman	08/16/2012	Mild	Mild	Medium	Tolerable
Until recently I never bothered to try Prince Albert. Maybe too many butt end of jokes, but I finally gave in. What can I say, this has become my daily go-to tobacco. It's just a pleasant, good tasting, all around daily blend. What else could I say, cheap and good. Great everyday tobacco.
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CGHurlburt	08/05/2012	Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable
Of all the OTC brands I've tried this brand is the better choice in a cheap pipe smoke. I personally prefer it in a briar as opposed to any other type of pipe. It plays nice there. This is not my "go to smoke". Never will be. But if I'm waiting for good smoke to arrive and have nothing else available I reach for this stuff. It is a no nonsense smoke with little casing and straight forward taste. I don't get any fermented virginia taste or any fire cured anything flavor. It's just tobacco. The reason I go to it is because of what it doesn't have. It doesn't bite like rabid sharks. It doesn't have heavy biting casings. I can smoke it and not feel like I'm drawing acid through a straw into my mouth. And it is mildly satisfying. Still, it is not a great smoke. It is simply better than any other alternative from OTC when you are waiting for the Good Stuff to arrive. I'm a little envious of smokers that credit this as the best. Ignorance is bliss. But too their credit, it isnt half bad. A little less than half. There are many brands that sell OTC for much more and is truely gruesome. I blame those brands for the few numbers of pipe smokers around. They are there apparently only to persuade future pipe smokers to give up and smoke a cigarette instead. I can seriously see no other reason for them.
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atomicbuster	08/05/2012	Extremely Mild	None detected	Extremely Mild (Flat)	Unnoticeable
This blend smells and tastes like empty smoke. If you want flavor, go somewhere else. Most cigars and regular cigarettes have more flavor than this. Oh well, at least you can't say the smell is offensive. On the flip side, if you just want the act of smoking without having to worry about flavor, this might suit you. Another good thing is that it burns well, even out of the box.
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