Troost - Special pipe tobacco reviews

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SmokeKing David	02/20/2013	Mild to Medium	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
Nope. That's all that this blend deserves, by way of review. Hot and without a pleasant flavor. I wouldn't even take a free bowl of this very disappointing tobacco. Nope. Govern Yourself Accordingly.
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Virginia lover	01/15/2013	Mild	Very Mild	Mild	Pleasant
An orange pouch that says made in the EU. A Dutch style Cavendish that is so lightly flavored with cocoa/licorice that I barely consider this a light aromatic. The flavor is monochromatic with the flavoring showing up once in a while. The real challenge being of pacing yourself so that you take advantage of a genuine old school pipe smoking experience. If puffed too fast, you will be reminded to slow down by some light tongue bite. I do believe that I was lucky enough to get an older production pouch that would explain the light casing and the seasoned tobacco taste.
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L. McQueen	02/01/2012	Medium to Strong	Very Mild	Mild	Tolerable
Disappointing...i read a review thinking this would be really good but i could hardly detect any taste from it as well as got tongue bite....now for me I found it a very strong tobacco ...I felt sick from the nicotine or something...the aroma in the pouch wasn't bad..the room note I'm not sure because I was nauseous afterwards. I have put this one away to age and hope to revisit with a better experience in future. I would not buy this again.
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metalhead	09/20/2011	Mild to Medium	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
writeing this review im about halfway thrue the pouch, it grows on you. first bowl was nothing special, but the more you smoke it the more you discover in taste. didnt had any tonguebite and smokes easily down to the bottom of the pipe. for sure this will be in my baccy stash.
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Mr. Big	09/15/2011	Mild to Medium	Extremely Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
It has been 47 years since I first tried this blend, back then they included coupons, collect 10 and they sent you a free pipe of your choice (basket quality). I still have a few that I smoke on occasion. Well, on to the review of my recent purchase, basically an upscale drug store blend. It starts with a slight liquorish citrus flavor, some sweetness from the Cavendish and I feel it has got to have some Burley, very mild. Now that Peter Stokkebyes is manufacturing this, it reminds me of a milder Orliks Golden. The next time you're in "Rite Aid" and you ran out of tobacco, try some, it's better than anything else they stock. Oh, and if I remember correctly from 47 years ago, Troost Aro tastes and smells like cookie dough. updated 12/1/12-I've had a sealed pouch of this in the cellar for over a year and just decided to smoke it, what a pleasent surprise.The light topping of liquorish citrus flavor is gone and all that's left is the natural smooth Virgina tobacco ( no Burley flavor). It is naturally sweet, an easy burning broken flake without any bite. I now remember why I used to smoke this. Bumped to 3 stars
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Capt	08/16/2011	Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant
Good ol' Troost. I have had a pouch of this floating around my house since 01/06. For some reason I decided to dig through the drawer and pull this out. Nothing wrong with this tobacco, a good all day cavendish blend. I do not however, see any black cavendish as the description states. Great for yard work, or putzing around the house. Even a good blend for fly tying, it won't give you the shakes from a high nicotine content.
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fxf819	06/19/2011	Mild to Medium	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
Makes you wish the bowl would go on forever. It is only the second tobacco I have smoked since starting. First being Captain black white. To each their own. Capt wasn't for me. This smells good and just makes me wanna keep going. No tongue bite. Little pricey in NH seeing how the tobacco tax is 65% but was worth the price.
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wosbald	05/05/2011	Medium to Strong	Mild	Medium	Pleasant
Along with the typical grass and wheat of virginia and burley leaf, this ready rubbed flake smells, unsurprisingly, like dutch cocoa. In the bowl, the husky burleys and rich gold VAs are further smoothed by the cavendish process, which also adds a minimal touch of added sugar. There is a touch of dark fired leaf, which I will assume is burley because its contribution to the blend is subliminal to me, as is any turkish which may be hiding amongst the leaves. Troost Special is the very definition of mellow. Its homogenous richness, without variance or interplay, is perfect for all day smoking for those seeking something both robust and reserved. This was best in narrow to medium gauge chambers.
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beaupipe	04/27/2011	Mild	Very Mild	Very Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable
Troost Special Cavendish appears to be produced from a rubbed out flake. It’s a sort of reddish gold color and is really quite attractive right out of the pouch. Its appearance, coupled with a mild and elusive aroma made me want to like it. It’s tough to describe the smell of this blend, but it seems to be the result of a tug-of-war between some grassy tobacco scents and something lightly fruity. On occasion, I find light cocoa notes, too, but whatever it is that makes this stuff “Special” has been applied with a very light hand. Reviewers here are almost unanimous in describing this as bland, unexciting. I confess that I developed pretty much the same impression from the first few bowls I smoked. But I also thought it smoked very nicely. So as an experiment, I decided to spend an entire weekend with Troost. I came away from my little experiment believing that the real trouble with this is that it is so easily overwhelmed by most other tobaccos. People who frequent sites like this probably smoke a variety of blends on a regular basis, some mild, some intense. This is so mild that I think for it to come into its own, it needs great attention, complete fidelity. It’s like a mousy date at a Clash concert. In order to hear her, you’ve gotta shout, “WILL THE REST OF YOU PLEASE SHUT THE HELL UP!” You lean in close. You think there’s something there, something worth committing to, and so you shelve those other lovers and marry her. One day a memory of a distant experience pops into your head and even though you can’t remember the details, the intensity remains. You realize you’ve lost something. And so you cheat one day with a bowl of Escudo or Grousmere or, heaven forbid, Old Joe Krantz. It will be weeks before the Special Cavendish-ing provided by your little Troost will allow you to stop pining for that intense experience the event of infidelity provided. And so you run off into the Wilderness and lay down beside the 3 Oaks with each of the Three Nuns. One right after another. And you know them while Old Joe Krantz sits nearby taking notes. The relationship you have with simple, mousy Troost begins to unravel. You realize it was never more than boredom’s own braid. Recommended, but only for faithful types who vow not to stray with other tobaccos.
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TK Pipe	02/10/2011	Mild	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
Troost Special… A (50g) pouch tobacco, containing coarsely rubbed out medium brown flakes. Some may consider this stuff a drug store blend, not so in my area, I had to get mine using the internet, and is my first Troost product of any kind. But as I always enjoyed Cavendish blends, and this one was on my must try list for some time. I’m glad I made the afford. Pouch moisture was about perfect for most, but I prefer my delicate flavored flake blends dried "almost" brittle, I feel this helps eliminate some of the annoying steam early in the smoke, this may sound a bit zany, but it works for me. After an easy pack and light up, followed by several full draws, I found its taste reminds me of Sail Yellow in many ways, with Troost being a bit stronger (not in Nicotine which seems mild) but in taste, and with a noticeable but mild Perique like pepper presents, a nice surprise, you might even say it’ a tad “special”. So… if a slightly aromatic and a somewhat peppery Danish Cavendish sound good to you, this is for you. For what it is. 3 stars. My personal rating 3/5
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azguy	02/02/2011	Very Mild	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
A very distinctive tobacco, Perhaps the definitive Dutch blend. The pouch aroma is sweet not unlike spring heather. The pipe should be packed using the Frank technique. This will minimize the number of relights and maximize the unique characteristics of this tobacco. Unlike the usual description of "Danish" blends, this technique opens an entirely new experience. The sweetness is not at all fleeting but is a strong deeper layer of taste to the rich muskiness throughout. A much under expected but delicious experience. Smoked in a medium meer is a rare and exceptional treat.
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Claudius Stradivarius	07/25/2010	Mild to Medium	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
I have tried both the tin and the pouch. Please avoid the pouch. It is not up to the wonderful tobacco contained in the tin. The tin displays an outstanding broken flake of light and medium brown. The tin aroma is of walnuts with a little sweet extra, maybe a bit of vanilla. The tobacco is mild but rich, a real pleasure to smoke. The tobacco is the pouch is dry and hasrh. Stay away from the pouch if you can!
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Robert	02/22/2010	Mild	Very Mild	Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable
It smelled nice in the pouch. I wish some of that came through the smoke. Frankly I get more taste out of SWR than this. It bit me. I tend to smoke more burleys that never bite me so I can huff and puff as I please. This one tried to peel the skin off my tongue and salt it down too.
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Shawn	02/19/2010	Mild to Medium	Very Mild	Medium	Tolerable to Strong
Perhaps it was simply my pouch, but this was a rather bland and boring tobacco to me. It was rather dry in the pouch, and smoked much too hot, even with careful puffing. The taste was that of a standard VA to me, and reminded me a bit too much of cigarettes at times. I expected at least a hint of a sweet casing, but found nothing. I'll be giving this one away...
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DK	02/08/2010	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
I found this a little light on flavor compared to Skandinavik's Regular or Full Aroma cavendishes. The flavor I did get seemed more of the artificial honey that cases the tobacco than actual tobacco but it wasn't overly sticky or heavily processed. The taste of this Dutch blend was lighter than its Danish brethren, and I think that's mostly a good thing. However, the overall flavor was a bit too light for me. I liked the cut of this and it smelled quite natural in the pouch. The taste was pleasant enough, but I prefer a bit more joie de vivre. Complexity was minimal, but that's ok - I don't think complexity is the point with Dutch-style cavendish blends. The taste was uniform top to bottom and this did not bite me. I can certainly recommend this to someone who prefers a lightly sweet smoke and doesn't want to be overpowered by flavor or nicotine. I won't buy more but I wouldn't turn down a freebie!
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Clarkus	02/02/2010	Medium	Mild	Medium to Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
Like "alfabet", I first smoked Troost in or about 1969 in pouch or slices (the slices were also in a pouch rather than tin). My usual tobacco was Old Georgetown, a local English blend. As a change I would smoke Schippers, Troost and Edgeworth slices. I don't know how it could have been but Schippers was my favorite of the three. Last year, I bought a five pack of Troost based on these reviews and I'm very happy I did. I'm into my second five pack now. It seems to be a VA/Burley blend with the VA up front and the burley rounding it out. The pouch aroma is very good. I can't determine the toppings but the topping seems to be rather subdued once lit. The pouch rates it aromatic 4 out of 5 but I would rate its aromatic quality a 3 at most. Scandanivic Regular is a close approximation but I prefer Troost and believe it to be a step up from Scandanivic even though both present tobacco flavor quite well. This is my "go to" VA pouch tobacco. It tastes like tobacco, burns well down to a fine ash without gumming up your pipe with an unoffensive room note and comes at a good price.
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alfabet	01/31/2010	Mild	None detected	Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable
Back in 1969 as a freshman in college I picked up the pipe smoking habit. With a master pipe maker owning a tobacco shop in the small central Pennsylvania town, it was easy to get started. After going through the usual "drug store" brands I quickly found that virginia, burleigh and dutch cavendish were where I was most inclined. Somewhere around that time I became aware of Troost Special and, yes it was much more available- in pouches as well as half pound cans. Over the next 35 years, whether I "gave up the habit" or returned on a very sporadic basis, Troost was always my go to tobacco. Most recently I returned to my off again, on again pipe smoking and bought a pouch, now only really available on the internet. I was not disappointed but either I have stepped into a different realm in my old age or the blend is not quite the same. The latter has been what I have seen on these reviews and I would like to believe that this this is the reason that it is no longer a favorite. I was also disappointed to hear that the slices are no longer available in this country or that these, too have been reformulated. There appears to be so much good flake and ready rubbed tobacco which incorporates a virginia and burleigh blend that I find myself moving in that direction. Most recently I bought some samplers of PS luxury twist flake and SG best brown flake and I have been enthralld by both. I have an tin of Orlick golden still to open and it looks similar to the troost slices but that remains to be seen (or smoked). I can still recommend the Troost Special. It just isn't as "special" as I recall.
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Cantrell	01/22/2010	Very Mild	None detected	Very Mild	Tolerable
Tongue bite and lots of it, virtually no flavor. pouch aroma is about the only good thing. smelled like raisins and sweet cake. I must say I expected more.
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Xeneize	01/20/2010	Mild to Medium	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
Even when this baccy is much better than Troost Black Cavendish, it's still far from good. Similar in taste to Sail Yellow (just a bit sweeter), it tends to burn hotter with a stronger tongue bite. Not the worst drugstore blend, but quite unremarkable.
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Old Northern Smoky	01/07/2010	Mild	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
I like my tobaccos to be non-biting, mild, easy to pack and light and not full of artificial flavors. While I am on record for liking my Captain Black's, I find that as I mature as a pipe smoker, I like to smoke my Captain's more on an occasional basis in lieu of the Dutch blends. Troost Special Cavendish is another Troost brand that I really enjoy. It's been nearly 25 years since I smoked this blend, but thanks to a friend who brought back a pouch from Holland for me, I have been able to re-kindle many fond memories associated with this blend. This is not a moist tobacco and once the pouch is opened it dries even more very quickly and if you don't keep it moist it will burn to nothing in minutes. The aroma in the pouch is slightly licorice which is absent in the room note but delicately reappears in the mouth as an aftertaste. Lights easily, burns to the end, doesn't bite and has a mild ever so slightly sweet taste and aroma. Smoke is slightly on the dry side but very mellow.......yes that's the word to sum it up.....Mellow. Very little after-taste left in the mouth. A very nice all-day smoke. I give it a Highly Recommended!
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