House of Windsor Barking Dog

A HOW blend I truly enjoy, there is not much latikia in it, and it can bite on occasion.Leaves a mild "woodsey" scent in the room and my wife enjoys this. Overall I place it somwhere between an "everyday" blend and those times when I want something fuller.

I opened a small tin of this a couple of years ago, and it's been aging since. The other day I decided to smoke this in a cob. It reminds me very much of Walnut. An Americanized English blend, with burley dominating the smoke with a little Latakia for a condiment. After smoking a few bowls, I feel it almost doubles for Walnut. I remember paying $ 6.00 for the small 2 oz tin, not really worth it. I bought a large tub of Walnut for $ 18.00. Stick with Walnut.

I have read of some very wet smokes, or no latakia in this blend. The batch I bought does not exhibit this characteristic.

It packs well, takes a little effort to light it. Has a decent smooth taste. The topping is minimal. Over all a very pleasing smoke. Personally it did leave a little linger after taste, not horrible. Though I still did find myself washing the taste out with some homebrew. Not that I really need a reason for that anyways 😉

If your an aromatic fan, that wanted to try something between English and Aromatic, this may be the blend for you.

I may buy this again. It was alright, though I may stay with some heavier English blends.

I too fell victim to the cute dog on the tin. What I found was a nice, solid cubed burley/latakia blend that is a great after dinner smoke. A true classic!

It is a bit dry out of the tin, and when gravity fed into the bowl packs nicely. Lighting for me was no issue with just one match. It does bite a little if smoked hard. Otherwise, no issues here.

The strength is mild with regards to nicotine, but the flavor is very well balanced with just the right amount of latakia to round things out. I am not a huge fan of cube burleys, but this blend has changed my mind.

I am only sorry to have come across it too late in its lifecycle. I do plan to buy several tins to have in the future, in the event that I wish to take a walk down memory lane with this nostalgic blend from a better managed time.

The room note is pleasing, and is best described by a fellow reviewer as a campfire scent. The taste is straight forward "codger burley" with a latakia influence.

I will recommend this blend if you can find it. Its definately worth a try! Take this dog for a walk.

Maybe it's just me and the way I pack it, but I wasn't impressed. I filled it up, touched it off and puffed away. Suddenly it was out. I relit, puffed away, it went out. I burned my tongue trying to keep it going, but it went out again. I tried packing it differently, but got the same results. The flavor was bland. I even tried breaking it up more and had no success. I can't even give this stuff away. Maybe I will keep it and mix it with other stuff, I don't know. I DO know I won't buy it again.

Peace Bull

Mind you I've only been smoking a pipe maybe 6 months. I ordered a can of this on reading the reviews, I find it packs the punch I'm looking for, and besides I'm a dog lover.

BTW this is my first review of pipe tobacco anywhere.

After hearing a lot of good things about this blend I really wanted to like it. All I can say is that it is very bland, and smooth. The tobacco is cut poorly and the tin note is not the best. I think if you like this blend at all, try Junkyard Dawg from C&D.

Based upon the variability that I've found with this blend, my rating would be more like 1.5 stars, not two. The tin note has varied from the "butterscottish" to boring that others have noted. My last tin started drying into a mixture with a positively evil, chemical smell that was rather disconcerting (probably due to some odd Latakia they scrounged from somewhere). What Latakia does seem to be in the blend is pretty sparse and essentially buried in the topping and Burley. I didn't find the strong Latakia taste some have noted. There is some bite, but a bowl generally reduces down to an ash, not a sodden goop.

Compared to other blends (Old Lodge, Squadron Leader) it really isn't much of a bargin although I suppose its nice to see a "retro" blend still in the marketplace.

This is a tobac that I really wanted to like. The tin aroma was a warning to me that I wouldn't. I could smell nothing but a butterscotch-ish top dressing.

Upon lighting the pipe, the flavor of the top dressing, now made overpowering by heat, assaulted my mouth and olfactoy lobe. I found it most unpleasant, and only smoked 1/4 of the bowl before dumping it. Even at that, I had to smoke a few bowls of MacBaren's Burley London Blend to get the dog funk out of the pipe.

Since this problem wasn't reported by the other reviewers here, I assume that the overwhelming nature of the top dressing must be attributed to HOW's now-reputed lack of quality control.

I agree with Lustra that the search for a fine Burley/Latakia blend ends with C&D's Morley's Best.