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Brush Creek
| Brand: |
The Tobacco Barn |
| Blender: |
Tom |
| Tin Description: |
This English mixture is considered "our special English mixture".
It has everything but the kitchen sink!
A combination of a light aromatic blend and a traditional
English, Virginias, burley, toasted cavendish, fire cured vanilla
base cavendish and a fair amount of latakia. You might notice
small specks of a greenish substance in this blend. This is not
tobacco, rather it is a herb referred to as "deer tongue." While it
is neutral in taste, it was used in many old time tobacco blends
to bring about a nicer aroma of the pipe. We use a small
amount in the Brush Creek blend to mask the more pungent
aroma of the latakia in this fine blend. |
| Country of Origin: |
U.S.A |
| Curing Group: |
Air Cured |
| Contents: |
Burley
Cavendish
Black Cavendish
Virginia
Latakia
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| Cut: |
Coarse Cut |
| Packaging: |
Bulk |
| Blend Notes: |
From what I understand this blend used a few Lane Limited
blends, as well as other ingredients. Unfortunately the decision to
eliminate a good amount of Lane Limited blends has made the
blend discontinued. We can only hope for a substitute soon! |
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Average Ratings
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| Strength: |
Mild to Medium
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| Flavoring: |
None detected
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| Taste: |
Medium
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| Room Note: |
Tolerable to Strong
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| Recommendation: |
Somewhat Recommended
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Tantric
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05/17/2009 |
Mild to Medium
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None detected
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Medium
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Tolerable to Strong
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| I had mentioned this tobacco before. It's intriguing how certain blend names carry through in other contexts. Down here in Mexico a tobacco firm that blends what I believe to be licensed versions of classical American tobaccos (i.e, Kentucky Club, Apple, Rum&Maple, Vermont Maple, etc.) used to produce Brush Creek. I think it was their only non-cased tobacco: a lot of toasted Burley with what could have been (or not) something similar to smokey Latakia. I haven't seen it in a long time. Rather dull, ashy tasting and hot burning, but it was a good, natural smoke. If I can compare it to anything, it would be a Burley-Latakia equivalent of C&D's Yale Mixture. Not as refined and smooth, but very clearly structured in terms of its basic components.
I don't know if this blend is an original creation of Tobacco Barn, or if they are recreating a by gone tobacco (very much like Windsor is bringing back some American classics).
I don't recall in the Brush Creek version I used to smoke down here, any deer tongue. In fact, one of the things some of us used to celebrate was the fact that this blend had no sweeteners or any other aromatic component.
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