Holger Danske Black & Bourbon

Very easy to smoke and to clean pipe, fast burning tabacco and never hot. Taste is steady and light. However not enjoyable. This tabacco bored after couple days.

mild , pleasant, more good on a large pipe . easy to smoke not required more relight. a good cavendish not too sweet, but pleasant . good value for money

As I learned from the reports of my dear forum members on the Pipabolt.hu community forum, I found out, and finally I could see with my own eyes, that this pipe is indeed carbon black. A couple of long, blond Burley also mingle in it, giving the whole tobacco a kind of melancholy hue; in a good way, of course. Needless to say, it speaks for itself, as does its color and texture. After the Borkum Riff Cherry Cavendish dried to crisp due to the long ventilation, this time I just took a stuffing out of the package, ahead of my next blunder. I carefully set the rest aside, both in a bag and a box, but before that I had a feel for how wet the sauce was. I stuffed the amount taken out for ventilation into my pipe after half an hour. Its ignition still left some objections due to the rapid ventilation, but apart from that it started to burn evenly as soon as it caught fire. The filling went well, I was able to smoke the tobacco at a calm pace, I didn’t have to force it. The smoke has pleasant, light aromatic properties, and unlike others, I could feel the bourbon on it, I didn’t have to drink any spirits for it. However, as I smoked in a new pipe, which had only just seen tobacco for the first time and needed further burning, and the stem was shorter than before, the smoke reached hot and pungent towards the end of the stuff, from which I decided to end the puffing. Overall, I was completely satisfied with all its qualities, and I think it will even intensify later on, I fell in love with this new bourbon flavor so much. I have a feeling that this pipe tobacco will run out sooner than the previous ones. 🙂

Holy crunch balls does this weed give off the vapors. Pull off the paper separator, and you find a plastic bag of seriously stewed nuclear flavored ribbons (I didn't find many ready rubbed chunks) that had to be cherry. Then I thought about it for a second, and yeah, if I dumped a glass of bourbon over some tobacco, it would probably have the same tangy, sweet, dour, stink this stuff has. So shame on me for assuming every pungent Aromatic is cherry.

One peculiar thing was it's color. It had a greyish hue similar to pictures of people wondering, "is this mold or plume?". I don't believe it was either, so just a visual side note. The first few puffs were confusing. I was expecting (cherry still) and some deep caramel finish found in whisky blends, instead I just got this hot air with a general alcohol steam, and not much flavor of any kind to be honest. It was almost as if it was topped with a cooking extract made mostly of alcohol and the fire immediately burned off whatever was added to taste.

Smoking this really reminded me of the one time I tried vaping. It just didn't work for me in the least. **Note: I rated the flavoring as strong only because it stinks in the tin, even though it is less than mild once smoked.

New name: HD B&B. For sweet black Cavendish tobacco lovers. A very nice Cavendish-based aromatic. Attractive dark brown and black color. Good pouch note, pleasant room note. The short-trimmed cut allows this tobacco to light and burn quite easily, perhaps too fast. It's a sweet, delicate and mellow aromatic. The aroma is enjoyable and consistent throughout the bowl. Classic tip-of-the-tongue Cavendish sweetness, the Bourbon aroma is barely detectable, somewhat hidden between other aromas. Perhaps this blend is also vanilla cased. In my opinion this feels more like a "true" processed Cavendish, and not one of those (small "c") cavendish "fakes", which are simply black tobaccos sprayed with cheap toppings. Among my "top-of-the-list" tobaccos at the moment.

2022 update: in more recent batches, a distinct alcoholic, "Bourbon-ish" note is clearly present, especially in the first half of the bowl. the aroma is much better now. Bravo!!

Smells great in the tin. Fresh out of the tin this will bite, puff carefully.

Aged for 8 months and it smoothed out. Tastes of bottom shelf Canadian whiskey and slight citrus.

Overall 1.5 stars.

Just barley than a OTC drugstore blend.

Good Aromatic. Just sip it like if it was Bourbon. The taste reminds me of a milky chocolate bar that has raisins and fruit. Can't find other notes from the tobaccos. I let it dry out a bit and was a cool and smooth smoke.

Packaging has changed. Black pouch with only the letters B&B on it

Well-done!

I am more kentucky, latakia, and heavy English blends person. But this extensively aromatized black cavendish blend is attracting me very much. Once you open the pouch/tin and leave it in a small room, the smell will definitely capture the whole area. One will pack his pipe with soft and silky, rough-cut, tobacco and enjoy the next half hour. If I didn't read that this blend also has burley and virginia in it, I would say it's just based on pure black cavendish. To me, burley and virginia in the blend is unnoticeably low.

Taste is quite stable through the bowl. Burns faster than I am used to. The whiskey and vanilla notes are dominating in overall, but the whiskey is always one step ahead. Lastly, the name, "Black and Bourbon" has been changed as "B.B". As a smoker of both, I can also confirm that there is no difference between both, simply a name change.

Since it probably contains a lot of chemicals, recommended if and only if to one wants try something burns, smells, tastes like tobacco, but not actually a tobacco.

To be honest I wasn't expecting to like this too much. The casing/topping is certainly too sweet (to my taste) for the very mild tobacco flavour but the Burley seems to carry this well. It tastes more specifically of sweet vanilla than bourbon, although there is a certain crossover of flavours there. In the end, I can't deny that is is actually a very enjoyable smoke.

It burns well and dry leaving very little dottle but I found it does need a lot of puffing to keep going, but then that suits my style of smoking... The excessive cadence required does however mean that it smokes a bit hot but this did not translate to any level of bite. Room note is very heavy but pleasant.

All in all, I enjoyed it and if this is your type of thing it is hard to beat but I just can't imagine myself buying this in the future. But then again...