John Middleton, Inc - Sugar Barrel pipe tobacco reviews

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Spike	07/03/2005	Mild to Medium	Very Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
Looking on the Blends list there are all kinds of "sweet" something or others and only one with the word "sugar" in it. This is primarily Burley and some Virginia with a light topping that is sweet and vanilla. Fear not! The topping is quite subtle with plenty of tobacco taste. Now that summer has arrived, I have set aside most of the heavier tobacs in favor of this other light, tasty Aromatics. This is one of my favorites in that category. I just wish I could have bought this in a pouch instead of a 12oz. can. Ah well, summer has just started and this does burn fairly quickly. This smells even better than it tastes which is quite good. Enjoy.
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DUPE.1512	04/25/2005	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
If fresh this is a real treat for me. I lov the simple no frills burleys and this aeromatic was a great change of pace when I want a change. This has a wonderful flavor and aroma of a raiseny brown sugar and the nutty aftertaste of a good burley. No matter how hard I puffed away it just refused to bite. I liked that! This is however, a very "sweet" tobacco and the only real tobacco flavor I can detect is the burley. All in all a great aeromatic for burley lovers!
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Pipestud	05/09/2004	Very Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild	Pleasant
I recently won an old, sealed pouch of this blend in an eBay auction. It was included with some other boxed and tinned tobaccos from the 1970s, so I believe this was pretty aged stuff. It burned hot. It was sweet and cloying. Moderate true tobacco taste. If aging did indeed improve the flavor of the weed in this particular pouch, I'd sure hate to try it fresh. To be fair, the 'baccy in the pouch was probably overly dry and maybe lost a lot of its original "enhanced" flavor.
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omegapd	08/22/2003	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
Since House of Windsor has made such a strong comeback in the "drugstore" blends, I finally decided to order a bucket of this stuff from Middleton from JR Cigar. I've smoked the drugstore brands for years but have never been able to find this stuff locally. It's a mix of burley/bright just like Cherry Blend and Carter Hall and in a crimp cut. It's a little bit moist right out of the can and is flavored with something that smells good but I can't figure out what it might be. On the packaging, it shows an old barrel with XXX so it might be some sort of liquor topping. I've hated all the whiskey/rum blends I've ever tried, but this is different. It loads easily and lights with one match. The taste and room aroma are pretty light but enjoyable. It burns a little bit fast (as do the other blends in the line) do to the cut but doesn't heat up the bowl at all. There's a little bit of bite if puffed fast but it stays relatively cool. It's also one of the few blends where you can smell the aroma while smoking. If it was available near me, it would probably be smoked more often, but I don't see myself ordrring this over and over again on-line. It's priced reasonable though and is pretty enjoyable for what it is. There's just not enough aroma and taste for me. I'll stick to Granger or Velvet with the drugstore blends...
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