John Middleton, Inc - Apple Pipe Tobacco pipe tobacco reviews

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Henry Mars	06/01/2013	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Extremely Mild (Flat)	Pleasant
Well if you are just looking for a nicotine fix this may just do the job. If you are looking for any kind of flavor forget it. Even the burly flavor is lacking. It doesn't bite but there is little of anything here to talk about other than it is a cheap OTC blend that may rope in the naive, inexperienced smoker. I have been experimenting with OTC tobaccos over the last year and this one is better than Mixture #79 ... the best I can say. I prefer Granger and CH to this stuff. That said, I don't believe that Middleton dumped Hickory and kept Apple. Hickory was far better than this swill. There is some sweet chemical background taste to Apple but it ain't Apples and it ain't Burly .. The chemists at Middleton must have been very busy on this one. Purchase at your own risk. You have been warned!
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xnihilo	04/13/2013	Mild to Medium	Mild	Extremely Mild (Flat)	Pleasant to Tolerable
What happened? This was the tobacco my dad caught me with when I was a teenager about 1980. I remember it having a smooth, distinct apple flavor that I enjoyed late at night sitting on the roof watching the night sky go by. Fast-forward 30+ years and I order a coupla pouches awaiting wonderful memories. When it arrived I couldn't wait to tear into the package and savor good times past. What a let down. Smell and texture was not what I remembered. Carefully loaded my custom Armentrout--still with hope--and again...flat. Almost no flavoring I could tell other than chemical. Disappointed for sure.
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Durham270	02/28/2013	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
Each time I go into my local B&M I've seen this sitting on a shelf covered in dust and started feeling sorry for it looking all lonesome! I bought a pouch and brought it home. Upon opening the pouch I can detect a very mild tobacco Burley scent along with a faint apple present. The pouch I have is very dry tobacco. NO moistness can be detected which makes me wonder how long it had been sitting on that shelf. I'm smoking it now in a Great Dane Cob and I have to say I like it! It has a nice Burley taste for Burley lovers along with a very faint apple taste in the background. The sweetness of this tobacco lingers on and is very mild and would make a great tobacco for the beginner pipe smoker. This wont be my regular tobacco but I know I will come back to this whenever I want to relax with something sweet and a nice glass of whiskey. Give it a try!
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musicman	11/26/2012	Mild	Very Mild	Very Mild	Pleasant
This tobacco is almost a perfect blend. This stuff burns great, has a good room note, wont gunk up your pipe, lights really easily, and has no tongue bite whatsoever. There is only one one drawback to this tobacco. There is absolutely no flavor. When I smoke this I can picture a little old lady in a black dress yelling "where's the taste!". Apple? I certainly don't think so, I really looked for it too. Some people have mentioned a cider flavor but damned if I tasted anything remotely related to apples. Once again, the overall characteristics of this tobacco are great, it just doesn't taste like anything.
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JimInks	09/16/2012	Mild	Medium	Very Mild	Pleasant
One of the two worst tobaccos I ever tried. I wanted to like it because I like apples, but there's no apple taste here. It burns hot, scorches the tongue and is best used on your enemies.
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unixhelp	06/21/2012	Mild	Mild	Mild	Very Pleasant
My dad smoked this and it makes me feel warm and fuzzy...nostalgia? But all the same, for an inexpensive brand and worth a try in a cob.
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T. Ferguson	06/12/2012	Very Mild	Mild	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
I'd like to play devil's advocate and come forward saying "I love this stuff"! The flavor is less fresh apple and more apple cider. My wife doesn't hate the smell, so that's a plus, and it makes this Kentucky humidity a bit more tolerable. I'd take this ANY day. I got zero nic hit off of this...the only downfall. It won't bite at even the most fervent provocation. All of this coming from the man who is swearing off aromatics...grain of salt, brethren. If anyone absolutely hates this blend, just get my address and I'll pay shipping.
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manxman	05/29/2012	Mild	Extremely Mild	Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable
I had no trouble keeping this lit, but I tamp as I go along. I smoke it in a Missouri Meerschaum Hardwood, using a Dr Grabow filter cut in half. I change the filter every 2-3 bowls to keep things fresh. The smoke is mild enough for a Newbie. Also mild enough to indulge my habit of exhaling the smoke from my mouth,then whiffing it into my nose. Mild enough for an 'all day' smoke, although some may think it too boring. Of course, at this level of mildness, I experienced no tongue bite. I found myself hoping for more apple flavor. To me it doesn't taste like apple fruit, but it does smell like applewood smoked bacon. I'd recommend everyone try it once to see if it is to your liking. I did not find that it gooped up my pipe, it left a nice dry ash behind. I also had no problems with tongue bite. I hope to order some Apple from Boswell's and revisit this review later. For the 'drugstore' tobacco that it is; 3 stars. At $5.59 a pouch here in Connecticut, it's more than two bucks less than most other OTC pouch brands, a bargain. For that reason, go ahead and dump the bowl when you're 3/4 finished. It will stay lit right to the bottom, but the last 1/4 isn't pleasant.
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Earl Grey	04/14/2012	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
This is one of the first tobaccos I tried as a newbie. I like this stuff. I still get a pouch now and then. The apple taste is not strong, but it's noticeable enough. As others said, it will ghost a pipe. I will smoke this stuff in one of my cobs from now on. It polluted hell out of one of my briars and took a week of intense burley puffing to recover it.
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The Layman	03/04/2012	Mild to Medium	Mild	Mild	Pleasant
You know, when I was a young lad, this tobacco is actually the first encounter I ever had with the world of pipe tobacco. My school Principal used to always smoke this and I absolutely loved the smell. Now it's almost 50 years later and I've grown to be a pipe fanatic of my own. That being said, now that I'm old enough to know better, I would have to say that no sir...I really can't recommend this. Yes it's a cheap tobacco, and if you are on an extremely low budget, this can get you by in a pinch, but seriously? If you can spring for better, I honestly can't see carrying this around when you can get something that is so much more enjoyable. I do love a good burley, but this really doesn't quite nail it. The pouch aroma is decent, but that is pretty much all I can say for this tobacco. The "Apple" flavoring is really non existent, which is supposedly the main feature of this tobacco as represented by it's packaging. The moral of this story is that for the money, there are really better tobaccos to be had out there. There are some companies that make their own burley blends ::cough:::Uhles:::cough::: that are absolutely worth spending the extra dime on. When you go outdoors on that fishing trip or just to soak in the environment, bring something worth-while to smoke on. It makes all the difference in the world.
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TobaccoMan2012	02/21/2012	Mild to Medium	Mild	Medium	Pleasant
I always keep about four different pipe tobbaco's on hand, and this is one of them. You would love it if you are into burleys, because you can definately taste it in this blend. This one does not have much of a bite in my opinion. You can somewhat taste the apple in it. It is not too strong for me, and probably not too strong for anyone who enjoys a pipe. I would personally recommend this one!
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Wildcat	01/06/2012	Mild to Medium	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
I spent the last day of 2011 with Middleton's Apple. A terrific way to end an otherwise so-so year! A great all day smoke that I wish was available in 12 or 14 oz tins! Mild and pleasant, never bites. My son likes it too!
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wosbald	05/30/2011	Medium	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
The pouch aroma of this crimp-cut mixture is gently grassy, lacking earthiness. The topping is gently sweet, evoking the scent of a delicate apple jelly. Composed of light and brown burleys along with a touch of small-flake, sweetened red virginias. The topping is amiable and gentle, enhancing, rather than intruding upon, the base leaf. Noting both the effect of the topping and the, seemingly, slight difference in composition, the overall effect of Apple is somewhat similar to the lilting Carter Hall, though with a presence that the latter seems to lack. It is innocuous, insignificant, and cheerfully tasty. Chamber Gauge: Medium to Wide
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SteelCowboy	12/17/2010	Mild	Medium	Mild	Pleasant
Everyone always remembers their first and Apple was mine. While not very much of a blend, this was in my pipe while sitting on the beautiful Maine coast when it became clear to me that pipe smoking was going to be part of my future. As a couple of folks have mentioned, I don't detect much apple flavor in this blend, but my personal history with Apple makes it somewhat recommended.
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The Persian Slipper	12/04/2010	Mild	Very Mild	Very Mild	Pleasant
This one I have to smoke when I get a wild hair. It's not the best of tobaccos, but's it a good budget baccy. You don't get a lot of apple flavor. But, if you sip it slowly, you get a little bit of sweet apple-ish flavor. It's a good burley, all-in-all. Worth keeping around, but not an everyday thing.
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Taylor3006	10/14/2010	Medium to Strong	Extremely Mild	Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable
I waited until I purchased a second pouch of this from a different supplier just to make sure I was doing this tobacco justice. There is a FAINT odor of apples in the pouches I sampled. Had no trouble getting it lit or keeping it lit in my MM cob, both my pouches seemed a bit on the dry side. I could detect a very very faint hint of apples during smoking, I was hoping for so much more after reading the reviews here. The tobacco itself is quite strong, I would not recommend this to a novice smoker unless they like a harsh smoke. Noticeable tongue bite even with sipping. Not happy with this as a flavored tobacco, probably a decent smoke for those who like Half & Half or Carter Hall, or the like. I really really wanted some apple in this to use for blending purposes but will keep looking. I will buy ONE more pouch of Apple hoping that the two I have tried were old only because it is so inexpensive. After that I am done with this blend.
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Tom Bombadill	09/19/2010	Mild to Medium	None detected	Mild	Unnoticeable
This is a good smoke for someone starting out and it's especially good for someone who doesn't like apples because THERE WAS NO APPLE FLAVOR DETECTED. I've been smoking two years now and have been enjoying really fine blends form tobacconists and the famous blend houses. I happened to be in tax free New Hampshire USA and saw a pouch of this apple blend and decided to give it a try even though it is a "drug store" blend. It smells fruity in the bag. What sweetness there is comes from the burley. Now that I think of it not too bad of an over the counter burley blend. As mentioned: No apple flavor detected. WEIRD. Worth a try for a newbie.
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DoctorThoss	09/19/2010	Mild	Medium	Mild to Medium	Tolerable
Once upon a time, I loved this stuff. It was readily available where I live (you could pick it up from Kroger, even) and was a very pleasant, non-biting aromatic. The last couple of pouches I've tried however, were harsh and even painful to smoke. I was quite disappointed, and I'm not keeping my eye out for an apple-flavored aromatic for when the right mood hits.
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MrBrandyBuck	09/19/2010	Extremely Mild	Extremely Mild	Very Mild	Pleasant
This tobacco smells great in the pouch. However the smell of the smoke did not smell like apples and it didn't taste much like apples either. The smoke doesn't have much of a taste. It burns rather cool for an aromatic and I did not have any problems with gurgling. If given this tobacco I would take it however I doubt I'll be buying it again. Just a cool mild smoke, not much flavor.
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chetking	08/21/2010	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild	Very Pleasant
An under rated, unsung and popularly available supermarket and drug store staple through and through. My tobbaconist also stocks it; some serious connoisseurs must find something worthwhile. For those smokers who crave a mild, fruity round in their rotation Middleton's Apple may be "The One." No question this tobac (mine appeared to be a cube cut and ribbon combo) smokes much better in the cob. I'll sometimes take a pouch of this and a Great Dane bent cob fishing, hunting or for hikes in the country. Minimal bite...sometimes problematical staying lit, but I haven't detected the bitterness and goop some reviewers have claimed. Just sip ...don't steam engine it. These days you can't beat the price. In upstate NY $4.95 for 1.5 Oz. of tobac like this is sort of a deal now. Middleton has improved the flavour in the last few pouches I've tried. My biggest complaint is a bit more apple casing please. Hope Apple stays around a long, long time. Happy hunting.
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