Mac Baren Three Nuns

Very hard to find here

I am looking under Imperial, Mac Baren and thought at least on Bells.

Its onother stuff now at under original Bells.

But about one point i am happy.

in the recent formulation its a too good stuff. One reason therfore are the good african and brazil tobaccos

Thats not the case by most other oldies

One pont is the same as by the old perique-stuff:

frech stuff in summer aged stuff always recommanded

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Its not Orlik -> its Mac Baren. You could it taste on the very good Kentucky used. The best Kentucky availible are the Mac Baren

I miss this blend .My uncle who just passed [ lived to 92 ]smoked this forever .I've smoked it and loved it and wish I could get it again . Damn .

If you’re scouring the reviews to see if Three Nuns is worth trying, rest assured, it is. I dont know what it used to be, but the stuff now is unbelievable. The Dark fired kentucky is sharp and smokey. Mixed with the burley and virginia it creates a hearty, rich, no frills smoke. Its woody, nutty, smokey, spicey, has a taste of hickory, slight note of vinegar, and theres a sweetness, like honey, in the background. I don't know much about brazilian lights, except that they tend to go out if you plug the radio and toaster into the same outlet. The tobaccos are top drawer. The bowl never gets bitter. The smoke has that creamy chewy quality. The flavours are consistent. It packs well. It burns great. The room note is sublime, I assume. Good nic-hit. Just unbelievable stuff. Im gonna go out on a limb here and say, (everyone hold onto your tampers), I think this tobacco has potential to be addictive. I love it, 4 stars. No, 5 stars. No, wait, 6 stars. No, 7 sta...

An absolute all day gentle puffing tobacco. I remember well the old Three Nuns. It was good, very good. I’ll move on and not dwell on the past. My therapist says to do that ( lol ). This new tin of The Three Nuns is just right for me. Mild to medium and good nicotine hit. The blend is naturally sweet without any additives. Excellent Virginia tobacco and.. Kentucky? Kentucky? Ok, they say Kentucky is in there and I guess it is. It must be only a very small amount, because it takes any edges off the sour Virginia. I’m actually glad the perique is absent, though I enjoy perique in small amounts in many other blends.Three Nuns is scrumptious, delicious and I’ve been smoking one bowl after another! A very mellow, type of Virginia with hay,and sourness. This tobacco is best when dried out till almost crunchy. Smokes cool and leaves little mess.

Lovely, adult tobacco. I was excited to try this out, since there was so much hype surrounding its resurgence - and I was not disappointed!! I thoroughly enjoyed this tobacco. Solid and spicy, but doesn't bite. Smoked evenly. Felt very mature to me, in a sense that this is probably something that is good to read or write to. Likely very good for college homework or any kind of studying or research. At the time I was smoking a couple of bowls, both great in two different meers, I was engaged in deep philosophical/religious discussions with some members of my pipe club - and Three Nuns was perfect for that. I don't want to say something like "This is a thinking man's tobacco," - but I kinda want to. It certainly seems very smart, that's for sure. I loved it. Nice and peppery without being too much so, spiritually arousing and rather timeless. I will definitely be buying some for those times I want to slip into that smoking-jacket-in-the-den-library-leather-chair type of mode. Very nice. Easy to see why this one is a Classic, and in the Hall of Fame. Of the Hall of Fame ones I've tried, I liked this best. Easily. A+++

I have always wanted to review this blend as i have heard so much about it! Imagine my pleasure to acquire two tins of this wonderful mixture, one I bought from a pipe store and one I found in an antique store. I have now smoked theentire tin from the antique store. It was somewhat dry of course but still very smokable with a slight crumbling but still with the little disks mostly intact. I rehumidified this tin over the course of one month with distilled water so as not to change the taste and to bring it back like it was years ago when made. This tin is marked as made in Wcotland with US distributor James B Russel, Inc in Englewood New jersey. I see no date code but the tin is marked as selling for $2.45 so it obviously is quite old.

After bring this fine blend back to life the tin aroma is a little like shoe polish in aroma, very much like some of the black ropes made today. It is a dark broiwn mixture composed of mostly little round cut disks and one rehydrated they are full and fluffy in appearance. This blend loads easily into the pipe, and once lit, it emmits a very pleasant aroma and a soft full taste on the plate, very much like a dark fired VA with some spicyness, most likely the perique in it. It just tastes so wonderful that my taste buds watered and I savored the smoke all the way down to the bottom of the bowl. It burned well and clean leaving just a fine ash in the bottom of my bowl. I could smoke nothing else until I fisnished this entire tin. It is just a wonderful smoke, has a rich full spicy flavor that just works! Why this blend is no longer made is a real shame as it is one of the best i have ever smoked and I would most likely make this my blend of choice if that was an option. For sure it would be in my top five list. The brown tin with the golden lettering along with white says "None Nicer" and I have to agree. if someone could come even close to reproducing this blend, I would be a devout smoker of it and I am sure many others would agree! If you ever get a chance to try it, do so! No matter the price, it is worth every penney of it!

Now here's to a blend with a lot of nostalgia to a lot of folks. This isn't my first bowl, or tin for that matter, and it certainly won't be my last. Like many, "The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe" was an excellent introduction into children's literature. I would be lying if I said I didn't first pick up a tin of this stuff with C.S. Lewis in mind, especially while working on my English/Medieval studies in college. I would also be lying if I didn't admit to musing on talking to the man who held the Chair of Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature at Magdalen College of Cambridge while smoking this blend in my pipe.

Now times change and so do tobacco blends, their blenders, and so on. This is indeed alas a different version of the smoke, notably without the Perique because from what I gather Mac Baren does not have the rights to the original recipe. I have also read that the original blend may have had a slight topping but since I've never tasted it I will refrain from commenting. As it is Mac Baren has decided to keep a fairly original tin design with the original Bell's logo.

Opening the tin there is a very nice medium brown loose coin cut. It is very easy to rub out and stuff in your pipe. Picking up the tin for the aroma I smell hay, just like when I was young on a hayride around this time of year. It's a delightful smell. BBQ spice, fall leaves, and earth. This blend is made of Virginias and Dark Fired Burley so it's right up my alley. In my experience it lights well and keeps a consistent light from start to finish.

From the first light there is such a pure tobacco flavor. It reminds me of the simplicity of the MB HH blends: no topping, pure taste. The taste is a mix of fermented hay, wood, and spice. Like the Three Nuns Green, the slower you puff the more rewarded you will be. As the smoke fills your mouth it doesn't coat your pallet but it's present in a medium bodied kind of way. It's fine enough to sip on without thought and respectfully balanced. I give this blend five stars. I think that regardless of whether or not you have tried the original this is a good smoke in its own right.

So I will start this out like many have here: I have never had the original Three Nuns blend. I think, however, that's a good thing. Because I really like this blend.

I think the way to determine what your favorite tobacco might be is to look at what you keep going back to. For me this blend seems to be the one that works best. One of the flavors I pull out of this mixture is that taste you find at the end of a sugary bowl of Cheerios. That sugar, creamy, cereal, grain, flavor. The taste of sugar is not the sweet of sugar but the flavor of sugar and or molasses itself.

I love to try all the different blends out there! But this Three Nuns blend is the smoke for my comfort zone.

I think CS Lewis and Tolkien had pretty good taste when it came to tobacco. I know that this is not the exact same blend. However, when I put it in my William Faulkner great big billiard pipe I feel like I'm in the club! Now if I only had a great story to write.....

One of the greatest mac barens, you wont regret buying this one. No way... Alas, perique replaced with dark fired kentucky, If you want to taste the original tolkien favorite, I recommend Cabbie's Mixture.