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Smokey45	01/08/2010	Mild	Medium	Medium	Very Pleasant
I can remember purchasing this blend from piperoom.com (who is, very sadly, now out of business) right as the "Lord of the Rings" movies were coming out. As noted, it was called "Middle Earth Blend" back then, but due to some oddball copyright laws or some such nonsense, they had to change the name to "King Arthur Blend." I have loved everything about this pipe tobacco. The aroma right out of the bag, the wonderful billows of aromatic smoke upon the first puff, and the overall satisfyingly relaxing smoke that it is. Now, I happen to be a pipe smoker who loves a good English blend, and I can never get enough Latakia. So, with that in mind, I for one cannot understand some of the snobbery out there against a good, solid, tasty, aromatic such as this. I love a good single malt scotch like Laphroaig, but I also enjoy a nice cold glass of lemonade on a hot summer day! Everything in it's place, right? I bought a pound of this blend from piperoom.com a little over a year ago, and cellared it. I'm glad I did, because now, there is no longer any to be had. Frankly, I think piperoom.com might have made a few changes to the blend when they changed its name, as I recall it being tastier when it was MEB. However, if you can still find some out there, NAB IT! My wife loves the smell of it, as do all around me when I light up a bowl of this rich, earthy, sweet rasberry tasting tobacco! I have several pipe smoking relatives, and they love this blend as well. I will miss piperoom.com, they had some amazing house blends!
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Society of the Briar	12/01/2008	Mild	Medium	Mild	Very Pleasant
One of the first tobaccos I ordered based on reviews from this site. After zinging through two pouches, I'm ready for a third. Sure, if you're after a super strong tobacco that'll put hair on your forehead, this isn't it. But, if you're after a true quality aromatic that isn't your average drug store blend, give King Arthur Blend a puff. The pouch aroma is amazing: solid vanilla and subtle berry flavors with the slightest hint of smokiness. Not a very strong natural tobacco taste, but neither is there an intense chemical/tooth coating taste. All in all, a truly balanced aromatic. I'm not one to seek a tobacco that'll punch me in the jaw when I wake up. I prefer something a bit more gentle and for me King Arthur is it.
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XavierMouser	07/23/2008	Medium	Mild to Medium	Mild	Strong
I got this based on the reviews I seen here. Frankly I wasn't that impressed. I shared some with some friends, we all kinda agree...it's not bad, but it's not "good" either. I would say try it, but don't have your hopes up when you do.
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de la Fuentes	03/23/2008	Mild	Strong	Mild	Pleasant
This is a diva of aromatics, lots of show, but not too much substance. I must admit that King Aurthur has a good smell out of the bag, like a forest floor strewn with wild berries, and it has quite a crowd pleasing room note. Its flavor kind of lets me down though. Its something that is quite sweet, has a nice taste of berries but where's the nicotine? Where's the tobacco for that matter? I smoked one bowl through and later tried a second, but didn't want to finish it. Its two dimensional sticky sweet flavor was something that was a bit much for me. I suppose if your one of those aromatic smokers of heavily cased cherry cavendish you'll like this a good deal. If you want a subtle and complex smoke of actual tobacco flavors, this is not for you. I don't know if I would buy this again, I might mix it with some Virginia or something else to give it more depth of taste, the flavor might improve with that. I do like the great clouds of white smoke, but that's its best point. It's a great tobacco to smoke around nonsmokers, sweet smell, billows of smoke, it'll look great in my bent churchwarden along with a wizard's costume, but most pipe and cigar men will laugh at me when they try it. So its a sweet smelling, smoke producing, flat tasting, oily mass of leaves, that will be good to smoke for other people's benefit, but no so much your own. I've had worse, but then I've had way better.
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BIG-DEN	03/03/2008	Mild	Mild	Very Mild	Pleasant
This King Arthur Blend is Awesome! When I smoked my fist bowl, I new I was going to like this tobacco! This aromatic produces a very pleasant room note and the taste is the same from top to the bottom of the bowl! I purchased my king Arthur Blend from The Pipe Room . Com. I did not find the tobacco to be too moist, I fired up my pipe "One Time" and smoked it to the bottom! I found the Strength to be Mild and the flavor to be intoxicating! This is a tobacco that should be smoked at a time when you really want to enjoy a Quality Aromatic Blend! This tobacco is one of my favorites and now is one of my top Ten!
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adamfasoli	01/31/2008	Mild	Medium	Mild	Very Pleasant
I picked up a pouch of this after reading some good reviews here and it was a great purchase! King Arthur blend, as it seems to be called now, has a great pouch smell, a great room note, and a wonderfully subtle flavor. At first I didn't catch the berry flavor, but after a little while it came through and was very enjoyable. It is also quick to light and smokes easily. Sometimes I don't even dry it out beforehand and it still takes to flame very easily. This is my favorite tobacco blend that I have tried thus far!
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Argo	01/23/2008	Mild to Medium	Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
Let me start by saying, what a fabulous blend! Aroma both lit and unlit is pleasant. The blackberry is there, the earthiness, as it is described, is there as well. Even some tobacco taste comes through once in a while from the VA ribbons. Produces absurd smoke clouds as all TPR blends do, I suspect unnaturally. It may bite if abused, i usually do let it dry out a bit. Comes in a durable pouch but it's best to mason jar it; the toppings/dressings is fragile and degrades quickly. Good quality aromatic.
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SlowToke	12/24/2007	Very Mild	Medium to Strong	Very Mild	Pleasant
ThePipeRoom.com's King Arthur is a fine aromatic blend. As already noted the raspberry and vanilla flavors dominate. It is a very moist tobacco that requires a fair amount of drying for a decent burn. I also rub it out just a bit to help it dry and to get a better burn. Suprisingly, rubbing it out doesn't seem to affect the taste for me. It produces copious amounts of thick, creamy smoke just as it touts. It smokes very mildly and leaves no harsh or perfumy aftertastes. I can't get this one to bite despite my best efforts. It does require quite a few relights especially towards the bottom of the bowl. And like many aromatics you get some moisture build-up and an occasional gurgle. The nicotine is unnoticeable. My biggest complaint is that it is very monochromatic throughout the entire bowl and by the end of the bowl I am quite bored with it. It's also tough to taste any tobacco despite my best efforts. I now smoke it on occassion in a very shallow and wide bowl to keep from getting bored. The room note is very pleasant. Bottom line: This one is worth a try but there are more interesting smokes out there to be had for the aromatic lovers. I would recommend this one to the novice.
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opndsmoker	12/18/2007	Mild	Mild to Medium	Medium to Full	Very Pleasant
This is the best aromatic I've ever smoked. Not to heavy on the topping, but a great flavor. Produces a lot of smoke-- great for blowing rings-- but has an incredible room note. If you want a great aromatic, this is your brand. I haven't smoked anything better yet.
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LostInDaJungle	08/31/2007	Mild	Mild	Medium to Full	Pleasant
Really enjoyed this, now marketed as "King Arthur". The casing was light enough to let the tobacco flavor through, strong enough to add nice flavor and a pleasant room note. No "perfume" feeling in my mouth after a full bowl. Vanilla and Raspberry flavors predominated, which seems to be a Pipe Room specialty. The underlying mix of Tobacco was smooth and complimented the casing nicely. Not as strongly cased as "Enchanted Forest", but still huge volumes of smoke to blow rings with. I could literally blow a ring inside a ring inside a ring. The burn was cool, no bite, not spicy, and didn't leave me tasting it 3 hours later. As with all of the Pipe Room's offerings, overly damp upon first opening, so 20 minutes air out helps immensely. I'm not a big lover of aromatics, but this is one I'll keep going back to. If I had any complaint it would be that after a while the flavor gets a little old as there isn't much change from the top of the bowl to the bottom, and the casing gets a little strong towards the end. This tobacco loves a smaller bowl. Smoked in a Corn Cob first, the flavor was allowed to come through and the small bowl left me wanting more. Smoked in a Peterson 120 later, it was a bit more muted, and by the end of the bowl I was kinda glad it was over. Funnily enough the one Tobacco the Pipe Room doesn't pimp with a grand description is probably the most deserving of it. Very nice, well balanced, smooth, and tasty.
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Jaraxle	07/11/2007	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
I am fairly new smoker, less than a year and I must say that this is one of the best aromatics I have had. The other being Delf from the same company. If you like aromatics, you should definatly try this one.
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DoctorThoss	05/20/2007	Very Mild	Strong	Medium	Pleasant
This is an overly moist aromatic that smokes hot and will bite if you aren't careful. What saves this blend is that it has a VERY interesting flavor profile and a wonderful room note. It really does taste somewhat like berries, and if you try hard enough you might actually catch a whiff of tobacco flavor somewhere, too. I bought four ounces of this stuff and put it in jars, but I don't plan on buying any more of it once it's gone. For those who really like strong aromatics, however, this might be a keeper.
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1968Billy	05/13/2007	Mild to Medium	Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
Yes, I'm one of the few that still has a thick ziploc with a bowl or two left. Not by accident I was just savoring it for a special occasion. Pipe tobacco is a lot like booze sometimes it's just tastes better than others. Mostly it depends on your environment and the people around you. What may be average this week, could taste exceptional next, and possibly great experience in the future. Beautiful clouds of good smelling grey smoke rings! How many of you 1980's D&D players thought Lord of thr Rings was the greatest trillogy ever made? Enjoy the smoke, remember the past, and learn something.
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Glorfindel	05/04/2007	Mild	Medium	Mild	Very Pleasant
King Arthur Blend: The piperoom has a winner here. It's not their most popular blend by accident. Yes, it is a fruity aromatic as it claims to be and lives up to it's calling. The vanilla and raspberry come through but not in an overbearing way. The cavendish makes for a nice cool, even smoke that have I haven't been able to make bite yet. There is a mild tobacco taste if you look for it and desire that aspect, but again, its billed as a fruity aromatic and it simply is that. 80% aromatic aroma, 20% tobacco taste. Dry this one quite a bit before smoking. The high moisture content can make this one burn a little hot and wet at first upon arrival. However, it was still a pleasant experience even before I figured out it needed drying. Again, never a bite and every one of my non-smoking friends rave about the room aroma - they love it and so do I. Clear raspberry notes with vanilla backing it up. Wonderful, another of my regulars!
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Pipestud	09/28/2006	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild	Pleasant
Perhaps this blend has changed in more ways than just its name. I tried a couple of bowls a year or so ago and found it to be an extremely sweet tasting and bitey blend. Not long ago, I ordered a batch for a friend up in Canada and likewise got a small pouch for myself figuring I'd give it another go. I'm glad I did. It was much better and will be a bell ringer for the aromatic lovers among us. As a very rare change of pace, I'd smoke this one again. Middle Earth/King Arthur is a mild aromatic with no nicotine punch. It has a light taste that certainly does remind me of black raspberries. If you try hard, you'll also taste the tobacco.
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dbldragons	09/23/2006	Very Mild	Mild to Medium	Medium to Full	Very Pleasant
I have to admit this was my first venture into pipe smoking, (yes yes, with a MacQueen Wizard 15" nontheless!!!) but this was not only a great tasting smoke, I think it really helped me learn HOW to smoke correctly! Too much too quick and tounge bite, too slow and it goes out, but just right and you have this wonderful flavor rolling over your tounge! Has a 'zing' to it! **sold now as "King Arthur Blend"**
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Jayhwk10	05/02/2006	Mild to Medium	Medium to Strong	Medium	Very Pleasant
Being new to pipe smoking myself I found this blend to be extreamly easy to smoke and keep lit. It will bite if your not too careful but overall its a very pleasurable smoke. The only thing i've noticed is that it burns pretty darn hot, i'm a very conservative puffer and i still have to set down my pipe for a few minutes to cool off. Overall a wonderful smoke and i'd recommend this to anyone!
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mr_b76	03/09/2006	Mild	Mild	Very Mild	Pleasant
As was said by previous reviewers, this is a good smoke for the beginner. But I like it enough for a morning pipe. It has a very light tobacco taste with only a hint of the casing. I will probably buy this again, unless I find something better.
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OPCguy	03/07/2006	Mild	Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
Middle Earth Blend - Wowsers! After reading the reviews I decided to give this blend a try...sure glad I did! This type of blend is usually not my bag of tricks but boy did I sure enjoy this. I smoked 10 bowls of this stuff the first day and I kept finding myself trying to eat the billows of delicious smoke that poured from my mouth. A delicious break and treat from my norm. Due to copyright law this blend is now being called King Arthur but same delicious weed!
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F. Prefect	09/29/2005	Mild to Medium	Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
Since switching from cigarettes to the pipe about 8 years ago, I don't smoke nearly the quantities of flavored blends as I did my first 3 or 4 years, now favoring the Virginia/Perique or Virginia Latakia blends. But a friend had me try a bowl of what he called the best tobacco he had ever smoked. I filled my Stanwell Churchwarden with a bowl and to my surprise I found it to be one of the best aromatics tobaccos I have ever smoked. It lit easily and produced copious quantities of blue gray smoke, and burned down to a light gray ash. The casing flavor is a bit difficult to describe, but I could detect a mildly sweet rasberry note, but also what tasted like some variety of Virginia. There were other flavorings as well, but as I stated above, I could not accurately identify. But overall, this is a very good blend and well worth the price. For someone who is just beginning to smoke the pipe, and searching for a good all day tobacco, they could do a lot worse than The Piperoom.com Middle Earth Blend. Good Stuff. F. Prefect
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