John Middleton, Inc - Black & Mild pipe tobacco reviews

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tabaco	02/14/2012	Very Mild	Extra Strong	Extremely Mild (Flat)	Pleasant
There are a few decent drug store aromatics that are decent Steady Eddie smokes. Sometimes I'll got to them for a change of pace, or working on the road and run short. This stuff is horrid, wicked heat and bite, sickly sweet, sticky like jam. Maybe it was cased with Robitussin cough syrup . . . "drugstore blend". They took the term way over the top with this one.
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paulw	06/10/2010	Mild to Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium to Full	Tolerable to Strong
I like black and mild cigars but not the pipe tobacco it tasted fake like a bunch of chemicals bad after taste, not at all like the little cigars
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BOWLBRO	09/05/2009	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild	Very Pleasant
I'm wondering if all these bad reviews were mostly from non aromatic smokers. I'll bet that's the case. English blend smokers LIVE to bash any and all aromatics from what i've seen and read (no offense bro's). Black and Mild cigars taste NASTY. It's amazing that they are the # 1 selling cigar sku in the nation! But their loose pouch tobacco, if you can find it, isnt half bad. Out of nostalgia, I ordered Middleton's Black and Mild Vanilla loose pouch tobacco. (In the very early 80's I smoked Middleton's Black and Mild loose tobacco as a young Marine and I enjoyed it.) It wasnt bad at all. Nice flavor, smoked cool and didnt bite. Of course I prefer premium flavored aromatics, but let's not forget, Middleton's has produced successful selling pouch tobacco for DECADES. There's a reason for that, but it isnt because of their cigars, that's for sure.
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CornCob	02/10/2009	Very Mild	Very Mild	Very Mild	Pleasant
This to me is a cheap version of Capt. Black white, but not half as good.It tastes cheap and lacks flavour a good black should posses, and it bites a bit too.
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rhapsodyofmetal	08/01/2008	Extremely Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable
My first dime store brand that didn't remind me of childhood. Eh, it tastes like tobacco flavored vanilla. Cheap crap. Ok for a bored smoke when taste is not as important as smoke.
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rsvp2rip	07/12/2008	Mild	Medium	Mild	Pleasant
Just because it can be found everywhere and it is inexpensive, doesn't make it any good. But because I didn't find it so bad when using a filter I can give it 2 stars. Might be good for someone starting out if they use a filter because it doesn't bite or get too harsh, but the filter does remove almost all the flavor; casing and tobacco. Otherwise, it would have to be the last thing available for me to smoke it on a rare occasion. Probibly would try summac before that though.
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Big bad Jon	06/30/2007	Very Mild	Very Strong	Medium	Pleasant
If this was the last tobacco left on the earth I would quit. It is so stinking sweet that you will taste it for days. If you smoke it in anything other than a cob consider it ruined. The only reason I tried it was I liked their "cigars" when I was 13, I am glad my tasted have grown up a bit since. I am an experienced pipe smoker and noticed a considerable amount of bite. Please leave this one at the store.
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Nick O'Teen	06/30/2007	Mild	Strong	Mild	Pleasant
I'll gladly join Big bad Jon here on bash Black & Mild Day. One of only 18 inductees into this sites Tobacco Hall of Shame (there should be dozens, if not hundreds more but that's a rant for another day), Black Death...err...Black & Mild is quite worthy of this dubious honor, taking its rightful place among such legends as Mixture 79 and Borkum Riff Whiskey. I adoringly call this Gunk Junk. Truly among the worst alleged tobaccos of all-time.
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Russell	02/26/2007	Extremely Mild	Extra Strong	Mild	Strong
I bought some of this during a long drive down south, at a no-name gas station in the desert. It was all they had aside from swisher sweets and cigarettes, and as spontaneous as the trip was, I didn't even bring a roll-up pouch. It's bad enough that it contains propylene glycol, but in this case, so much of it that your pipe will be gurgling like mad once you burn off the first third of the bowl. Not only does the first third of the bowl burn off, so does the vanillin, leaving a rather disgusting goop, which tastes like burley fermented in a damp bucket full of stale boston baked beans. I don't believe that I've smoked anything else that bit this bad either. I threw the bowl out the window and threw the rest near a bus stop bench I drove past. Thank God it was a kaywoodie I keep in the glovebox for emergencies. However, I doubt it will ever taste the same again and will be replacing it with a grabow, rather than subject my tastebuds to that flavor again. Do the public a favor and demand this vile mixture is taken out of gas stations for the sake of the mental health of your city.
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Pipestud	04/22/2006	Very Mild	Strong	Mild	Pleasant
Tastes sure do vary when it comes to our likes and dislikes in pipe tobacco. A friend and fellow pipe club member absolutely loves this stuff and buys it by the barrel. At a recent meeting he offered me a bowl. Since I'll try just about any legal tobacco, I loaded up quickly in a pipe I reserve for aromatics. I unloaded just as quickly. I've tasted goopy aromatics many times in my life and this one ranks right up there with the best (or worst) of 'em.
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ADMINJAY	01/25/2006	Overwhelming	Very Strong	Overwhelming	Very Pleasant
I must agree that this tobacco is a true drug dtore brand, it is also very sticky, Good Luck getting your bowl clean after smoking this, the first time i have ever tried this tobacco it was actually not so bad, I'm not sure what i liked better at the time the room note or the taste as for my second try that's when it was the worst the room note was still very good but as far as the taste your better off taking the ashes from the bowl and putting them in your mouth also the bite was way to strong, it would be less strong if you directly put your tongue on the lit tobacco itself, please do not do any of the above as it is only used as a description
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Tantric	08/16/2005	Extremely Mild	Very Strong	Overwhelming	Pleasant
The epitome of a drug-store, hyper sweet, goopy, cloying-vanilla-laden blend (or, if you prefer, the antithesis of what pipe tobacco should be).
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Polski	05/15/2005	Mild to Medium	Medium	Mild to Medium	Tolerable to Strong
This is a "drug store" tobacco that can be found almost anywhere. When I bought it, I just wanted to try something diffrent and new. The tobacco has a rather nice vanilla smell, but thats where it ends. The taste is rather nasty, and bites. I wouldnt recommend it. Your better of picking up one of Captain Black's blends.
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pop-pop's pipe	02/10/2004	Very Mild	Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
Captain Black wannabe knockoff. Too dry and it bites. Would rather smoke argosy or BCA. Don't waste your money.
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Cirdan	02/04/2003	Very Mild	Strong	Mild	Pleasant
If you intend to please your girlfriend with this, bring a vacuum cleaner along to smoke it. If you do smoke and stand it, you can probably smoke anything just as well (glass fiber, old tires...) and should consider entering some macho brotherhood. In fact, I found a use for it. After drying for some time, trace amounts can be safely added to actual tobacco as a casing, should you like to smoke in the presence of non-smokers - they always give in to a hint of "potpuri".
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Tantric	02/03/2003	Extremely Mild	Very Strong	Extremely Mild (Flat)	Pleasant to Tolerable
I have to agree with my fellow reviewers on this one. Chemical tobacco at its worst (or at its best, depending). A hot tasting cough syrup would fairly describe this blend. A warning from the Surgeon General on the pouch of this tobacco should read: Caution, smoking this blend will permanently impair your sense of taste.
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Daniel Morlan	09/20/2002	Mild	Strong	Medium to Full	Strong
To say that this is not my cup of tea is something of a colossal understatement. The flavor is of a vanilla cardboard mixed with catfood and elmer's glue. Pure crap. Don't waste a SINGLE SHINY PENNY on this filthy crap. It is the breakfast of the damned.
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ryan	09/13/2002	Mild	Extra Strong	Mild	Tolerable to Strong
what a horrible blend! all I taste is the artificial flavors and not the tobacco. massive tongue bite, now I know why this is considered a "drugstore" blend. Don't waste a penny on this crap!!!
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