John Middleton, Inc - Apple Pipe Tobacco pipe tobacco reviews

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ELF	02/21/2010	Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium	Pleasant
...As the old saying goes'You get what you pay for'...Almost as cheap as a can of soda pop.Soda pop lasts 5mins,a pouch of this 5days.Find it smokes best in one of my old-forgiving-Cobs.Lots of casing flavor;ok smoke....Loads of compliments on aroma. :+)
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Shawn_M	02/17/2010	Mild to Medium	Mild	Mild	Very Pleasant
Smells great when the pouch is opened, but I have found it will bite if not smoked slowly. It also burns wet and I suggest smoking it in a corncob as it will leave a residue behind. I tried smoking it in a clay and after going through a pouch, I had to place the pipe in the embers of a fireplace to clean it up.
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dt753	10/30/2009	Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
This is one of the few things I remember my father smoking, usually when camping or fishing. When I spotted a pouch on the shelf of my local discount tobacco store, I had to give it a try. A very basic tobacco whose cut, color, and moisture content is typical of the famous drug store blends like Carter Hall and Prince Albert. The pouch aroma is of apples, and actually reminds me faintly of an apple cased version of Carter Hall. Upon lighting, the apple scent is noticable, but fades as you work your way through a bowl, and ends up reminding me more of apple cider. Beware: if smoked fast, it will bite. I took my time with this blend, and found it to be acceptable for what it is....an apple flavored drug store pipe tobacco.
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ruffinogold	08/22/2009	Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium	Tolerable
What a shame . This blend will " funk " your bowl.Room note is'nt that great . It's strange how the cherry blend middleton makes is realy pretty good and this is not . This company make other classic American blends but this is'nt one of them .
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rocket_man77	05/19/2009	Very Mild	Medium	Mild	Pleasant
Laid hands on a pouch of the stuff looking for something to clear my pallet. Haven't had any in 10 years at least and it was a poor experience then. In fact I think I tossed the pouch before the half way point. Experience has taught me how to look for the components of tobacco and now later it's a sufficient and nice diversion from my usual English. I would not recommend as a first time smoke, it can run hot and you need a pipe to sacrifice too as it will choke up yours with byproduct and casing. I find it runs a little wet and snuffs itself just as it's getting a nice apple head on it. Then again my sacrificial smoker is a little narrow gauged and may contribute. Give it a try sometime, it's been around for my whole lifetime so it's got to have something right?
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Pipe4ever	02/24/2009	Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant
This is a decent drugstore burley tobacco pouch; this is the same burley as Carter Hall with some apple flavoring added. Overall, this tobacco is not so bad for a clean aromatic burley but also nothing fantastic to be expected here, 1 pouch is just good for a trial, especially for a new smoker, no tongue bite is guarante.
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Tantric	12/26/2008	Mild	Medium	Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable
Burley and cider. Nice, simple smoke, of a typical burley nature: some nuttiness with an almost naive touch, somewhat enhanced by the cider (rather than straight apple) flavor. Not a bad option when there is nothing else to smoke, but, in my opinion, not exactly a first choice tobacco. I much prefer, within this range, Prince Albert.
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rhapsodyofmetal	05/04/2008	Mild	Medium	Very Mild	Very Pleasant
When opening this package I was overwhelmed by a great apple-caramel smell. The first light was very smokey and ash smelling. After the initial light I was welcomed with an amazing taste of Apple. It is great! The ash is very dry and not as wet as described as other reviewers have said. 4 stars UPDATE**** I must down grade this baccy one star. It is very good but it always seem to make me sick. Not a nicotine high as some have suggested(I have sampled nightcap,I know what nicotine can do!) It makes me sick and has the same stomach churn as when you drink to much soda on an empty stomach.
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Nick O'Teen	07/10/2007	Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant
I've bought several pouches of this over the years, each time thinking that I must have missed something in the previous go around. I didn't. This is hot burning, cheap fodder. No apple flavor. Another loser from John Middleton. *
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tommyboy	06/12/2007	Medium to Strong	Very Mild	Extremely Mild (Flat)	Pleasant
I would not recommend this one at all. Oh, it smells delicious in the package ... then light it! The "apple" taste is soon gone and your left with a scorched tongue and a soggy pipe. sorry, this is a cheap draw for new pipe smokers and I was one of them. If you want apple pie, take one from a window sill!!! tommyboy
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porterman	01/11/2007	Medium	Mild	Mild	Unnoticeable
This was the first Bowl of Tobacco I ever smoked, lifted from my Uncle when I was about 15. I purchased a pouch recently just for nostalgia. I remember seeing this stuff everywhere when I was a kid...but now couldn't find it, ordered a pouch on-line. I must admit I love the smell of this in the Pouch, clean crisp VA/BUR tobacco with a slight sweet/sour apple topping. Loaded up my cob, and fired it up....topping barely there...smoked like a slightly low quality, slightly hot, slightly dry Burley with some VA and apple topping (gee thats what it is). Not the best smoke in the world, but not the worst. Would like to get more apple flavor to live up to the pouch aroma.
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Wriggles	10/15/2006	Mild to Medium	Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
I used to smoke Apple regularly back in the seventies. Very difficult to find in my area now. However, recently bought a pouch while visiting. Very good occasional smoke. Pretty much the same flavor as years ago. Take care to use a cob or cheap briar as the apple flavor and aroma will linger in the pipe for a long time. Packs well, stays lit. A flavorful taste and aroma. However, not an all day smoke. Recommended as a very nice change of pace. Will buy if available.
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Bezoar	08/25/2006	Medium	Mild	Medium to Full	Very Pleasant
Great smell in pouch and in bowl. THe tobacco burned rather fast but did not cause tongue burn. Their was some nipping from the virginia, but nothing else. This burned with EXTREMELY small amount of moisture in the pipe. THe moisture that did accumulate was extremely tasty wich is unusual for an aromatic. The tobacco burned down very well into a blackened state that disentigrated instantly when touched. I ground it into the heel and the sides of the bowl with a matchstick and reserved a small amount of the ash in my palm while cleaning everything out of the heel. It coated the bowl so well it looked like a brand new grabow bowl. Good smell to bowl a few hours after smoking. And the pipe was dry a few hours later. SO i am keeping this.
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SopwithCamel	07/18/2006	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
Another of Middleton's old time aromatics. This stuff used to be in every grocery store, drug, store and bait shop when I was a child. It is now long gone. It is a decent tobacco with a pleasant aroma, suitable for when you want to smoke around non smokers, or if the idea of apple flavored tobacco appeals to you. Like the other Middleton aromatics, the flavoring is very mild it won't goop your pipe up, or nip your tongue as long as you go slow. It's best in a cob. It isn't a great blast of flavor, but it isn't meant to be. Just a pleasant, cheap smoke.
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Loboatomy	05/15/2006	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
Mild, easy and cheap. I like this tobacco and always have a few pouches stashed around with my other drugstore "dailys". I have noticed a pouch to pouch discrepancy in quality and strength of flavoring, though, it seems as if about 20% of pouches have little or no casing on them. Generally, this is good out of a cob (I have one cob, a "natural" which I christened by saturating with a mixture of Applejack and a few dabs of ash and honey to build some cake that I ONLY smoke this blend out of...it's wonderful) or billiard. For about $2.50 a pouch, you really can't beat it. It's smooth when smoked low and slow in the manner demanded by such simple burleys, but if you have an open mind about tobacco and are willing to enjoy such a treat, by all means do.
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Darth 69	03/31/2006	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild	Pleasant
A golden brown blend of burleys and virginias with a mild, yet assertive tangy apple pouch bouquet. The moisture level is just right, soft to the touch but not overly moist like a generic cavendish. The burning aroma is mild and round from it's light sweetness with a fainter trace of that apple tanginess. The smoke on the pallette is likewise mild and round in flavor. This isn't an "in your face" aromatic cavendish, pleasingly so. This actually has some body to it, courtesy of the virginas I think, and found this to be a satifying smoke that I will enjoy finishing off the last pouch, perhaps purchase more. Yes, I liked it that much and is a nice change of pace from stronger, sweetish virginia based blends. Middleton got this one right in my opinion and consider it a superior domestic "drugstore" tobacco. It is far better than the connotation by that epithet suggests. I would rather smoke this than many so called premium blend in a can. This is specifically recommended as a better alternative to any smoking more staight forward cased burley/virginia blends like Half & Half. Recommended!
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BEN	03/16/2006	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild	Pleasant
Dried apple flavored straw burning hot and nasty in the bowl of ones pipe...if this is what you desire,buy a pouch of this and experience true disgust! Appalingly awful at all levels!!
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Pipestud	02/26/2006	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild	Very Pleasant
This Middleton offering has been around for a long, long time. It is very typical of the "old fashioned" drug store blends in that it is crimp cut Burley with old American flavoring added in a way that makes its presence known, but still allows the smoker to taste "tobacco." I have noticed over the years that many fellow tobaccoreviews.com smokers enjoy these bargain brands and I think that's neat. There is certainly a place for these simple, easy to smoke blends. I don't find Apple very often, but when I do, I purchase a pouch. This one smokes cool, dry and sweet. It a refreshing change of pace for occasional fun and nostalgia.
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Philo Beddoe	02/25/2006	Mild	Strong	Medium to Full	Very Strong
Awful, horrible and hotter than the surface of the sun. In the pouch it smelled a bit like apples but once lit, it smelled medicinal and tasted like the worst cough syrup I ever had as a child. I have tried many, many tobaccos and I can honestly say this is the worst one I have ever put a match to.
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Spike	07/26/2005	Mild to Medium	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
I finally found some of this on a trip to Idaho. No telling how old the pouch was it seems quite dry. Mostly Burley with some Virginia (?) added for a little sharpness. Smells good, tastes like apple and smokes quite slowly for a pouch tobacco. Go easy for best results. A good once in a while tobacco. A very good blend when compared with its' competitors at the drug store. Quite satisfying as well.
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