Peter Stokkebye - Luxury Navy Flake pipe tobacco reviews

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gladi8tor96	01/03/2012	Medium to Strong	Very Mild	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
Smells delicious, with hints of nuts, and figs. It smokes well enough, but has a bit of a bite, must be sipped. Over-all a decent Va/Per and in a beautiful flake.
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jpbass	11/15/2011	Medium	None detected	Medium	Tolerable to Strong
This is alright. Like another reviewer, I preferred it over MacBarren which I thought was a bit too spicy. I appreciate this more when I add some to a blend (Prince Albert plus BCA, with a bit of this is an awesome home blend), but I no longer care for it as a stand alone smoke. Lately I've drifted back toward aromatics, and I'm not sure if VA flake on it's own merit is something I'm all that fond of.
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Big Blue Jazzman	11/01/2011	Mild to Medium	Extremely Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
One of many Vapers I've tried and for the money you can't beat it. Burns well and tastes delicious. You can't go wrong with this one!
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NA Morrison	08/17/2011	Mild	Mild to Medium	Medium	Pleasant
Purchased this to compare to MacBarens and found this to be the better tobacco now don't get me wrong MacBaren makes excellent products but this one just took to me a little more will recomend to anyone who would like to try a well priced bulk flake tobacco
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nitekrawlr	08/13/2011	Medium	Extremely Mild	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
My Navy Flake of choice is MacBarens, but Stokkebeye's LNF is a close second. Good blend of quality Virginia, with just a touch of Perique, makes for a rich, flavorful smoke. Can't be beat for both price & quality. Just received a quarter pound today, after having just finished my last tin of MacB's NF.
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RyinMD	08/05/2011	Mild	None detected	Mild	Pleasant
I really like this blend. I usually smoke it in larger pipes as a good all-afternoon smoke. Too many Virginia-Perique blends leave me feeling queasy. This one doesn't, and it tastes great. It has a little sweetness from the Virginia, but it doesn't seem to bite. I highly recommend it.
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Taylor3006	08/04/2011	Mild to Medium	None detected	Full	Tolerable
Decided to get a sample of Navy Flake to see what the fuss was about. I am an aromatic lover so most "unflavored" tobaccos are just about the same in my book. After getting it stuffed into my pipe I found it lights and burns nicely. The taste is well, tobaccoy. Nothing special in my opinion, nice smoke. Did not notice any tongue bite but again was smoking a bit slower than normal. Probably a decent smoke if you are into this kinda thing. I suppose the best thing I can say about this is I won't throw it away, probably put it away and smoke it once every few months for a change of pace.
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Darth Vader	07/11/2011	Medium	Extremely Mild	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
Just a really nice flake. Smokes real easy.
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oregonpipe	07/08/2011	Mild to Medium	Extremely Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
On another trip to the "big city" I stopped again at my favorite B&M store, looking for some more samples to add to the great "VA Odyssey" collection. The young man behind the counter suggested, among other things, some PS's LNF. So I got a two-oz bag out of the bulk sack. So I had a couple of "brownies" of some nice flake that looked almost identical to Orlick's Golden Sliced. Each neat little stack looked like a small deck of cards with very distinct, easily separated flakes. The pouch aroma was sweet, and made me want to bite into one there and then. Since that day a couple of months ago LNF has become my every morning smoke. Half a flake, rubbed out and stuffed into a corn cob at 0700 with a big mug of fresh ground dark coffee has become my pipe-smoking nirvana. And since this happy discovery, there is now a half-pound of LNF "brownies" sitting next to my pipe rack in a bale-top jar. And I intend to keep this jar full. Frankly, I can't imagine a day going bad after my ritual LNF and coffee. It is THAT good!!! A little sweet, a little nut, just a smidge of spice (from just a HINT of perique)... it just doesn't get any better. No bite, no bitter. A nice mild, sweet start to the day. Yep, there are a lot more complex VA blends out there but I'll save those for later in the day. Who needs complexity at that hour, anyway? An all day smoke? Sure, but I don't smoke all day. 3 full bowls is a heavy day for me. So that breakfast bowl is important. If you are looking at getting into VA blends this is a great place to start. If you already do VAs you gotta give this a try. And hey, if you are a frugal b#&%d like me the price of this little honey is dirt cheap. How can you go wrong?
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thomasanswered	07/01/2011	Mild to Medium	None detected	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
This tobacco is the citrus and the hay. As another reviewer has stated, the Perique peppers just a bit and then disappears; however, the Virginia dominates in a delightful exchange between sweetness and hay. I have found it best in a smaller Meerschaum, the size into which the flake fits once it is folded along its length, then doubled over. A bit of a rub here, causing somewhat of a loose head, makes for an easy light and long burn. This is a solid Stokkebye bulk, easily serving as an inexpensive VaPer alternative.
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flyrod6057	06/26/2011	Medium	Medium	Medium	Pleasant
Quite a pleasant Navy flake. The flavor is mild, not too far removed from Macbaren's Navy flake. There's hints of cinnamon, sugar, leather. The sweetness is present, yet very subtle. It smokes cool, and the flavor endures from start to finish. The perique is quite subtle, playing peek-a-boo and playing second fiddle to the virginia, which is wonderful. A good all-day smoke.
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troyn60	06/20/2011	Medium	Mild to Medium	Medium	Pleasant
A great flake... I don't get the Perique in it very much, but every now and then I'll get a little peppery flavor, which isn't at all unpleasant. Real quality tobacco, and at a great price, too. This could be an all day smoke.
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piedpipester	05/24/2011	Mild to Medium	None detected	Mild to Medium	Very Pleasant
I'm primarily a Latikia/oriental guy, but sometimes enjoy a change of pace, especially early in the day. Either straight virginia or vaper type blends seem to be the ones I always go to. I decided to try nave flake, so here goes my impressions. It's very easy to light, even folded and stuffed in the bowl, and requires no relights smoking at a normal pace. Not a nicotine monster, but enough to satisfy. I can't make it bite, even puffing like a freight train. I'm sensitive to too much perique, burns my mouth, and the perique is here in this one, just a little lighter than other vaper blends on the market, so it works well for me. I consider it an all day smoke, great flavor, and if you factor in the price, its a no brainer. I think you have to smoke this blend for a few days to begin to appreciate the subtile flavors, and slow smoking really brings out the sweetness. I think i've found my go to blend on a daily basis. I like Cornell and Diehl's Briar Fox only a little better than this, which I can buy in bulk and save quite a bit of coin. Recomended
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yinyang	05/13/2011	Mild to Medium	Extremely Mild	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
Thanks to value alone, this should be a four star blend. That said, it is still worth a solid three stars on its own merits. Reminds me of Orlik Golden Sliced, Red....without the Perique, obviously. I really like OGS, so no worries there. A pleasant lighter spectrum Virginia, it burns readily, smells good, and tastes good. Not bitey, although I sometimes get just that from vapers. It may not be my ideal flake, but I've yet to bore of it before bowls end...a good sign. Maybe nothing to write home about, but nothing here to regret, either. I can see me buying more of this...and let's face it, at the cost ($40 for a 1-1/2 pound box...of flake!) even now...well, I'd be insane not to. Overall, recommending this one is way too easy. If you haven't tried it yet, please do.
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strongirish	05/13/2011	Medium	None detected	Medium to Full	Pleasant to Tolerable
Let me state that I am a fan of PS blends, for the money they are a great value and have many good blends that I smoke alot. Somehow though, this one escaped me. I love a good VaPer, and while this one is no Escudo, it is a very pleasant smoke and i am enjoying it. It is a very handsome flake, thinly sliced, very uniform in shades of brown from Khaki to medium in color. It comes way to moist for my tastes, but dried somewhat, it produces a nice sweet smoke with a touch of spice in it. The room note to me is great but AI have to put it in the pleasant to tolerable catagory as my wife is not find of it. Once loaded in my pipe, it takes several tries to get it lit but once going, it gives a nice creamy, smoke with the VA flavor soming through loud and clear and the Perique on the weaker side, just giving it spice without the plum taste I get from a lot of VaPers. If steaily puffed it stays lit but if smoked to slow one must relite it several times. It burns clean all the way to the bottom of the pipe leaving a grey powdery ash. I think I prefer some of the other Luxery blends to it but I will return to this blend from time to time as it certainly provides a good smoke.
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Tony	04/05/2011	Mild	Extremely Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
I'll recommend this blend to a person who likes VaPers. I don't see anything to write home about here but not complaining either. I asked for a sample due to the flue curing mentioned above as flue cured tobaccos are said to be a bit higher in Nic. All I can say is that there's not much perique and the VA must be extremely mild because the flue curing hasn't done much to give it some 'stones'.The second half of the bowls I've smoked becomes a little richer but that's about it.
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Mr. Big	03/26/2011	Mild to Medium	Very Mild	Mild to Medium	Tolerable
Nice flake and at a great price. Upon lighting you get a Virginia hay/orange citrus note, something similar to Troost. After a 1/4 of the pipe you are still looking for the Perique but instead the flavor has mellowed similar to Orlik's Golden Slices (Red). Still very mild, no bite and a sweet hay flavor as the citrus is gone. The bottom half is my preference, as the Perique starts to show itself, I personally would like more. As I started to puff away to bring out the Perique I noticed I had to back off due to some small amount of Bite. This might improve with cellaring but I'll stick with Weybridge for a cheap Vaper smoke and Escudo when I want a treat. Updated 4/10/11, After allowing this to breath, I would like to give another star to "recommended". I find myself going to this tobacco more and more. It's not complex, but a good on the go tobacco.
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Sailorjack	02/11/2011	Medium	None detected	Medium	Pleasant to Tolerable
PS Navy Flake may not be one of the best in it's genre but it is still a very solid Va/Per plus it's a flake which are always fun to play with. If you're a fan of Va/Pers than you owe it to yourself to try this blend at least once and why wouldn't you because it can be had for dirt cheap. I'll admit that if I smoke too much of Navy Flake it can get a bit tiresome but that is about the only negative I can think of. Enjoy!
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TK Pipe	01/26/2011	Mild	None detected	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
PS Navy Flake… A somewhat thin and larger flake readily available in bulk. One of the three in the P.S. luxury series, that IMO is well worth the asking price, which by the the way is very reasonable for such quality. Judging by the number of reviews this product has received, it looks to be quite popular as well, and it’s easy to see why. Simple rubout and load, takes to the match and with only a few relights, stays lit, with no bite or harshness and has all the bright Virginia flavors you could hope for. Definitely a Virginia dominate blend, where the Perique is noticeable, but far from the driver’s seat, a condition that works for me. At this point of having smoked a dozen or so bowls, I can find nothing to complain about, and don’t see that changing, except maybe for the better with some age. Of the three, I put this one as my favorite, and as far as that goes, maybe one of my top 10 all time favorites. Getting this (4oz) sample to try was a fluke, I thought I had my fill of Navy this or Navy that, but I was wrong, one more was the charm. I ended up with something new breaking into my rotation. So as it turned out, I would recommend this tobacco to anyone that favors a milder Virginia, including beginners. 4 stars. PS… Smoked in a smaller bowl briar, dedicated to Virginia tobaccos.
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PIE-EYED-PIPER	12/13/2010	Mild to Medium	Very Mild	Mild to Medium	Pleasant
This is one of my favorite VaPers. I usually smoke this using my Charatan pipe. I gently rub the flake(s) thereby creating thicker strands. I don't rub it to the point that it creates a ribbon. I figure that having thicker strands would equate to a richer, fuller, and more flavorful smoke. Unlike McClelland’s Virginia/Perique Flake (Bulk 2015), LNF has a more subtle and pleasant aroma. McClelland on the other hand, has a more "ketchup" like, or as one of my friends would describe it, "barbeque" like aroma. Mind you, I do love McClelland's VaPer. As a matter of fact, it is one of my favorites as well. I do find that LNF starts out to be somewhat mild, then the strength and flavor becomes more apparent as you go deeper into the bowl. A hint of sweetness can also be noted as well. Pete Stoke did well on this one. The combination of VA and Perique is just perfect. If one were to start getting into VaPers, this would be a great one to try. Not only would this be a great beginning, but also NOT cost prohibitive as it is a moderately priced tobacco. I RECOMMEND you try this. This is one blend that will not let you down.
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