Scandinavian Tobacco Group (STG) Singleton

As one of the only Danish people on this wonderful site, I am very pleased to see that it, afterall, is possible to get hold of these blends from Orlik Tobacco Company.

I put allmost all the blends up online, and it nearly took a year before anyone reviewed some of them. They must be hard to locate

I agree with Eulenburg. Even though this is a drugstore blend, this lovely burley tastes like quality leaf. It is very gentle on the palate and it carries alot of nicotine with it. I am usually not very fond of pure burley blends, but this one has a certain sweetness and caramel-like flavor which i care for much.

It has a nice burn, packs easy and the smoke is very cool. If you love burley blends i think this one may surprise you.

Right after I opened the tin, the first two or three bowls seemed to me flat and boring, nothing but bland white smokes. So, I put it away, thinking this gonna be a last resort when I am out of all the tobaccos in my house. I am not a Burley lover but I think I know a good Burley smell. It's like raisin. Definitely, the toasted Burley cigarette leaves smell like Darjeeling tea, e.g., navy cut Lucky Strike or some South African cigarettes.

Before Singleton became a fossil, I had the opportunity to smoke it when I did not find any other suitable size of the tin to my pocket than the flat slim Singleton tin and went out to smoke. On a windy day, while walking, it burns perfectly stable. I seemed to understand why the sailors of old days loved Burley flakes. Out in the sea, it must have retained its coolness and stability of the smoke on the deck.

After several weeks of neglect, perhaps oxidation played a role in making Singleton sweet raisin. It gives off cool white smokes. I found out the treasure in the mound of the miscellaneous Danish tobacco brands. Rather than on a whim, I picked up this one by the name Singleton, a hero seaman who tightly clutches the steering wheel to get the ship into the port in a cursed weather when all the other crew are in panic, intimidated, and some praying . Like the reticent single-minded Singleton in J. Conrad's fiction, this Singleton gives me an honest, straightforward Burley pleasure.

The pouch description translated indicates that this is a mixture of toasted burleys that are pressed into cakes then rubbed out. It’s well rubbed out and packs very easily. No humectants discernible and at a good moisture level for smoking right away. The burleys are mildly cased but no top dressing is noticeable. What a novel idea in a pouch tobacco. Slightly caramelized sugar sweet, nutty, cool-smoking, no bitterness, all signs of superior leaf and processing.

Though packaged quire humbly, it is an outstanding example of its type.

once again i venture into the realm of burleys, after a hiatus of almost 20 years. first, i tried edgeworth sliced and found it rather flat - and almost gave up. but then i spotted this one at my local tobacconist, and said to myself "why not?".

i'm so glad i did. this is the kind of burley i seem to remember from my youth, slightly sweetened, nutty, soothing: comfort smoke! nothing exciting about it, but very good quality. burns slow and dry, lots of smoke. i think that burley tobaccos are still one of the things the danish manufacturers really know how to do.

February 2006. Let the portion you require to fill your pipe,air for five to ten minate's Fill your pipe and light it after doing that only a few tamp's will be required to enjoy a smooth delicious flavour to the bottom of the bowl.It's that simple!

In it's class,Highly Recommended.