Mac Baren - Club Blend pipe tobacco reviews

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Briarabbit	12/01/2003	Mild to Medium	Very Mild	Medium	Pleasant
Fair roll cake tobacco. Tastes like sweetned Burley with Dark stoved Virginia. It does bite hard.Smells good in the room.
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JClark	09/19/2003	Very Mild	None detected	Mild	Pleasant
I don't really have anything BAD to say about this tobacco. The coins are very attractive looking and the smell in the tin is pleasantly sweet. Typical high moisture content out of the that I've come to expect from Mac Baren, as well as the tendency to bite and over heat during smoking. I recommend stacking or stuffing the coins into the bowl rather that rubbing them, this seems to reduce the heat as well as the bite. This tobacco tastes very pleasant, slightly sweet though I don't necessarily detect any casing, just a virginia cavendish mixture. I did enjoy this and it was very pleasant for the hot summer months. I may purchase more in the future however, this type of mild, dutch, sweet virginia cavendish mix. isn't really my "thing", it just doesn't keep my interest.
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SFC/E7	07/12/2003	Mild to Medium	Extremely Mild	Medium	Pleasant
The only thing I can really add, this is an exquisit Virgina Blend that gets better as you smoke the bowl of tobacco to the bottom. If you are a connoisseur of the Virginia Blended Tobaccos, this is a must try blend. I smoked the Club Blend in a Stokkebye Pipe, I did not notice any tongue bite, although, as with any Virginia Blend tobaccos, one must take their time to enjoy the taste while smoking this blend slow and easy.
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Vitous	05/07/2003	Medium	Very Mild	Medium	Pleasant
First tobacco in my first pipe (it was thirty years ago or so). Taste was pleasant as I remember and now, it is the same. It was the same through the years. Club is the Mac Baren's best blend I guess, fully recommended.
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Eulenburg	02/04/2003	Mild	Mild	Mild	Pleasant
If you can taste any difference between this and Dark Twist you've got either a) a scholastic/Talmudic tongue (depending on where you get your talent for minute-infinitesimal-how-many-angels-can-dance-on-the-head-of-a-pin distinctions OR, b) a great imagination. To my jaded, decadent, illegal-in-Georgia tongue, there is no difference here. It may be simply that "Dark" may seduce some people, whilst making others uncomfortable?who knows? Is the difference in the packaging? A Scandinavian conundrum. This smolthers pleasantly and sweetly in that quiet Danish way. My problem is that when I see a sliced twist like this, I want THREE NUNS intensity, which this sure ain't got. It also turns a bit stale in the last third of the bowl, as if, instead of fading, it were dying. Not hateful, but not for me.
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Daniel Morlan	01/31/2003	Mild to Medium	Very Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
You can compare this one to Dark Twist, but a bit milder. It's a sweet virginia roll cake that smokes like a quality virginia should. It's got a bit of an aroma that's pleasant, and doesn't interfere too much with the taste, which is a good thing. Nutty, sweet flavors come from this blend. If you like virginias that have been mellowed out, then you'll really enjoy this blend. I can't explain this blend to a newbie. If you've had experience with VA's, then you'll certainly know what I'm talking about when you try this blend. This scores an 89 out of 100 for me. :)
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TnT	01/30/2003	Mild to Medium	Very Mild	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
Club Blend is one of my favorite MacBaren blends. It is a nicely prepared and packaged mixture of virginia and cavendish tobaccos, curly cut into quarter sized discs. Most of these tobacco coins have a dark cavendish center, surrounded by golden virginia, and contain a fair number of bird's-eye pieces. I find it to be slightly too moist straight from the tin. Air drying a pipe's worth of discs on a paper towel for about an hour is well worth the wait, but don't overdry it because then the discs tend to fall apart and burn hot. As with most virginias, over puffing makes this blend bite and produces a wet smoke as well. A slow burn rewards the smoker with a smooth sweet taste - nothing real complex, but still very enjoyable. Relights are few, but if necessary this tobacco handles interrupted smoking quite well. A nice break from the virginia flakes that I usually smoke, but a little too prone to wettness to be one of my regulars.
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smokestack	01/15/2003	Mild	Extremely Mild	Medium	Pleasant
Club Blend is a delicious treat for Virginia fans. It has a fairly narrow dynamic range but is never tedious. The roll cake cut is easier to deal with than flake cut. The little disks rub out readily and you control how fragmented it is. I suggest you want the first couple of disks pretty coarse, the next couple a little more completely broken up and the last one or two thoroughly rubbed out. This treatment ensures that your pipe will be easy to light and keep lit. If you smoke slowly, Club Blend has a sweet disposition. No Virginia is going to be bite free if you rush. Virginia tobaccos have a natural tanginess. The usual Virginia/perique blends are tangier. By comparison, this blend (Virginia/cavendish) is very smooth and mellow. There is a nice natural sweetness to this tobacco and it may get some artificial help, but if so it is very subtley done. Non-smokers will likely find this unoticeable or will comment favourably on it. When Canadians are considering the price of Club Blend they should bear in mind that it comes in 100g tins. I like this tobacco and will keep it in stock.
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Pipestud	04/21/2002	Mild	Mild to Medium	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
Club Blend has a fine taste. Not too much flavoring and does taste mostly like tobacco. The roll cake style makes it a bit of a hassle to rub out and pack, but you will be rewarded by a cool, dry smoke. I say cool, but that is because you must puff slowly for it to remain that way. I tried this blend in a variety of pipes, and I think it smokes best completely rubbed out in a group 4 size pipe. Keep the burn slow or you may find this blend to nip the tongue. Nothing serious, but you will feel the flame. I will probably smoke this again someday, but will not rush out to my nearest tobacco shop to purchase a tin.
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rjm	12/10/2001	Medium to Strong	Mild	Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
As the previous reviewer noted, this is comes in a roll cake form and is very similar in appearance to Three Nuns. Directly from the tin, this tobacco is very moist and will bite ferociously! If you leave it open for a couple of weeks, however, you are in for a real treat. This blend is heavy on the Virginias and has a wonderful full flavor. There is a very slight sugar topping, but it sits very much in the background and only serves to enhance the earthy flavors of the Virginias. I highly recommend this to all Virginia smokers.
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Dizz	09/06/2001	Medium	None detected	Medium to Full	Very Pleasant
Club Blend is one of my favorite blends. It has a tasty sweetness that varies in intensity throughout the smoke. It is a roll-cake, so it comes in little coins that can be either rubbed out before packing or stacked--I rub them out because I get a more even burn this way. It is just a little moister than I like to smoke my tobacco, so I usually pack the bowl and let the ready-to-go pipe sit out for a day before lighting up. The first third of the bowl is delightfully sweet, if it stayed this sugary I probably wouldn't smoke it as regularly, but a woodsiness starts to dominate, but not obscure, the sweetness for much of the rest of the bowl; by the last third, the sweetness again comes to dominate. I would describe this as a hefty-medium-bodied smoke, but certainly not full-bodied. It's taste and aroma are, as the description states, "delicious," almost dessert-like, but subtle enough to be an everyday smoke. For the Cavendish lover, this is a great blend; for those of us less intense about our enjoyment of Cavendish, this is a blend that, in my opinion, is balanced well to provide a mildly sweet and very pleasant smoke.
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