H. Sutliff - Mixture No.79 pipe tobacco reviews

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Thoth	01/13/2009	Mild	Strong	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
It smokes dry, mild, is not bitey and is inexpensive; that said, there is something about the flavor and room note that screams old woman. It taste like the way they case this blend is by storing it at the bottom of your grandmothers purse along with black licorice for several years. It has that faintly floral and talcum powder odor that seems to be omnipresent around elderly woman and it tastes like it smells. A quarter way through the bowl I found my self becoming extremely nauseous. I got 3/4 the bowl and then stopped because I realized I was needless torturing myself, as if in penance for even daring to sully my pipe with it.
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Wriggles	12/20/2008	Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium to Full	Tolerable
Update: 12/20/08. I recently ordered some misc smoking items which included a new Kaywoodie Super Grain, and two zipper pouches. I also ordered a large tin of Mixture No. 79. This tobacco has changed. I think this stuff is really great now. In the past, I hated this tobacco like mostly everyone else. Tobacco in a large tin is always better than in the foil pouch. Mixture 79 is no exception. Vanilla and anise predominate the burley, but the tobacco flavor comes through nicely. I will not smoke this everyday, but it is a welcome change of pace. I do advise, however, that a person delegate one or more pipes for exclusive smoking to this mixture. I remember trying this stuff when I was in the service 35 years ago. I think I sent in a coupon for a free package. Anyhow, I thought it was the worst tobacco I ever smoked, and gave the pouch away. It indeed tasted like soap. Receiving this as part of the free sampler, I thought I read reviews on this site before I gave or threw the package away. I could not believe that Hugh Hefner smoked this stuff. Some people actually liked this stuff. I had to try it again. I packed this in a thick walled corncob and lit up. It had the same soapy flavor with anise or whatever, but, I have to say, it mellowed to a relatively flavorful smoke, with all the negative points in the background. I was really shocked. The other day I played golf and grabbed The Mixture 79 pouch to take with me, thinking I'd smoke less if I didn't enjoy it. Outside, this tobacco shined. Not a great tobacco, but a once in a while change of pace. Hef could not be all wrong.
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Dr.sadik	12/20/2008	Very Mild	Strong	Extremely Mild (Flat)	Pleasant to Tolerable
why one star, well please let me explain! the tobacco is mainly comprised of burly tobacco and knowing thatvthe burly act as sponge for flavors added by casing the had apparently over flowed this blend with what ever they did. dont get me wrong i love heavily cased aromatics and i even smoke some super value from time to time but this one just couldnt make it without burning my tounge so bad that i took an oath never to try it again (i took that oath after 3 seperate purchases of this blend). the vanilla can barely be tasted and the cheap foil covering seems to impart an odd aluminiummy flavor to the tobacco of that make any sense. dosent burn well with definte left overa in the heel (aka dottles). and the worst part is that it is the highest priced drug store blend. to each his own but this blend will never touch my pipes again unless its the last tobacco on our beloved planet.
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tonalsmoker	10/14/2008	Medium to Strong	Medium to Strong	Medium to Full	Very Pleasant
This Mixture is actually pretty underrated, it's a love/hate tobacco.It' s a very unusual aromatic and the anise/wintergreen casing smells tastey but I recently purchased this stuff again seeing it on a counter at the drugstore.I don't know if it's the level of moisture in the pouch or what but it was completely unsmokeable.It was so soaked in casing 2 weeks of drying time didn't work.it's a darn shame too because this used to be a nice aromatic.
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smokey	08/12/2008	Medium to Strong	Extra Strong	Extremely Mild (Flat)	Pleasant
I first tried this tobacco about 37 years ago and couldn't get along with it then. A couple of years back I got a big free sample box from Altadis and it contained a pouch of Mixture 79. With much trepidation I filled a cob that could easily be discarded if the tobacco was a dog. It was worse than I expected. A perfumey taste that had a slight resemblance to licorice but reminded me more of an old lady who has put on half a bottle of cheap perfume. I didn't make it halfway through the pipe and it and the pouch went in the trash. Normally I score a tobacco in three categories but I will simplify this one by saying it gets a big fat zero. Too bad I can't give it no stars.
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SirShaggy	07/23/2008	Medium	Very Strong	Medium to Full	Tolerable to Strong
I always wanted to try this. I am not sure why. I hated it the first time, loved it every time after that. Amazing my tastes have changed the way they did. It is strong but for some reason I like this....quite a lot! It is different, but enjoyable to me. I chose somewhat recommended because I think you should try everything. I just find most people don't enjoy smoking it. Give it a try, you never know.
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BoBo	07/22/2008	Medium	Strong	Overwhelming	Strong
im suprised that a human being would sell this to another. completely horrible, tastes like perume!!!!!!!!!!!! -10 out of 10
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BriarChef	07/15/2008	Extremely Mild	Extra Strong	Overwhelming	Overwhelming
Heinous.
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Old Puffer	05/03/2008	Very Strong	Extra Strong	Overwhelming	Tolerable to Strong
Strange, I smoked a pipe on and off for 8-9 years and never tried this blend out. Started puffing again in earnest about a year ago and have been reveling in the worlds choices of baccys. After reading reviews, here, about M79, had to try it to see what all the fuss was about. Biggest mistake; ordered 8 oz. of this stuff. Should have paid more careful attention to the reviews, but what the heck, live and learn. This is the most terrible thing that I have ever put in my mouth. The taste is so complex, it is hard to describe, but I think it is like a strong bar of musk perfume flavored soap with some cherries and bitters thrown in. And after a few puffs, it is like someone washed my mouth out with it. Tried hard to make it at least acceptable by blending it with everything from plain burley, plain Virginia, to latakia, and even Our Best Blend. All it did was ruin each mixture. I will give it credit for easy lighting, staying lit and no bite. Can't speak for the bottom of the bowl because I just can't take it down that far. I know that I am sounding crude, but if anyone wants the 7+ ounces left, you can have it for the price of mailing.
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iggy	03/21/2008	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
After successfully enjoying No. 79 indoors, I was going to give it rave reviews but since then, my wife has admonished me to stop this practice. Okay, if you?re buying into the current premium tobacco craze without closer scrutiny, not unlike the cigar boom of the 90s, you probably hate Mixture No. 79. Don?t get me wrong, I?m all for handcrafted tobacco blends and quality ingredients but there are budgetary concerns to my pastime. I first tried Mixture No. 79 about 15 years ago, when I needed something to smoke in my truck while sitting in traffic on the freeway. From that experience, I remember a pleasant mass market smoke that was a heck of a lot better than the stale drugstore brands at the local supermarket and the frankly unpalatable plain wrap brand at the local drugstore. I am now on my second pouch of No. 79 within the past year and don?t really mind the soapy aroma. Short puffs produce a mild smoke that lifts your spirits without the feeling that you?re about to overdose on nicotine, like some brands. Tongue bite remains at a minimum in a somewhat clean pipe. I can see how some people have adverse reactions to the wintergreen athletic gel-like odor of the No. 79 pouch. At $3.19 per 1.5 oz., and I don?t remember if this included New York State?s horrendous tobacco tax, it?s still a relative bargain. However, I wish there was an ingredients list because I try to avoid the artificial stuff. Nevertheless, next time I reach for the decorated white pouch inside the script-covered white cardboard box, I will think of supporters and opponents of Mixture No. 79 alike.
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Rimshot	03/17/2008	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild	Pleasant to Tolerable
As much as I cherish the memory of my childhood matriarchs, I would much rather have a smoke that reminds me of chopping trees with Grandpa than playing checkers with Gran. Immediately upon lighting up this stuff reminded me of my great-grandmother's house--as others have noted, it tastes like an old lady's perfume smells. Soap taste is definitely present. I imagine it's a bit like smoking pressed rose leaves. About midway through the pipe a pleasant pine flavor tried to come to the fore, but failed. I can certainly understand why this is considered a classic. This stuff was old when great-gran was young, and, as another reviewer noted, it has the same kind of taste of some old-style candies. The burley is top notch. Older taste buds than mine might love the casing. And it does burn very nicely. This aromatic is certainly not goopy, by my definition, and the room note was fine. It was a decent but strange smoke my first bowl, but I grew to dislike the lingering soapiness long after my pipe was out. After I discovered how mightily it lingered in my favorite knockabout pipe my dislike turned to bitterness. If you're of the Great Generation, perhaps you should give it a try--but in a pipe you were thinking of getting rid of anyway. I can't recommend it for anyone else. I gave it to my wife to use as potpourri.
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BigSwede	02/01/2008	Mild to Medium	Medium	Medium	Pleasant
39 years ago I could go to the local drugstore and find any of nearly 40 so called "drug store" blends sitting on a big shelf. I smoked my way through most of them (starting with a now defunct blend called "Burgundy") and have only a dim misty memory of Mixture 79, other than several pipe smokers (mostly older men) had recommended it. I remember liking the initial somewhat floral fragrance in a weird kind of way, a little like the Field and Stream of it's day. I moved on to other stuff. Fast forward to now. I decided I had to try this to see what all the big fuss way about so I ordered some from JR. It evokes such a huge emotional reaction that I couldn't wait to light up. Well I'm still wondering what all the fuss is about but I've found a new blend for my rotation. Yeah, no kidding. Color me suprised. In the tub it's pretty moist so the first order of business was to leave the lid off for several hours and let it air out. I've smoked a number of other brands that give that initial whiff of flowers/perfume/whatever, including Field and Stream and Tinderbox Blend #2. If smoked dry it's less intense and within a few minutes settles down to a relatively smooth, low key woodsy burley flavor. I get about an hour our of a midlin' sized bowl. It doesn't bite, stays cool, smokes slowly down to dry ash. It pretty much reminds of me of the older anise flavored drugstore blends once popular. I love this for when I am doing something else, like reading, typing or driving. I recommend that anyone interested in this stuff find a pouch, smoke it on the dry side, try a few bowls and forget all the hysteria. It has a fairly nice room note too!
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Darth 69	12/06/2007	Mild to Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium to Full	Pleasant
Mixture 79, the old time classic or that infamous blend. I remember my reaction almost a couple decades ago when I first open the pouch. I threw it in the trash. What the hell is this? Licorice, root beer, menthol potpourri? It took some courage to dig it out and actually try smoking a pipe bowl. Back into the trash! But, when boredom sets in courage reasserts itself. Well, this could also mirror a similar experience for someone who had tried english tobacco for the first time. With some persistent dabbling, the insight may occur as to their virtue and why others fancy them. And I have come to fancy Mixture 79. What I really like about this is the toasty, thoroughly cased round sweetness of the burley base, perfectly done and not a goopy cavendish. That intense pouch aroma and medium flavor seems to be birch or something along the lines of the previously mentioned licorice, similar to V.I.P. and Four Seasons. Along with the more or less cubed burley base, about 20% of some flakes in the american sense of blondish virginia mixed in. This is an intense aromatic with an almost perfumery nature that I see as being an American burley analog to the intense floral quality of some English Kendal tobacco. It can get a little hot in the pipe so, take it a little slower. A true American classic that I'm going to be hooked on for the moment. The king of drugstore tobaccos that can outsmoke many a premium burley blend.
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renoguard	10/02/2007	Mild to Medium	Mild	Extremely Mild (Flat)	Pleasant to Tolerable
They should add 7 and 86 this stuff. Another soapy blend which I threw out after only a couple of bowls. My mother told me of my Uncle who used to smoke this stuff. I can see why he quit. If you are looking for soapy flavored lawn clippings, HERES'S YOUR BABY!!! If you like quality tobacco, KEEP LOOKING!!!
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churchwarden398	09/27/2007	Mild to Medium	Strong	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
Similarly to DakotaPeacePipe, I tried this because a colleague swore by it. I really did not notice any aroma when he smoked it. It was another story when the pouch I bought was opened. Upon lighting up,it was like stepping into old Aunt Gertie's house. The perfumey smell that must have been used to cover something else. A Saturday night only bath tradition more than likely. Anyway, about mid-bowl the fragrance seemed to dissapate. If like my colleague, you like this blend, have at it.
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Big Blue Jazzman	08/31/2007	Medium	Strong	Overwhelming	Strong
When I was a lad my mother overheard me saying a foul word. She made me smoke a bowl of Mixture 79. I have not used that word since.
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DakotaPeacePipe	07/26/2007	Mild to Medium	Medium to Strong	Full	Pleasant
Had not smoked this in several decades when I received a pouch in the Altadis sampler. I have memories of this as 37 years ago when I started my career one of my first bosses (dear Orville, may he Rest In Peace) smoked this to exclusion. I had already taken to the pipe and Orville urged me to try his favorite, but after almost four decades virtually all memory of the taste had faded. Based on the near derision in which most of the reviewers herein hold this blend I was prepared to be revolted. I must confess I at least tolerated it 37 years ago and was most surprised to find that today I actually like it! In my experience the character of this tobacco changes throughout the bowl but always staying pleasant and flavorful: at first light there is indeed a flowery explosion of flavor, but as the experience lengthens the underlying burleys seem to predominate (perhaps this smokers taste buds simply go into overload?) for me it is also without bite or in the least bit harsh. Believe I will buy a tub and put it in my rotation. PS: To those who regard this blend as requriing a "hazardous material" rating, my pipe smoking mentor, Orville puffed on this incessantly to age 96 to no apparent ill effect.
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ironmike	06/20/2007	Medium to Strong	Strong	Full	Pleasant
i smoke pipe tobacco for two reasons only....first, for the effects produced by nicotine....second, for the taste...this is a mysterious and polarizing blend...you either love it or hate it....mark me down for loving it...i found a couple of dusty pouches at the liquor store round the block...upon lighting the first bowl i thought that i had anything other than tobacco in my pipe...the smell and flavor are rather shocking at first...some have likened it to granny's perfume or smoked flowers....i let it go out and then relit about five minutes later...from my childhood came memories of saturday mornings at the barber shop and the fragrant scent of the "pinaud" talcum powder...little dapper gentleman on the can with cane and twisty moustache...i stuck with it and the payoff was a full earthy, nutty. and totally toasty delight....i couldn't believe how much i liked it....i am acquianted with nightcap,penzance,and yes even the lionized balkan sobranie...i scapped-up the remaining pouches around the corner and bought a 14 oz tub....the weed in the tub needs much drying to keep up with what's in those pouches...maybe not the most popular idea, but i highly recommend this stuff...try it again and don't leave before the miracle happens!
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Nick O'Teen	06/19/2007	Mild	Medium to Strong	Medium	Pleasant
Fear & Loathing in a pipe bowl. Those of you who fondly remember having your mother wash out your mouth with soap may actually enjoy this travesty of tobacco. Miss ya, Doc !
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Old Schoolr	06/04/2007	Overwhelming	Extra Strong	Overwhelming	Overwhelming
Foul in the extreme. I received this in the Altadis sampler. The packaging gives no clue to the evil which lurks inside. When I tried it my 1st act after dumping it from my pipe was to warn the other two recipients of the sampler that they smoked this at their own risk. This is like smoking the fabric softener sheets that one throws in the dyer. It has both the terrible cheap perfume odor & the smell of burning synthetic material that those sheets are made of. The plastic smell/taste is really overwhelming. There?s mention in these reviews of this once being the favorite of Hugh Hefner & that Hugh no longer smokes the pipe. I?ve seen the cable program starring his three current girlfriends & I think that he?s replaced his plastic tobacco habit with plastically enhanced girls (good for him). I just hope the girls don?t smell like the toilet water used in Mixture 79. I?m sorry for my criticism but I?ve never been so disgusted by a pipe tobacco. (I give this 4 Stars? Negative 4 Stars)
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