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sagesmoke	01/30/2010	Mild to Medium	Very Mild	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
My first "cake". Yum. A bit peppery when blown out the nose.
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SteelCowboy	01/14/2010	Medium	Very Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
This Vaper is arguably Russ Oullette's finest masterpiece. It's no surprise that his name comes up more and more often as one of America's best blenders. This tobacco comes with a wonderful tin aroma of figs, raisins and plums. It is moist and needs a bit of drying time. Being a vaper, it should be puffed with care as to avoid tongue bite. The flavor is on the sweet and tangy side of things. I enjoy this most in a Nording Bamboo. I have been told that the demand for this fine weed sometimes is so great that it leaves the warehouse very shortly after its made. I have cellared a good amount and watching AK's color deepen over the past several months is making it tough to wait things out! Highly recommended!
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str8blastpot	01/03/2010	Mild to Medium	None detected	Medium	Pleasant
first review guys. this is far and away one of the finest tobaccos i've smoked in 30 plus years. i've always sought a non aromatic smoke that gave flavor and rich layers. this one is spot on for me. lights beautifully and keeps it's character through the entire bowl. it is not a bowl you over smoke. Mc 2015 does that nicely and StJames flake is over the top for me. if Marie Antoinette had offered the masses this 'kake' she'd have kept her head. morning, noon and night a lovely smoke.
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DrBoB	12/27/2009	Medium	None detected	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
I have nothing new to add except that Russ told me he makes Ani Kake 9 pounds at a time and he has sold huge quantities of it. I save Ani Kake for when I can sit quietly and really appreciate the flavors as they evolve down the bowl. This, and Rolando's Own are my favorite tobaccos lately. They both are lovely blends...but Ani Kake is worth my full attention as I smoke a bowl lest I miss a wiff of spiciness or the evolution of the french-toast-like caramelization of the sugars in the Virginias....do yourself a favor and just get some and try it.
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Boomer-Z	12/19/2009	Medium	Extremely Mild	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
So many others have stated the samething I am going to say. This is nice tobacco. Medium in flavor with good smoke volume. I am a puffer and I have found just a little bite. I consider when I do get "bitten" by any tobacco it is my fault because of that. I recommend reading the reviews below and take a chance. For the price it is hard to beat. AK is in my regular rotation and I lookf forward to each bowl I smoke.
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Benton	12/09/2009	Mild to Medium	Extremely Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
Good news: Unlike other reviewers, I got a sample which came as a genuine cake: a 2 oz. block of fine red ribbon pressed into a solid mass. The smell is wonderful in the pouch. The flavor is great; very sweet with lots of perique raisin/fig/prune flavor. Bad news: This stuff bit me very baddly over and over. Drying, less rub out, and smoking slowly all help, but in the end I had to cut it 50/50 with a very heavy Balkan. Surprizingly, the AK ended up as the dominant flavor in the mix, which I enjoyed very much.
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strongirish	11/18/2009	Mild	Extremely Mild	Extremely Mild (Flat)	Tolerable
With the four star reviews of this blend, I thought I was in for a treat as I have been liking H and H blends of late. Wrong! This is just smoke in my book. Flat, cigarette like. It is a gorgeous tobacco, in the pouch it is a velvety thickly cut broken flakes with a dark oily appearance, simply looks great and inviting. Very moist so must be dried out overnight. It is fairly dark in color and a mixed brown in color. It smells terrific, the fig like aroma in the pouch of the perique and the tangy aroma of a good Va. After drying, it rubs out to large loose flakes and it packs in the pipe very easily. It lights quite well and with one light after char. It stays lit and burns clean down to a fine dark gray ash. But it never develops into anything. It does not have the sweetness that I like in a Va and the Perique is way in the background and never comes out. I really wanted this tobacco to sing for me as it's well priced and is just a fun tobacco to work with, but flat all the way through is what I get. I don't understand all the 4 star reviews it gets. So, I cannot recommend this one, it's just smoke.
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gazpacho	11/10/2009	Mild to Medium	Very Mild	Medium	Pleasant
Not much to add to these glowing review except the volume of my voice. This is an absolute premium blend at a bargain basement price. I buy it bulk and celler most of it, as this is one of those blends we are going to cry over when it is gone. For new smokers, this is an easy tobacco to appreciate, and as you become more experienced, it's complexity will unfold for you. Buy it. Smoke it. Enjoy it.
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Meisterlowin	10/06/2009	Mild to Medium	Very Mild	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
Anything that I could write about AK would be largely redundant. That said, I'll give it three stars for being a very nice and satisfying smoke.
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Cancerman	09/30/2009	Medium to Strong	None detected	Full	Pleasant
Update: I'm finding the more I smoke a pipe that the more I find that it takes many many bowls of a particular tobacco to get a real 'feel' for it. It's like eating food, at times you will have the best bowl of ice cream that you ever had in your life, then the next day you'll have a bowl of the same ice cream and it's just OK. That's one of the reasons I like to rotate my toaccos, it just seems at times I have the perfect blend at the perfect time and life is good! That said, I'm finding that after many bowls of this blend the first light seems to be pretty harsh indeed, but about mid bowl I can't put it down, and I often find myself with that feeling of 'the best tobacco in my life', but the next day it's just OK and another blend rises above this one. Original Review: I was a bit disappointed when I first got this tobacco becuase it's the first pressed tobacco that I've ever bought. It's amazing how it can be compressed into a small block, and I've always wondered how they come up with the weights, do they weigh it real wet, or is it based on dry weight, do you get more tobacco when buying a dry bulk blend, do the aromatics cost less because of the weight of the propylene glycol? And what is the effect of smoking propylene glycol with your tobacco? Well we don't have to worry about that with this tobacco because it is all natural with no 'casings' added. After smoking some low nicotine aromatics, no tobacco taste strong nicotine aromatics, and smokey latakia blends, I have to say that this is a welcome change and will have a permanent place in my rotation. This truely is 'spicey' as they say, and has significant nicotine as well. I am an infrequent smoker, having about a bowl a day, and I have to say that this blend really satisfies. Highly recommended. Not sure about the room note as I always smoke alone outside, and I don't think a smoker can really tell what the room note is unless another person is in the room, but I listed it as 'pleasant'. Update: After trying several other blends I came back to this one. Usually after half a bowl I dump it and move on to other activites but upon smoking this one a second time I found that I just couldn't bring myself to dump the bowl, it was that good. It's surely one of my favorites.
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Sailorjack	09/17/2009	Medium	Very Mild	Medium to Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
My God I love this stuff! I'm not really big on Perique but it is so well balanced by the sweet Virginias in this blend. Sweet and spicy, complex, smooth and so satisfying. I have had my most sublime smoking moments with Anniversary Kake. This is definitely my desert island smoke. LOVE IT!! LOVE IT!! LOVE IT!! THANKS RUSS!!!!
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Capt Bruce	08/05/2009	Medium	Mild	Medium	Very Pleasant
I started smoking a pipe (2nd time round) in April. I ordered 10 different types of tobacco. After several months all are gone, or close to it. I don't think I am experienced enough to give an in-depth analysis, but I can say, Ann. Kake is on the top of my list of 3(out of the original 10) that I will re-order. It was good enough to get my girlfriend to start smoking a pipe (this is her preferred tobacco as well). Definitely worth anyone's time and money to try once.
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The Piper at the Gates of Dawn	07/13/2009	Mild	Medium	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
Have been smoking a pipe since around '73 of the last century and have tried numerous blends. Having gone through the usual route from highly aromatic to finally settle on English and Virginia-Perique blends as many have. For the last few years I have been ordering from Pipes and Cigars.com with very satisfactory results. Presently have many of their blends and one of the most pleaaant ones is Russ' Anniversary Kake. At first put off by the smell(aromatic-like but uncased, I'm told) of the tobacco sample I declined ordering any but on a whim I re-ordered a small amount and was most pleaaantly surprised. My tastes seem to have changed somewhat and I was much impressed with this tobacco. I dried it out a little(What does DGT stand of anyway?) and it was even better. I ordered a pound of it. Very satisfied with the resulting dried our mixture and have enjoyed it since. Russ is ,of course a master blender and a bona fide gentleman with a lot of patience and product knowledge. Correspondence with him is both rewarding and educational as it is with all of the gentlemen at Pipes and Cigars.com. In short: relly fine Virginia-Perique mixture, a fine morning or anytime smoke and a damn fine price. Great job,Guys - Especialy Russ' blending expertise.
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Pipe Den	07/06/2009	Mild to Medium	Very Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
The first couple of bowls of this I thought this is going to be a regular smoke. But it quickly lost its flavour and became somewhat boring. The Perique taste at the end of the bowl was tolerable but nothing I liked and without the sweetnes coming through more it was just OK. With all the hype I was diappointed. Not much tongue bite and fairly easy to smoke. 2.5 stars
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JLong	06/29/2009	Medium	Very Mild	Medium to Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
I got a generous ounce of this stuff from Pipes and Cigars two months ago and it just seemed bland at first. It wasn't bad though. After half a dozen bowls or so, I lost any desire for it, stashed it in a Mason jar, and forgot about it. I cracked the jar this evening, loaded a bowl, and holy moly is this sheat ever delicious. Smooth, full bodied, sweet, and chocolaty. I'm on my second bowl as I write this. One just wasn't enough. It does seem on the moisty side and after 30 minutes of air drying, it smokes effortlessly.
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Tyro	06/22/2009	Medium	None detected	Full	Tolerable
A good, strong, VaPer... but... the taste is a bit harsh at times. I prefer C&D Night Train which to my ignorant palate is just as flavorful and nic laden but smoother and more consistently well behaved.
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pipewhisperer	06/19/2009	Mild to Medium	Extremely Mild	Medium	Pleasant
I am a die-hard McClelland Virginia fan; no apologies. Now, after smoking AK for a month, I would pick this tobacco as the one I would want to be stranded on an island with. At times, I cannot tell the Perique presence at all. Others, it sneaks out at the end of the bowl, but doesn't slap my taste buds silly. The most notable aspect of this smoke is that, as soon as I finish a bowl, I want to fire another one up. I can't get it to bite and the palate aftertaste is nil. I have a few pounds cellared and may well add to that before the summer is over. Kudos to Russ on a grand slam.
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jshrader13	06/19/2009	Mild to Medium	Very Mild	Medium	Pleasant
What can I say that the other's haven't already said? This was my first non-aromatic. It's flat out a great smoke! Smells great, tastes great, highly recommended! I'll definitely be cellaring some of this!
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Circus Bear	06/13/2009	Mild	Very Mild	Medium	Pleasant
I have just finished the very generous sample of Anniversary Kake that P&C sent with my last order, and I'm hooked! This has become my first smoke of the day. Easy to crumble and load-up, easy to light, sweet, with just enough perique to spice it up. I'm ordering a pound, no, two pounds incase they run out of this stuff! If you like VAPERs, do yourself a favor and try this one out.
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rramstad	06/01/2009	Mild	Medium	Medium	Pleasant
This is based on a relatively small sample from a buddy of mine that arrived fully rubbed out. Probably five bowls or so, perhaps a bit more. I found this blend to be a bit on the sweet side and a little bit goopy as well. It had a nice rich flavor without being overpowering and no noticeable amount of nicotine. This blend strikes me as a VA/Per crossover blend as it has a lot of aromatic characteristics. Did I like it? Yes. Did I love it? No. For me personally I'd prefer McClelland 2015... that's just more up my alley.
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