Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) Half & Half

I found this to burn too hot and is just not as good as many other blends of this ilk... if you are in a pinch I recommend Prince Albert over this any day of the week.

I must be blessed but I really like many over the counter cheap burley blends. I know alot of people hate them but to smoke while delivering or working outside they are fantastic. This blend has a unique flavor which I really like. Sure cheap burley tends to be like oatmeal is to fine food but it has a simple strong quality that is perfect at times. Some of the reviewers compared this tobacco to Lucky Strike cigarettes which my father smoked and I agree somewhat. This has more flavor than the cigarettes ever did. If I hadn't been on a aromatic kick when my dad was alive I might of converted him to pipe smoking with this one.I think most beginning pipe smokers would be better off with Captain Black then this.I am not sure what is in this but it is not a straight burley, beside the virginia, "bright", it has something else in it. This does burn really well and doesn't require constant relighting which is a big plus while driving. Best of all this is as cheap as tobacco gets and can be found in many locations while traveling.

I am sorry but this stuff is vile. I can't stand the smell of it burning and yet I subjected one of my cobs and smoked 1 bowl. A lot of puffers love this stuff, I don't.

When I asked about Half&Half, I was told "you'll either love it or hate it - there's no in-between." Well, leave it to me to be wierd. I'm on the fence on this one.

As to the most common caveat - yes, it does impart a flavor to the pipe that is hard to get rid of. But not impossible.

The flavor is sort of sweet and cigar like, but then a bit sour at the same time. It's unique, I'll give it that.

I have a half of a pouch left, and every time I decide to toss it, I decide not to.

I guess it's aptly named - Half of me says "forget it", the other half says "but it isn't that bad".

Give it a try - at the price, you won't be risking much anyway.

I tried this blend purely for nostalgia.My grandfater smoked this blend.Being that I find burley boring this was sort of like smoking water for me.one bowl full was enough to see that it's not for me.I will however try it later in life.I hear that it tends to grow on you over the years, when your tastebuds finally expode from flavor over load.This statement must be true because a much older friend of mine just bought a pound of the stuff....Move On! prep

My father always telling me that when he sees me smoking a pipe it reminds him of his grand father smoking a pipe made me ask him what he smoked. My father told me he smoked Half and Half and Union Jack. Not being able to find Union Jack, I was able to easily Locate a big can of Half and Half for a relatively low price of $13.99 for a large 16 oz. can. I immediately opened it to find that I noticed a strong cranberry smell. I asked a few of my friends and people I know to take a whiff and people came up with the same smell. Cranberries. I found it kinda shocking that of all the reviews here for it, no one came up with cranberries. I was pleased with the aroma, and proceeded to pack my pipe. Packing was easy enough, and so was lighting. It filled the room with a pleasant aroma that my dad immediately recognized as Half and Half which is amazing considering my Great Grand Father died in 1965. It was a very pleasant tasting tobacco that had a light cranberry overtone but tasted more like tobacco than anything else I could detect. Reminded my of a very smooth, cool Lucky Strike Cigarette that happened to be one of the only cigarettes I ever sampled. Reading the other reviews here it seems to be of the same tobacco as Lucky Strikes, so the taste similarities make sense now. The only thing keeping me from smoking this daily is the bite factor. In any briar, even a filtered Dr. Grabow, this seems to bite the tongue. That caused me to set the can aside after finishing about half of it. Reading the reviews here last night made me rediscover that half used can I forgot about for roughly 4 years. I was surprised to find it still moist and smelling of the cranberry aroma I remember. I decided to try it in a corm cob and to my surprise, it didn?t bite me at all. Now, I am not sure if my smoking habits have changed since being a occasional pipe smoker to a everyday pipe smoker but smoking it in the corn cob made me change my mind of it and putting Half and Half in my weekly rotation that is now growing into a rotation that contains over 20 brands. I would recommend this to a pipe smoker that wants a good tobacco for a reasonable price. But not for the new smoker. It does bite and any tobacco that bites easily is not a good recommendation to someone just getting used to the art. I would recommend you buy a corn cob for this tobacco as it seems that is where this tobacco shines. Be warned though this is not a flavored tobacco so don?t expect the aroma to carry over to the flavor much if at all. Overall a good smoke.

I smoked this blend as a start to pipe smoking. It made me put down the pipe and smoke cigars for the next 4 years. I have sworn off burly since. Just simply terrible weed.

Bitter, sour with a ton of bite. I certainly do not reccomend this to anyone.

After all the negative reviews about this tobacco, I'm almost ashamed to admit that I actually enjoy this stuff.

I do find the pouch aroma somewhat odd, citrus and raisins, yes, but also probably alcohol.

On the first few puffs, the topping comes through pretty heavily, and it is enough to make you want to put the bowl down. But after that, the tobacco mellows into a fairly smooth smoke in which the burley predominates. The casing (not sure what it is) is always there, but not so much that you can't tell you still aren't smoking tobacco. Some have called this an extremely heavy aromatic...there are heavier ones out there. The sweetness and nuttiness are present throughout the bottom two thirds of the bowl. The very bottom of the bowl can get just slightly sour.

As a former cigarette smoker, I agree with previous reviewers who have stated that this reminds them of cigarette tobacco. It isn't exactly like Camels, but I can understand why some make the comparison.

If you enjoy Burley, and don't mind cigarettes, you might enjoy this tobacco. It isn't for everybody. One of life's little pleasures is in finding something cheap which you actually enjoy. For me, an occasional bowl of Half and Half fits the bill. If you don't like Burley, you'd probably be better off with something else. To each their own.

This is only the second review I have posted, and I am not very eloquent at writing reviews, but I will start this one by stating that there should be another level of recommendation just for this tobacco. It should go something like, "Not my cup of tea. Do not plan on trying it again. Not only that, but if I ever find myself downwind of anyone smoking it I will run away as fast as I can. In fact, even the sight of a box sitting on a drugstore shelf is enough to make me queasy." I'm glad there are still lots of folks who like this--it is an old American tobacco with lots of history and heritage. I'm just not one of them. The pouch smell is intense and to me, unidentifiable. I tried mine in a cob and only made it about halfway through the bowl before I gave up and dumped it out. For a year afterward anything with a decent amount of burley in it would give me H&H flashbacks. I consider it fortunate that it didn't completely ruin my old corncob that I put it in. I don't usually comment on tobaccos that I dislike, other than to say something vague like "I didn't care for it," because I don't want to turn someone away from something that might turn out to be their favorite smoke. But I just can't keep quiet on this one. I absolutely hated it.