Troost - Aromatic Cavendish pipe tobacco reviews

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Reviewed By:	Date:	Strength:	Flavoring:	Taste:	Room Note:	Recommendation:
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Carlo	03/25/2005	Extremely Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant
Tin aroma: Classic, sweet cavendish with a chocolate type topping on a non-descript burley/virginia base. Room Note: Fairy pleasant but not very remarkable. Packing: like shoving straw into a hole to bung a leak: dry with weedy strands. Moisure Content: Dry as tinder. Awful. Lighting: I'm amazed it didn't catch fire and consume the whole bowl in seconds it was that dry! Lots of smoke and lots of blisters. Ouch! Appearance: Like straw; very light and yellow with weedy, unappetising strands. Smoking: Very dry, hot and bland. Bites like a vampire. If I smoked straw I imagine it would have this heat and taste. Cannot detect any nicotine. Upon further analysis,I think it actually is straw. Bleurgh! Pros: It smells OK to other people. Other than that, none at all! Cons: Hot, hot, hot! Acrid, dry and tasteless. Burns fast so at least the pain is over and done with. In my opinion, a waste of time and money. An abomination. Score: One out of five for the room note only. Enough said!
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pop-pop's pipe	02/20/2004	Medium	Mild	Medium to Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
This is a good substitute for Amphora green. It's slightly of better quality than Amphora. It has a nutty taste and a balmy sweet aroma. Relatively a cool smoke. Like all Dutch blends it has good nicotine punch.
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Pounder 5000	11/21/2003	Mild	Very Mild	Mild to Medium	Tolerable
I got this on a whim from my local tobaccanist who has had the one pouch sitting on the shelf for as long as I can remember. After opening it though, I almost took it back for a refund. This is the driest blend I have ever seen, period! I usually like my blends on the drier side but this was ridiculous. After the clerk assured me this was normal for the blend, I reluctantly loaded a corn cob and gave her a shot. It wasn't too bad but Lustra is right- cheap burley is in residence here. The casing is a very pleasant classic cavendish taste, and the burn was fine, but I had to work too keep the burley from going sour on me, and that takes all of the fun right out of it for me. I did enjoy the casing enough to possibly try it again sometime, but will probably not purchase it in the future.
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lustra	05/15/2002	Mild	Very Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
Troost Aromatic is an economical Dutch Cavendish that reminds me of Sail Regular. Like Sail, it's a seemingly well-cut broken flake that looks and smells like tobacco. The resemblance ends there, unfortunately. Sail comes properly humidified; Troost comes dry as a bone and takes several days to moisten into something smokable. Sail smokes dry and cool; Troost smokes hot and bites. Sail has a light, sweet, natural taste; Troost tastes like the bitter burley that it is, and leaves an acrid aftertaste. In general, for summertime smoking I prefer the Dutch cavendishes to the Danish blends (excepting Mac Baren Navy Flake, which I always have on hand). They generally taste and smoke better to me. Troost Aromatic is the exception to this rule, though. At $4 for a 50-gram pouch, it's a bargain, and it can be made to smoke passably well, but for a few pennies more, you can buy Sail, and why not? Sail is one of the great summertime smokes, and it runs less than half the cost of your average tinned delectable.
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