Backwoods Green
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Pouch text: This pipe tobacco is very easy to handle due to the special cut. It is made of selected Virginia, burley and Orient tobaccos that are blended to achieve the typical American blend tobacco.
Notes: Apparently, this or a very similar blend is/has been sold in the EU as "Backwoods Glacier".
Details
| Brand | Backwoods |
| Blended By | |
| Manufactured By | Mac Baren Tobacco Company |
| Blend Type | Aromatic |
| Contents | Burley, Oriental/Turkish, Virginia |
| Flavoring | Menthol |
| Cut | Ribbon |
| Packaging | one pound bag, 50 grams pouch |
| Country | Denmark |
| Production | Currently available |
Profile
Strength
Very Mild
Extremely Mild -> Overwhelming
Flavoring
Extra Strong
None Detected -> Extra Strong
Room Note
Very Strong
Unnoticeable -> Overwhelming
Taste
Extremely Mild (Flat)
Extremely Mild (Flat) -> Overwhelming
Reviews
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| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 04, 2020 | Very Mild | Extra Strong | Extremely Mild (Flat) | Very Strong |
No. Nonononono. Just... Nope.
I never had very high hopes for this when I picked it up at the local kiosk as a new brand they'd recently received, having known Backwoods previously as a brand of cheap supermarket cigars, but I should have been warned off by the color of the wrapping and the 'cool' name. Foolishly, I thought "But surely no-one would mentholize a pipe tobacco...? Whoever would do such a thing? No, it can't be."
The vaguely minty pouch note and the uniform light-brown shag turned my mouth down, and the very first puff finally brought me to grim reality. I don't even know why they call it pipe tobacco (tax evasion? taking advantage of a little-known loophole in EU legislation?) as this is essentially menthol rolling tobacco - and not a very good one at that.
Literally the only pipe tobacco I have only managed to smoke only half a bowl and then immediately disposed of. That half a bowl ghosted my small Chacom for about 8 bowls afterwards, I kid you not, and the toothpaste-chemical menthol taste lingered in my mouth for the rest of the day. If I ever have pipe-smoking nightmares they're surely going to be about this abomination.
(Interestingly, unlike the other three in the Backwoods series - Forest, River, and Mountain - Glacier is not listed on the Mac Baren webpage. Even they themselves are too ashamed to own up to it?)
I never had very high hopes for this when I picked it up at the local kiosk as a new brand they'd recently received, having known Backwoods previously as a brand of cheap supermarket cigars, but I should have been warned off by the color of the wrapping and the 'cool' name. Foolishly, I thought "But surely no-one would mentholize a pipe tobacco...? Whoever would do such a thing? No, it can't be."
The vaguely minty pouch note and the uniform light-brown shag turned my mouth down, and the very first puff finally brought me to grim reality. I don't even know why they call it pipe tobacco (tax evasion? taking advantage of a little-known loophole in EU legislation?) as this is essentially menthol rolling tobacco - and not a very good one at that.
Literally the only pipe tobacco I have only managed to smoke only half a bowl and then immediately disposed of. That half a bowl ghosted my small Chacom for about 8 bowls afterwards, I kid you not, and the toothpaste-chemical menthol taste lingered in my mouth for the rest of the day. If I ever have pipe-smoking nightmares they're surely going to be about this abomination.
(Interestingly, unlike the other three in the Backwoods series - Forest, River, and Mountain - Glacier is not listed on the Mac Baren webpage. Even they themselves are too ashamed to own up to it?)
Pipe Used:
Chacom Gentleman 1926
PurchasedFrom:
R-kiosk, Piikkiö Finland
Age When Smoked:
Fresh from pouch
| Reviewed By | Date | Rating | Strength | Flavoring | Taste | Room Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 2022 | Extremely Mild | Mild to Medium | Mild | Tolerable |
The bag note is mint chocolate; much more like an after dinner mint than a breath mint. There are also some fruit notes and molasses type aromas.
While that is an odd start to a pipe tobacco, it needs to be remembered that none of those are unusual in other tobacco products. Mint, or menthol, is a mainstay of cigarettes and has been the most popular flavouring for nasal snuff for 3 centuries. Is it really more objectionable than cherry or vanilla? The answer might be that in those other tobacco products the menthol really does sublimate tobacco aromas to the point that they are barely noticeable. That would probably be a bad idea for a pipe tobacco.
But the thing is that the menthol flavouring here isn't overpowering when it comes to the actual smoke itself. At least not to me. A few puffs in and I was barely aware of the menthol. Sure, it floats in and out of awareness, but there are always tobacco aromas there.
That's the good (sort of) news. The bad news is that even tho there are tobacco flavours to be had, they are decidedly weak. If it were still possible to describe tobaccos as 'light' this would be ultra light.
I can't argue with the price. This Backwoods range is ridiculously inexpensive. But unless you really like mint it's not going to scratch any itch. Otherwise, if you are really keen on saving money, just pass on this and go straight for the Backwoods Blue.
Not a shag by the way, and I'm not convinced it qualifies as a ribbon either. Technically it's probably a mixture, but no one seems to use that term for tobacco cuts these days.
While that is an odd start to a pipe tobacco, it needs to be remembered that none of those are unusual in other tobacco products. Mint, or menthol, is a mainstay of cigarettes and has been the most popular flavouring for nasal snuff for 3 centuries. Is it really more objectionable than cherry or vanilla? The answer might be that in those other tobacco products the menthol really does sublimate tobacco aromas to the point that they are barely noticeable. That would probably be a bad idea for a pipe tobacco.
But the thing is that the menthol flavouring here isn't overpowering when it comes to the actual smoke itself. At least not to me. A few puffs in and I was barely aware of the menthol. Sure, it floats in and out of awareness, but there are always tobacco aromas there.
That's the good (sort of) news. The bad news is that even tho there are tobacco flavours to be had, they are decidedly weak. If it were still possible to describe tobaccos as 'light' this would be ultra light.
I can't argue with the price. This Backwoods range is ridiculously inexpensive. But unless you really like mint it's not going to scratch any itch. Otherwise, if you are really keen on saving money, just pass on this and go straight for the Backwoods Blue.
Not a shag by the way, and I'm not convinced it qualifies as a ribbon either. Technically it's probably a mixture, but no one seems to use that term for tobacco cuts these days.
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