Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) Troost Black Cavendish

Long before I was born my father used to smoke this tobacco. I found a few of these tins unopened years ago together with his old Big Ben pipe. This tobacco actiually got me hooked on the pipe smoking. I recently bought a new tin of the same 100 gram size and decided to review it.

Upon opening the tin a rather plain tobacco smell greets you, indicating no excessive topping was used. A cacao smell is all there really is to it. The broken flakes can easily be rubbed out into one of those fine and springy heaps i'd like to pack my pipe with. No additional drying was needed and you might want to add some potato peels or orange skin to the tin if you aren't planning on finishing it within three or so weeks.

-- It might as well be the harshly cold and dry winds from russia that made lips and tobacco alike dry and crumble unusually fast. --

The tobacco smokes downright good. Few or no relights were needed.The typical cacao taste a good burley has might well be artificially enhanced but not in any offensive way. The taste is sweetish but nothing more than one would expect from a quality plain tobacco. Since I'm an ex cigarette smoker I truely value some nicotine every once in a while. I would not call this a strong or even a medium blend, but it does satisfy my cravings for some time. It's a nice and neutral smoke for me, when I don't have to be that fancy smelling vanilla gabacho, but don't want to offend my surroundings with smells of burning christians or freshly tarred roofs. Since it needs little attention whilst smoking I usually grab this one for those manual-labour moments like streetpaving or woodcrafting. If you can get your hands on this, do try. If you have to go through ardurous international mail-order procedures to get this, might as well have something else.