Peter Stokkebye - Luxury Bullseye Flake pipe tobacco reviews

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scotts	12/12/2009	Medium	Extremely Mild	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
Smoked a few cigars, but new to pipe smoking. First review. Gotta start somewhere. In the package I get a scent of hay, backed up with tomato paste/italian spice (perique?) with undercurrent of maybe apricot. The flakes are moister than the ribbon cuts I'm use too so far. Rubbed out a couple to fill a new missouri pride cob. They lit up easily and smoked smooth to the bottom with maybe a couple of relights. That's good for me. Dense smoke when the draw was right. Nice. The taste to me sweeter and fruitier but less cloying in each aspect than the Carter Hall I have. VaPer vs Aromatic I guess. No tongue bite during the smoking, but a little tender afterwards. I like it, and a nice complement to the Balkan Supreme I have in my limited stash.
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seasonalpipesmoker	12/01/2009	Medium to Strong	Medium	Medium to Full	Unnoticeable
I'm not sure what everyone gets so excited about with this tobacco. Yes, it's pretty. But it smells and tastes like plain cigarette. No Virginia sweetness, no Cavendish aroma. At least it was inexpensive.
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Tallman	11/26/2009	Medium	Extremely Mild	Medium	Pleasant
I like this tobacco a lot..packs and lights beautifully, burns well, and is a joy to taste. I'm geetting to be a big VaPer fan...and this one is a regular for me! Try it...you may find a friend for life!
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sirchud68	11/23/2009	Medium	Extremely Mild	Mild	Pleasant
This was the first flake I ever tried. A few years ago Eric Stokkebye was promoting his fathers memoirs at our local shop. Turns out I was smoking Stokkebye products (Norwegian shag rolling tobacco) long before I started smoking pipes. I picked up a couple of different Stokkebye flakes that day and though I enjoyed all of them I enjoyed bullseye the best. Beautifully put together.
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huffnpuff	11/14/2009	Mild to Medium	Mild	Mild	Pleasant
bulleye has nice looking slices of tobacco with a nice hay like smell and taste. love the smell coming in my nose but the smoke tastes wet like im going to drool but over all very good tobac, so I bought a pound of it for the long ride huffnpuff
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Loboatomy	11/11/2009	Medium	Mild	Medium	Pleasant
Just a fantastic smoke. Perfectly balanced, no bite at all, but not a "bland" tobacco. Love the cav centers. Maybe not an "all day" smoke, but could easily be an "every day" smoke for me. I'm buying a bunch of this in bulk ASAP. (Enjoying this in a smallish filter prince)
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Cancerman	11/05/2009	Strong	None detected	Full	Pleasant
This is some top notch tobacco! I'm thinking this may be my very favorite, it's a close tie between this and Anniversary Kake. Anniv. Kake is a bit more harsh when you smoke it, (I assume that's probably the extra perique?) and it also has less nicotine which is just about right on for me. This stuff almost has a bit too much nicotine, it's right at the top for me. I have to put it down half way through a bowl to recover but can pick it right up again. It's great tasting too, I can hardly bring myself to dump the last of a bowl if I have to smoke and go. I take a flake and break it apart and when loaded at a point where it seems a bit too moist, it still keeps burning away. This stuff really packs a punch, perhaps not as much as Night Train, and is some of the best tasting tobacco I've ever had in my pipe. I had a cigarette smoker take a quick puff on my pipe when they were smoking cigs and they said they caught a buzz, for sure it's strong in the nico dept., maybe its a bit over the top for a new pipe smoker. However, it's great for taking a quick smoke break with the pipe. One disk completly fills my medium sized Savinelli semi-churchwarden. Great stuff, get some!
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pipe_organist	10/01/2009	Medium	Extremely Mild	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
This is my first foray into VA/Per blends, and I received a packet of coins from a fellow over at the pipe forum at "puff.com". The coins are large and beautifully constructed. They smell sweet in the pouch. As I prefer a fully rubbed-out technique for smoking tobacco of this type (having little luck with the "fold and stuff" method), it only took two of these wonderful coins to fill a large meerschaum three-quarter bent. It lights well and burns evenly. I found the initial flavor to be grassy and harsh, but I think there may have been a bit of ghosting from other tobaccos smoked in this pipe. I smoked half of the bowl last night and struggled with the nicotine content (I broke a sweat, which happens for me if the 'baccy is strong), despite smoking it in the evening on a full stomach. I retired the pipe half-smoked and have returned to it tonight (almost 24 hours later) and found the relight to be a pleasant surprise. The smoke now is rich and flavorful, no hint of grassiness with a hint of sweetness that I had expected originally. The Perique is more in evidence as is the black cavendish. I had intended to pass on the remaining coins to others in my local "pipe clatch" (we don't have a full-blown club where I reside, but a great group of about 5 guys who meet weekly). I've changed my mind and will finish the remaining coins to make a final decision about this blend. So far, my preferences lean toward Mac Baren flakes (Navy, Mixture and Dark Twist Roll Cake), but this one may be an acquired taste for me. I currently give it between 2 and 3 stars, leaning toward 3.
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Alguhan	10/01/2009	Medium	None detected	Medium to Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
The discs are very elegant. I adore the Virginia-Perique mixture's color and the dark cavendish bulls eye at the middle. It packs nicely, without rubbing it out. At the first light I've understand that something nice will be going on my palate and tongue. It bites with the Perique's strongth while sweetening my tongue and my nose is nicely tickled. An extraordinary pleasure for my tastes. It has a full taste of long lasting, dry and cool smoke. After the half of the bowl I catch the necessary strength for my needs and it makes a great finish which satisfies my all smoking needs. This is a great pipe tobacco.
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strongirish	09/22/2009	Mild to Medium	Extremely Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
This one just works for me. I have not smoked many of PS blends so I thought I would give this a try and I will be back for more. I liked this from the light up and all the way down. It comes in pinwheel like disks and after drying overnight it was the perfect moisture content. The disks are rather attractive, light to medium colored brown cavendish cut on the outside and coming to a dark black cavendish core. I rolled it up and it broke apart as I did this but it loaded into my pipe quite easily. The pouch aroma is sweet and tangy with a subtle rich sweet smell from the dark core. Upon lighting, and it lit with only two lights, it emitted an very sweet smooth flavor, with a touch of creaminess from the black cavendish. It is very mild, no bite, and it is complex in that the flavors change as you smoke it down the bowl. I is mostly a sweet VA flavor with the perique in the background but not dominating. It never gets hot, it never gets boring. I have never had black cavendish mixed in with a VaPer before and was a little worried it would ruin the flavor but it does not, it adds to the experience. This blend smoked all the way down to a fine dark grey ash and left no dottle or moisture in my pipe. For what you get with this fine blend, the price is very reasonable and I know it will become part of my have to have blends. I highly recommend this blend for a cool great tasting smoke.
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Kilmarnock Piper	08/24/2009	Medium	Extremely Mild	Medium	Pleasant
This remains the only tobacco I've managed to go through a pound and a half of, and I have another box on (long) backorder, which must mean a lot of other folks like Bullseye as well. None of the internet stores seem to have it in stock these days. This was the first Virginia I tried, after a bad first experience with McCranie's Old Master, which one of the boys (I used to live in Charlotte) recommended for a beginning pipe smoker, for what reason I can not comprehend. My next attempt was McCranie's Murdoch's Pipe, and the Latakia did not strike my fancy-I threw the can away, which I regret, because I smoke the occasional English now, and would probably appreciate the blend if I smoked some today. (Edit 1/11/11: I have and I do!) One thing that might not have helped is that at McCranie's, they presented me with the camel s___ story as if it were true. I next went down the road to the South Park Mall Tinder Box, and talked to a genial, gray-bearded gentleman who had used to work for McCranies (Don't think by this that I have anything against McCranie's, though I have to say the only one of their tobaccos I really, really liked was the Red Flake "blended" by McClellands). As a Tolkien afficionado, I was interested in the Kentucky cured I had once read about Tolkien having favoured. For some reason, the fellow pointed me to Bullseye-I know what Kentucky cured is now and it ain't Bullseye, but maybe he was thinking of the cavendish center. From the moment I got home and admired the pretty little coins and smoked this wonderful product for the first time, I was hooked. Since then, I have tried many other great Virginias, but have to say this is still my desert island tobacco. I never get tired of it, and when I have a supply I have to force myself to put it away for a while and smoke something else. However, I can do without it just fine-haven't been able to get any for months and am surviving quite well, but I miss it. When my order finally comes in, I'm going to stuff four or five coins in my largest pipe and smoke for an hour. I can't pin down what it is about the blend that makes me like it so much-sorry I can't come up with any specific descriptions of the flavor, I just know it hits the bullseye for me! 1-23-10 When you get this, put it in a mason jar immediately. A few months aging does wonders! I like to try lots of tobaccos, but sometimes wonder why I need anything else (of course we all need variety). But this stuff is so good, and is only $2 an ounce! Man, was that last pipe good!
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wosbald	07/21/2009	Medium to Strong	Extremely Mild	Medium	Tolerable
Pouch aroma of these beautifully fabricated coins is sweet and light with little distinctiveness. At light up, a slightly sweetish topping is evident. The red VAs are exceptionally mild and very clean tasting. The perique content is quite light but noticeable while the intermittent clods of black cavendish add a bit of fullness. Soft and ingratiating, Bullseye Flake is a flavorsome and well-priced VA/Per. Its mildness makes it a good choice for all-day puffing. This goes best in narrow gauge chambers.
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elelion	06/22/2009	Medium	Medium	Medium to Full	Tolerable
It is not a blend that I would remember too much. I have ordered 100 grams and almost finished half of it. The cut looks nice however by folding it, the "bull's eye" in the middle of the disk does not break easily. By the first light it does taste sweaty but the hint goes out too easily. Maybe I shall give it more time by sipping a little slower. It burns into grey ash straight to the buttom of the bowl -- this suggests that it is a quality tobacco. But as long as I have other V blends available with me, I would not grab bullseye flake at my first choice. Maybe given more time and more tries, I will be able to remember more of thie blend. But until then, 2 stars. ---updated on 13th Dec. 2011--- It has been years since my first reviews regarding this blend. I finished the rest of the 100 gram this year and ordered another 100 gram. With good rubbing technique the "bull's eye" in the center of this flake will distribute evenly. My idea regarding a flake is not to rub it too thouroughly if you would like to enjoy the pleasure of a flake. This blend performs better and better through time, but it is still too young. The mildiness does not override its wildiness, very much like tasting a blended scotch whiskey. Upgraded to 3 star.
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David1295	06/19/2009	Mild	Very Mild	Mild	Pleasant
As the description says, this is 'an unparalleled smoking experience'. Sweet, cool, would have to be pushed VERY hard to bite. This isn't a copy of Escudo, but an improvement on it. If you only had room for one tobacco, this would be a very good choice.
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Lawrence G. Foster	06/07/2009	Medium	None detected	Medium	Tolerable
A pleasant Virginia-Perique flake. While less enjoyed than the very similar Twist Flake, Bull's eye flake is also very beautifully presented and enjoyable to smoke. Puffed slowly, the flake will produce a sweet smoke with the subtle piquancy of perique.
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maboman	05/25/2009	Medium	Extremely Mild	Medium to Full	Tolerable
I have been wanting to try this for a long time and today picked some up from my local tobacconist in Tampa. (Edwards pipe and tobacco.) I am so glad I found this. As a self proclaimed va/per junkie this little coin flake really hits the spot in a big, big way. I have smoked 3 bowls from 2 different pipes and I am very impressed with the presentation, smoking characteristics and value. This is a great tobacco that could easily be an all day smoke for me. I will be buying by the pound very soon! 2 coins will do ya! Maboman
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luvinthepipe	04/23/2009	Medium	None detected	Medium to Full	Very Pleasant
This tobacco is my favorite standby. It never fails to give me that super yummy flavor that lingers in my mouth for a long time. The blend burns perfectly, has the right moisture level, burns cool, tastes great...everything I could ask for in a tobacco and inexpensive as well. Some people call this a poor mans version of Escudo. Escudo has cleaner appearance and is also a great tobacco, but I believe the unflavored black cavendish in this blend actually is a great addition that helps it burn cooler than Escudo burns. Straight up, Escudo or Bullseye flake? flip a flake over it, I'll take either one! Update ** 4/29 I have 15 different blends/flakes/cakes/twists/rubbed/you name it shapes, styles etc open right now. Every night I light up a bowl of something other than this one to start out. Out of dissapointment, I pull out this old generic 6.5 inch vintage meerschaum (my fave) and rub out 2 flakes of this blend and WOW...every time I get that magical "Je ne sais quoi" that makes all of us smoke tobacco. I smoked escudo in the same pipe and didn't get the same WOW I got from the very next bowl of LBF. I have some very expensive tins of tobacco that fit the va/per cattegory (some have burley or cavendish) and none of them taste as good to me or smell as good in the room or outside smell note as this tobacco does. I bought a 24 oz box of this and think I will only spend my money on this from now on. This is everything I love in my pipe. Why should I look anywhere else? I feel the same way about my woman. PERFECT! But... then again...blends much like women...they are a matter of personal taste.
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haredawg	04/08/2009	Medium	None detected	Medium to Full	Pleasant
I bought a box, the 24 ounce box, of this stuff right before the SCHIP kicked and certain retailers were trying not to be sitting on inventory. There are a few reasons I bought that much untasted other than price. One is I like the way Peter Stokkebyes treats tobacco, I?m always willing to try a blend from a name I don?t know or haven?t liked past offerings from, but I prefer sticking Brands I know and have respect for. The other is I like that cut of tobacco. My experiences with the cut have been Escudo, of course, and Davidoff Flake Medallions. Comparing Escudo to LBF seems inevitable, I?m going to say it?s like comparing apples to apples, Granny Smiths to McIntosh, like em both, one?s sweeter, the other tarter. The closer comparison would be Flake Medallions as they both have that Cavendish in the center. Flake medallions taste a bit more refined, I don?t know how to translate flavor into money, but, at least where I shop, the Davidoff is considerably more expensive. For comparison purposes, I can?t imagine anyone enjoying any one of these and not the others. It?s not like the Cavendish is cased, though I can understand someone preferring Escudo for a lack of sweetness. The presentation in the box of LBF is beautiful, rows of coins lined up like in a large change maker. The coins themselves darker flake spun with some lighter flake and rolled around a black center. Mine came almost at a perfect moisture level, ready to smoke with only a little bit of drying out. I have no idea if this is a fluke or not. It?s stupid to mention this, but you have to like a VA/PER to like this, if you?ve tried other VA/PER?s, good ones, honest ones, and didn?t like them, this fancy coin is not going to change your mind. There?s nothing more complex than good Virginian a nice pinch of perique and a dash of unsweetened Cavendish. I?ve said that twice, unsweetened Cavendish, I?m going by my taste buds, if someone wants to challenge this I?ll defer. There?s no reason not to recommend this as highly as Flake Medallions or Escudo, it?s a fine, well behaved, good tasting, good looking flake, solid smoke with occasional bursts of a little sweetness and a little pepper. Burns to a fine white ash with no dottle. I?ve had this for a few days, cellared about half, and have smoked it in a very large Castello sea rock, a group three (or single x) Ashton Canadian, a knock about meerschaum, a midsized radices egg, very consistent in all shapes and sizes.
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poppy43	03/06/2009	Strong	None detected	Mild	Tolerable
I ordered a sample of this tobacco along with nmy order of Stokkeby Proper English, and am sorry I did. It is way to strong for me, I get sick every time I smoke it, the nicotine must pack a punch in this. But, that doesn't mean it's a bad tobacco for someone else and I've got 2 oz. I'd like to give away to someone else. Update: I loaded this stuff up with latakia, it's smokeable now but never again.
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Pipe4ever	03/03/2009	Mild	Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
This is definitely one of the best offering in the "luxury" series of Peter Stokkebye, the tobacco disks are amazingly well crafted and the smoke is delicious, Virginia, Perique and Cavendish are presents and noticeable, the perique is carefully added so it will just refresh the palate. This is a very good Virginia/perique indeed, it does not bite at all if it is smoked properly, the flavor is natural and delicious. I am very pleased with this tobacco and I will be ordering some more, I would recommend it to anyone.
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