Samuel Gawith Kendal Cream Deluxe Flake

Kendal cream flake is most definitely a full flavored blend. You must like the flavoring to smoke this stuff. Very good quality flake and makes alot of smoke. Easy burning and not too hot on the tongue. I could not smoke this often due to its very strong flavoring, but it is pleasant enough to smoke once in a while. I much prefer Ennerdale flake as a daily dose of flavored tabac. I can see if I run out of Ennerdale I could easily smoke this.

Tin: Creamy, Floral , little (dark)Fruity, with some precision natural smell of Burley then Virginia
Very moist and pressed, need at least an hour drying and rubbing for Obsolescence

Burning: Regular Charring (SG standards!), Burns little hot outdoor and needs more control, it's cool and no biting in mouth and nose

Room Note: Dominant Creamy/Sweet then Floral, if you try to find natural tobacco smells may find something Virginia like

Taste: Creamy,Floral at first then gradually Alcohol comes up and almost prevails especially in nose, but hard to get full taste of tobacco lonely

An oddly flavoured tobacco that takes some time to get to know, but rewards the one who bothers to bother. Probably not for everyone, but I really like this one.

Taste: A fruity floral scent bounces right up my nose as I open this tin up. It reminds me of chewing gum or toothpaste, it feels synthetic. Now, after some rubbing and drying of the flake that scent diminishes slightly but it does not entirely go away. As I light my pipe I find exactly that scent translated in to flavour. It is so strange, I do not initially know what to make of it. It stays very pronounced during the first halv of the bowl after wich it fades some and lets the virginia take the lead, but in never fully leaves. The virginia in this blend is the co-star, it is as good as one can expect from SG - grassy, sweet and medium bodied. As I got used to the topping I started to love it, and that has been the case with many SG blends sporting the lakeland style - it needs time to get to me, and it requires me to explore it properly. It seems worth it, as I always like what I discover.

Mechanics: Comes in wet, thick flakes that need some rubbing and drying. The topping tends to ghost a pipe, even though the tobacco burns down properly, no dottle. Never bit me, never even tried, but it is mainly virginia so that's worth bearing in mind. Mild to medium strength.

SG’s Kendal Cream is top shelf in my book! I was rummaging through my cellar and found a mostly finished tin of KC which means that I really liked it and saved enough for a bowl or two; and to remind me to order more when I have a few cents saved up.

Well I pulled the trigger on 200 grams from Allegheny Smokeworks and I’ve refreshed my memory with multiple bowls of great enjoyment! This flake from the bulk has perfect moisture, packs well and has a nice charring light that reminds me of pipe smoke from my uncle’s pipe 45 years ago. I’ve come to appreciate his types of tobacco and I think KC would have been in his rotation if he were here today. This as a solid straight forward VA with slight sweetness and hints of grassy hay mixed with the subtle nuts and hints of chocolate that good Burley can bring.

This smoke is a No Bite, strong and rich flavor tobacco that will make you look forward to the next bowl.

Easy to rub out it says at the top of the page in the product description. That I can not agree with one bit. Apart from that I like this tobacco, I have a big bowl chunk just for lakeland tobacco. The perfume will taint your pipe so use this to your advantage and dedicate a pipe.

Dark in colour and oily looking. Even if you get a dry batch it is still tacky at best. once you get the leaf apart and I take my time over this you will need to get the moisture level right before trying to smoke it. This is personal taste Vs will it burn as I find to dry is not the best taste. PACK IT LIGHTLY and give each layer a little more packing until the top which you can give a fair plugging down which will set the tobacco in the bowl. You need some air gaps for this to smolder which it excels at.

Tastes: starts sweet soapy and Lakeland topping but not loads of the stuff compared to other Lakeland I have tried.

Mid bowel: on the cooler tokes you can get a chocolate hint and when giving it a hit or to a rather fresh mild leather spice. The tobacco is obviously good stuff and the processing has made it even better. It must be noted that the taste is rather monotone but a good tone so not a minus but a taste well fixed.

I do not smoke Lakeland every day or week and sometimes it is repulsive to me. Seriously sometimes I wonder why I have any in stock. Then when the mood takes me It is all I need. Something in the taste is moreish,. I do not know what But when I enjoy it the floral topping is not so floral and the other flavours of tobacco and sugars are lifted and pronounced.

Smoke is medium thick creamy and nicotine is just right for me but not a mad hitter at all. Smoke temp is cool and I get no bite with a 9 mm filter inline or without. All in a good tobacco in a Lakeland style that has its place, highly recommended if an introduction to Lakeland is what you seek.

What can I say, this is again a SG flake which comes out othe tin as wet as possible, as usual. Instead of discussing the properties of the tobacco per-se, which are already quite well analyzed in previous posts, I am giving some advice on how to correctly ignite the SG flakes. This comes from my experience after several years of attempts.

As all SG smokers know, a beginner is tempted to say "this tobacco will never light up and kept lit". Some think that it could be used in place of asbestos in fire-critical environments.

The solution is to use a mix of propane and AvGas (aviation gasoline), the latter used also in turbine jet engines. Do not exaggerate with this mix, or the bowl will explode or (at best) take off with an amazing vertical speed.

Do things carefully, and the SG Kendal Cream will then light up, and kept burning to ashes, even if you dont smoke it.

I didn't try a lot of burley falkes, but I have to admit that this one is quite good. I't reminds me a bit the Peterson Irish flake but a lot milder and with a sweet aftertaste. I don't know if there's some sort of top dressing but, if present, is really mild. I don't agree with who think that smell like "cake", instead, when you open the tin, you can sense a pleasant smell of fresh bread & butter, combined with a less plaesant smell of cinnamon (or tonquino beans?)that you also can find in the taste, but not as strong as the smell. The flakes are cut in large and fresh slices that you can bend and press into the bowl but is better to rip & rub them up a little. Obviously the KC flake is a lot better smoked with a meerschaum if you looking for a full- colored experience.

Type: Burley & Virginia flake natural aromatic ; Contents: Burley, Virginias ; Flavoring: Some sort of natural flavor in very low percentage (as tonquino beans or cinnamon) ; Cut: Large slices of flakes ; Humidity: Fresh but not wet ; Lighting: Easy after the first couple of bowls, when the tobacco become a little more dried ; Pipe recommended: Definitely a meerschaum or any type with a large bowl.

I'd read a couple of unenthusiastic reviews of this before I bought it, but decided to try it anyway, because I wanted to try all the tobaccos in Sam Gawith's regular range. I'm glad I did, because I love it. I wasn't very impressed with the first bowlful, but it grew on me, and the fourth bowl was a fantastic smoke: tasty, smooth, reasonably full-bodied, and slightly spicy. On opening the tin, the first thing you notice is the strong, sweet, cake-like smell, but it is not indicative of the smoking experience. It is definitely a new regular smoke for me.

I love this Gawith tobacco, but not as much as Full Virginia Flake. Please see my review of SHPC-VR to understand my general orientation. There is a definite pattern here in my tastes. If you like the tobaccos I like - then this is for your arsenal.