The Country Squire Tobacconist Cowboy Coffee

I normally do not like blends with Kentucky Dark Fire because they are almost always waaay strong. But this blend is wonderfully different. The Kentucky is added in condimental amounts and gives the blend a nice smokey top-note, but different from Latakia. Where Latakia tastes like charred wood, this is more like fresh bacon or ham., right from the smokehouse. The Virginia comes through great, with its natural sweetness, and hay-like finish. The unflavored Cavendish seems to blend everything together and smooth it out.

This blend lights very well, and burns at a medium rate, with no tongue bite at all. Its a little sweet, a little earthy, a little grassy, and topped off with a delicious smokey finish that is not over-powering. It never gurgled, and burned all the way to ash with few relights.

Overall, a wonderful smoke, and I will be keeping this in my stash.

Created an account just to review this blend. My first experience with dark fired was with MacBarens ODF. I’m still to inexperienced to smoke that correctly, if such a way exists. With this blend, you get that beautiful smokiness alongside a beautiful cedary note. Then comes some sweetness from the cavendish and Virginia’s, rounding out into a nice smoke. It lights readily, and requires minimal relights throughout. Burns to the bottom easily. A perfect blend to wake up to, and best paired with hot coffee as the name might suggest. I’m buying more of this.

I just received this blend about a week ago, and have been smoking a bowl of it several days this week. In that short amount of time in a jar, the blend has changed a surprising amount. It has gotten quite a bit sweeter. The cavendish comes through even more. Sweet, smokey, savory. Everything I look for in a good Virginia kentucky blend. There is something about the cavendish that I can't quite put my finger on. I'm assuming it's cased in something, I'm just not sure what. It reminds me of the cavendish in frog morton (cellar in particular). There's a sweetness that almost has a vanilla whiskey type flavor, to me at least. The sweetness stays pretty consistently through at least halfway, and then more of the smokey kentucky comes through. There is a bit of a creosote finish that some may find offputting, but I think it's a perfect end to the bowl.

The description is quite good. Not sure how much kentucky is in the blend, but there is enough to give a nice punch of nicotine that is almost unexpected because of how sweet the start of the bowl is. By mid-bowl the strength starts to come through. While it is not overwhelming (I'm a bit of a nico-wimp), I would recommend a smaller size bowl to start with if you are sensitive to nicotine. It is a fantastic eye opener bowl 🙂

Perfect moisture content right out of the bag.

First char can be tricky, as it wants to pony up and buck out of the bowl. You may need to tamp down and relight, rather than ember chase from the top.

Once the fire is cooking, you're off to the races. Flavors are delivered in a smooth ride with no bite or effort. You're riding a prize stallion. Cavendish smooths the smoke, fired KY gains subtle strength as the bowl deepens, a dark horse, taking the lead on the retro.

One bowl with good VA technique and you’ll never want to step out of the stirrups.

The only thing left to do is order pounds, age them, and smoke them.

10/10

Let me try my best to describe this blend. Two dimensions at play here, the smokiness from the Kentucky, and the sweetness from the Cavendish. Both of those elements at play down to the last puff keep it in perfect balance. A decadent non-aromatic treat. Full flavored, yet mild. Smoke it with a cup of black coffee to bring out the sweetness. Highly recommend.