However, someone gave me a pouch of this and I have tried it a few times over the past two weeks in a MM cob and find it to be pleasant as far as an OTC goes - smokeable.

If the flavoring is coffee I must take that as a given because I could not otherwise discern what the flavor is. It is so light that I must over-stoke the bowl to get a tobacco taste at all and then I come away with a slight celery(?) aftertaste and an overheated pipe. But if I was caught in a motel in a town with no real tobacconist I might as easily pick up a pouch of this as I would Carter Hall to get through the night.

Personal rating of two stars, but I am guessing three for those who like this style.

Based upon fairly good white burley, there is a gentle cigar note to the blend. The added sweetness is welcome. The toppings remain noticeable throughout, though without distracting from the simple tobacco pleasure underneath.

Kentucky Club smokes exactly as billed: Mild. With a wholesome graininess, this reminds me of Sir Walter Raleigh, though a bit sweeter and more aromatic. This went well in a chamber of any gauge.

Now, this version is made entirely of burley tobacco. I have notice that the quality of this weed is not always the same: sometimes, is a mellow, simple and direct nutty taste; other times, you can find that good taste, but with a nasty bitter undertone, something like ammonia (I have found this bad flavor in some low quality cigars).

The casing is very mild, in the package (50g. pouch) says something like "soft rum". The room note, however, is always the same. People have told me it’s like flavored little cigars, but nicer.

Recommended if you like simple tobacco, but remember that you have to take a chance because of the quality issue I mentioned.

No nuances, no unpleasant surprises, no relighting hardship; only a tobacco that can be smoked pleasurably both indoors and outdoors and in any small to medium sized bowl regardless of the shape. Pipe smoking needn't always be complex or exotic; in that sense, Kentucky Club has somewhat of a homely feel to it.

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My girlfriend brought 10-15 pouches/tins of different kinds of tobacco from her last trip to Paris, this was among them.

I can't smoke this stuff. I've tried, but it feels like sucking molten lava with a straw. The aroma in the pouch is the usual cheap chemical they coat these kinds of tobaccos with. Smoking it I can't get any taste since it burns my mouth like hell. The only smell I can get from the smoke is of burned sugar.

There's a funny pattern appearing in European tobacco shops, whenever you ask for a non-aromatic blend they'll suggest the worst most tasteless aromatic they can think of. I'd rather smoke those heavily cased vanilla/cherry/plum macbaren/stanwell/skandinaviks than stuff like this.

Since I don't have any friends that smoke a pipe I've to throw away lots of tobacco :(.

Blends should be consistant. When I buy something I want to know it will taste like the last one I bought. This will be my last edit of this stuff because I'm not going to buy anymore of it.

I think that the big problem with these tobaccos is that people expect big things from them and they tend to be disappointed when they don't produce an explosion of flavor or a creamy liquid cloud of smoke. These are basic american tobaccos with a long history, and they demand a slightly different philosophy that the more sophisticated blends. These are burleys, coveted for mildness and palate, always the everyday smoke of the working man rifing a trailer or taking a break from his job in the factory or drinking a pilsner...these are not the tobaccos of the aristocrat with a palate for fine wines and fancy cheese. One must smoke these slowly, preferably out of a bowl which is taller than it is wide (read-corncob), and one must always be willing to admit that the end of the bowl is at a point when there is still about 1/4 of the tobacco still unburnt in the bowl. Push it further and you get the characteristic bitter/ashy "brash" which turns many people away from these tobaccos.

Highly recommended by this reviewer.

UPDATE: 1/15/09- A bit hard to find in the pouch in my neck of the woods. Maybe I'm crazy but I like the pouch better than the tin now. Still smoke it, but have been won over by Carter Hall recently--I suspect I'll move back to Kentucky Club as the days start to warm up. Strangely, I sort of get the "coffee" flavoring thing with this blend now...used to percieve it as fruity, but now when I smell it I can't think of anything but coffee...wierd how your buds change over time...

1-20-10 I still have a lot of this in a mason jar, and still smoke a bowl from time to time. It seems dryer and harsher now; not really harsh, but age has really dried it out. I think I will still miss it when it is gone, but that may take a while. I will cherish it as a curiosity, and as the oldest tobacco in my cellar.

KC (Mild - in the Blue tin/pouch) is my latest um, "subject" and frankly, it reminds me of Carter Hall Light. To me, both Carter Hall and Kentucky Club share a similar sweet "apple-ish" aroma and to some extent, taste.

It's a very light and mild blend with a touch of artificial sweetness that finishes in the mouth. The cube cut also has some Prince Albert-ish "crimp cut" mixed in so it's easier to light and keep lit than say, Edgeworth. However, Edgeworth is a much classier blend all the way around.

Right now, Edgeworth is clearly top dog in my book followed by Prince Albert, while Carter Hall and Kentucky Club are tied in third place. But wait....Velvet and Granger are in the queue, so it ain't over quite yet.

I've come to really appreciate (if not love) these old American Burley blends but since I've almost forgotten what Latakia tastes like, Autumn needs to hurry up and get here.

In the meantime, you can catch me on the porch with Kentucky Club which, by the way, earns (and deserves) three solid stars.

Objectively, a mild, burley tobacco, with very little character. Not harsh, tongue bite is not a problem. A good smoke when golfing and doing household chores. I think it smokes best in a cob.

Recommended.

If you like Burley blends I highly recommend it. Or if you just want to try something like Grandpa used to smoke (or Great Grandpa), give it a go. You could do a lot worse than this.