House of Windsor Barking Dog

A good deal, a fair price. I would consider it a mild latakia blend. If you like that go for it! Buy American!! Its CHEAP..

I used to enjoy this, but HoW has some serious quality control problems. The cut varies wildly. The last batch I bought had no top dressing, and tasted mostly of Latakia. The Perique was totally MIA. I now limit my purchases to a handful of small scale blenders because of this sort of thing.

At that price you couldn't expect a wonder, and no wonder you get! What you get is an honest tobacco, tasty and not refined, with just a pinch of topping (I think anise, but I'm not sure). It doesn't bite, as declared on the pouch, it burns fine and can be smoked bowl after bowl. You can definitely find better blends, but it's good.

I have tried Barking Dog over and over again, having purchased a pouch a few years ago, and received one as a gift from one of my daughters a year later. I have to wonder whether my desire to continually give this blend another chance is because of the Boston Terrier on the package, like the pathetic looking pup in the pet shop window, or that looks at you through the bars of the pound. The pouch aroma is very pleasant, and when I can manage to get the doggone thing lit, it's got a great flavour, and leaves a pleasant aroma hanging in the room. Then I have to keep re-lighting it, and that's when it tends to give me tongue bite. It's a very chunky tobacco, and I have never had any luck with chunky tobacco, I know it has to do with not packing it right, but as there are a great many chunky cuts around, and very popular, I have to envy those pipe smokers who have been more successful with this blend than me. Perhaps it has something to do with the breed of dog on the label. Terriers are a nervous-bladdered dog, and, like Barking Dog, are apt to go out more than we'd like them to.

I like Barking Dog once in awhile, but these days, whenever I'm in the mood for an "American blend," I smoke Morley's Best by C&D. Barking Dog is a fine smoke, with a great name, and cool packaging, but Morley's Best is so good that there's just no point, so far as I am concerned, smoking any other Burley/Latakia blend.

Love the packaging. Think the flavor is better than just okay. Tastes to me like Revelation with a little latakia. If I had to pick one or the other, I?d probably go with the Revelation, and look for something with a little more oomph in my latakia choice.

Barking Dog likes to be loosely packed. Begin with gravity feed. The texture and cubed burley lend themselves to this approach. Actually, the dog can bite if pushed, so put a little care in the packing.

Barking Dog can be stubborn about taking a light, but once started is easy to keep lit with gentle puffing. This is also how it delivers its best flavor.

I?ve found Barking Dog will leave a signature in a briar. I?m now smoking a bowl of Plumcake in a briar that last hosted Barking Dog maybe three weeks ago. I still get tastes of the Dog, though the effect isn?t at all unpleasant. If you plan to add Barking Dog to your regular supply of pipeweed, you might want to dedicate a pipe to it.

This seems to be a tobacco that gives its best in corn cobs. It seemed most at home in my bent Country Gentleman, loosely packed and slowly smoked. Because it keeps a light, it?s a good driving companion.

The family gives the aroma a thumbs up, one member saying, ?That smells good, like a campfire,? which is the feedback I like in a latakia blend.

Barking Dog is a friendly smoke that shouldn?t be discouraged from following you home

This one has been somewhat of a let down thus far. Maybe I need to give it another try but after about four bowls at various times I haven't found the key to success with this blend. Better than drug store blends not as good as many of the other House of Windsor blends. 9/15/2004: One of the few blends I returned to time and again. A bit monochromatic compared to Revelation or Country Doctor but it can be smoked more frequently than them also. A good amount of flavor and nicotine content without being too much for frequent consumption.

As a lover of American English blends, I highly recommend Barking Dog, one of a trio of superb American Englishes (the others being Country Doctor and Revelation) offered by the HOW.

Cubed burley and latakia: simple, consistent, and satisfying. A delicious aroma in the pouch and in your pipe, and it always smokes dry, leaving a nice ash with little dottle. My sole complaint is that it bites a little--yes, barking dogs can bite!

All in all, very nice.

A nutty flavored cube cut burley with a sweet Virginia, a touch of smokey Latakia and just a pinch perique. I taste the nuttiness of a good cube cut burley with just enough Latakia to enhance the overall flavor. Yummy stuff this.